Spirituality Matters with Rev Karla

By Rev Karla

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Spirituality Matters with Rev Karla is a podcast for those healing from religion, deconstructing toxic theology, and seeking meaning beyond dogma. As an interfaith and interspiritual minister, author, and advocate, Rev Karla creates space for honest conversations about faith, justice, healing, and the human experience — whether you still value spirituality or have left it behind entirely.

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Episode Date
Death by Design | Why Defunding Humanitarian Aid is a Spiritual Crisis
Apr 07, 2025
Why Spirituality Matters | Seeking Spiritual Meaning in the Daily and Knowing it is Holy
Apr 04, 2025
You’re Not Failing at Faith—You’re Redefining It | Unchurched
Mar 30, 2025
From Indoctrination to Awareness
Mar 28, 2025
5 Misconceptions About Leaving Church | A Response Guide for the Deconstructing Christian
Mar 27, 2025
Patriarchal Tactics and Why it Harms You
Mar 26, 2025
Drill Baby Drill! | The Christian Fallacy of Domination of the Earth
Mar 25, 2025
How History Will Remember Us | The Christian Response to Fascism Then and Now
Mar 24, 2025
Rest Is Sacred Too | Unchruched Sunday, March 23rd
Mar 23, 2025
A Spiritual Path Without Church | Why Leaving Church Doesn’t Mean Leaving Spirituality
Mar 23, 2025
If Not You? Who? If You Aren’t Terrified You Aren’t Paying Attention
Mar 22, 2025
When Fear Guides Your Faith: A Response to a Reader
Mar 21, 2025
The Truth We Could Not See: The Paradox of Deconstructing
Mar 20, 2025
No, America: MAGA Christians Do Not Regret Their Vote
Mar 19, 2025
Democrats Aren’t Leading—They’re Rick Rolling Us
Mar 17, 2025
The Betrayal of Our Children—And the Christians Who Justified It
Mar 14, 2025
The Hypocrisy of "Pro-Life" Lawmakers
Mar 13, 2025
Spiritual Reset | Sundays with Rev Karla Special Teaching
Jan 03, 2024
Practical Spirituality | Finding the Holy in Your Everyday
Dec 12, 2023
Living on the Edge of Life | The Silent Sacrifices of the Selfless
Dec 05, 2023
Sundays with Rev Karla—Holidays for the Rest of Us | Spirituality Matters with Rev Karla
Nov 28, 2023
Authentic Gratitude | 10 Ways for Gratitude to Meet Us Right Where We Are
Nov 21, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #9 | Diverse Spiritual Paths and Navigating Post-Deconstruction Challenges
Nov 14, 2023
Whose Land Do You Stand Upon?| 8 Ways to Blend Your Sacred Activism with Your Spirituality and Help Deconstruct Toxic Ideologies
Nov 07, 2023
Honoring What Was—Sundays with Rev Karla | Spirituality Matters Podcast
Oct 31, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #8 | Unraveling Fear-Based Theology, Navigating Spiritual Identity, and Finding Community Amidst Deconstructing from Religion
Oct 24, 2023
You Disgust Me | Seven Ways Women Disparage Other Women and Seven Ways to Respond to Their Internalized Misogyny
Oct 17, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #7 | Understanding Atheism, the Essence of Forgiveness, and Secular Recovery
Oct 10, 2023
Reclaiming Your Spirituality | A Journey of Healing and Connection
Oct 03, 2023
When Time Is All That Is Left | 5 Ways to Live in Gratitude
Sep 19, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #6 | Exploring Spirituality, LGBTQIA+ Inclusion, and Challenging Toxic Beliefs
Sep 12, 2023
Lead With Love | Ten Ways to Lead and Live a Life Guided by Love
Sep 05, 2023
Sundays with Rev Karla | The Sacredness of Not Being Okay
Aug 29, 2023
Spirituality Light? How About Spirituality Done Right?! | 5 Reasons Spiritual but Not Religious is a Sacred Path
Aug 22, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #5 | Challenging Norms and Embracing Mystery
Aug 15, 2023
You Are a Life Force to Be Reckoned With | Embracing Exile and Finding Sacredness in Everyday Moments
Aug 08, 2023
Sundays with Rev Karla | The Spiritual Wilderness
Aug 01, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions | Part #4 Exploring Challenging Questions: Mission Trips, Personal Values, and Beyond
Jul 25, 2023
The Small Moments Matter: God, Me, and the Beach Mouse
Jul 18, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #3
Jul 11, 2023
The Road to Hell | Finding Freedom Beyond Religion: The Journey From Fear to Liberation
Jul 04, 2023
The World Needs the Miraculous, Fragile, Scarred, Resilient You
Jun 20, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #2 | Exploring rituals and integrating spirituality into our daily life.
Jun 13, 2023
Christians, Stop Calling Yourself Pro-Life
Jun 06, 2023
Rev Karla Answers Your Questions Part #1
May 30, 2023
If God is One of Us, Then God is Gay
May 23, 2023
Dear Me... | A Journey of Spiritual Transformation through Music and Reflection
May 16, 2023
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way | Understanding the Pain of the World and the Urgency to Take Action Against Patriarchy
May 09, 2023
A Gentle Day and a Loving Memory: When Sorrow Comes
May 02, 2023
The Harm Caused by Redemption
Apr 25, 2023
The Falacy of the Trinity and the Harm it has Caused
Apr 18, 2023
Interview with Amir Yass
Apr 11, 2023
Reclaiming Your Spirituality
Apr 04, 2023
Through the Voice of My Grandmother
Mar 28, 2023
Interview with Unconventional Pastor Paul
Mar 21, 2023
When Life is Smarter Than You Are
Mar 14, 2023
Church Isn’t What I Miss
Mar 07, 2023
Take Me to the Place Where Faith No Longer Hurts
Feb 28, 2023
Interview with Marlana Glaeser
Feb 21, 2023
Interview with Alejandro Rodriguez
Feb 14, 2023
Using Your Voice for Good
Feb 07, 2023
5 Essential Things About What it Means to be Spiritual but not Religious
Jan 17, 2023
The Healing of the Inner Child
Jan 03, 2023
I Wish It Was Over, But It Is Just the Beginning
Dec 20, 2022
Enlightenment: Awakening is happening in the little moments of living
Dec 06, 2022
Chasing the Belonging: The Lonely Side of Deconstructing Your Faith
Nov 23, 2022
Onward
Nov 08, 2022
The Bible is Holding You Hostage
Oct 25, 2022
The Blessing and the Curse of Ancestors
Oct 11, 2022
When Darkness Comes: Embracing the Wisdom of the Autumn Equinox
Sep 27, 2022
Smash the Patriarchy
Sep 13, 2022
Can We Truly Be Better Angels?
Aug 09, 2022
Your Spiritual Journey Starts Here
Jul 12, 2022
Demolish, Repair and Restore: A Season of Healing
May 24, 2022
Christianity’s Day of Reckoning
May 10, 2022
The Strength and Beauty of a Snowflake
May 03, 2022
What Does the Lord Require of You?
Apr 26, 2022
Dear Mr. President
Apr 12, 2022
Holy, Holy, Holy: Grieving the Religion I Lost
Apr 05, 2022
Keeping God in a Box
Mar 29, 2022
They Fear Your Strength
Mar 15, 2022
When Leaving Your Faith Feels Like Leaving a Toxic Relationship
Mar 08, 2022
The Wisdom of the Ages: Honoring Your Heritage on Your Spiritual Journey
Mar 01, 2022
What If You’re Wrong?
Feb 22, 2022
For the Good Times
Feb 15, 2022
When the Pope’s Words Fail Humanity
Feb 08, 2022
Thank You For Rejecting Me
Feb 01, 2022
If There is a God, Why is There Suffering?
Jan 25, 2022
Leaving Church is Not Enough
Jan 18, 2022
What Scars Teach Us
Jan 11, 2022
Normal Is Not Enough
Dec 21, 2021
Interview with Pastor Jeff Baker
Dec 14, 2021
A Case for Separation of Church and State
Dec 07, 2021
Interview with Jegaysus
Nov 16, 2021
Interview with Sophia Spallino
Oct 19, 2021
The Spiritual but Not Religious Journey
Oct 12, 2021
Interview with Pastor Paul Swearengin
Sep 21, 2021
When Darkness Comes
Sep 14, 2021
Summertide: Chasing the Sun
Aug 31, 2021
Interview with Jaime Mahler
Aug 24, 2021
It’s Only Out of Love That I Judge You
Aug 17, 2021
Interview with Alistair Abulafia Turrelle
Aug 10, 2021
Not All Christians?
Aug 03, 2021
Q&A #3
Jul 27, 2021
God Within Us: Searching for Connection in the Holy
Jul 20, 2021
The Hidden Homosexual Q&A with Rev Arda & Rev Dr. José Román
Jul 13, 2021
I Won’t Back Down
Jul 06, 2021
God is Gay Q&A
Jun 29, 2021
You Say ”Abomination” Like It’s a Bad Thing
Jun 22, 2021
Q&A #2
Jun 15, 2021
God is Black, Gay and Female
Jun 09, 2021
Our First Interview Guest: Rev Arda Itez
Jun 01, 2021
Can Love Build a Bridge
May 25, 2021
Q&A with Rev Karla
May 18, 2021
The Rise of the Nones
May 11, 2021
Falling in Love with Jesus Again
Mar 23, 2021
Return of the Warmth
Mar 16, 2021
The Types of Christians You’ll Meet Along the Way and Why it Matters
Mar 09, 2021
The Spiritual Wilderness
Mar 02, 2021
The Dark Side of Kindness
Feb 23, 2021
Love Always Wins— Or Does It?
Feb 16, 2021
Healing From Radicalized Christianity & Religious Trauma
Feb 09, 2021
Rescuing Christianity from Radicalization
Feb 02, 2021
Forgiveness
Jan 26, 2021
Sacred Activism
Jan 19, 2021
The Radicalization of American Christianity
Jan 12, 2021
What Does Chaos Teach Us?
Jan 05, 2021
Reflection
Dec 29, 2020
Turning Toward the Light
Dec 22, 2020
Wisdom in World Religions
Dec 15, 2020
Preparing to Receive the Holy
Dec 08, 2020
Spiritual Reset 2021
Dec 01, 2020
Gratitude Journey
Nov 22, 2020
Holy in the Everyday
Nov 17, 2020
A Name by No Other Name
Nov 10, 2020
You Worship Jesus with That Mouth?
Nov 03, 2020
Honoring What Was
Oct 27, 2020
Is That God Speaking to Me?
Oct 20, 2020
The Bible Doesn’t Say That
Oct 13, 2020
Being Spiritual in a Religious World
Oct 06, 2020
Where is God in the Unknown
Sep 29, 2020
Facing the Darkness
Sep 22, 2020
When Sin Became Weaponized
Sep 22, 2020
Leaving Church: Finding God
Sep 19, 2020
Introduction
Sep 19, 2020