Touch Podcast: Conversations of Spirit and Body
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
Touch: Conversations of Spirit and Body Touch Podcast is an intimate conversation that takes place at the intersection of the spirit and body. Hosts Nate and Ryan invite artists, authors, ethicists, pastors, healers, and pop stars to explore our origins and journeys toward more authentic lives. Nate and Ryan became best friends in college when Nate left for Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and attend UC. Ryan continued on to seminary earning masters and doctoral degrees. Nate and Ryan seek answers to questions that started years ago with the Evangelical Purity Movement.
Location:
United States
Description:
Touch: Conversations of Spirit and Body Touch Podcast is an intimate conversation that takes place at the intersection of the spirit and body. Hosts Nate and Ryan invite artists, authors, ethicists, pastors, healers, and pop stars to explore our origins and journeys toward more authentic lives. Nate and Ryan became best friends in college when Nate left for Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and attend UC. Ryan continued on to seminary earning masters and doctoral degrees. Nate and Ryan seek answers to questions that started years ago with the Evangelical Purity Movement.
Twitter:
@Touch_Cast
Language:
English
Contact:
4045455003
Website:
http://www.touchpodcast.com/
Email:
info@touchpodcast.com
Episodes
Men, Masculinity and Purity @ Wildgoose with Ryan and Nate 2022
10/5/2022
Volume Up! Nate and Ryan get real about Men, Masculinity, and Purity @Wildgoose Festival. While purity culture has had a disproportionately negative impact on women, men have also been harmed. Join us as we explore how transactional faith led to transactional intimacy and we need to do to fix it.
Duration:00:57:18
Trans Talk with Guests Tristan Chipman And Ryan Patrick
9/1/2022
Trans Talk with Guests Tristan Chipman And Ryan Patrick by Ryan Clark and Nate Novero
Duration:00:55:45
Touch 4.8 Charna Cassell: Men, Trauma and Dysregulated Intimacy
6/12/2022
During Touch 4.8 Charna Cassell: Men, Trauma and Dysregulated Intimacy, Ryan Clark and Nathan Novero interview LMFT, and a Trauma-Trained Psychotherapist and Sexuality Coach, Charna Cassell who helps people heal and find pleasure in their bodies. For over two decades, first, as a sex educator and sex toy clerk at Good Vibrations located in San Francisco. Then, as a Master Somatic Coach and bodyworker, and now, a licensed psychotherapist. We talk about trauma and intimacy, especially how it...
Duration:01:01:12
Touch 4.7 Our Pain Made Flesh With Eric Minton
5/27/2022
Touch 4.7 Our Pain Made Flesh is a compelling conversation with a psychotherapist and ordained minister, Eric Minton, about his book "It's Not You, It's Everything: What our Pain Reveals about the Anxious Pursuit of the Good Life." We discuss how children and youth are expressing their anxieties about living in our frenetic and social media saturated culture. Ryan Clark and Nathan Novero discuss strategies for parenting and coping in a world that is literally killing us.
Duration:01:08:22
Touch 4.6 Sexy Caramel Bown in A White Town
5/11/2022
Reflecting on 4.5 with Dr. Monique Moultrie, Ryan interviews Nathan on what it was like to grow up brown in a white town. From skipping dances to becoming a filmmaker, Nathan talks about being treated as white - most of the time.
Duration:00:29:51
Touch 4.5 Dr. Monique Moultrie: The Black and White of Purity
4/22/2022
This mini-audio documentary is produced by Nathan Novero and is an interview with co-host Ryan Clark and Dr. Monique Moultrie who is the Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Religious Studies at Georgia State University. She is also the author of "Passionate and Pious: Religious Media and Black Women’s Sexuality". We are deeply grateful for her time to work on our documentary project. Please enjoy this important and fascinating sample where Dr. Moultrie helps listeners distinguish...
Duration:00:29:50
Touch 4.4 When We Get Angery
4/14/2022
Touch 4.4 When We Get Angery by Ryan Clark and Nate Novero
Duration:00:54:51
Touch 4.3 Confessions of Self Love And The Apostle Paul
4/8/2022
Ryan and Nathan talk about confronting your own body and learning to accept it. They discuss Paul and original sin and the deep need to be accepted.
Duration:00:39:00
Touch 4.2 Great Fun with Tina Shermer Sellers
3/29/2022
Ryan Clark and Nathan Novero speak with Dr. Tina Shermer-Sellers about sex education with kids and adults. Her new book Shameless Parenting helps parents deal with their own shame to pave the way for great family conversations on intimacy. A shoutout to Max Searle and Fed Savage for Season 1, Episode 3 of The Wonder Years (2021).
Duration:00:50:30
New Beginnings: Touch Podcast Season 4 Episode 1
2/21/2022
Nathan Novero and Ryan Clark are back with Season 4 of Touch Podcast. They talk about Purity, faith, men's groups, movie making, and life during the pandemic.
Duration:00:46:20
The Private Thoughts of Young Sex with Jennifer Knapp Ryan Clark And Nathan Novero GR
2/28/2020
Season 3, Episode 2. Is Season 3 alive? Yes, it is. Here we are in February - in the middle of pitching at television show based on season 1 of this podcast. We got behind. We'll stay behind for a while. But we love you. Thank you for listening. More to come. Video interviews and audio.
Duration:00:29:02
Touch Podcast Season Three, Live from Wild Goose Festival with Jennifer Knapp
10/11/2019
Touch Podcast Season 3 Episode 1 starts at the Wild Goose Festival live before an outdoor audience with Ryan Clark, Nathan Novero, and Jennnifer Knapp. These three banter over marriage, sexual exploration, and Touch's upcoming Documentary on Purity. Support Touch Podcast now and get secret fall content when you subscribe. Support Touch Podcast now @ www.patreon.com/touchpodcast!
Duration:00:36:06
Touch Podcast : Inside And Outside The Boundaries Of Your Sexual Playground
5/1/2019
Touch Podcast Season 2 Episode 24 Inside And Outside The Boundaries Of Your Sexual Playground with Ryan Clark, Nathan Novero, and Shannon Ethridge. Jumping back in from last week, your co-hosts talk about what it means to test the boundaries of your commitment to your partner and possibilities for acting out in holy ways on your fantasies.
Duration:00:35:45
Touch Podcast Grab Bag of Goodies Juicy Listener Mail (part 1 of 2)
4/23/2019
Touch Podcast Season 2, Episode 23 Grab Bag of Goodies Juicy Listener Mail (part 1 of 2) goes some crazy places with Christian Polyamory, Swinging and Nude clubs (oh my!) Ryan Clark, Nate Novero, and Shannon Ethridge go into the edgier depths of listener mail and have a super fun time dancing around the edges of our own comfort zones.
Duration:00:33:33
Touch Podcast: Fantasy with Ryan, Nate And Shannon
4/17/2019
On Touch Podcast Season 2 Episode 22 Ryan, Nate, and Shannon talk about Fantasy! Our secret thoughts that turn us on are important pieces of information. Sex in public? Kidnapped by an Amazon woman? What do your fantasies mean? Some of us look to fantasy as hope for sexual fulfillment. Others look at how fantasy informs our understanding of our past.
Duration:00:34:15
Touch Podcast: Authentically Sexual with Ryan, Nate And Shannon
4/9/2019
Touch Podcast Season 2, Episode 21: Authentically Sexual with co-hosts Ryan Clark, Nate Novero and Shannon Ethridge. Dialog with people who have different views than you can be a challenge but it’s worth it! The team addresses listener critiques and they talk about creating safe places for dialog in relationships and couples. How do we trust so that we can be known and truly intimate with others and ourselves.
Duration:00:27:50
Touch Podcast: Sex Search Engine Results (part 2 of 2)with Ryan, Nate And Shannon
4/3/2019
Season 2, Episode 20: Sex Search Engine Results with Ryan, Nate, and Shannon. Does your porn search engine terms mean something? Yes! Shanon gives an important interpretation of our porn consumption. Nate discovers how his use of porn mirrored the dysfunction in his marriage relationship (part 2 of 2). Touch Podcast is produced by Ryan Clark and is available anywhere podcasts are found.
Duration:00:33:41
Touch Podcast: Porn and Faith with Ryan, Nate and Shannon
3/27/2019
On Touch Podcast Season 2, Episode 19, Ryan, Nate and Shannon dive into the difficult topic of Christianity and Pornography. Join these three distinct perspectives on the cons and pros of erotic content and what it means for our faith and relationships. (part 1 of 2).
Duration:00:28:51
Touch Podcast: Love Casts Out Fear with Ryan, Nate and Shannon
3/20/2019
Touch Podcast Season 2, episode 18 is co-hosted and produced by Ryan Clark along with Nathan Novero and Shannon Ethridge. This trio continues their riveting conversation about toxic masculinity and some of our religious traditions that have held us back from offering and receiving love. What can learn about God’s gifts when we strip away some of the institutional baggage?
Duration:00:23:52
Touch Podcast: Recovering Masculinity with Thomas Jaggers
3/13/2019
Touch Podcast Season 2, episode 16 is co-hosted and produced by Ryan Clark along with Nathan Novero and Shannon Ethridge. How can we recover masculinity? Co-host Nate Novero speaks with mediator and facilitator, Thomas Jaggers who is the co-founder of True Masculine (truemasculine.org). He is a practitioner of spiritualized martial arts, MogaDao Gongfu, Yoga, and meditation where he helps men live more embodied, connected, playful and focused lives.
Duration:00:35:15