No BS Bishop

This world can feel like a dangerous place—not just because of those who do evil, but because of the rest of us who see it and do nothing. In this episode, we cut through the noise and get to the heart of what it truly means to live a life that matters. I’m here to talk about The Way of Love, and I believe it demands three things from us: Kindness, Action, and Change. It’s not a soft or passive id...

In this episode, I’d like to share something I believe is essential for our time: the evolution of love. Love isn’t static—when it stands still, it stops being love at all. Just as humanity has grown in strength, understanding, technology, and faith, so too must our grasp of love deepen, widen, and mature. I’ll reflect on how our understanding of God, Scripture, and human relationships has gently...

In this episode, I’m stripping away the "bait and switch" of lesser values to focus on the highest magnetism in human existence: The Sacred Word of Love. Inspired by the spiritual jazz of John Coltrane’s legendary album, I explore why we must stop treating the word "love" as a glib, throwaway cliché. I share a moving observation of a family interaction that reminded me how easi...

"Love is the only answer, but medieval talk about love does nothing." I’ve been sitting with those words from the mystic Thomas Merton, and they’ve hit me right where I live. If you’ve been with me for the last seven years, you know my creed: I am alive to love, and I believe all lesser values devolve easily into "BS"—that bait-and-switch that keeps us from the reality of how w...

Advent invites us to celebrate the multiple paths of how Love is defined by this greatest of all stories in Christmas. “For God so loved the world…that He gives us His Son.” SO LOVED that He gave. SO LOVED that the virgin Mary was visited by the angel of the Lord to announce that she had been chosen. SO LOVED that shepherds keeping watch over their flocks at night were serenaded by a choir of ange...

For six years now, this show has been a labor of love for me, a discussion of the pinnacle of life: Love, and love alone. It is the credible, supreme value for my entire religion. Today, I’m diving deep into my topic: the transcendent supremacy of love. I'm convinced love is this power, this supreme, nuclear force that stands above all others. It’s what launches lives, families, and churches....

In this episode, I am asking you two fundamental questions: Who do you love? And what do you love? Believe it or not, there is a lot more there than meets the eye. I invite you to sit down and actually make a list. Whether it is your spouse, your friends, your "fur baby" like my dog Dixie, playing a guitar, or even just a solid nap, identifying these loves establishes your priorities. I...

I'm here to tell you, love is a far more sustaining human practice when it's taken into a practical work of our life. It's the heavy lifting of life the mountain climb, the marathon, because if we don't succeed at the project of love, far too many other things just don't matter. Listen in as I give you these 10 practical practices, including: Being a hospitable person, welcomin...

I believe a hard truth: We, folks of faith, are not here to defend the institutions of Christianity, nor are we here to defend the institutionalized leaders who demand unquestioning allegiance. Institutional Christianity has its own "spiritual asbestos" that needs to be removed. All the passion we spend defending the institution should be redirected only to love God, to love our neighbor...

This week I'm challenging us all to stop making life about being right and start making it about being loved and being loving. I believe the real issues we face are all found in the nuclear core of the power of love activated inside us. But too often, we've let our culture devolve into division and fighting. I’m inspired by one of my favorite authors, Felicia Murrell, who writes: “I think...

I'm diving deep into my life’s purpose today: Preach Love hotter than any religious flame. Live Love more outrageous than any political rage. Lift Love higher than the heavens and deeper than any hell. This is a direct challenge to the noise in our world. Preach Love Hotter: Don't let rigid doctrines or religious passion overshadow the fierce, pure fire of love. We shouldn't be preachi...

I'm sharing the message I recently delivered live at Chain of Lakes Church in Blaine, MN. We need to talk about Love in a Time of Crisis. Every one of us is either in a crisis, coming out of one, or heading into another. And the Church? We've lost our focus. Jesus gave us just one commandment to define us: Love one another. But we've replaced that heavy lifting with political squabbles...

Welcome, beautiful people! I'm Bishop Randy Dean, and this week, I'm getting personal. I'm tackling The Church—not just a single denomination, but the entire body of believers. Why? Because I believe we've gotten ourselves tangled up in too much BS (Bait and Switch). Jesus gave us one, clear, essential commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. That's the epic call of C...

I'm Bishop Randy Dean, the No BS Bishop, and I'm Alive to Love. I believe anything less is potential BS (Bait and Switch), and for six years, I've been calling you upward and onward to a life of Love alone. In this episode, I lay out my most important challenge: the courage to say the three most holy, charmed, and magical words in the human language: "I love you." We're l...

I'm utterly convinced that love has been short sheeted and treated like a comic book version of life, when in reality, love should be seen as an Encyclopedia Britannica. Love demands of me and from me the truth beyond my personal bias because love cares more about what is right rather than who is right. Here's the truth: you have an ego, I have an ego. The ego is like a psychological eardr...

In this episode, I’m talking about a direct and commanding message that Jesus gave, a message of warning: "Woe to you." But I'm challenging us to stop pointing that finger outward at religious leaders and at others. Instead, I want us to turn that scrutiny inward. When you squeeze a lemon, you get lemon juice. When the squeeze is on in your life, you get what’s on the inside. So what...

I’m inviting you to breathe slow and live love in an age of violence. In this episode I talk about how “your inner world will eventually become your outer world,” why “hate is murder,” and how we can guard our souls from the bloody scenes that surround us. I remind you that “love and tolerance is our code,” and call you to “drop seeds of beauty” in a world where ugly is getting done to death. Don’...

This episode, I'm laying out Three Realities of Love That Will Change Your Life. First, you'll see the world with new eyes, shedding the "us versus them" mentality. Second, you'll deepen your thoughts and grow more wise, transforming knowledge into wisdom. And third, you will let go of failures, foibles, and the fickleness of people, because when you recognize your own, love...

Love is the only value worth building on. Everything else falls apart. This episode looks at the strength, security, and strategy of love. Life is a mix of triumph and tragedy, calm and chaos. Love is the power that carries us through it all. Hear why Martin Luther King Jr. was right that “unconditional love and unarmed truth will have the final say on reality,” and why even dipping your paddle in...

Welcome to the NO BS BISHOP , where we're tackling the fine print we often attach to the most important thing in the world: love. On this episode, I'm calling for a no-holds-barred conversation about what it truly means to love without conditions. This isn't about some cheesy ideal; it's about the real, hard work of getting rid of our excuses and embracing a pure, unfiltered love. Today, I want to...

I'm here with Scott Morfitt, a former parishioner, a "stray sheep" that I love dearly, and the producer of this very show. We're talking about spiritual refugees, the 40 million people who have exited the brick and mortar church since the turn of the century. This is a significant shift in the spiritual season of the United States, and we need to have an exit interview. I'm n...

In this episode, I share a word that’s been on my heart about identity, healing, and the kind of freedom that changes everything. Not long ago, I had the privilege of connecting with Gene Morfitt from the Spiritual Program Retreat, a long-standing community rooted in the original spiritual principles of the 12 steps. Since 1981, thousands have come through the Spiritual Program Retreat and walked...

In this episode, I’m not just talking about love — I’m talking about why real love is a high-risk, high-reward endeavor . We’re not sugarcoating it. Love, when it's genuine, puts you out there. It demands courage, vulnerability, and the willingness to be misunderstood, rejected, or even hurt. That’s why so many people back away from it, settle for less, or hide behind excuses like “righteousne...

Well, friends, this one jumps right in. No fluff. No fanfare. Just two pastors mid-stream, wrestling out loud about the sacred, the cosmic, and the painfully personal. This week on No BS Bishop , I sit down with Pastor Justin Arnold in the church basement—with coffee in hand and hearts wide open—to talk about what it means to follow Jesus in 2025. We get raw. We get real. We discuss the atomic int...

"You say you want a revolution? Well, love is the only revolution worth fighting for." Beloveds, this is Bishop Randy—your no-BS, straight-talking, love-obsessed friend—and I’m here to tell you: we’ve been wasting our time. We argue. We post. We debate. We scream into the void. And for what? More noise. More division. More BS. Enough. In this episode, I’m calling for a bloodless coup of the heart—...