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Evangelicalish
by Evangelicalish
Weekly Livestreams on YouTube on Wed nights at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific with hosts Ashley Swearengin and @UnconventionalPastorPaul, Paul Swearengin. She served as mayor of a city, Paul was an evangelical pastor. Together, they were deep in the middle of the rise of Christian nationalism.Come join us as we discussing a spirituality that reaches beyond the walls of a church building and connects deconstructing people of faith to a renewed identity and a beautiful connection to divine love and goodness. We would love you to join us so we can all grow together in community.
Episodes
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The UpsideDown: If MTG Can Change: Can MAGA Christians Repent?
The world is now the UPSIDE DOWN! On this episode, Paul & Ashley look into a world of "Stranger Things," — where Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes on CNN, renounces Trump, admits there’s no “4-D chess,” and says she’s leaving Congress because she can’t help people from inside the chaos. Is this...
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Separation of Church and... Hate? A Conversation with John Fugelsang
Find John Fugelsang: 'Why should I listen to Trump … and reject the words of Jesus?' asks actor and comedian John Fugelsang - Best Selling Book: Separation of Church and Hate 🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish! Connect with Us: Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred Rebellion…
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🎙️ Flex Your Spiritual Inspo 🕊️ A Sacred Show-and-Tell of the Soul
🎙️ Flex Your Spiritual Inspo 🕊️ A Sacred Show-and-Tell of the Soul Description: In a world where deconstruction often centers what we no longer believe, this episode flips the script. What’s still inspiring your spirit? What stirs your soul awake in this season of life? Ashley and Paul (aka...
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🌀 Bad Bunny & a Showgirl or The World Is On Fire 🔥 Can We Put it Out
🌀 Bad Bunny & a Showgirl or The World Is On Fire 🔥 Can We Put it Out This week’s episode of Evangelicalish is a blend of light-hearted banter and serious spiritual reflection. Paul and Ashley couldn’t agree on a title—so we gave you both. Ashley returns inspired from a civic engagement summit…
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The Meaning of Life... and Other Light Topics: Evangelicalish
🎙️ The Meaning of Life... and Other Light Topics This week, we wade into the deep end of existence with a deceptively simple question: What’s the meaning of life? Inspired by a fascinating dialogue between an agnostic philosopher, a Christian apologist, and a Hindu psychologist, we explore how...
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Does the Bible Really Say That? A Chat w/ Bible Scholar Dan McClellen
We’re diving deep into the Bible with none other than Dan McClellan — biblical scholar, content creator, and myth-busting machine. 📜 We ask Dan about: Charlie Kirk and Kirk's take on issues like homosexuality Modern-day Israel? (Is Marjorie Taylor Greene… actually right about something?) The “I...
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My Joy is Your Pain? Navigating Wellbeing in a relationship
Hey beloveds— This week, everything we’re sharing centers around one raw, holy truth: Sometimes, on your emotional wellness journey, your joy will look like betrayal to the people closest to you. Maybe it’s your mother. Maybe it’s your church. Maybe it’s a friend who only knew how to love the...
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Just Because You Say “No Offense” Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Offensive
Just Because You Say “No Offense” Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Offensive We’ve all heard it — and maybe even said it: “No offense…” before dropping a comment that’s, well… offensive. In this episode, we unpack why slapping “no offense” in front of a statement doesn’t make it harmless, how it’s often...
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Media Ups and Meltdowns: A Week of Reckoning with a Trumpian World
🎧 Listen + Subscribe: YouTube | Apple Podcasts | Spotify Linktree 💬 This Week’s Topics: Trump’s grip on media slips as he continues to bungle the Epstein issue Social Media a problem for children The online incel world is impacting children - something needs to be done. Why spiritual...
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Why Did We Escape Christian Nationalism?
In this episode of Evangelicalish, we get personal about our own journeys out of Christian Nationalism — and the moments that cracked open our certainty. We’ll talk about: ⚡ Why some people stay trapped in toxic systems while others break free ⚡ The emotional, spiritual, and political cost of...
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Stealing God's Mahood: Evangelicalish
📝 Updated Podcast Notes (with Links & Resources): Episode Title: God is Not a Man: Dismantling Patriarchal Theology & Finding Wonder Again Segment: “A Movie, Book, or Song?” Paul & Ashley share the media that’s inspiring them toward wonder, hope, and liberation: 🎭 Les Misérables (Stage Musical)…
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#ImDONE with Original Sin Theology
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3-dr6TwMNbU Get More info on Evangelicalish and Unconventional Pastor Paul: https://pastorpaul.podia.com/ 🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish! Connect with Us: Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred Rebellion Check out Paul’s international blog...
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Is Empathy Toxic? Evangelicalish Podcast
You were never too sensitive. You were always too wonderful to be suppressed. Christians have been told to be grateful, to give up understanding and... always be "closing" on converting others. American Christianity has a book making the rounds claiming that empathy is dangerous—a kind of…
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Elon is Not Alone Stealing Your Data; Tara Jean Stevens Evangelicalish
Are Evangelical Prophets following the lead of Elon Musk and mining data for profiting from propheting? Tara Jean Stevens of the Heaven Bent Podcast dives into the story that "prophets" are getting their information about conference goers from Social Media, not from heaven. Some of these prophets...
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Being "Trans" Is All Up In the Bible: Inconventional Conversation
Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mazGhrkDbb8?si=w_NIBzgKKtc7-4GU Evangelicalish website: Evangelicalish.com 🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish! Connect with Us: Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred Rebellion Check out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire...
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Ethics: The story of Jonah, Religious Nationalism, Deportations and MAGA Christians
@UnconventionalPastorPaul talks of how ethical decisions must be made ahead of difficult situations that require a higher level of morality. The lack of such ethical foundations, Pastor Paul argues, are why the Republican Christian view of Immigrants, today, parallels the view of Jonah and people...
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Can Paul Survive MAGA? Part 2 - Ashley Breaks Down Paul's Guest Spot on Rightwing Radio
Listen to Paul on the Marc Kapetan Podcast Buy Paul's Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong Buy Evangelicalish SWEET SWAG: Clothes, Candles, Water Bottles, Coffee Cups ISH Socials: TikTok YouTube InstaGram Facebook Private Facebook Group (Must request entry) 🎧 Thank you for listening to...
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Can Paul Survive MAGA? Ashley Breaks Down Paul's Guest Spot on Rightwing Radio
Listen to Paul on the Marc Kapetan Podcast Buy Paul's Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong Buy Evangelicalish SWEET SWAG: Clothes, Candles, Water Bottles, Coffee Cups ISH Socials: TikTok YouTube InstaGram Facebook Private Facebook Group (Must request entry) 🎧 Thank you for listening to...
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The Comfort of the Mob or Courage of a Spirit of Christ
Why do people join a sectarian church community? Or MAGA? Or a mindset group like conspiracy theory followers? It's to gain identity from inclusion in that group. Too often, that group turns inward to become an "us" and soon starts looking to demonize "them" - those who are not us. And once...
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Jesus Did NOT Call the Woman at the Well a "Sinner": Snarky Bible Stories
@evangelicalish on YouTube https://youtu.be/MzRV88hdc5U 🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish! Connect with Us: Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred Rebellion Check out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish: Instagram |…
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Jesus Didn't Speak English? Learning from the Aramaic Jesus
It shocks western Christians sometimes to realize Jesus isn't American and didn't speak English. Neil Douglas-Klotz, PHD has written about Jesus through the language or Aramaic, which was Jesus' actual native tongue. The book is an approach to Jesus’s recorded words and teachings to answer many...
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Deadly Faith: When Horror and Religion Collide; Laci and Lori of the Deadly Faith Podcast
https://deadly-faith.simplecast.com/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhMS1GGKTssMhDEWeA4ZlFnh7cMmLINIh https://www.instagram.com/deadlyfaithpodcast/ 🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish! Connect with Us: Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred Rebellion Check out Paul’s...
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LA Wildfire Facts over Fox News: Fire Chief Kerri Donis
Kerri Donnis served as the fire chief of the City of Fresno (CA) fire department for over nine years, the first bio female to serve in the position, and worked in the fire service for almost three decades. She will share her perspective on the horrifying tragedy in LA and help us cut through the...
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Good Year or Good Riddance? Let's Review (or Curse) 2024 w/ Paul and Ashley
It was a year that put Trump back on the cover of Time Magazine and headed back to the White House, but a lot of other things happened, as well. Was it a good year? Or a tragic one? And can the Bible or history tell us what the answer may be? Let's discuss in this episode of the Evangelicalish...
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Manipulated by the Trans in Sports Issue: An Unconventional Conversation w/ Pastor Paul
Why are dozens of states banning trans athletes when there are at most 10 trans women participation in college athletics out of some 510,000 athletes? Because, as so many times in history, political and religious leaders want the demonization of a people group the gather to themselves political...
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Regrets? We've Had a Few. Q&A with P&A
What does Paul regret most in his ten years as a Sr Pastor in an evangelical Church? What would Ashley tell her 21 year old self, getting ready to be married? Paul and Ashley dig into their past and learn about their present spirituality through difficult questions about the evangelical life...
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You Lied to Me About God! Dr. Jamie Marich on Spiritual Pilgrimage
Jamie+ Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500 (she/they) Founder and CEO, The Institute for Creative Mindfulness Approved Trainer and Consultant in EMDR Therapy www.redefinetherapy.com www.instituteforcreativemindfulness.com www.jamiemarich.com Now available for pre-order- The Dissociation Made...
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UGH! Home for Christmas? Reclaiming the Holidays in a Divided World; w/ Therapist Naomi Wiens
The holidays have always been difficult for many. Are they even more difficult in this post-COVID, crazy political world? Naomi Wiens is an LMFT who works with adolescents, adults, and couples with a relational and dynamic approach. As a professional working with religious trauma and spiritual...
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Reviving the Global Heart, After a Heartbreaking Election: With Joe Weston
Joe Weston is an international facilitator, author, lecturer, consultant, coach, professor, and-above all else-an advocate for lasting peace. He speaks to a revival of the "global heart." How do we revive the global heart when so many are broken hearted after America's election day this past…
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Post Election Day: What Do We Do Now? James Fallows, Writer & Political Expert
James Fallows once served as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter and now writes 'Breaking the News' on Substack and has a new article about California's promising future in WIRED magazine. Fallows is a longtime book and magazine writer, whose most recent of 12 books, "Our Towns,"...
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Women's Values Represented in Places of Power? Election 2024 with Liz Erickson
Liz Erickson has been on the front lines for some time, working to ensure the rights and values of women have representation in all levels of government and societal power. As Senior Director of Strategic Programs at Supermajority, how does she feel as, at times, it seems we are sliding back to...
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Election 2024: Keeping Our Heads as All Others Lose Theirs; Joaquin Alvarado
Joaquin Alvarado has been at the forefront of the changing world journalism in the U.S. for more than two decades and has his finger on the pulse of the country as much as anyone. Where are we as we head into this election? Will we recover or are we forever changed. Join Paul and Ashley for this...
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Election 2024: Keeping Our Heads as All Others Lose Theirs; Joaquin Alvarado
Election 2024: Keeping Our Heads as All Others Lose Theirs; Joaquin Alvarado Joaquin Alvarado has been at the forefront of the changing world journalism in the U.S. for more than two decades and has his finger on the pulse of the country as much as anyone. Where are we as we head into this...
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Rightwingers Gone Wild: What's Wrong w/Trump's Admiration of a "Hot" Female Artist & a Podcasters Admiration of Putin?
See why rightwingers have truly lost their way as we see people talk about their anger at being called racist, a woman's disappointment that Haitians have ruined her chance to be an angry cat lady and why a church music leader sees beings in heaven getting castrated! You can also watch on…
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The Wisdom of Hobbits & Heretics: Matthew Distefano of Heretic Happy Hour
On this edition of Evangelicalish, Paul and Ashley talk about handling anxiety around the upcoming election and then pull a previously unaired interview with Matthew Distefano of the Holy Heretics Podcast on his second most recent book discussion how learning of the life of charming hobbits and...
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Star Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding True Faith
April Ajoy wouldn’t have called herself a Christian Nationalist when she performed her original song “America Say Jesus” on the Jim Bakker show, or when she participated in Jesus Marches across America, or when she posted cringe-worthy videos on YouTube to campaign for Mitt Romney. April just...
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An OffRamp for RightWing Faith Voters: Doug Pagitt, Vote Common Good
Doug Pagitt says it’s important to helping faith voters to detach from a republican voting identity if they wish to. Pagitt, a former Evangelical Pastor from the emergent church movement, feels his organization, Vote Common Good, was able to help shift 5 to 10 percent of Evangelicals away from...
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Patriotism is NOT a godly duty, but is it one of loving your neightbor?
Join Paul and Ashley for this week’s discussion about the political swing in evangelicalism from politics as “dirty and worldly” to today’s view of “godly duty” from declarations of whom to vote for from the pulpit and singing patriotic songs in worship services. But can "Seek the welfare of your...
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Death is Not Only Important, but is a Beautiful Part of Life
When a person wants to stay in the comfort of status quo, they can give up the change for something new to come into their lives. In this special Evangelicalish released edition of Unconventional Conversations w/ Pastor Paul we see how wisdom from the ancient Torah and New Testament demonstrate…
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Rightwingers Gone Wild: Lizard People & Racist Jokes
What do Lizard People OverLords have to do with Tim Walz, VP Candidate? Well one rightwing preacher wants you to know, and Pastor Paul has the skinny in this special Evangelicalish offering of Pastor Paul's Rightwinger's Gone Wild - this week's look at those who no longer have eyes to see and…
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Jesus; Christian Nationalist? How Did We Get Here?
Christianity has not always been about politics and anti-abortion and anti-gay extremism. This was a long planned grooming of Christians to get to this point. Now here we are - what do we do about it? Join Paul and Ashley to discuss live how a political operative name Paul Weyrich has done more…
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Expelled for Affirming Love; But Not Guiilty: Thomas Jay Oord
Expelled for Affirming Love; But Not Guiilty: Thomas Jay Oord Join Paul and Ashley as they find out why Pastor, theologian and author Thomas J. Oord was will to withstand an official heresy trial by the Church of the Nazarene. The charge: teaching against church doctrine and misconduct for…
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Things We Believed That Are Hard to Shake: Paul and Ashley
Things We Believed That Are Hard to Shake: Paul and Ashley Even in the midst of or after deconstruction of our beliefs, there are some things that are difficult to get out of our minds and emotional systems. What are some old Christian beliefs that still haunt you? Listen in as Paul and Ashley...
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Who Hears from Holy Spirit? A Special Unconventional Conversation w Pastor Paul
Who Hears from Holy Spirit is a special edition of Unconventional Conversations with Pastor Paul. On this episode Pastor Paul discusses Prophetic Words and who really "hears from heaven." The answer may not be as simple as some think it is. To hear more from Pastor Paul, check out their YouTube...
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Reclaiming Traumatic Spaces
trauma can resurface due to familiar places, relationships and even references to faith in our past. As Paul’s 1946 the Movie Road Tour takes him across the country, he stopped in the town of Springfield, MO, which holds many painful memories and he and Ashley discuss dealing with trauma and the...
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Laughing Through Deconstruction: Evangelicalish Convo with the Libtarts
Four talented women, out of boredom, perhaps, started sharing their feelings on a changing world through their gifts for comedy, music and theater. Hear their story as the Libtarts share their world with Paul and Ashley and why sometimes humor is the very best way to share truth and love. Watch...
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Homosexuality: Deconstructing & Reconstructing Our Theology
Paul and Ashley discuss how opening one’s mind to learn other views of the evangelical theology on queerness can not only be freeing for the person, but life-saving to those around them. Paul is in Houston on the 1946 the Movie Road Tour sharing about the dangers of Christian Nationalism, its…
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We Met Sarah Palin_ Our Journey w_ Christian Nationalism
In part 2 of their series on how they were in the middle of evangelicalism as Christian Nationalism had its rise around them, Paul and Ashley share about meeting Sarah Palin just after the 2008 election and about friends who tried to recruit them to be devotees to QAnon conspiracy theories. It's…
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We Saw Christian Nationalism Coming... Up Close and Personal
Ashley was running for mayor of the city of Fresno, CA. Paul was leading a group that was starting a new evangelical church. Why did they feel like such a bad fit in an evangelical religion growing evermore extreme and evermore political? Listen as Paul and Ashley share of the journey, including...
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Celebrating Freedom___ _freedom from religion_
Paul and Ashley share moments on their journey of freedom from religion and how they are looking forward emotionally and spiritually. Also discuss how to keep one's head as dark moments such as SCOTUS ruling this week and discuss a new fave YouTube show @antibot 🎧 Thank you for listening to...
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Weekly Livestreams on YouTube on Wed nights at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific with hosts Ashley Swearengin and @UnconventionalPastorPaul, Paul Swearengin. She served as mayor of a city, Paul was an evangelical pastor. Together, they were deep in the middle of the rise of Christian nationalism.Come join us as we discussing a spirituality that reaches beyond the walls of a church building and connects deconstructing people of faith to a renewed identity and a beautiful connection to divine love and goodness. We would love you to join us so we can all grow together in community.
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