Podcast Archive

  • Episode 100: A last look back, and a grand finale

    By Colin Wambsgans • December 18, 2025

    Episode 100 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this, our final episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with several previous guests and show producer Colin Wambsgans. You’ll hear clips from some of our guests, such as Father Greg Boyle, Sister Helen Prejean, and Padraig O’Tuama, and…
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  • Kaitlin Curtice: story and cyclical spirituality

    By Colin Wambsgans • December 11, 2025

    Episode 99 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with Kaitlin Curtice. They explore Indigenous spirituality, the power of stories, the cyclical nature of being, expansiveness and liminality, the difference between certainty and faith, joy in art, Mother Earth, community,…
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  • The waiting soul gives: hope-filled resistance to tyranny 

    By Sister Julia Walsh • December 4, 2025

    Note from the editor: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Messy Jesus Business podcast and blog schedule have been switched around this month. Check back the next two weeks for our final podcast episodes, with many more blog posts to follow!  Modern Christians often fail to discuss that the Christian Church was established during a time…
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  • timone davis: peace and paradox

    By Colin Wambsgans • November 20, 2025

    Episode 98 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with timone davis. They explore naming what you see in people, the military, Christ’s peace, inner paradoxes, asking the deeper questions, and much more. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Email | RSS | More A transcript…
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  • Vincent Noth: food and kinship

    By Colin Wambsgans • November 6, 2025

    Episode 97 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with Vincent Noth, executive director of the Kinship Community Food Center in Milwaukee. They explore faith, segregation, inequality, systemic racialized poverty, mystical experience, food as entry point to community, mutuality, accompaniment,…
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  • Cole Arthur Riley: embodiment and memory

    By Colin Wambsgans • September 25, 2025

    Episode 94 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with author and poet Cole Arthur Riley. They explore embodiment, resisting meritocracy, story, collective memory, letter writing, resistance, the tension between practice and belief, interiority, and much more. Podcast: Play in new…
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  • Mary Kay McDermott: The Spirit and Song and Dance

    By Colin Wambsgans • May 8, 2025

    Episode 93 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. Thanks for listening to Messy Jesus Business! We’re taking our summer break after this episode. Look for new interviews in your podcast feed starting in late September 2025. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with Mary Kay…
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  • Sr. Dr. Chero Chuma: Discomfort and Radical Hospitality

    By Colin Wambsgans • April 24, 2025

    Episode 92 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with Sr. Dr. Chero Chuma about privilege, racism, surrender, discomfort, mental health and homelessness, human dignity, radical hospitality, burnout, therapy, and messiness. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Email | RSS | More A transcript of the…
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  • Michael Poffenberger: Contemplation and Transformation

    By Colin Wambsgans • April 10, 2025

    Episode 91 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with Michael Poffenberger about activism, contemplation, interiority, right relationships and the true self, vulnerability and control, transformation, wholeness, and much more. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe:  Email | RSS | More A transcript of the show…
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  • Elena Segura: Immigration Reform and the Radicalness of Christianity

    By Colin Wambsgans • March 27, 2025

    Episode 90 of Messy Jesus Business podcast, with Sister Julia Walsh. (We had some issues with Elena’s microphone during recording, our apologies! -Colin) In this episode of Messy Jesus Business podcast, Sister Julia Walsh, FSPA talks with Elena Segura about Evangelicalism, conversion, social justice, the radicalness of Mass, immigration reform, silence, and more. Podcast: Play in…
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