David’s Podcast | Iconoclast Podcast
David Moses Perez believes we need a higher religious literacy and more intellectual and sense-making conversations about faith, meaning, and Christian spirituality. That’s what he aims to do with the Iconoclast Podcast — featuring conversations with thought-leaders, influencers, theologians, artists, and academics, who also desire higher and deeper exchanges about iconoclastic ideas of spirituality, and humanness. David has his own iconoclastic story too: He left the construct of the evangelical “American Jesus” yet his deep connection to God and Christian spirituality thrives and evolves.
David Moses Perez | Lead Minister
BA, University of Southern California (USC)
Masters, Harvard University
For the last fifteen years, Rev. David Moses Perez has been studying, and involved in, the current progression happening in Christianity, while taking a deeper look into church history and American Christianity.
David gained his education at two of the most distinguished universities in the country. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Southern California (USC), and he received his Masters in Religion from Harvard University. He also did additional seminary work at Trinity in Chicago. His academic interests include literature, theology, the arts, psychology, philosophy, cultural sociology, and film history.
David has been a minister for thirty-plus-years, serving in both big and small churches, from Chicago to Denver-Boulder, and for the last decade, in Nashville, Tennessee. In September of 2018, he along with others, founded Spero Dei.
David is married to Liz, who is a therapist in Nashville. Liz is also part of the Spero Dei staff, where she focuses on teaching and strategy. The Perez’s have two twenty-something children, Sam and Sophie, living in New York City, and a mini-bernedoodle, named Nestlé.