Pastor With No Answers: The MIXTAPE Era

Steadfast Summit Conference (March 28th & 29th, Charleston Southern University) Jessie Evans, M.Ed., LPC joins the podcast to discuss her work of bridging professional counseling with faith.  Her and Joey discuss experiences (good and bad) they've encountered in how the church handles mental health issues.  They also reflect on personal struggles in their own mental health and in the proc...

[This episode has Hayne Griffin , Stoy Prioleau , and Joey Svendsen in it] Stoy is quiet and usually disregarding of politics but the recent "meeting" with Trump and Zelensky has his head swirling, motivating him to "talk politics" with some fervor on this one.  Hayne is very distrustful of politicians, the media, the church, and people who are "bought."  He also remi...

[ This episode has Chip Judd , Roy Jacques and Joey Svendsen in it.  It originally aired on Mental Health + Mission of the Church  Podcast ] Chip Judd, friend of this podcast having made numerous appearances on it through the years, has had quite the recent life journey that could have ended his life, given his lungs were failing him.  It's a story of a tragic loss of life with some redemptio...

[ This episode has Amy Alderman , Hayne Griffin , Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it] Is pledging allegiance to a flag weird or even creepy?  If one believes in hell, is it kind of psycho to make jokes about people going there?  Just how much does God intervene in the affairs of humanity and work on behalf of people's prayers?  And if God intervenes in more important "life or death"...

[This episode has: Amy Alderman , Hayne Griffin , Stoy Prioleau , and Joey Svendsen ] Amy's husband goes by "Dick."  After getting through some jokes and reverting back to being middle school kids, three "Gen-X-ers" talk parenting, including differing opinions on tough love, the prospect of out-living one's child and what age-appropriate discipline may look like.  Are...

[This episode has Robbie Madison , Jed Payne and Joey Svendsen in it] Feels like a chill time of encouragement amongst three friends, like it's a church small group.  Robbie sheds some light on the fallacy that "only good things should happen because of God," Jed still struggles with the concept of a "tit for tat" God, and Joey tries to encourage Jed with his own journey a...

On this episode, Joey goes through his favorite books of 2024 and shares an episode he put together on a different podcast in which he crammed his whole mental health crisis story of 2019 into a 45-minute episode (quite the feat, hell to the yeah).  Special thanks to John Mark McMillan for narrating this one.   E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song...

[Produced by Hayne Griffin , this episode has Hayne, Robbie Madison and Joey Svendsen ] Christmas Playlist     Apple Music I Spotify For the final episode of the year, Hayne rounds Joey and Robbie up for some Christmas talk, picking up where they left off last year in "Baby, It's Cold Outside (EP13),"   the last episode these three talked Christmas for an hour.   Today they talk whe...

[This episode is with Amy Alderman , Matt Oxley , Jed Payne , Joey Svendsen ] Joey had a kidney stone that worked through him like clockwork.  It made him very happy. Jed educates everyone on Kratom. Matt, Jed and Amy school Joey on the true definition of a "furry," and Amy doesn't think any one belongs with a tail, even if they are looking for belonging.    Be a Patron / Tip the Ho...

[This episode is Joey Svendsen joined by five friends from his youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca ,  Billy Jones , Mike Colon , Penny Sharp , and B.J. Slotkin ] Part 1 can be listened to here or viewed on YouTube . Part 2 can be listened to here . Joey, Jon, Gail, and Billy have talked twice and  now they (and you) get to hear from some of their friends from youth group, peers who'...

[This episode was produced by Joey Svendsen and is joined by three friends from Joey's youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca , and Billy Jones ] Part 1 can be listened to or viewed on YouTube . Joey shares how his "pure lifestyle" was celebrated amongst parents of other kids in youth group while inside, he felt overburdened by a never- ending, dark spiritual season, years on...

[Produced by Stoy Prioleau, with Hayne , Stoy , Amy and Joey ] On Part 1 of this conversation, "Firefighter Hayne, Doing the Lord's Work in Ravaged North Carolina," listeners heard stories of Helene's destruction in Western North Carolina through the personal story of our firefighting friend, Hayne Griffin, recounting that dreadful night that took his whole community by surpris...

[Produced by Joey Svendsen, this episode is a collection of clips from a recent Seacoast Church Podcast, link to full episode RIGHT HERE ]. Regular to the PWNA Podcast through the years, here's an update on our good friend and Pastor, Chip Judd's physical health, as well as some talk (from the Seacoast Podcast) on how the church has dropped the ball in many ways on truly helping people c...

[Honoring our brother, Hayne Griffin, who's been doing the Lord's work, with Hayne , Stoy , Amy and Joey ] During the night of the 26th of September, Hurricane Helene took western North Carolina by storm, pun intended.  What would follow is complete devastation of houses, businesses, electricity, dependable water supply, roads, and human life.  Hear Hayne's story of that night on du...

[This episode was produced by Joey Svendsen and is joined by three friends from Joey's youth group days: Jon Bazzle, Gail Santavicca , and Billy Jones ] you can watch this conversation on YouTube here . Joey joins three old friends from the old youth group, all but one are still Christians but you'll never guess; all four contributors have changed much.  Joey shares with his friends on t...

[This episode, produced by Joey Svendsen, has Ellen Mauro , Jed Payne , Joey Svendsen , and special guest and original host to the show, Jared Svendsen] Televangelists like Kenneth Copeland's behavior don't appear reflective of God by any means, and it certainly seems as if people are being led astray by the sort of prosperity gospel teaching he espouses.  However, there seems to be more...

This episode was originally recorded in July of 2016, shortly after Donald Trump became the Republican Party's presidential candidate.  Little did we know at the time of this conversation, that in 5 short months, he would be the next president of the United States of America.    [show-notes from episode 40]   We talk to non-trump supporter Jack Hoey (the father) and Trump-Supporter, Kerry Hap...

[This episode with Amy Alderman, Matt Oxley , Stoy Prioleau and Joey Svendsen was produced by Joey Svendsen] The host crew talk morals and parenting in the context of " Grand Theft Auto, " a video game not allowed in the Svendsen household, in which the player goes around society committing egregious crimes for pure entertainment. Joey explains his disdain for the "Karen" label...

[This episode is produced by Joey Svendsen, having contributions from Ellen Mauro , Robbie Madison , Amy Alderman , Joey Svendsen , Jared Svendsen, Stoy Prioleau , and Michael Sweet , courtesy of Seacoast Podcast ] Check out Robbie's single "Lost My Best Friend" / Spotify / Apple A lot is on the table for this one.  From a discussion on the rapid transition of the 1980s glam metal s...

[This episode is with hosts Stoy Prioleau , Joey Svendsen and "fam" to the show, Heather Zastrocky & Dick Alderman. Produced by Joey Svendsen] Joey is all "grandpa softy" on this one, wanting everyone to learn how to enjoy the great world of sports without the torture from losses, including some "cheesy mush" about how the real fun of sports, is in being a fan of...

[This episode with Joey Svendsen, Amy Alderman, Hayne Griffin, Robbie Madison, and Stoy Prioleau, was produced by Joey Svendsen] The three videos discussed in this episode can be found here: video , video 2 , video 3 . Some deep sharing on this episode, Hayne talks about the anger he lives with and Robbie shares how as a child he was discouraged from being proud of anything.  The five talk about s...

[This episode is produced by Hayne Griffen and hosted by Joey Svendsen , Hayne Griffen , Robbie Madison , and Matt Oxley ] Robbie became a father [thrice] recently and the four reflect on parenting in the context of faith, Joey sharing seasons in which he didn't have the tools to guide his kids spiritually, given his own confusion and angst about the deeper things, at those points in his life...

Stoy Prioleau, one of the hosts of the show was asked to conduct the wedding ceremony of his son, Darion Prioleau and daughter-in-law, Jyree Savoy.  A step in this greater process is sitting down for a 1 on 2 to get a feel for the current climate of his kids' relationship, assess their current expectations of a future together and offer any piece of advice or encouragement along the way. Well...

[This episode is produced by Stoy Prioleau and hosted by Joey Svendsen , Amy Alderman , Ellen Mauro , Liz Miller ] Birthed out of the discussion in "episode 36: generation z people, trans people and those gay olympic ceremonies,"   in this episode, Joey shares how he posted some sentiments on that archaic social networking platform, Facebook , fairly certain the straight-forwardness of i...

[This episode was recorded on August 1st, produced by Joey Svendsen, with hosts Matt Oxley, Stoy Prioleau and Joey Svendsen] Today, Matt educates us on the real story behind the "trans athlete" female boxer and the three discuss the opening ceremony and how many churches have lost their damn minds in how they interact with culture.  Also part of the discussion entails positivity and the...