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Humor for Church Trauma (with Joshua Colburn) | Ep. 84
Joshua Colburn spent twenty years inside a megachurch, and now he's known as the "Original Sinfluencer." In this conversation, he and Jeremy dig into why humor and satire might be the most honest tools survivors of...
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Refusing to Lie to Keep the Peace (The Book of Job Pt. 5) | Ep. 83
Job had a way out. All he had to do was apologize for something he never did, agree that God was punishing him, and his whole world would snap back into place. His community, his reputation, his peace, all of it one...
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When Friends Become Accusers (The Book of Job Pt. 4) | Ep. 82
Job's three friends showed up while his life was in ruins, and by the end they had turned into accusers, convinced that a man suffering this much must have earned it. In part four of Job in Exile, I stay in the long,...
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New Eyes, Old Blind Spots (The Book of Job Pt. 3) | Ep. 81
In part three of our Job in Exile series, we sit with something in the book of Job that most of us were trained to read right past. By chapter three, the patient, pious Job we love to quote is gone. He breaks a week...
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Mystical Experiences: How to Know If It's Really God (with John Doyle) | Ep. 80
My guest John Doyle has spent forty years paying attention to the moments most of us file away and never mention out loud. The vision. The voice. The thing that grabbed him when no one was there. He holds these...
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When Your Friends Go Silent (The Book of Job Pt. 2) | Ep. 79
Job's friends showed up, tore their robes, and then said nothing for seven days straight. It's easy to rush past that on the way to the arguments that come later, where these three men get almost everything wrong. But...
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From the Penthouse to the Outhouse (The Book of Job Pt. 1) | Ep. 78
Job had it all. Seven thousand sheep, ten children, and the title of richest man in the entire region, right up until the afternoon he sat scraping his skin with a piece of broken pottery on a dung heap outside of...
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One Nation Over God (with Wes Crawford) | Ep. 77
Every civilization in history put a temple at its center. America was the first to try to build a nation without one, and Wes Crawford argues that we couldn't stand the empty space, so we made the country itself...
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The Quantum Gospel (with Keith Giles) | Ep. 76
Keith Giles spent two years digging through gospels that didn't make the cut, the ones buried in a jar in the Egyptian desert in 1945 alongside fifty other texts the church decided not to count. On this episode,...
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The Wild Magic (with Lauren Peiser) | Ep. 75
Lauren Peiser has spent time making wine in Italy, working at a seminary, and writing a Substack that will make you use your imagination. In this episode, she brings a concept called "wild magic," the kind of...
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Saints, Sinners, and Clickers (with Matthew Distefano) | Ep. 74
What do saints, sinners, and zombies have in common? In this episode, Jeremy sits down with author Matthew DiStefano to talk about his book on The Last of Us, the video game that somehow became one of the most...
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The Feral Spirit (with Ben Price) | Ep. 73
Ben introduces the idea of the "feral spirit," a way of understanding spiritual encounter that doesn't require institutional scaffolding to be real. He talks about what happens when churches try to manufacture the...
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