The Collegiate Church Podcast

The Collegiate Church Network Podcast is your go-to resource for campus ministry inspiration and insight. Hosted by Jay Bennet, Executive Director of the Collegiate Church Network, this podcast is designed for anyone passionate about making disciples of Jesus on college campuses. Whether you're a student, missionary, or pastor, you'll find encouragement and guidance to help you on your journey. Subscribe and stay connected to what God is doing on campuses nationwide!

The Collegiate Church Podcast is a religion podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #26

  Episode 26: The Courage to Be Fully Known (w/ Jordan Castille)

  Jul 28, 202657 min

  What does genuine freedom look like when the struggle does not disappear overnight? Jordan Castille joins the podcast to share his deeply personal journey through pornography addiction, same-sex attraction, shame, and the healing love of Jesus. He explains how a vulnerable Christian community gave him the courage to bring his hidden struggles into the light and how discovering his identity in Christ began changing him from the inside out. Jordan and Jay discuss why freedom is about more than avoiding a behavior, what pornography falsely promises, and how prayer, counseling, discipleship, and safe relationships can work together in the healing process. They also explore how campus missionaries can respond when students share painful stories involving addiction, betrayal, trauma, or sexuality without rushing to fix them or reducing them to their struggle. For anyone walking through sexual brokenness, discipling a student, or wondering whether lasting transformation is possible, Jordan offers a hope-filled reminder: Jesus meets us in the struggle, patiently makes us whole, and is worth choosing again and again. This episode discusses sensitive topics related to sexuality, addiction, trauma, and mental health. Listener discretion is advised. https://www.collegiate.church/podcast https://www.instagram.com/collegiate.church/

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  Episode 25: Following Jesus When Certainty Feels Out of Reach (w/ Dr. Kyle Chase)

  Jun 18, 20261h 3m

  In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kyle Chase, longtime campus missionary and pastor at New Life Church in Ann Arbor, to talk about faith, uncertainty, deconstruction, and the kind of discipleship college students need right now. Drawing from nearly two decades of ministry at the University of Michigan, Kyle explores why students are asking deeper questions, why certainty is often the wrong goal, and how honest wrestling can become a pathway toward Jesus rather than away from Him. Together, we discuss Open Table, a space for students from all kinds of faith backgrounds to bring hard questions about life, God, suffering, sexuality, Scripture, and culture. Kyle also shares insights from his doctoral work and upcoming book, Jesus Mysterium, inviting listeners to encounter Jesus not as a tidy answer to memorize, but as the living mystery who is both terrifying and beautiful, present with us in the wilderness, and faithful in the midst of our uncertainty. This conversation is for campus missionaries, pastors, small group leaders, and students who want to follow Jesus honestly in a world that often feels unstable. Kyle reminds us that the goal of discipleship is not to bubble-wrap students with easy answers, but to help them see their lives inside the larger story of Jesus, where suffering can become a song and uncertainty can become the very place where God speaks. https://www.collegiate.church/podcast https://www.instagram.com/collegiate.church/

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  Episode #24

  Episode 24: Sexual Integrity, Gospel Hope, and the Next Generation (w/ Nick Stumbo)

  Jun 2, 20261h 9mS0

  <p>In this episode, we sit down with Nick Stumbo, Executive Director of Pure Desire Ministries, for a candid and hope-filled conversation about sexual brokenness, shame, healing, and discipleship on the college campus.</p><p>Nick shares his own story of struggling with pornography as a pastor, the pain it brought into his marriage, and the freedom he and his wife began to experience through counseling, honesty, community, and the deeper work of understanding what was beneath the behavior.</p><p>Together, we explore why sexual formation matters for college students, how digital culture, pornography, AI, and hookup culture are...

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  Episode #23

  Episode 23: Theology of Yes - What the Church Gets Wrong About Sex, Marriage, and Singleness (w/ Laurie Krieg)

  Apr 13, 202658 minS0

  <p>What does it look like to walk alongside a student wrestling with sexuality, identity, or shame, not with a list of rules, but with the love of Jesus? In this episode, we sit down with Laurie Krieg, Director of Parent Programs and Discipleship at the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, speaker, and co-author of the forthcoming Raising Wise Kids in a Sexually Confused World (2026).</p><p>Laurie opens up about her own story of experiencing same-sex attraction in college, the mentor who helped her feel the deeper needs beneath her desires, and what it actually means to move...

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  Episode #22

  Episode 22: The God Who Can Shoulder It - Faith, Identity, and Lament (w/ Brenna Blaine)

  Mar 19, 20261h 15mS0

  <p>Brenna Blaine is a contemporary theologian, bestselling author, and teacher whose life story is anything but a straight line. From a painful childhood marked by abuse and her parents' marital struggles, through years of wrestling with same-sex attraction, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, to a dramatic encounter with God on a YWAM base in Maui, Brenna's journey into faith and ministry is the kind that defies easy packaging.</p><p>In this conversation, Brenna opens up about receiving a bipolar diagnosis in the middle of her ministry career, what it means to pursue spiritual maturity when symptoms do not disappear...

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