Christianity On The Spectrum

The Problem with the Social Model of Disability

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.
 

A Critical Analysis of Neurodiversity - With Freddie deBoer

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-disabilityhttps://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-gentrification-of-disabilityhttps://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

Why are so Many Autistic Christians Universalists?

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.

Answering Your Burning Questions about autism and Christianity

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

Autism and Authoritarian Parenting

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.

Thinking about suffering and 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.

Do we need an autistic liberation theology? (A review of "Peculiar Discipleship")

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"

Why New Testament Scholars are Wrong about Style in Paul

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:

My Issue with Critical Scholarship

In this episode Jon tries to explain his issues with Critical Scholarship. Admittedly this is a less structured and a more rambling episode, mostly because this is basically two of my special interests colliding which often got me side tracked.
My main issue is that many scholars are saying things with a lot of confidence, and I'm like "IDK, I think things are actually more complicated and historical reconstruction is actually extremely hard to do accurately IRL" and basically say that on a loop for 1:30.
 
Correction: I kept saying "providence" I meant to say provenance" I guess I just had Christianity on the brain a little too much
 

Is there really an autism epidemic? And Surrounding Discourse

This this episode, Jon addresses RFK's recent speech about the supposed autism epidemic, what he got wrong, the real differences between autism prevalence the discourse that has sprung up around it.
 
Live Stream I did with Nathan (Digital Gnosis)
https://www.youtube.com/live/m35jiN-7J7M
 
Papers cited:
https://www.dovepress.com/prevalence-of-autism-in-scandinavian-countries-denmark-norway-sweden-a-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NDT
https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h1961
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00333549231163551