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Weekly Livestreams on YouTube on Wed nights at 9pm Est with hosts April Ajoy (@aprilajoy), Paul Swearengin (@unconventionalpastorpaul) and former host Jeremy Coleman (@pastorfromok).
Discussing the good, the bad and the ugly of the American evangelical church, deconstruction, faith and God's love through it all. We would love you to join us so we can all grow together in community.
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The Exvangelicals with Sarah McCammon
This week, April and Paul have a conversation with Sarah McCammon, the author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, a 2024 book that is part memoir and part journalism, about the movement of people who grew up inside the powerful evangelical subculture and ultimately left it behind.
Sarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Her work focuses on political, social and cultural divides in America, including abortion policy and the intersections of politics and religion. She's also a frequent guest host for NPR news programs. -
Heaven Bent: A Conversation with Tara Jean Stevens
Tara Jean Stevens joins April and Paul to talk about recent church controversies, such as IHOPKC, and the manipulation that is easily found in these environments. Her chart-topping podcast, Heaven Bent, a spotlights Pentecostal and Charismatic movements and helps victims and survivors find healing through telling their stories. Tara Jean has also been a fan-favorite on Vancouver radio & TV, for nearly 25 years. Today, you can hear her Smooth Jazz morning show, weekdays, on WAVE 98.3 - Vancouver’s Coolest Vibe.
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Taking Off the Tinfoil Hat: Conspiracies in Christianity
Cynane Shay of Taking off the Tinfoil Hat joins April and Paul for a chat about conspiracy theories within evangelicalism.
Cynane is a nuclear engineer living in South Carolina. Her childhood in White Christian Nationalism (Florida-style) normalized conspiracy theories like Obama Birtherism and the Biblical apocalypse; but 2020, with COVID and Qanon, finally made her realize something was deeply wrong.
Now Cynane is writing a book, “Taking Off the Tinfoil Hat: How Lizard People and Space Lasers Dismantled my Christian Worldview,” to process the deconstruction of her fundamentalist evangelicalism and her propagandistic patriotism. Losing loved ones to the pandemic was a tragedy, but losing loved ones to the rabbit hole was its own tragedy and Cynane needed to understand the “why.” So from Flat Earth to the IBLP cult to Jewish space lasers, she pulled the thread, cracked her faith, and found the inseparable link between cults, conspiracy theories, and American White Christian Nationalism. TakingOffTheTinfoilHat.com -
The History of Christian Zionism
April and Paul talk with historian Daniel Hummel on the history of Christian Zionism: what it is, how it started, who espouses it and the harm it causes today.
Daniel G. Hummel is the Director of The Lumen Center in Madison, WI and a research fellow in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been a research fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the author of two books: Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israel Relations and The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle Over the End Times Shaped a Nation.
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www.danielghummel.com
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Becoming a Guncle : From Publicly Outed to Proudly Out with Jonathan Merritt
Author and award-winning columnist Jonathan Merritt joins Paul and April to discuss his journey from being publicly outed to being proudly out and his new children's book My Guncle and Me. He also talks about his own faith, his relationship with his pastor parents and his inspiration to write My Guncle and Me.
Buy the book: www.myguncleandme.com
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Hell is a World Without You - Growing up Evangelical
Jason Kirk joins Paul and April for a fun conversation about growing up evangelical. Jason is the author of the funny ex-vangelical novel Hell Is A World Without You and co-host of Vacation Bible School — a podcast with his wife, Emily.
We also react to clips of Pastor Mark Driscoll and the drama he caused at the Stronger Men's Conference this past weekend.
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Customer Reviews
I’m not alone in my feelings
Such a great podcast. They intellectually and respectfully discuss so many different issues. The paradox of Christians and today’s Republican Party are something I can’t wrap my brain around, and to find another group of people who feel the same way feels like a soft landing spot
Love this podcast!!
This podcast is such a breath of fresh air! After becoming so disillusioned with how American evangelicals were rallying behind Trump (who is completely the opposite of every Jesus taught- let’s be honest), I felt completely alone in my questions of how this could have happened.
I love these hosts and I so appreciate their vulnerability, their ability to find humor in hard things without minimizing pain, and their candidness about what is taught in evangelical churches.
I found a place where asking questions in good faith is not just accepted, but celebrated. Life’s a journey, and it’s so nice to be on the ride with this community!
Love it!
I have been listening to Evangelicalish for a few years now. My deconstruction journey started at a similar time and I find so much encouragement from all of the hosts. Thank you for great content always!
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