Losing Our Religion
Losing Our Religion with host Zac Gandara is a wild often comedic ride alongside a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life and ideal experience away from the dogma and exclusivities they may have been raised to believe.
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 463
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2020
I'M A LOSER: Is There A God? Does it Matter?: Russell Brand & Stephen Fry
"None of us can ever know if there is a God, but we do know there is an us. None of us can ever know if there is wrong or right. But we do know there is an us."- Russell Brand
"The question is not is…
EPISODE 039: More Than Sex-Positive Feminism: Maggie Young
"All you can do is be somebody that you love and turn yourself into somebody that you love."- Maggie Young
Maggie has admittedly had sex with over 50 men, and she has authored a memoir about the firs…
EPISODE 038: Growing Up Greek...ORTHODOX!: Stephen P
Stephen grew up Greek...Orthodox, in the American South, Atlanta Georgia.
I love how he has gone through changes in his faith, all while being true to himself and remembering the beautiful parts of r…
EPISODE 037: Losing Stuff - A Minimalist Journey: Joshua Becker
Best-selling author Joshua Becker joins me for a chat on minimalism and learning to live life with less.
Joshua has shared his story on top podcasts like Entrepreneur On Fire as well as, CBS Evening…
EPISODE 036: Hyperdrive Jew: Grace Strachman
This is a pun-filled joy ride of laughter and conversation about how we grew up in Jewish and Christian religious homes. Our first Losing Our Religion episode with Tequila, well, mezcal. In cocktail …
I'M A LOSER: Middle America and Losing Hell: Loser Keith, John Shelby Spong & Carlton Pearson
In this episode, we take our first phone call from a loser, discuss middle America, and whether losing hell is a good idea or not.
I don't know if there is a heaven or hell. I used to be certain ther…
EPISODE 035: Fear Be Damned: Part 2: Ezekiel Rudick
The second part of each episode is usually the far deeper more fulfilling and revealing part. Do to our trust for one another growing as well as the amount of drinks we've ha!
Zeke empowers me to get…
EPISODE 034: Belonging and Solidarity, Through Joy and Pain: Part 1: Ezekiel Rudick
Zeke is a fantastically beautiful musician. Hearing his songs gave me goosebumps as tears welled up in my eyes. He’s the first former Mormon to be on the podcast but is most recently from the Mars Hi…
EPISODE 033: Growing Up In This Mess Together: Rob Femur
A continuation of Rob and I's fun night of drinking together. We have a great time talking about the changes we are seeing in our neighborhood of Capitol Hill, what we feel Seattle is losing, and how…
EPISODE 032: This New York Punk Rock Jew...: Rob Femur
[All Music on this Episode is The Femurs]
"We're Jews; we're God's chosen people. You Christian's are always concerned with what you do because you're afraid of hell. When you're God's people, you do…
EPISODE 031: Let's Get Weird - Mystical Experiences and Confessions: Seth Taylor
Seth and I were both pretty nervous to release this episode. Cause we get weird and share very personal things and mystical experiences we've both had in our lives. We're either drunk, sick, fucking …
EPISODE 030: Midlife Crisis, Ego, and Desire: Part 1: Seth Taylor
"All religion is born from anxiety." Seth Taylor
Seth is a crazy ass, mystic, shaman-like, wise, amazing guy. At least, he is to me. He was featured in EPISODE 014, one of your favorite episodes. He…
I'M A LOSER: Losing New Years Resolutions: Marc Maron Made Me Think
Now that you're almost a month into the New Year and the resolution talk has faded. How are you doing?
This new Losing Our Religion format highlights losing New Years Resolutions and the religious im…
EPISODE 029: Maybe There's Something More?: Part 2: Christian Grindstaff
This is part two of a conversation with Christian Grindstaff. In our first conversation, we covered a lot of ground. We reminisced about our times together in the Christian institutional church, how …
EPISODE 028: The Religious Sales Pitch: Part 1: Christian Grindstaff
Christian is a talented songwriter and music producer. In fact, almost all of the music in the episode is Christian's work. He is a salesman by trade, extremely articulate with his words and a great …
EPISODE 027: Losing Ain't Easy: Part 2: Liz & Mat von Ehrenkrook
This is a very "Christiany" episode. If you're adverse to that, then you may want to skip this one. But it is a valuable conversation for those "of the faith". Mat (Raised Baptist former Non-Denomina…
EPISODE 026: In Process of Losing Religion: Part 1: Liz & Mat von Ehrenkrook
If you've been a fellow loser or part of the CounterCulture Society, you know by now that we believe, enjoy, and embrace the second chance. Well, this weeks episode is the beginning of a second chanc…
EPISODE 025: A Felon's "Conviction": Part 2: C.J. Smith
CJ continues to share his transparent life journey of a drug user, why he lived that way, what motivated him, and learning to know himself and love himself through it all. Beginning in the Assemblies…
EPISODE 024: A Felon's "Conviction": Part 1: C.J. Smith
Losing Our Religion and Ideologies comes in many ways, shapes and forms. Growing up in the south, Florida to be exact, was the beginning of CJ's. Most of us are pretty familiar with the bible beltnes…
EPISODE 023: "Fundamental" Atheism: Part 2: Chad Mummert
This is part two of our time with Chad discussing fundamentalism and Chad being an atheist. Fundamentalism is something that frustrates us both and is not solely limited to religion. You can be a fun…