Altars and Ashes Podcast

Persecution always begins softly. Normally, it begins with pressure, not blood. This episode maps the three fronts every believer must be ready to face. The first comes quietly through exclusion, mockery, and loss. This is the “soft war” that’s meant to isolate believers and shame conviction. The second front rises when culture codifies laws that exclude or punish Christians, turning mockery into...

In this episode of Altars & Ashes , Basil Desmond Fleming, Robbie Stringer, and Austin Tucker dismantle one of the great modern lies, the myth of neutrality. Every culture bows to something. Every law, every classroom, every household is an altar, either to Christ or to idols. Drawing from Abraham Kuyper’s famous declaration that “there is not a square inch” outside Christ’s claim, the hosts explo...

Welcome back to Altars & Ashes Podcast, a show for saints called to faithfulness in a hostile age. In this episode, we open the book of Daniel to learn what it means to live as exiles in a world that demands our compromise. What We Cover 1. Exiles in Babylon — Faithfulness in the small things: Daniel refusing the king’s food, friends standing in the furnace, prayer that couldn’t be silenced. 2. Bu...

Every generation builds altars. The only question is: to whom? From Cain and Abel to Elijah on Mount Carmel, Scripture reminds us that worship is never neutral. We either bow before the Living God, or we sacrifice on altars that leave nothing but ashes. Our age is no different. In this episode of Altars & Ashes , Robbie Stringer, Austin Tucker, and B.D. Fleming take a hard look at the false altars...

In this episode, we move from the household altar to the church as a living temple. Scripture shows us that the temple is no longer brick and stone but a people indwelt by the Spirit, with Christ Himself as the cornerstone and believers as living stones. The church is not an event or a brand, it is the dwelling place of God on earth. We examine how Israel’s history reveals the danger of forgetting...

In this episode, we explore the biblical vision of the household as an altar of worship, sacrifice, covenant renewal, and mission. From Noah, Abraham, and Joshua to the Puritans, Scripture and history show that homes are meant to burn with covenant faithfulness, not sit cold as storage units of distraction. We confront the ashes of our age: fractured families, outsourced discipleship, and absent f...

Dangerous to the Spirit of the Age A Special Episode of the Altars & Ashes Podcast On Wednesday, Charlie Kirk was brutally and cowardly shot and killed. And yesterday, when we recorded this, it was September 11th. Twenty-four years later, the ache is raw again. Many of us feel numb. The anger rises, the sorrow lingers, and clarity can feel far away. But one truth burns brighter than the grief: the...

Thanks for reading Dust & Glory Media! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. It was just Austin and me this week. Robbie couldn’t make it (we teased him about hemorrhoids (don’t worry, he’s fine). But the absence gave us room to dive deep into the theme of this episode: Reading the Times with Wisdom. The Bible describes the men of Issachar as those who “understood the times...

Thanks for reading Dust & Glory Media! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The most dangerous words in the world are these: Jesus Christ is Lord. That confession leaves no neutral ground. If Christ is Lord, then Caesar is not. The State is not. Your boss is not. And you are not. Every false throne is unseated by that truth, which is why the world resists it with hostility....

In every age of ruin, God’s people have always known where to begin: at the altar. From Noah stepping off the ark, to Abraham staking God’s claim in enemy territory, to Elijah rebuilding the altar on Mount Carmel, worship has always been the first act of faithfulness. In this episode, Bennet Dale Fleming, joined by Robbie Stringer and Austin Tucker, unpacks why altars still matter today. We look a...

The world is burning. Not just in headlines, but in the streets we walk, the homes we live in, and in the churches we love. And in a time when the temptation is to hunker down until the smoke clears, we’re convinced God is calling His people to something bolder: to build in the fire. That’s why Robbie, Austin, and I have launched Altars and Ashes Podcast . Altars are places of worship, obedience,...