Christianity On The Spectrum

In this episode, Jon is once again joined by Alyssa to discuss the book "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" 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 to talk to him, you can find the podcast email at the end of the podcast or send me a message on twitter, you can also join our discord.    

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 I talk about the Double Empathy Problem, a popular construct used in the social model of disability. I talk about how it works, how it doesn't, the support for it and against it, and how and why it should be used or not.   

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 to talk to him, you can find the podcast email at the end of the podcast or send me a message on twitter, you can also join our discord. In this episode, I try to explain why the issues that commonly occur when people try to use the social model of disability.  

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 Articles: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/whats-the-problem-with-disability https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-gentrification-of-disability https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/who-neurodiversity-left-behind Fake Tourettes Articles: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/16/the-unknown-is-scary-why-young-women-on-social-media-are-developing-tourettes-like-tics

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 to talk to him, you can find the podcast email at the end of the podcast or send me a message on twitter, you can also join our discord. In this episode, I try to explain why autistic Christians are more likely to be Universalists based on my 10 years of research into autistic Christians.

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

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.

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.

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 autistic liberation theology that will probably be rejected by most autistic Christians"

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 Paul did or did not write various letters attributed to him. (if you can't see the graphs from your page, you can see them here https://christianityonthespectrum.podbean.com/e/qa-why-new-testament-scholars-are-wrong-about-style-in-paul/) Graph of Styles in Paul mentioned by Josiah   Graph Jon mentioned: