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Unbelief — 129 episodes

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1

God Told Him to Check the Yellow Pages

2

Horse Manure, Hospital Trips, and Other Youth Group Activities

3

What If Communion Passes the Turing Test?

4

The Rapture, the Closet, and the Organ

5

The Bible's Biggest Skeptic Might Be Its Best Disciple

6

33 Churches Later... He Actually Wanted to Go Back

7

When the Pastor Was the Predator: One Woman's Deconstruction Story

8

Conversion Therapy Droupout

9

Sen. Chris Coons on Christian nationalism, China, bipartisan conversations, and clean energy

10

The Hidden Meanings (and Trauma) Behind Evangelical Church Language

11

What If God Shows Up More in Art Than in Sermons?

12

Criminalizing Ejaculation, Tarrifs, Bonhoeffer, The Neverending Story and the new book, Saints Sinners and Clickers

13

The Bible Doesn’t Have One Jesus. It Has Four

14

The Tea: Queer Pastor Cancelled by a Christian Podcast and Her Story of Coming Out and Getting Ordained

15

Interviews on Faith from the No Kings Protest in DC

16

Being "Slain in the Spirit" and the Science Behind It

17

Evangelical Camp Drama: How a Spotify Post Became a Faith Crisis

18

Brainwashing Techniques Used by Evangelicals to Teach Hell

19

Fiction Author and Human Trafficking Survivor: Dirinks and Deconstruction

20

When “Modesty” Comes With a $10 Fine

21

Jesus Didn’t Have to Die: Escaping the Evangelical Blood-Requirement

22

Prayer After Deconstruction: Letting Go of the Cosmic Vending Machine

23

Drinks and Deconstruction: A Roman Catholic Doubting Thomas

24

Tribulation Survival Guide: Roasting Rapture Culture with Stuart Delony

25

A New Year Ritual for People Who Don’t Trust New Year’s Resolutions

26

What Is the ACTUAL Date of Christmas?

27

Jesus Wasn’t Born in Bethlehem or a Stable (And That Changes Everything)

28

Theatre Kids and the Pope: Origins and Legends of the Christmas Tree

29

Revelation Isn’t About the Future or Microchips

30

Deconstructing without Losing Faith (kind of)

31

1946 and the Bible’s Big Gay Mistranslation (and How to Handle the Haters)

32

Tower of Babel vs. Linguistics: What Really Happened to Our Languages?

33

The Theology of Algorithms (and Why Church is Boring)

34

No Historical Evidence that Jesus Existed?

35

Deconstructing Satan, Demon Possession and Halloween

36

Does Jesus say people are going to Hell and Do I Have to Believe in the Bible to Believe in God?

37

Progressive Youth Ministry?

38

Stopping the Exodus of Young Adults from the Church

39

Ruth: The Rated R Scene

40

Fictional Deconstruction with Brian McLaren

41

What Really Happened in Jesus’ Last Hours and the Female Disciples of Jesus

42

The Historical Jesus: The Missing Pieces

43

Pharisees Are Good Guys and Jesus Gender Bending

44

Why People Are Leaving the Church and How to Stay Engaged in Spirituality After Leaving

45

Virginity Rocks: Deconstructing Purity Culture

46

Ruth: The Art of Seduction

47

A PhD in Religious Trauma!?

48

Ruth: The Mystery Revealed

49

Jesus Unarmed aka Make Jerusalem Great Again

50

Ruth: The Holiness of Social Welfare and Hard Work

51

Q&A: Buddhist Christians, Inclusive Reading of the Bible, Hell Isn’t in There, and the True Translation of the Bible

52

Ruth: The Relationship We Are All Looking For

53

Old Maid at 22 Comes Out a Decade Later

54

Ruth: an Anti-patriarch Bible Book about Inclusion and Political Protest

55

Deconstructing Purity Culture: Masturbation Addiction

56

Deconstructing Purity Culture: Damaged Goods

57

Parable of the ten bridesmaids and being open

58

Deconstructing Purity Culture: Cohabitation and Living in Sin

59

The Parable of the Weeds and Why People Aren't who You Think They Are

60

Purity Culture Damage from Being "Unequally Yoked’"

61

When Jesus Threw Wine in the Pharisee’s Face

62

What is Religious Trauma?

63

The Rapture isn’t Real: a Verse-by-Verse Guide

64

Ancient Jewish Secret for Reading the Bible

65

The Only Gay Kid in Town: A Story of Communally Inflicted Trauma

66

The Parable of the Mustard Seed: Read It However You Want—That’s the Point

67

How to Have Relationships with Unaffirming Friends and Family (and when to let them go) Interview with Sharon Roggio Director of 1946 the Movie

68

Jesus Told a Story About Classism, and We Made It About Hell... It's Not

69

Deconstructing the LGBTQ ‘Clobber Verses’—and Our Own Deconstruction

70

Excuses, Entitlement, and Why You Might Get Uninvited

71

Altar Calls, Emotional Manipulation, and the Psychology of ‘Come Forward’

72

Why Matthew Probably Didn’t Write Matthew: unlocking the Four Soils and the Mystery of the Kingdom,

73

The Faith Healing Was Fake—But the Damage Was Real

74

The Petty Soap Opera of Herod and Cleopatra — The Parable of the Talents

75

Burning CDs for Jesus—And Other Regrets

76

The Parable of the Two Hot Mess Brothers

77

Hell Houses, Fistfights, and Breaking the Cycle for Our Kids

78

The Ten Commandments—You’ve Been Reading Them Wrong

79

What the Hell Is Hell, Anyway?

80

Easter’s Pagan (kind of), Words Change, and the KJV Is Horrible

81

Romans: The Book That’s Been Misused for Centuries

82

Why You Keep Making the Same Mistakes—And Why You Can’t Fix Them Alone

83

Deconstruction, Patriarchy, and the Atheist Boyfriend Who Got It

84

The Wilderness Sucks - Even Moses Needed a Dance Break

85

The Bible: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why Constantine Didn’t Make It

86

God is not a Magical Genie

87

Leaving Mormonism, Preaching Atheism, and Finding a More Chill Path

88

This Story Is Not a Children’s Lesson—Boils, Hail, and the Final Plague

89

Why Purity Culture Messes Up Kids—And Why Atheists Might Be Onto Something

90

From Church Pews to the Solstice - a Theatre Kid Rediscovers God

91

No, the Bible Doesn’t Say Being Queer Is a Sin—Let’s Prove It (also it's Pro-Trans)

92

Southern Baptist Illuminati outs a Gay Deacon and Ruins His Life

93

Snakes, Plagues, and Denial—The Real Exodus Story

94

A Reformed Southern Baptist Comes Out - Yeah, You Read that Right

95

The Bible: Now with 100% More Dysfunctional Families and Insecure Leaders

96

How to not Suck as a Christian

97

How to Make an Authoritarian Really Mad

98

Time is a Lie, the Universe is a Mess and Religion is a Paradox

99

Moses, Murder, and a Mystery Foreskin

100

And then I had an Out of Body Experience

101

Speech Impediments Freee Slaves

102

The Faith of a Nerd, Geek and Gamer

103

An Introvert Saves the World

104

Life After Doom and Should You Stay Christian with Brian McLaren

105

Moses the Murderer and the Basket Baby

106

A Mars Scientist Becomes a Medium

107

Attempted Genocide Thwarted by Two Unlikely Women

108

An Ancient Ritual to Make 2025 Better then 2024

109

A Feminist Geneology? In a Patriarchal Culture?

110

The Christmas Story through a Queer Lens and The History of the LGBTQ Relationship with the Church

111

When Santa Claus Slapped a Guy in a Church Meeting

112

Drinks and Deconstruction: Kali and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

113

The Pagan Origins of Christianity and Exactly How Many Year's It's Been Since the First Christmas

114

Drinks and Deconstruction: A Japanese Deomon, Tarot Cards, and the Celtic Fire Festiva l.

115

Biblical Sitcom and Why Sodom and Gommorah is not about Homosexuality

116

Drinks and Deconstruction: Rocking the Boat with Doubts and Justice - a Conversation With Craig Mendoza

117

Circumcision, Anxiety, and the Origins of Islam

118

An acient bloody ritual that helps loneliness

119

A mental health diagnosis led to doubting and freedom from evangelicalism: Anna Gazmarian

120

The Secret of Finding Purpose is Ancient Genealogy

121

An Interview with an Actual Heretic: Matthew Disefano

122

Tower of Babel is about the iPhone

123

A Catholic Lets go and Comes Back: Drinks and Deconstruction with Juliette

124

Noah's Ark Isn't Real: Another Book Club in Genesis

125

Why do Preachers Suck with Dr. Sam Parkes

126

Genesis 2 Layers of Meaning from Why Bad Things Happen, to the Beginning of Science

127

Navigating Cancer Anti-Vaxers and More: Drinks and Deconstruction with Michele

128

Genesis 1 is not About Science

129

A Podcast for People Who Don't Church: Introducind UnBelief