Episodes: 8
Frequency: Monthly
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 100 - 1,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 19.4k subscribers
Instagram: 139.0k followers
Publicly listed emails
connie@connie-chen.com
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Connie Chen - Hosted by Connie Chen. The podcast centers “Conversations at the margins of faith,” focusing on recovering what religion buried by centering marginalized voices, bodies, and the theologies that wer...
Chris Alfonso (Jean-Paul Fartre) - Marxism And Christianity; Liberation Theology; Abolition And Prison Organizing; Hegelian Dialectic And Christian Eschatology
Ciarra Jones (@thegardeningtheologian) - Queer Sexual Ethics; Theology Of Pleasure; Disability Justice; Religious Trauma And Reclaiming The Body; Eve As Liberator
Colten Barnaby - Sex, Sin, And Scripture; Shame; Trans Theology; Violence Embedded In Liberation; Scripture And Pleasure
Holy Inner Child: Playing with a Childlike God
September 06, 2026
On this episode of Excavations, I'm joined by Mattie Mae, PhD candidate at the University of St. Andrews and Bible scholar specializing in gender and sexuality in the New Testament. We talk about what "childlike faith" actually meant in the world Jesus lived, who gets called childlike and why, and how that same language has been used to infantilize disabled people in church spaces. We talk about Internal Family Systems therapy and what it looks like to do inner child work throu...
The Sacred Erotic: A Threesome on Root Work
August 30, 2026
This Excavations episode is a threesome on the sacred erotic convened by Tamice. Connie sits down with Tamice and Gary to excavate the erotic as root work, as power, as what the body already knows. Audre Lorde said the erotic is power. This episode says Jesus is Lorde. Dr. Tamice Spencer-Helms Dr. Gary Green Support the showTopics: eroticism, spirituality, power, root work, feminine energy, kink, biblical stories, embodied spirituality, divine energy, liberation spirituality, authenticity, di...
Faithful Without God: Marxism, Christianity, and Getting Free
May 09, 2026
What does it mean to live by Christian ethics without God at the center? What happens when Marxist theory meets the bars of Rikers Island, the wards of outpatient psychiatric care, and the walls of San Quentin? In this episode of Excavations, Connie sits down with Chris Alfonso (Jean-Paul Fartre), a Marxist scholar, organizer, and abolitionist, to trace the surprising theological architecture inside radical thought.They explore the structural parallels between Hegel's dialectic and Chris...
The Bible Uncut and Unfiltered · Medium booking difficulty · 100 - 1,000 listeners
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The publicly listed email for Excavations with Connie Chen: connie@connie-chen.com.
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Excavations with Connie Chen typically books rising experts. Typical guest background: Academic scholars, political organizers, and spiritual/faith practitioners with credible theological or social-justice frameworks; authors or recognized experts in topics like liberation theology, abolition/prison organizing, queer/sexual ethics, disability justice, and/or religious trauma recovery. Common among recent guests: Published scholarship or writing on theology and liberation; Organizing/advocacy experience related to abolition or justice; Public engagement through books, Substack/social platforms, or community education. Recent guests include Chris Alfonso (Jean-Paul Fartre), Ciarra Jones (@thegardeningtheologian), and Colten Barnaby.
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