Subversive Orthodoxy

By Travis Mullen

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Episodes: 19

Description

Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise


Subversive Orthodoxy is a podcast for people who sense that something vital has been lost in public life, moral imagination, and religious conversation. Many listeners carry fatigue with politics and ideological conflict, yet remain drawn to the depth and realism of the Judeo-Christian tradition.


This podcast often resonates with listeners who no longer fit comfortably within dominant religious or political categories, yet remain committed to truth, responsibility, and love of neighbor.


The conversations on this show are largely shaped by the book Subversive Orthodoxy and the wider body of literature it engages. Episodes draw from theological, philosophical, and literary voices that take faith seriously as a way of seeing and inhabiting the world.


The podcast explores how an ancient faith continues to form human dignity, responsibility, and hope within modern life. Attention is given to formation rather than commentary, and to meaning rather than alignment.


Through conversation, reflection, and creative engagement, the show seeks to recover humility, restore attention, and re-humanize our neighbors in a distracted age.


If this way of thinking resonates, you are welcome to listen and join the ongoing work.





Hosted by: 

Travis Mullen and Robert "Larry" Inchausti, Professor Emeritus of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo


Episode Date
Episode #19: The Most Radical Thing She Did Was Stay — Dorothy Day (part two) on Presence, Personal Conversion, and Why Holiness Might Be What You Actually Want
Apr 30, 2026
Episode #18: Don't Call Me a Saint — Dorothy Day (part one), the Woman Nobody Could Domesticate
Apr 25, 2026
Episode #17: The Diagnosis You Didn't Know You Needed: Walker Percy on the Malaise, the Moviegoer, and the Art of Being Actually Alive
Mar 26, 2026
Episode #16: The Saint of Holy Groveling: Jack Kerouac, Catholic Mystic, and the God He Could Never Outrun
Dec 20, 2025
Episode #15: Field Notes #1: What Existentialism Gets Right — and What It Costs You
Nov 25, 2025
Episode #14: The Silent Kiss That Answers Everything: Dostoevsky, the Grand Inquisitor, and Why Freedom Terrifies Us — Part Three
Nov 24, 2025
Episode #13: The Man Responsible for Everyone: Dostoevsky on Goodness, the Underground, and the Love That Won't Collapse — Part Two
Sep 16, 2025
Episode #12: The Psychology of the Underground: How Dostoevsky Mapped the War Between Mind and Heart — Part One
Sep 03, 2025
Episode #11: Avoiding Spiritual Nihilism: How to Deconstruct Every System and Still Keep Your Soul — Nikolai Berdyaev (Part Two)
Aug 16, 2025
Episode #10: No System Can Contain the Soul: On Freedom, the Creative Act, and the Person — Nikolai Berdyaev
Jul 11, 2025
Episode #9: Joy as an Act of War: Chesterton on Nihilism, Technology, and the Orthodoxy That Refuses to Stop Laughing — Part Two
Jun 29, 2025
Episode #8: The Most Joyful Apologist Christianity Ever Produced: Chesterton, Wonder as Rebellion, and the Wit That Outlasts Despair — Part One
Jun 29, 2025
Episode #7: The Patron Saint of Deconstruction, The Apostle of Paradox & Radical Faith — Soren Kierkegaard
May 17, 2025
Episode #6: Grace Finds the Man Who Never Earned It: Goethe's Faust, Restless Striving, and the God Who Saves Anyway
Apr 18, 2025
Episode #5: Every Creature Is Cherished: William Blake on Divine Love, Miscarriage, Mercy, and the Infinite Hidden in Small Things — Part Two
Mar 28, 2025
Episode #4: The Prophet Against the Enlightenment: William Blake on Imagination, Newton's Dead God, and the Third Way — Part One
Mar 04, 2025
Episode #3: The Artist Who Refused to Disappear: Boris Pasternak on Creation, Tyranny, and the Soul That Outlasts the State
Feb 12, 2025
Episode #2: The Witness Who Broke the Soviet Lie: Solzhenitsyn on Truth, Suffering, and the Soul That Tyranny Cannot Touch
Jan 23, 2025
Episode #1: Intro: Outlaws, Mystics, and Revolutionaries — What 20 Forgotten Christians Can Teach a World Losing Its Mind
Jan 17, 2025