Hey, friends, as season two comes to an end over the next few episodes, I wanted to take a moment and share an important update about the future of the podcast. Moving forward, the show's name will be evolving from Slutty Grace to Untamed Grace.

I'll give you a second to let that sink in.

Now, before anyone panics, let me say this clearly: the heart and the soul of this podcast is not changing. The ethos of freedom, grace, healing, deconstruction and reconstruction, awakening, disruption, and God's unbridled love for all people will absolutely continue to be the heartbeat of this show. The guests will still inspire us with their stories, challenge us with their ideas, and guide us with their wisdom. 

And my goal from day one remains exactly the same:

• To create a space where people hear out loud the questions and tensions that have been quietly reverberating inside of them for years 
• To give people permission to question 
• To help usher in a sliver of freedom in a world often shaped by fear, politics, religion and consumerism 
• To remind people that they are not alone in their thoughts, doubts, or internal struggles. 

That part isn't changing and it won't change. 

But let's poke the elephant in the room. Why change the name?

First off, this isn't happening because of fear, pressure, appeasement, or because some people found the title uncomfortable. Occasionally I would come across people that would say, you need to change the name. I can't believe you named it that. And I was never going to change it for that reason. But honestly, from the very beginning, I had a hunch that this name might someday need to evolve if the title itself became a hindrance to the message. And over time, that's exactly what started happening.

Part of this is practical. Putting a word like slutty in the title of a podcast comes with some real, um, algorithmic. limitations. Social platforms have flagged it. Sharing links can get a little bit weird. Um, certain systems treat it like potential adult content because it's lame. I know, and it's dumb. But algorithms are deeply literal and completely incapable of understanding metaphor or nuance. And so a name like slutty Grace, even though it's very metaphoric and very nuanced, they just see slutty. And then a girl's name Grace and they flag it.

While the show was smaller, I was okay taking that risk. But now that the podcast has grown and it's reached listeners in more than eighty countries and over one thousand three hundred cities at a certain point, I had to ask myself, is this title helping the message travel, or is it limiting how far it can go? And honestly, I think the answer became clear.

But there's another reason too, and this one matters more to me. The voice of the podcast itself has evolved over the past year. Let me give you some background.

When I first launched the show, the primary thing burning in my heart was the idea of God's radical grace and universal love for all people. That was the initial thrust in my mind of the podcast. That was something that I wanted to get out there and really sit with. But over time, something deeper started to emerge. partly through the guests, partly through your feedback as listeners, and partly because it just simply takes time for a show like this to discover its true voice. So the conversations expanded into freedom from fear based faith, uh, religious deconstruction, and also reconstruction, awakening to our inner voice inside and learning to trust that it moved into healing and personal stories that mirrored our own. And yes, still the original heartbeat of God's boundless grace and love.

So slowly, the show evolved from being about God's slutty grace freely given to all, into something more that felt like grace itself could not be tamed. It could not be contained.

It was untamed.
It was unbound.
It was unshackled.

Grace. Running wild through the fields of humanity, bringing freedom, healing, courage, honesty and compassion. And that's where the new name came from. When I think about untamed horses, I picture something unbridled and free, something that's that's not whipped and corralled and spurred and bridled and controlled where it goes with fences and borders. But it's something that refuses to be controlled. And humanity has spent centuries trying to tame grace through fear, through religion, through systems, tribalism through shame. But grace kept escaping the fences.

Because here's the thing once you tame grace, it ceases to be grace.

It keeps showing up where religion says it shouldn't. It keeps loving people. We were taught not to love. And it keeps dismantling fear. And honestly, that feels deeply aligned with the heart of this podcast.

Now, look, I know this. I know untamed grace loses a little of that sharp edge that the old title slutty Grace carried. I get that, and I'm going to mourn a little bit of that, because there really isn't another English word that carries the same immediate tension as slutty grace. But here's what I'd say:

That edge isn't disappearing. It didn't only live in the title, it lived mostly in the conversations.

So instead of the title carrying all the disruption, The edge will continue to live in the conversations, the guest, the episode topics, and my voice as a creator.

I like to think of it like this. Instead of the front door being painted scarlet red, it's now maroon. Still warm. Still bold. Just a little more mature. And once that door opens, the party inside is still the same. And the music is just as loud.

Lastly, I just want to say thank you.

Thank you guys for trusting me. Thank you for taking the risk of stepping into a space called slutty Grace. That means a lot to me. Thank you for wrestling and questioning and healing and growing alongside of me, because all those things have happened to me because of this show. In my mind, you guys will always be the OGs of slutty Grace.

I think one listener put it best on the Facebook group. When he said this, he said, "In all honesty, if changing the name will give the podcast more reach, then let's do it. I recommend your podcast whenever I can. And now I'll just use a different name, but I'll still tell them it's a bit slutty." 

And I love that because honestly, that's fair.

I'm your host, Jeremy Johnson, and you're listening to slutty Grace. Oh, man, I'm going to miss that. All right, let's try that again. I'm your host, Jeremy Johnson, and you're listening to untamed Grace. Until next time, remember to walk in grace. And if you can share that grace. 

Thanks, friends.