Snarky Faith

"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war." - Albert Einstein

Today, I open up the sna…

Rabbi Brian Mayer is a beautiful anomaly. He helps people feel comfortable enough to question religion, and seek out their understanding through mindfulness, research, and his own heartfelt stories. …

"You're going to need a bigger boat..." - Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), Jaws

Christianity has a problem with tribalism. It's become selfish, inbred, and too exclusive. Christianity needs to embrace a…

THE FORMATION OF AN ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY WITH AN ALTERNATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IS SO THAT THE DOMINANT COMMUNITY MAY BE CRITICIZED AND FINALLY DISMANTLED. BUT MORE THAN DISMANTLING, THE PURPOSE OF THE A…

"God’s word is an instructive guide. If we disobey it for the right reasons, we are faithful saints."  -Matthew J. Korpman

This week, on the show, I sit down with author, Matthew J. Korpman. Matthew…

The role of leadership within the church shouldn't be a controversial topic (or require a penis). If we followed the ways of Christ, leadership would look more like service. Yet, over 2000 years of c…

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Ferris Buller

Slowing down is not easy. It almost seems antithetical to the way life moves. In cultur…

Much breath has been spent on this show talking about the intersection between politics and religion. Typically, when mentioned it's in the negative and is a perversion of the faith for the sake of p…

"It’s just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, ou…

This is not the Easter episode you expected, but it may be the episode that you need to hear.

Here we are again at Jesus's annual coming-out party and the American church is still clueless as to why …

Prolific author, teacher, podcaster, Keith Giles joins us today to talk about reading scripture correctly, atonement theory, and his new book, Jesus Unforsaken.

"The very sight of God causes delight. At the sight of God the mind can do nothing but delight."  ~ Thomas Aquinas

Most days, I'm mired in the push and pull of life and I don't think I know what the …

While conservatives are having a cancel-culture-fever-dream over Dr. Seuss, Mr. Potato Head, and whatever else they're faking outrage over, insidious things are happening on the state level of govern…

Preacher's Kid by Semler, whose artist name is Grace Baldridge, hit No. 1 on Tuesday (Feb. 9) in Apple's iTunes store. It marked the first time an LGBTQ+ artist has topped the album sales in Christia…

Another week, another public sex scandal for the Christian church.

With the posthumous news of Ravi Zacharias being a predatory creep and rapist, we see another pastor with a platform fall. For a gro…

Join me today as I talk with the director, Rocky Roggio, about her upcoming film 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted a Culture. 1946 is a new documentary that investigates how the word “homosexual”…

“Some of us believe that God is All-Power and can do all, and that God is All-Wisdom and knows how to do all. But that God is All-Love and wants to love all, here we restrain ourselves. And this igno…

“What’s translated as ‘charity’ in the Bible is ‘agape,’ which literally means love... We do have a responsibility to help the poor and those in need. That means taking care of them yourself—giving m…

“A cult is a religion with no political power."

- Tom Wolfe

Living in a society in which a large swath of the population believe…

“Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary, use words.”

- Not Saint Francis of Assisi, but still a great quote

It seems im…