Radically Personal

A seeker-centered journey exploring divine reality, spiritual experience, and the love that transforms a life.

What if discovering God begins not with institutions or doctrines, but with the personal moments that shape our lives?

Radically Personal is a new series from God: An Autobiography, The Podcast, where philosopher Jerry L. Martin reflects on the journey that led him from lifelong agnosticism to an ongoing dialogue with the Divine. Inspired by his book Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age, these conversations offer a seeker-driven approach to spirituality — grounded in lived experience, open to wisdom from every tradition, and guided by love that transforms the heart.

Each episode explores how God may still speak personally today, what a “new Axial Age” could mean for our spiritual lives, and how love and relationship can awaken us to divine presence. It is for anyone who senses there is more to reality than what we have been told, and who wants to build their own personal theology — without walls.

Your story matters. Your questions matter. Your relationship with the Divine matters.

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Two Philosophers Wrestle with God- A DialogueAbout Jerry L. Martin

Jerry L. Martin is the author of God: An Autobiography, As Told to a Philosopher and Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age. Once an agnostic, his life changed the day he finally prayed — and God responded. That encounter and the dialogue that followed sparked the Theology Without Walls project, which draws on the insights of every spiritual tradition.

His career has included serving as Acting Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and teaching philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. Today, Jerry continues exploring how God communicates not only through scriptures and traditions, but in the unfolding experiences of our everyday lives.

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About the Book

Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age

“You stand on the threshold of a new spiritual era, a new axial age,” God told Jerry — a message that launched a new movement in theology. The book invites readers to notice the divine nudges in daily life, grow into a direct and personal relationship with God, learn from the spiritual wisdom of many faiths, and live with greater love, clarity, and purpose.

Scholars have called the book a gift to those seeking a deeper encounter with divine reality, “astoundingly erudite,” a refreshing departure from dry academic approaches, and a personal meditation that encourages all of us to trust the spiritual experiences that enlarge our hearts.

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