Find Your Calling
A ministry begins with people who already know your voice. While you study, you can start gathering them: host a podcast, or lead your own Circle, a discussion room on this site. We host and broadcast your podcast free, and a Circle costs you nothing to run.
Host a Podcast
A podcast can be a sermon, a Bible study, or a conversation about a book, with pictures or without. You bring the voice and the ideas; we give it a home on this site and send it out to the podcast services people listen on.
Making one has become easy. The example below was made in an afternoon: we gave Google’s NotebookLM a chapter of a book from our library, and it produced a conversation between two voices. You can do the same with your own paper or a book you are studying, or record your own voice and edit it with the free tools on your phone or computer.
Listen: a conversation about Robert Flint’s Agnosticism
Lead a Circle
Inside Solephia, members meet in Circles: small online rooms where they read together, ask questions, argue, and pray. A Circle can follow a book, a book of the Bible, a course, or a question. The person who leads it sets the topic, starts the conversation each week, and keeps it going.
Leading a Circle is practice in the work of ministry: choosing what to study, asking good questions, answering hard ones fairly, and keeping people coming back. The members of your Circle may become the first listeners of your podcast and the first people your ministry serves.
The Agnosticism Reading CircleExample
Daniel Circle leader
This week: Flint’s first chapter, on where the word “agnostic” came from. Huxley coined it to describe himself. Flint thinks the word claims more than it admits. Do you agree? Is “I don’t know” a position, or a refusal to take one?
Mei
I think it depends on whether you mean “I don’t know” or “no one can know.” The second one is a big claim.
Carlos
That’s Flint’s point, isn’t it? He says the agnostic ends up claiming a kind of knowledge about the limits of knowledge.
Ruth
My son calls himself agnostic. I’d like to understand him better before I argue with him.
Daniel Circle leader
That’s a good reason to read this, Ruth. Next week let’s look at how Flint separates honest doubt from a settled refusal. Read to the end of Section II, and bring one sentence you disagree with.
This conversation is an example written for this page, to show what a Circle looks like.
How to Begin
Podcasts and Circles live inside Solephia. Start with a free Visitor membership; once you are inside, tell us what you want to start, and we will help you set it up.