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2018/12/28
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2026/11/09
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Worth Your Attention: The Biblical West (Part 1) (#424)
2026/11/09
Introducing a new limited series focused on master artworks that fit a “Biblical West” theme: Johnny Cash “The Man Comes Around,” There Will Be Blood, and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy — feel free to listen, watch, and read ahead for upcoming episodes!
Returning Guest: Matt Naylor
Matt's previous episodes: I Don’t Believe In That God (#271) and Matt & Max from Milkless 2.0 (#275)
Topics:
Art worth our attention (0:38)
The Biblical West (11:52)
Manifest destiny (15:18)
Cognitive dissonance (26:04)
Subduing the land (29:14)
Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians (36:55)
Life on thin margins (44:27)
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GGCH: Dan’s Not Quitting Beer Camp After All (#423)
2026/11/02
We're back with another Generation Gap Culture Hour!
Guests: Tony Jones, Josh Gilbert
Topics:
Theology Beer Camp recap (4:50)
Interviewing Ilia Delio (9:16)
What are you reading? (25:22)
Patron-only (from 32:15):
Tony and Dan's reading (32:40)
Bar, Bank, Church, Dispensary, CrossFit (49:45)
Too invested in politics? (56:30)
Media and the attention economy (1:21:05)
Raising civically engaged kids (1:32:30)
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The Science of Meaning Making in a Disenchanted World (#422)
2026/10/26
Guests: Myron Penner, Matthew Segall, and Sarah Lane Ritchie (Live at Theology Beer Camp)
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Topics:
Components of meaning (5:28)
Meaning after faith change (19:57)
Subjective meaning (33:23)
Meaning vs. happiness (42:05)
AI and disenchantment (51:07)
Divine hiddenness (1:00:41)
Post-deconstruction community (1:06:53)
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Medieval Religion in a Modern Universe (#421)
2026/10/19
Guest: Ilia Delio (Center for Christogenesis)
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Topics:
Medieval religion, modern universe (7:52)
Fortress mentality (13:40)
Learning to trust yourself (23:29)
Patriarchy (31:15)
Missing what you left (46:37)
Religion’s evolutionary origins (49:58)
Jesus as evolutionary emergence (1:00:28)
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GGCH: Where Have All the Dinner Parties Gone? (#420)
2026/10/12
Guests: Tony Jones, Josh Gilbert (Generation Gap Culture Hour Live from Theology Beer Camp)
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Topics:
Death of the dinner party (6:50)
Male friendship (20:20)
Social anxiety and modeling (27:10)
Patron-only (from 34:15):
Codependency in marriage (37:00)
Location sharing (56:10)
Becoming our fathers (1:06:50)
Intensive parenting (1:09:50)
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Once Evangelical, Always Evangelical? (ROTM After Hours) (#419)
2026/10/05
Returning guest: Lindsay Strannigan (Purity Culture Regrets, Martyrdom Expectations)
Stranniganandsons.com/about
Topics:
Raised female in evangelicalism (6:13)
Biola and Christian music (14:18)
Total commitment mindset (24:06)
Patron-only:
Finding an Episcopal church (38:26)
75% on fire (1:00:48)
Epistemic humility (1:15:05)
Minimal political engagement (1:24:25)
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Holy Misfits with John Van Deusen (#418)
2026/09/28
Returning Guest: John Van Deusen (Bandcamp)
Listen to this episode's playlist
Topics:
Genre-bending worship music (3:36)
Holy misfits (13:15)
Alternative Christian music scene (22:34)
Big tent vs. niche art (31:27)
Performative politics (43:40)
Zooming out and small lives (56:28)
Afterlife and nonexistence (1:14:05)
Previous Episode's with John Van Duesen:
"Chrisitan Music": John Van Duesen (#94)
Emergency Pod: Processing the Capitol Insurrection with John Van Deusen
Still Christian: Tyson Motsenbocker & John Van Deusen (#234)
Episode with Andy Squyres:
Worries About Progressive Christianity
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From CCM to Existential Coaching (#417)
2026/09/21
Guest: Brad Johnson (Paradox Coaching)
Topics:
Pastor's kid in Texas (3:07)
Christian music career (11:15)
Losing the church job (33:21)
The tree of knowledge (37:45)
Terror management theory (1:03:45)
Coaching versus therapy (1:14:38)
Accountability in coaching (1:23:33)
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Therapy vs. Coaching (#416)
2026/09/08
Guests: Josh Gilbert and Kristen Tideman
Topics:
Therapy vs. coaching (3:48)
Licensure and regulation (11:20)
Scope of practice (20:47)
Actionable plans (38:00)
Existential psychology (45:14)
Religious landscape expertise (52:00)
Trauma and self-diagnosis (58:27)
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Peak Youth Group Era with Tyler Huckabee (RELEVANT, Sojourners) (#415)
2026/08/31
Guest: Tyler Huckabee | Sojourners, RELEVANT Megazine
Tyler's Article | Reckoning With the Youth Group That Raised Us
Topics:
• Adolescent development (8:36)
• Columbine and martyrdom culture (14:45)
• Braveheart (25:00)
• Youth group as third space (31:44)
• Summer camp autonomy (37:45)
• Deficit-based views of teenagers (56:55)
• Doubt and the exvangelical wilderness (1:02:48)
• Trump and belief (1:09:10)
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Dan in the Hot Seat with Tripp Fuller (#414)
2026/08/24
Guest: Tripp Fuller (Homebrewed Christianity)
Topics:
• Cognitive-existential therapy (11:56)
• Self-deception & “ultimate concern” (27:06)
• ADHD & embodiment (31:09)
Patron Half
• “The Hell of the Same” (43:00)
• Wasting your life in every era (1:00:45)
• Christian bookstore CDs & punk rock (1:20:14)
• College Counseling & Young Adults (1:44:31)
• The dark magic of rock and roll (1:47:02)
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Is "Spirituality" the Best We Can Do? (#413)
2026/08/17
**Participate in my next Spiritual Abuse Research Study**
Guest: Jay Michaelson (Both/And)
Topics:
Why "spirituality" makes a bad communicator (3:07)
Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and inventing God in our own image (5:04)
Psychedelics, myth-making, and religion as "proto peer review" (16:56)
The case for spirituality's broadness (32:04)
Crystals, gurus, and spotting spiritual abuse (38:07)
Peak experiences, Kierkegaard's leap of faith, and the trouble with certainty (59:07)
Previous Episode with Jay:
Rabbi and Journalist Jay Michaelson (#366)
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GGCH: Nolan’s Odyssey & Tony’s New Novel (#412)
2026/08/10
Guests: Tony Jones & Josh Gilbert (Generation Gap Culture Hour returns!)
Topics:
Culture roundup: alliteration bios, Son of Helena, dude lit & Lonesome Dove (1:58)
The Odyssey: theater reactions, IMAX chaos & the OCD popcorn guy (14:33)
Nolan's rewrite: war, Xenia & the Christianization of the Odyssey (23:11)
Patron Half Begins (35:44)
Casting choices: Helen, Elliot Page & the "DEI" debate (36:19)
Oral tradition, the Emily Wilson controversy & Nolan/Bond rumors (44:27)
Agamemnon's sacrifice, Isaac & OCD scrupulosity (54:54)
Writing historical fiction: polenta, plums & Constantine's conversion (1:03:22)
AI as research assistant: therapy, health & the future of work (1:16:12)
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Dan Passed the Exam! & a Timely Rebroadcast
2026/08/03
Episode #370 | Trusting Yourself After Religious Change
*Original Description *
To Trust Your Experience (Dustin Kensrue) (#38)
Is experience potentially a direct pathway to the God of the universe? Or is it simply “the heart [being] deceitful above all things”? Can we trust our spiritual experience, and if so, which experiences are trustworthy? This topic was recommended by my guest Dustin Kensrue (singer/songwriter of the band Thrice, former worship director at Mars Hill Church in Seattle), and I jumped at it. In today’s episode, we go through Dustin’s own story, from young Christian punk rocker, to prominent Neo-Calvinist, to church scandal whistleblower (sort of), to reconstructed liberal Christian, all the while considering the role of experience in that journey.
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A Jewish Sex Educator Reads the Gospel of Matthew (#411)
2026/07/27
**Participate in my next Spiritual Abuse Research Study**
Guest: Jenn Mason (WinkWink Boutique)
Topics:
Growing up Jewish in a small rural town and rediscovering Judaism as an adult (1:43)
National media attention, antisemitic harassment, and finding a spiritual framework (6:26)
Why read the Gospels: side-eye toward Christianity and swimming in a Christian culture (10:57)
Softness, disability, and getting "off template" (24:53)
First impressions of Matthew: the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus at the center (34:23)
Anti-Pharisee texts, the Great Commission, and the religion of Jesus vs. Christianity (43:32)
Jenn on Instagram | @jenniferidamason
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Quince12445 2026/10/19
Host interrupts too much
I am leaving this review in a slightly desperate attempt to see if this host, who has great guests and topics, can get some coaching on his interview ...
t1u2r3t4 2026/01/14
Interviewing skills
I want to like this show, great guests, but the interviewer interrupts often and uses his questions mostly as a springboard to discuss his own thought...
Krombein 2025/12/04
Secular humanist navel gazing
Don’t be fooled. Dan presents himself has a “liberal Christian.” It’s important to note that “liberal Christians” don’t exist. Dan is nothing short of...
RobbieRambles 2025/10/28
Please make it about the Guest
I’m giving it a 5-star because I like what you’re doing and I want it to be successful, but dude, we get it…you were in an emo band and are a dr now. ...
Sage7414 2025/04/25
Good content, but…
The show would be better if Dan didn’t interrupt guests and make their stories about him. I was a subscriber for a couple of years, but had to let thi...
Emeraldman 2025/01/14
Intellectually curious, maybe, but…
… I’m done. The episode on libertarianism was a dealbreaker for me. Buying into the 60 years of lies from megalomaniacal billionaires and corporations...
Acpacpacp 2024/08/17
Hit and miss
Meh
bGuiles 2024/08/13
Unacceptably offensive episode title
Really? 🙄
As a Christian not represented by anti-LGBTQ Christian fascists, I request that you re-title your most recent episode from “Why Are Christi...
mjdtjd 2024/05/18
Keep it going!
Loved the first episode about the Chosen. Have many people in my life wanting me to watch that and probably get me saved again. I am always intrigued...
CharlotteDaSpider 2023/10/16
The best
Of all the deconstructionist podcasts I listen to, this one is the best. Dan has a thoughtful and wide-ranging choice of guests and topics and he is a...
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