The Bible Uncut and Unfiltered

If you've ever wanted to hear: - Charles Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, refuse to pray for Catholics while calling his congregants impediments to his work, - Jonathan Edwards, the Great Awakening revivalist, encourage violence against others while pretending to be the only perfect Christian in the world, - or maybe M. R. DeHaan, founder of Our Daily Bread Ministries, ramble about literally...

What if the religious beliefs and systems sold as protecting you were actually the very things keeping you stuck? In this conversation with NYT bestselling author Tia Levings, we unpack her powerful new book, I Belong to Me, and what it means to reclaim ownership of your body and identity after church-sanctioned harm. If you’ve ever heard: · The church is a hospital for the hurting · God/Church di...

One of the most dangerous things you could do in Christianity is actually take “God is love” seriously. Thomas Jay Oord returns! And this time, he’s sharing Volume 1 of his brand new Systematic Theology of Love. He explains why centering love doesn’t just reshape doctrine to be more biblical—it disrupts entire systems built on certainty, control, and having to be right about everything. We explore...

The American church has seen better days. Or has it? This week, Rev. Dr. Andrew Hale, Associate Executive Coordinator of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship North Carolina, joins us to talk about the fractures he’s seen in 25+ years of working directly with congregations and clergy. He explains why many of the divisions churches blame on politics or worship styles actually run deeper. Root issues like...

Over the past month, we’ve been exploring the sacred overlap of food and faith. But there’s a shadow side to that story that is rarely addressed. This week, Anna Rollins joins us to talk about her new book Famished and the unexpected similarities between dieting culture and purity culture in the evangelical church. What happens when self-control becomes the highest spiritual virtue? When hunger, w...

Imagine if you could fearlessly talk theology with a pastor over a glass of wine. This week, we do just that! Wine Pastor Jeremy Jernigan joins us for a conversation that explores faith through the lens of vino. We talk about growth and change through the language of vintages, the extravagant overindulgence of Jesus’s first miracle, and the sacredness found in life’s messiness. From the church’s d...

Professional chef, former pastor, wine rep, and podcaster Andrew Camp joins us this week to explore the sacred, scandalous, and deeply human theology of the table. From Jesus’s eating with the disciples on the Emmaus road to the wild idea of God becoming edible in the Eucharist, we discuss how food isn’t just background imagery in Scripture. It’s actually a central theme. If the Bible begins and e...

Life is fragile, unpredictable, and often terrifying. Fear makes sense. But fear doesn’t get the final word. In this conversation, Ben Price introduces us to feral Spirit—the untamed presence of God that responds to suffering with a quiet and defiant “yeah, but.” While religion tries to capture, copy, and commodify, the Spirit refuses to be managed, showing up in ways, places, and people we least...

So much of our faith lives in our heads, while our bodies quietly remember things our theology forgot. Our ancestors ate with the seasons, learned the land they lived on, and trusted food that was alive—fermented, shared, and shaped by place. They understood that what nourishes us comes not just from belief, but from embodiment. Asia Dorsey joins us this week to share what she’s learned about lean...

Every meal is theological. You just don’t know it yet. This week we're kicking off a new miniseries on the intersection of food and faith—territory most Christians have never explored beyond praying before a meal. But here's the thing: some of our richest theology happens at the table. It exposes our interdependence. It forces us to reckon with who has access and who doesn't. And if yo...

You’ve seen his cartoons on social media; now, it’s time to meet the artist himself. This week, we’re joined by the one and only David Hayward, also known as the NakedPastor. His art has helped countless people name, survive, and heal from spiritual abuse. In this conversation, we dig into how spiritual abuse actually works, why systems and organizations tend to pull people toward their worst selv...

Hell is often treated as a core, unquestionable Christian belief, but what if the way it’s been taught has caused more harm than good? Former pastor Brian Recker joins the podcast to talk about his new book Hell Bent and how hell has been used not just as a doctrine, but as a tool of control and spiritual abuse. Using Jesus’s own standard—you will know them by their fruits—we examine what fear-bas...

Spiritual abuse can be incredibly difficult to name, especially when you’ve lived inside an abusive system. Many people don’t even realize the whole of what they’ve experienced until long after the damage is done. This week, we start to change that! Licensed therapist Naomi Norton joins us to talk about adverse religious experiences, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, and how these dynamics affect...

Only on this podcast could Schindler’s List, Star Trek, and The Clone Wars collide in a single moral conversation. In this episode, we wrestle with Steven Spielberg’s haunting question: What does it mean to do enough with your life? Is saving one person enough? Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few—or the one? Along the way, theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes an unexpected appea...

We all know the teaching, “Spare the rod, spoil the child.” But far fewer people know where it comes from—or what it originally meant. And here in the U.S., we remain one of the last first world countries where spanking is widely accepted and often defended as biblical, with pastors and parenting voices regularly pointing to scripture as support. In this episode, we take a careful look at the pass...

What’s your favorite scripture passage? Most normal people have never asked or been asked that. But the IFB circles I grew up in treated that question like a spiritual personality test. You were expected to have one of 31,000+ Bible verses chosen to define your entire life, memorized by heart, and ready to share on demand. This week, Janna joins us to trace where that strange tradition came from a...

You asked, we responded! This week, we dig beneath the surface of some of your biggest Bible questions. From ancient cosmologies to lost artifacts, divine timelines, mythic giants, and more—nothing’s off the table. This episode is full of tough questions, honest responses, and zero fear of the strange stuff in Scripture! • What happened to the Ark of the Covenant? • Did Nephilim exist after the fl...

This week, we’re celebrating 100 episodes of uncut andunfiltered Bible scholarship! We’re looking back at our favorite moments, sharing a few personal updates,unpacking some fun stats, and giving you a first peek at what’s coming in 2026. Plus, we even squeezed in a recap of Theology Beer Camp 2025. Thank you for listening, sharing, and supporting us throughthe first 100. We truly couldn’t have ma...

Psalm 88 is one of the darkest and most overlooked corners of Scripture. It’s a prayer that ends in literal darkness and isolation. It’s the psalm that dares to accuse God and still call it worship. This week, we trace the deconstruction of an ancient Israelite worship leader to ask how faith survives when hope doesn’t—and why God insisted on leaving this raw, unsettling song right in the middle o...

This week, we’re pouring the Bible straight—unbroken, untamed, and (you guessed it) unfiltered. From garden to glory, we’ll trace the threads that tie the whole thing together and reveal why this ancient anthology isn’t just a rulebook, but one of the greatest stories ever told. Settle in, you’re about to hear the Bible like you’ve never heard it before! Website:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Round three of our fundamentalist pamphlet adventure brings us: – A not-so-self-aware tale of how one man found absolute truth and lost his joy. – Anti-communist propaganda thinly disguised as an anti–sex ed sermon. – A grab-bag of end times theology takes. – And a preacher who fueled the Salem Witch Trials…held up as a moral hero. It’s another dose of advice no one asked for, but since we had to...

Back by unpopular demand, we’re reviewing four more vintage fundamentalist pamphlets this week! This round tackles burning questions like: – WWJS—What Would Jesus Smoke? (A: Nothing ever, and you’re a heathen for even asking the question.) – Is there a foolproof way to twist scripture so you’re always following the will of God? (A: Absolutely!) – What happens when Israel gets misused in Christian...

As Israel paints the town red in preparation for their great escape, a new character emerges from the shadows—the mysterious Destroyer. But he’s not the only puzzle in Exodus 12. Who exactly were the “mixed multitude” leaving Egypt with Israel? How many people actually made the journey? And why does Pharaoh, of all people, suddenly ask for a blessing from God? We’ll unpack misconceptions about the...

Chapter 11 begins the most unsettling part of the Exodus story. The death of the firstborn, blood on the doorposts, and neighbors handing over their wealth while suffering from shock—this isn’t Sunday school flannelgraph material. In this week’s episode, we wrestle with divine violence, the silence of bystanders, and why freedom without repair isn’t enough. What does this ancient story have to say...

This week we’re uncovering layers in Exodus you’ve definitely never heard before in church. Previously unexplained details from Joseph’s story find a parallel in Moses’s final confrontation with Pharaoh. Locusts appear, but not where you’d think, thanks to a popular mistranslation. And buried in the Hebrew language are geographical clues that reveal the perspective of the ancient storyteller. But...