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Christianity On The Spectrum

Christianity On The Spectrum

Christianity on the Spectrum is a podcast about the intersection between autism and Christianity. In the podcast, Jon, an Anglican autistic computer engineer and autism researcher from Canada, tries to explain the data on the intersections between autism and Christianity from over 500 interviews with Christian, ex-Christian, and Christian curious autistics and from reading and analyzing the social media posts of over 26,000 other autistics on the internet.

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01:15:09

The Problems with the Social Model of Disability

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/06/15

This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian and Ex-Christian autistics, this podcast is trying to explain how autistic people interact with Christianity, the good, the bad, and everything in between. You can find Jon on Twitter at @ChristianityOn If you would like to email Jon, to ask questions, book engagements, or if you are autistic and just want

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02:00:21

A Critical Analysis of Neurodiversity - With Freddie...

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/06/08

Christianity on the Spectrum is a podcast about the intersection of ASD 1 and Christianity. It is the culmination of around 10 years of autism research. In this episode we take a look at Freddie deBoer's Critique of the Neurodiversity movement.Video Freddie put out in response to Daniel Bergner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKB6F_VYuZY Freddie's Substack

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51:19

Why are so Many Autistic Christians Universalists?

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/06/01

This podcast is the summation of around 10 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 500 Christian and Ex-Christian autistics, this podcast is trying to explain how autistic people interact with Christianity, the good, the bad, and everything in between.You can find Jon on Twitter at @ChristianityOn If you would like to email Jon, to ask questions, book engagements, or if you are autistic and just want

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02:00:14

Answering Your Burning Questions

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/05/25

In this episode, Jon and Greg go through all your burning questions that didn't fit into one of the themed episodes. If you have any more questions, feel free to email them to me, ask them in the comments, Twitter or Blue Sky

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01:20:59

Autism and Authoritarian Parenting

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/05/18

In this episode, Jon is joined by none other than DL Mayfield of the Strongwilled podcast to talk about authoritarian and its intersection with autism.

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51:17

Thinking about suffering and autism

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/05/14

Well, people wanted me to talk about this for some reason, so I turned on the recording studio and talked at a wall for an hour, hopefully this is helpful for someone.

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02:27:32

Do we need an autistic liberation theology? (A review...

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/05/11

In this episode, Jon and Christian review a book about liberation theology, specifically autistic liberation theology. We give a fairly thorough review of the book "Peculiar Discipleship: An Autistic Liberation Theology" by Claire Williams. We go through what we liked, what we didn't, things she got right, things she got wrong, and who should read the book. Alternative title: "Do we need an autistic liberation theology? No (at least not if it is what this book is proposing)" Alternative title: "An

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01:17:28

Why New Testament Scholars are Wrong about Style in Paul

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/05/04

In this episode, Josiah Leinbach a statistician whose masters thesis covered a Stylostatistical analysis of Paul's Letters, and Jon, a computer engineer whose academic specialty is counter forensics, who has spent a large chunk of his adult life trying to use computational analysis to determine who wrote things on the internet and teaching grad courses on how to do the same thing, team up to explain why New Testament critical scholars are wrong about Stylostatistical analysis being able to show that

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01:33:18

My Issue with Critical Scholarship

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/04/27

In this episode Jon tries to explain his issues with Critical Scholarship. Admittedly this is a less structured and a more rambling episode, mostly because this is basically two of my special interests colliding which often got me side tracked. My main issue is that many scholars are saying things with a lot of confidence, and I'm like "IDK, I think things are actually more complicated and historical reconstruction is actually extremely hard to do accurately IRL" and basically say that on a loop for

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01:26:40

Is there really an autism epidemic? And Surrounding...

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/04/20

This this episode, Jon addresses RFK's recent speech about the supposed autism epidemic, what he got wrong, the real differences between autism prevalence the discourse that has sprung up around it. Live Stream I did with Nathan (Digital Gnosis) https://www.youtube.com/live/m35jiN-7J7M Papers

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01:14:31

The Problem with Christian Slavery Apologetics

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/04/13

In the last episode, Jon talked about why autistic people often get disillusioned and annoyed with Apologetics and many people reached out to ask about a specific example that could be used to illustrate these points. This episode tries to give a specific example of the problem with apologetics for autistic people to follow-up to the previous episode by talking about Christian Complicity in Slavery. Jon tries to explain why slavery apologetics are often not convincing to autistic people, often

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01:43:10

Autism and Apologetics

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/04/06

In this episode, Jon, a Computer Engineer that studies and researches the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks about the weird and unique relationship between autism and apologetics, why we like it, why we hate it, why so many of us have an apologetics phase, why a lot of us become disillusioned, by analyzing data from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews with Christian and ex-Christian autistics. Get the podcast

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59:55

Autistic Clergy, Monks, Nuns, etc

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/03/09

In this episode, Jon talks about his research on autistic Christians to answer questions about autistic clergy, monks, nun, consecrated virgins, missionaries and others. He talks about why they take religious vocations, the good aspects and the bad ones as well. Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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01:06:42

Is Calling Yourself Autistic Bad? And other related...

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/03/02

In this episode, Jon, and autistic autism researcher attempts to address a wide host of questions about autism and autistic identity using research from over 26000 online autistics and over 500 long form interviews: Should you identify as autistic? Is calling yourself autistic bad? Is self Diagnosis harmful? Is autism 1, asperger's, or high functioning autism fake autism? and more Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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01:58:42

Autism and Christian Cults

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/02/23

In this episode Jon and Alyssa talk about why so many autistic people get caught up in Christian Cults, how cults work, why autistic people find them so appealing, what happens when they join and what happens when they leave. Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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01:41:21

Autism and Christian Fundamentalism

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/02/23

In this episode, Jon an autistic computer engineer and autism researcher tries to explain all of the interesting intersections between fundamentalism and Autistic Christians to Alyssa using data pulled from over 26000 online autistics and interviews with over 500 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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02:25:47

Pentecostals, Charismatics, and Autism

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/02/02

In this Podcast, Jon, an autistic autism researcher who spends a lot of time researching the intersection between autism and Christianity, talks to Ian, a religious scholar and Pentecostal autistic with a lot of experience within Pentecostalism about Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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01:07:19

Autism and Medical Euthanasia

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/01/26

In this episode, Jon is joined by Ben Crosby, an Anglican Priest to talk about MAID and the state of MAID in Canada and the particular implications it has for autistic Christians. You can find more of Ben's work

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01:32:34

Research Methods and Other Research Question

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/01/19

In this episode, Jon, a computer engineer and autism researcher explains how he went about his data collection on over 26000 online autistic Christians and ex-Christians and he answers all the questions that he's gotten about his research. Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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02:24:37

Autistic Attitudes on Gender Roles, Feminism, and...

Christianity On The Spectrum ·

2025/01/12

In this episode, Jon tries to explain his research on autistic Christians to explain trends in attitudes towards Gender Role, Feminism, and Gender Critical Feminism, taking data from over 500 long form interviews, 26000 online personas, and many many more conversations with autistic Christians and ex-Christians. Get the podcast merch: https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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