🎙️ Slipping Up Episode 7: “Where Is God?”
This week on Slipping Up, we dive deep into the haunting, tender, and theologically rich question: Where is God when it matters most? Our guests—Tim Miller, Chad Bahl, and Keegan Osinski—join Mike for a raw and illuminating panel on Divine Hiddenness and the human struggle to sense God’s presence in a fractured world.
Together, they explore whether Divine Hiddenness is God's failure to show up—or our failure to perceive the presence of a God who never left. They ask: What kind of God hides? What kind of creatures forget how to see? And what does it mean to believe in an evolving God who is still learning to love perfectly?
💭 In this episode:
Tim Miller discusses his book The Silence of the Lamb and what it means to believe in a God who might still be growing
Chad Bahl reflects on his dissertation about divine presence and how Open and Relational Theology reimagines divine power
Keegan Osinski, scholar and librarian, asks what it means to worship a hidden God with embodied liturgies and rituals when words fall short
Together they ponder how suffering, doubt, and silence shape (or shatter) faith
Mike shares how failure, especially God's perceived absence, becomes a deeply personal and communal wound
This is an episode for anyone who’s whispered “Where are you?” into the dark—and waited.
👤 Featured Guests
Tim Miller
After retiring from a 40-year career in information technology, Tim pursued a doctorate at Northwind Theological Seminary, driven by his love for theology and curiosity about divine morality. His book The Silence of the Lamb: Exploring the Hiddenness of Christ and God tackles divine hiddenness head-on, asking if God is morally evolving like us. He also writes a Substack series, Our Evolving God, where he explores theology from a post-retirement lens.
📘 Buy The Silence of the Lamb on Amazon
📰 Read Our Evolving God on Substack
Chad Bahl
Chad is a recent graduate of Northwind Theological Seminary. His research centers on divine presence and relational theology, asking bold questions about God's love, justice, and presence in a world that often feels abandoned. He brings pastoral sensitivity and philosophical clarity to every conversation.
Keegan Osinski
Keegan is a theological librarian at Vanderbilt Divinity School, author of Queering Wesley, Queering the Church, and a liturgist who believes theology must be embodied, musical, and grounded in the stories we live. Her work explores the intersection of queer identity, ritual, and theologies of absence and presence.
📘 Buy Queering Wesley, Queering the Church
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