GOD: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher - The Podcast

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How do you know when an inner prompting is truly guidance — and when it is illusion? 
In this intimate dialogue, Jerry L. Martin and Abigail L. Rosenthal explore the challenge of spiritual discernment: learning to trust your spiritual senses without abandoning realism, reason, or common sense. 
What does it mean to follow an inner call responsibly? How do you test intuition against experience, wisdom, and the counsel of others?
Drawing from lived experience — including Jerry’s hearing of the “God voice,” their shared leap into marriage, and Abigail’s reflections in A Good Look at Evil and Confessions of a Young Philosopher — they consider how faith and practical wisdom must work together. 
Faith is not unrealism. It is not a shortcut. Nor is it blind emotion. Instead, it is a disciplined attentiveness to the deeper currents of your life, guided by both sincerity and discernment.
The conversation widens into a larger question: What story are you living? And what is your ideal story? 
Abigail reflects on the idea that God is not a distant abstraction but a Player — with a capital P — in the unfolding drama of your life. To live spiritually is not to withdraw from reality but to engage it more fully, with courage, humility, and intellectual honesty.
If you have ever wondered how to distinguish true guidance from impulse, how to balance faith and reason, or how to bring your actual life closer to your ideal life, this episode offers a thoughtful and grounded exploration of divine guidance, inner calling, and life as a story.
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.
From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.
Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.
Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.
What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.
What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.
What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue. 
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The newest From God to Jerry to You is a reflection on divine guidance, spiritual discernment, and the discovery of your calling. Jerry L. Martin shares prayer encounters from the podcast's early days and from more recent experiences. 
These moments reveal what it means to trust your spiritual senses, and how to recognize when guidance may be coming from beyond yourself.
What does it mean to discern God’s voice? How do we know when an inner prompting is truly divine?
Drawing from Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age, Jerry explores an “epistemics of trust”—a philosophical framework for understanding how we know what we know. Just as we trust perception, memory, and reason, we may also learn to trust spiritual intuition.
This radically personal center is not arbitrary. It is, Jerry suggests, the instrument of revelation.
The episode also traces the vision behind Theology Without Walls and the birth of the Ultimate Questions Substack—a public forum inviting reflection on life’s deepest questions.
At the heart of this conversation is a simple but profound question: What does a calling feel like?
If you’ve ever wondered how to discern divine guidance, respond to the inner voice, or understand where faith and philosophy meet, this episode offers both depth and clarity. Listen now—and consider where you might be called.
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.
From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.
Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.
Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.
What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.
What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.
What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue. 
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Ultimate Questions Substack
Get the books: God: An Autobiography, Radically Personal
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In Episode 272 of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, Jerry Martin and Scott Langdon ask a deceptively simple question: What is experience?
Is it just a stream of sensations passing through us — or is it the unfolding of meaning across a lifetime? When we look back at our lives, do we merely remember events, or do we discover layers of significance we couldn’t see before?
Drawing from Scott’s recent What’s Your Spiritual Story episode and Jerry’s Radically Personal series, the conversation turns to the radical uniqueness of every human life. No one has ever been duplicated. Every consciousness is singular. What might it mean, then, to say: “You are the experience God is having”?
Through reflections on theater, personal memory, Jane Austen’s Emma, the play Proof, and the philosophical idea of “thisness” (haecceitas), Jerry and Scott explore whether awareness itself is the meeting point between the human and the divine.
Experience changes us. Meaning deepens. And perhaps consciousness is not merely personal — but participatory in something far greater.
As you listen, consider your own experience. Where has meaning deepened for you? And what might it reveal about the divine presence within your life?
Related Episodes:
270. Recovering the Depth of Experience in a Flattened World- Radically Personal
271. What’s Your Spiritual Story: Scott’s Journey from Certainty to Love
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.
From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.
Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.
Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.
What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.
What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.
What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue. 
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Get the books: God: An Autobiography, Radically Personal
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In Episode 271 of God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, host Scott Langdon shares his personal spiritual journey — from Lutheran liturgy and evangelical certainty to faith deconstruction, mental health challenges, and a renewed understanding of God as love.
Raised in the church and later immersed in evangelical Christianity, Scott’s faith was shaped by music, scripture, and sacred ritual. But a pivotal moment — being baptized again and feeling nothing — marked the beginning of a profound spiritual transformation. Through theater, bipolar diagnosis, marriage, loss, and deep questioning, Scott’s understanding of God shifted from external authority to lived experience.
What happens when you “give up God” and begin praying to love instead? Can faith survive doubt, silence, and reinvention?
God: An Autobiography, The Podcast explores spiritual experience through personal stories, philosophical reflection, and dramatic readings from the book God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher. Each episode invites listeners to consider their own spiritual story and the possibility that divine encounter is rooted in lived experience.
If you’ve wrestled with belief, deconstruction, or the meaning of love and faith — this episode is for you.
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
The Life Wisdom Project – Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.
From God to Jerry to You – Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.
Two Philosophers Wrestle With God – A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.
Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue – Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.
What’s Your Spiritual Story – Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.
What’s On Our Mind – Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.
What’s On Your Mind – Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue. 
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Get the books: Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age | God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher
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What do we mean when we speak of human experience?
In this fourth installment of the Radically Personal series, Jerry Martin takes up that question and follows it carefully. Modern philosophy and science often frame experience in terms of sensations, data, or brain activity. Yet the way we actually live and perceive suggests something more expansive.
Drawing on William James, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hilary Putnam, Martin Buber, Edith Stein, and others, Jerry reflects on how we encounter the world in practice. He considers perception and embodiment, the depth present in persons and things, the pull of beauty and awe, and the way empathy makes another’s inner life accessible.
The discussion gradually turns toward love and value, tracing how worth emerges within experience itself. As the episode moves from perception to relationship to meaning, a picture comes into view: depth is not added from outside but belongs to experience as lived.
Join Jerry in taking experience seriously; it may open new ways of thinking about meaning, reality, and the possibility of the divine.
Get the books: Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age | God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher
Other Series:
The podcast began with the Dramatic Adaptation of the book and now has several series:
Radically Personal: Reflections on lived experience, divine encounter, and personal vocation, drawing on a seeker-centered approach to spirituality in a new Axial Age.
From God to Jerry to You: Divine messages and breakthroughs for seekers.
Jerry & Abigail: An Intimate Dialogue: Love, faith, and divine presence in partnership.
What’s Your Spiritual Story: Real stories of people changed by encounters with God.
What’s On Our Mind: Reflections from Jerry and Scott on recent episodes.
Two Philosophers Wrestle With God: A dialogue on God, truth, and reason.
The Life Wisdom Project: Spiritual insights on living a wiser, more meaningful life.
What’s On Your Mind: Listener questions, divine answers, and open dialogue. 
Stay Connected: [email protected]
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