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Excavations with Connie Chen

Connie Chen

Booking Overview

Excavations with Connie Chen is a faith-at-the-margins show featuring scholars and spiritual thinkers reworking Christianity through politics, embodiment, and liberation. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for authors and advocates whose work sits at the intersection of theology, social justice, and lived religious experience.

Metrics

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

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

connie@connie-chen.com

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Host

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...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
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.
Required Achievements:  
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, Work centered on marginalized religious experience (queer, trans, disability)

Recent Guest Discussions

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

Recent Topics

Theology, Christianity, Queer, Embodiment, Religious Trauma

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Excavations with Connie Chen
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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...

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Frequently asked questions

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Excavations with Connie Chen
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How do I get in touch with Excavations with Connie Chen?

Excavations with Connie Chen is hosted by Connie Chen. Its publicly listed email is connie@connie-chen.com. For guest bookings, the host or producer is usually the best person to reach. Podseeker helps you find direct host and producer contacts and pitch from your own inbox.

What is the email for Excavations with Connie Chen?

The publicly listed email for Excavations with Connie Chen: connie@connie-chen.com.

How many listeners does Excavations with Connie Chen have?

Podseeker estimates Excavations with Connie Chen reaches 100 to 1,000 listeners per episode. Only the publisher has exact numbers.

Who is an ideal guest for Excavations with Connie Chen?

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.

How hard is it to get booked on Excavations with Connie Chen?

Medium. Guests usually need solid credentials in the topic and an idea that fits the show.

What topics does Excavations with Connie Chen cover?

Recent episodes cover Theology, Christianity, Queer, Embodiment, and Religious Trauma. Pitch an idea tied to one of these topics and mention a recent episode.

Publicly listed emails

connie@connie-chen.com

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