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 500 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.

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Episodes

58 minutes ago

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, Greg and I do another Q&A and talk about what it has been like to do an autism and Christianity podcast for a year.
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Sunday Dec 14, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I spoke with Simone Collins from the Based Camp podcast about the newest incarnation of the pro-natalist movement and the autistics who participate in it.
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Sunday Dec 07, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, Greg asks me every question in my autism and Christianity interview protocol and I try to answer them as briefly as I possibly can.
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Sunday Nov 30, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, spoke with Max an autistic Christian fan fic writer about their hit "It's a feminonmenon" fanfic about the acts of Paul and Thecla. 
 
Link to the Act of Paul and Thecla fic which you should support: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58436500/chapters/148853284
Donate to malaria nets to support my work: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/ChristianityOn 
Get the merch (proceeds go to malaria nets and the artist that made the work): https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

Sunday Nov 23, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I read an essay I wrote about my experiences having teenage gender dysphoria.
You can find the full written piece and my substack here: https://dispatchesfromtheautismwars.substack.com/p/i-had-teenage-gender-dysphoria
Donate to malaria nets to support my work: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/ChristianityOn 
Get the merch (proceeds go to malaria nets and the artist that made the work): https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

Sunday Nov 16, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I talked with Joanna Sawatsky, a Christian purity culture expert and author of several data driven analytic books on the subject, about the effects of Purity Culture on autistic Christians and ex-Christians.  
Joanna's research group website and resources https://baremarriage.com/
If you are autistic and Christian and want to fill out a survey, here is a link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8xNb2wVupRU8ys1HCBksh0BIsQXrLxtpQHJ5oA8Apjr66Bw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115637121395263171568
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Sunday Nov 16, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I talked with Helen Roy a thought leader of the autistic Christian radfem adjacent gender fatalists why so many autistic Christians are radfems.
Helen's substack: https://substack.com/@helenofroy
Previous episode where we talk about autistic attitudes towards feminism and trans issues:
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2xhns-17ab3e0
If you are autistic and Christian and want to fill out a survey, here is a link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8xNb2wVupRU8ys1HCBksh0BIsQXrLxtpQHJ5oA8Apjr66Bw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115637121395263171568
Donate to malaria nets to support my work: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/ChristianityOn 
Get the merch (proceeds go to malaria nets and the artist that made the work): https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

Sunday Nov 02, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I talked with Marie an autistic Christian Radical Feminist why so many autistic Christians are radfems. 
(Marie would like to make it clear that she acknowledges that her positions are not sanctioned by the magisterium)
Previous episode where we talk about autistic attitudes towards feminism and trans issues:
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-2xhns-17ab3e0
 
If you are autistic and Christian and want to fill out a survey, here is a link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8xNb2wVupRU8ys1HCBksh0BIsQXrLxtpQHJ5oA8Apjr66Bw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115637121395263171568
Donate to malaria nets to support my work: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/ChristianityOn 
Get the merch (proceeds go to malaria nets and the artist that made the work): https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

Sunday Oct 26, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I talked with Emily May about her experiences as a Mother of a child with profound autism and a NYT published writer who has written about her perspective as a mom of an autistic child. 
 
Emily's NYT Articles:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/opinion/autism-rfk-parent-child.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/autism-diagnosis-category-stigma.html
 
 
Donate to malaria nets to support my work: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/ChristianityOn 
Get the merch (proceeds go to malaria nets and the artist that made the work): https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

Sunday Oct 19, 2025

This podcast is about the intersection of autism (ASD 1) and Christianity, covering ten years of ethnographic research covering over 26000 autistic Christians and ex-Christians. In this episode, I talked with Jon De Pue from Apocalypse Here about his book "Beyond Justification". 
If you are autistic and Christian and want to fill out a survey, here is a link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8xNb2wVupRU8ys1HCBksh0BIsQXrLxtpQHJ5oA8Apjr66Bw/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=115637121395263171568
Donate to malaria nets to support my work: https://www.AgainstMalaria.com/ChristianityOn 
Get the merch (proceeds go to malaria nets and the artist that made the work): https://christianityonthespectrum.creator-spring.com/

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