Richard Clark from Christianity Today joins the show to evaluate Matthew's horrible pitches for faith-based video games (8:00), then talk Best Christian Tweets of 2017 (21:30), and discuss The Adventures of Pete & Pete (42:00)
Perk City (Bethany Perkins) joins the show for embarrassing teenage journals (5:00), Random DM Roulette (11:00), David vs. Cain (16:00). and ranking the sins (25:00)
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Nate and Matthew discuss Adam and Eve's nipples (2:00), a snake invasion (4:30), sex on Noah's ark (11:30), Benny Hinn (19:00), Christopher Nolan's new movie "Dunkirk" (29:00), impersonating theologians (37:00), and which FSBT hosts would survive a wolf attack (41:30)
Matthew and Casey do a deep dive on the influential and mysterious fundamentalist blogger David J. Stewart (Jesus-is-Savior.com), with detours along the way to talk about pickles, kilts, and whether Matthew knows what adjectives are.
Matthew and Chris take a look back at some of their favorite "good" faith-based films, including The 10 Commandments (10:00), The Passion of the Christ (16:00), The Last Temptation of Christ (24:00), and The Apostle (36:00)
Matthew and Maggie carve a path of destruction through a slew of topics such as Trump/Hillary as homeschoolers (6:00), Bible verses about donkey dongs (24:00), homeschool apocalypse bunkers (31:00), and President Rock (34:00)
Author Erik Guzman stops by to talk about Benny Hinn (4:00), why televangelists get weird (19:00), the ups and downs of book writing (30:00), and who would win in a fight between Hinn and Steve Brown (38:00)
Lauren and Matthew spend an episode playing with a random question generator (8:00) before getting serious for a few minutes about idealization of marriage and children (40:00)
Kendra joins the show for a late night post-Easter rundown of 17 random topics, including Cadbury Eggs, hand soap, puking into wastebaskets, masturbation think pieces, and Pop Tarts.
Nate Claiborne returns to the show for a semi-serious postmortem on the Missing Richard Simmons podcast (2:00), a discussion of Jon Gosselin (22:00), and whether a Simmons/Gosselin reality show could work.
Jessica Thompson (Front Porch with the Fitzes) rejoins the show to talk about her upcoming book (5:00), and then the show falls down a rabbit hole of making fun of things in Christian culture (13:30), including random tangents on defending Josh Harris, praising the Chrisagis Brothers, and ranking Pop-Tarts.
Bethany Perkins (Perk City)joins the show to help make sense of the ongoing Christian culture tournament.
Mike Wittmann joins the show to break down the opening round of matchups in the Christian Culture Tournament
Matthew issues an apology for omitting several names from the previous episode's segment on inappropriate-sounding Christian names (3:00). Then Adam King joins the show to discuss his role in the book JV Superstar (7:00), talk about a haunted hill in rural Tennessee (23:00), being annoying at age 18 (34:00), and anti-masturbation bobcats (38:00)
Casey Haas returns to the show to discuss inappropriate church signs (4:00) before going on a deep dive on one of the oddest Christian music acts we've ever seen (10:00)
Matthew and Brad tackle the tough theological issues of the day, including phallic rock formations (4:00), post-election social media (8:00), and exactly how many Guy Code principles King David broke (17:00)
Author and podcaster Sarah Taras (Ezer Uncaged, Fundyland Sees Red) returns to discuss the rise and disappearance of the minister LaTascha Emanuel (2:00), Twitter beefs (18:00), the theology of sex robots (28:00), and the role of the Holy Spirit (34:00)
Kendra returns to the podcast and joins Matthew on a voyage to the outer realms of Christian culture to review an ebook called "The Erotic Baptism."
Author Nate Claiborne drops in to discuss the worst tweets Christian Twitter had to offer in 2016, and also snakes, the Miami Dolphins, and how many times Adam & Eve had sex.
Author Shannan Martin stops by to talk about her book "Falling Free: Rescued From the Life I Always Wanted" (6:00) and then we rank Jan Crouch's wigs (21:00), pitch a faith-based movie (23:00), and dare to question Dave Ramsey (33:00)
We (mostly) take a break from Christian culture to devote an entire episode to Star Wars and opossums. Chris Allen co-hosts and talks about building beds for the animals that sleep on his porch (3:00), then we discuss random Star Wars theories (8:00) before finishing with which Star Wars character would make the best youth pastor (35:00)
Kate Waston and Ashley Abramson from Upwrite Magazine come on the show to share the story of their magazine's inception. From there the episode breaks down into a random and frenzied jokefest about Christian culture. At some point, a faith-based movie about dinosaurs starring Mark Wahlberg is proposed.
Pastor and author Jon Quitt comes back to the show to talk about his new book (2:00), a discussion which leads into church plants (10:00), Billy Graham's legacy (11:30), which Bible person had the biggest poops (16:00), and youth group lock-ins (19:00)
Jessica Thompson (Front Porch with the Fitzes)returns to the show for an election postmortem (4:00), then we break down the brewing John Piper controversy (18:00), reminisce about Christianity's epic yoga pants war (28:00) and develop the plot for the faith-based movie GARDEN OF EDEN (32:00)
Maggie Talley joins the podcast to joke about homeschool and Christian school repression (8:00), then we talk spirit flags in church (16:00), fighting bears with our bare hands (21:00), and finally address the theological elephant in the room, Samson's body hair (31:00)
Mike Chavez comes back to the show to debate which Presidents were the least(9:00)and most (15:00) physically fit, and also talk about how he would defend his family against a giant alligator (24:00).
Kendra Adachi from The Lazy Genius Collective drops in and we devote an entire episode to the film Cool Runnings
Lauren R.E. Larkin arrives to coax Matthew out of hiding and bring the podcast out of sabbatical. Topics include creepy clowns (1:30), the ethics of sharing the gospel with nude creepy clowns (11:00), candy corn (14:00), Rahab (26:00), and Matthew's new ebook NAKED SIDE HUGS
Rich Cook returns for a late-night discussion of whether Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles can become Christians (9:00) and to weigh the pros and cons of relying on theologians for your beliefs (19:00)
