

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 600 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.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jan 26, 2025 • 1h 7min
Autism and Medical Euthanasia
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 here:
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/a-canadian-priest-on-medical-assistance-in-dying
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/culture-of-life/where-are-the-churches-in-canadas-euthanasia-experiment
https://bencrosby.substack.com/p/on-maid-and-the-canadian-church
https://bencrosby.substack.com
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Jan 19, 2025 • 1h 33min
Research Methods and Other Research Question
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.
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Jan 12, 2025 • 2h 25min
Autistic Attitudes on Gender Roles, Feminism, and Trans Inclusion
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.
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Jan 5, 2025 • 2h 8min
Autistic Attitudes on Sex and Gender Identity
In this episode, Jon, an autistic Anglican computer engineer from Canada, tries to explain his research on autistic Christians from around 26000 online personas and over 500 interviews with autistic Christians and ex-Christians by diving into the autistic attitudes on gender and sexuality to Maddie, an autistic woman from America.
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Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 48min
Autistic attitudes on Women's Ordination and Abortion
In this episode, Jon an autistic computer engineer tries to answer your questions about what autistic Christians generally think about abortion and women's ordination from his 10 years of researching autistic Christians. He is joined by Maddie an american autistic woman.

Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 48min
Autistic Christian Sex Differences and Attitudes on LGBTQ+
In this episode, Jon an autistic computer engineer from Canada tries to answer many of the questions that have been sent to him about his autism and Christianity research. In this episode he tries to explain the answers to the questions related to the difference between autistic Christian men and women and autistic attitudes towards sexual orientation to Maddie, an autistic woman from America.
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Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 37min
Why am I a Christian - Part 3 - Rethinking Christianity
In this episode, Jon, an autistic computer engineer from Canada tries to explain why he ended up converting back to Christianity by talking about his rethinking of new testament scholarship, post modernism, and his recontextualizing and reconversion to Christianity
Simone Weil Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLpGJp9Lyk0
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Dec 8, 2024 • 1h 9min
Why am I a Christian - Part 2 - Wilfred Owen, Rene Girard, Sam Harris
In this episode, Jon, an autistic computer engineer from Canada tries to explain why he ended up converting back to Christianity, in this episode he covers three factors that were very important in coming back to Christianity.
Rene Girard series mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdvSnj5LBk
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Dec 8, 2024 • 48min
Why am I a Christian - Part 1 - Deconversion
In this episode, Jon, an autistic computer engineer from Canada tries to explain why he ended up converting back to Christianity, but first, before he gets into that, he explains a lot more thoroughly why he left Christianity.
I think this is the initial lecture I listened to that convinced me that I needed to look more into evolution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohd5uqzlwsU (specifically 35:20-39:45)
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Nov 24, 2024 • 1h 51min
Episode 10 - Explaining Christianity to Autistics
This podcast is the summation of around 9 years of research into autistic Christian and ex-Christian sub-communities. Covering over 26,000 online autistics with interviews with over 450 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.
In this episode, Jon, an Anglican autistic Computer Engineer from Canada, tries to explain how to talk to autistic people about Christianity to Amy, an autistic Catholic from Australia.
You can find Jon on Twitter at @ChristianityOn and Amy at @ItBeganInThe90s 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.
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