Jeremy Steele
Jeremy Steele is a queer pastor and one of the most followed progressive faith voices online, with nearly a million people engaging with his content weekly. He helps people and organizations navigate hard conversations about politics, identity, belonging, and spirituality without falling into alienation or tribalism.
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Navigating Polarization in Teams: Building Resilient Workplace Dialogue
In today’s polarized culture, even well-intentioned conversations can fracture teams and damage workplace culture. Drawing on his experience helping thousands of his over 250,000 followers online have hard conversations, Jeremy Steele offers practical tools to navigate hot-button issues with respect and curiosity. This talk helps teams replace defensiveness with curiosity, build trust across difference, and create a culture of respect where everyone feels heard.
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Politics in the Workplace: Tools to Reduce Division
“Don’t talk about politics at work” might be the old rule—but it’s not the reality anymore. Drawing on his experience helping thousands of his over 250,000 followers online discuss deeply divided topics with empathy and honesty, Jeremy Steele guides audiences through practical tools to reduce polarization and strengthen professional relationships. This session equips leaders and employees alike with skills to navigate today’s realities while fostering workplaces grounded in respect and shared humanity.
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This Doesn’t Have to Be a Fight: Navigating Polarized Topics with Loved Ones
From family dinners to group chats, conversations about politics, identity, and belief can quickly turn explosive. Drawing on his experience helping thousands of people online navigate emotionally charged topics with empathy and respect, Jeremy Steele offers a framework for staying connected even when you disagree. This session gives participants practical tools for listening, setting boundaries, and calling people in rather than calling them out—so relationships can survive even the hardest conversations.
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Reclaiming Spirituality: Discovering Sacred Practices for the Queer & Curious
Spirituality has too often been used as a weapon—but it doesn’t have to be. Jeremy Steele helps queer people and allies rediscover spirituality as a source of grounding, healing, and connection. Drawing from his conversations with hundreds of thousands of people online, he explores how identity, belonging, and meaning can thrive together without shame or exclusion. This talk invites audiences to reclaim spiritual language, practice, and community as something fully human—and fully theirs.
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Spirituality for Atheists, Heretics, and People Who Long for Grounding and Community
You don’t have to believe in God to need grounding, meaning, or community. Drawing from his work helping thousands of people online rediscover spiritual practices that actually fit their lives, Jeremy Steele explores what spirituality can look like when it’s stripped of dogma and rebuilt around authenticity and curiosity. This talk offers a framework for creating personal rituals, building community, and finding peace in a world that often feels divided.
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Building an Actually Accepting Church: How to Lead with Real Inclusion
Many churches claim to be “welcoming,” but genuine inclusion takes more than an open-door policy. Jeremy Steele helps church leaders move beyond slogans to build communities where every person—especially queer and marginalized voices—can participate fully and authentically. Drawing on years of experience guiding faith communities and online audiences through complex conversations, he offers practical steps for transforming good intentions into tangible change. This talk equips leaders to create ministries that reflect true hospitality, belonging, and love in action.
The Skeptic Pastor
Jeremy Steele is a queer pastor. A skeptic. A disruptor. And one of the most followed progressive faith voices online, with almost a million people engaging with his content every week.
He has helped thousands of people navigate hard conversations about politics, identity, belonging, and spirituality without falling into alienation or tribalism. Alongside his work in faith communities, Jeremy also helps businesses and employees explore hot-button issues with respect, fostering workplace environments where people can disagree without tearing teams apart.
Jeremy has written many books and has more on the way: Rituals for Heretics, Atheists, and People Who Aren’t Sure About God (Feb 2026), A Pastor’s Guide to Living as a Queer Christian (late 2026), and Undivided: How to Talk About Spirituality to Others and Yourself.
As a speaker, Jeremy works with businesses, universities, Pride groups, and religious organizations helping them rethink how they approach hard conversations and complicated relationships using practical tools to help bring people together rather than divide.
He is a leader helping queer audiences and allies reclaim the narrative around spirituality from a place of human curiosity, community, and finding practices that help recenter, ground, and inspire.
