Heretic Happy Hour

Last week, we promised we'd include a track off Flamy Grant's latest album, but didn't have a file in time. So, as a way to fulfill our promise, here it is: Fortune Teller. Check out the entire QuoirCast network on Patheos and at quoir.com . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Buckle up buttercup, because we're back into this Fabulous series with the flamboyantly fantastic Flamy Grant who talks about how they ended up being the first drag queen to hit #1 on the Christian Music Charts. To support the show, sign up on Patreon . Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use...

Our Conservative Christian Documentary Series continues with our reactions to "The Family" on Netflix.  What does the National Prayer Breakfast have to do with exporting anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to Third World nations? PLUS, our Heretic of the Week is Janet K. Ray, author of "The God of Monkey Science: People of Faith in a Modern Scientific World." Pick up Sitting in the Shade of Another Tree . Check...

Our third episode in our conservative Christian documentary series explores the disturbing behavior of Hillsong, with a look at "The Secrets of Hillsong" on HULU. Plus, our Heretic of the Week is the wonderful Maria Francesca French, author of Safer Than the Known Way and Reconfiguring . Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts on Patheos . Keith's latest book, Second Cup with Keith , is now available...

In this episode, the Heretics sit down with award-winning author and artist, Angela Yarber. She's the Executive Director of the Holy Women Icons Project, a non-profit seeking to empower marginalized women by telling the stories of revolutionary holy women through art, writing, and special events. Her painting, writing, and work has been featured on NPR's Progressive Spirit, Maya Angelou's memorial...

Our new "Too Fab For Florida" series celebrates the gifts and wisdom of people in the queer, trans and drag community as a counter-narrative to the relentless assault on their community. This week continues with Sister Merry Peter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgences.  Tune in to all QuoirCast podcasts at Patheos . Check out the latest interfaith book from Quoir, Sitting in the Shade of Another...

Our new "Too Fab For Florida" series celebrates the gifts and wisdom of people in the queer, trans and drag community as a counter-narrative to the relentless assault on their community. This week continues with Lady Karley Dada Marx, an American  drag  performer,  painter , and pop artist. They are from  Chicago, Illinois . Marx's drag persona and name are a play-off of  Karl Marx ,  Marxist aest...

Our new "Too Fab For Florida" series celebrates the gifts and wisdom of people in the queer, trans and drag community as a counter-narrative to the relentless assault on their community. To kick things off, our resident expert for this conversation is Daniel M. Lavery, author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You , he also wrote the "Dear Prudence" advice column at Slate.com from 2016 to 2...

Our second episode in our conservative Christian documentary series explores the profound weirdness and creepy cult behaviors exposed in the SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE documentary. PLUS,  our Heretic of the Week is the amazing Karen Shock, author of TOO MUCH AND NOT ENOUGH . Tune in to all the QuoirCast Podcasts at Patheos.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information a...

Kicking off a brand-new series reacting to several recent documentaries exposing the weirdness, hypocrisy and abuses of Conservative Christianity, we start with GOD FORBID. Come for the pool boy, stay for the epic takedown of White Christian Nationalism. PLUS, our HOTW is Bart Ehrman . To listen to all the QuoirCast podcasts, head over to quoir.com Check out Matthew's Paula White Remix . Hosted by...

Our Bible Bonus Tracks series wraps up with the lesser known "Acts of Paul and Thecla" - an apocryphal religious romance of the Apostle Paul's influence on a young virgin named Thecla. New Testament scholar, Anna Rebecca Solevag, walks us through this obscure, but endlessly fascinating, early Christian text. To listen to all the other QuoirCast podcasts, head over to quoir.com To purchase Kevin Sw...

Our Bible Bonus Tracks series continues with The Gospel of Thomas - the lost text that contains the sayings of Jesus as recorded by his disciples which was buried around the 4th century and only recently uncovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Our resident expert, professor Melissa Harl Sellew, Th. D, from the University of Minnesota, is our HOTW and our guide through this fascinating text. Check out al...

Our new series kicks off with The Gospel of Judas - the lost text that only recently shed new light on how some early Christians viewed Judas - and resident expert, author, professor and theologian David Brakke is our HOTW to walk us through the text. You can find the Gospel of Judas here: Gospel of Judas . Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts at: https://www.patheos.com/editorial/podcasts Hosted...

Our final episode in our Ghosts and Ghouls series concludes with a discussion about Mediums; Are they for real? What does the Bible say? How to spot a fake! PLUS, our Heretic of the Week is medium Kiersten Hathcock, author of Little Voices . Check out all the QuoirCast podcasts at quoir.com . Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use...

Our Ghosts and Ghouls Series continues as we examine the spiritual influence of our Ancestors and try to figure out if they’re ghosts, spirits, or something completely different. PLUS, Heather Hamilton, author of Returning To Eden: A Field Guide For The Spiritual Journey is our Heretic of the Week! To pick up Sandhya's book on ancestors, click here ! To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Pa...

Part 2 of our Ghosts and Ghouls Series continues as we try to define what Ghosts might actually be. Are they the spirits of dead people, or demonic forces, or spiritual beings, or perhaps even other people in separate dimensions? Plus our Heretic of the Week is the amazing Tuhina Rasche, who works to decolonize Christianity in the USA. To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, please g...

Let’s get spooky. To kick off our brand-new Ghosts and Ghouls series we’re sharing our own personal ghost stories. Keep the lights on for this one! Plus, our Heretic of the Week is author and blogger Eric English who talks about his new book UNenlightenment: A Theological Foundation for Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Christian Faith . To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, pl...

As we wrap up our series, “What Is The Bible?” the Happy Heretics come clean about how they personally approach the Bible and whether or not it’s still something worth taking seriously in our daily life. Plus, Laura Forehand, co-author of   Out Into The Desert: Thriving Outside Organized Religion , is our HOTW. To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, please go to www.patreon.com/here...

Let’s finish our conversation about those lost, secret and hidden books that didn’t make the final cut of the Bible: The Gospel of Mary, The Gospel of Judas and The Book of Enoch. Plus our favorite returning guest, author and theologian, Brad Jersak, author of  Out of the Embers: Faith After the Great Deconstruction  is our HOTW. To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, please go to w...

Part 4 of our "What Is The Bible?" series dives into the extra-biblical texts that didn't make the director's cut. We'll talk about the Nag Hammadi Library, Gnostic Gospels, Apocrypha and more! Plus, our HOTW is Patrick Reyes , author of The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive . To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, please go to www.patreon.com/h...

Let's interrupt our regularly scheduled program and hear from our producer, Matthew J. Distefano, aka Sometimes Matt, aka the Italian Stallion, aka Mr. Stoned Thoughts himself, as he rambles on about the things he's learned over the past year. Check out his brand new book, The Wisdom of Hobbits , now! Check out Keith's debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNgo19XT3pc To support the Heretic Happ...

Our series on the Bible continues as we explore where the Bible came from, who put it together, and why? Plus, our Heretic of the Week is Jim Mitulski, a gay feminist anti-racist, liberation theologian minister you’re going to love getting to know. To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, please go to www.patreon.com/heretichappyhour . As this is a crowd-funded podcast, we cannot cont...

In part 2 of our "What Is The Bible?" series we examine the concept of Inspiration and what it does and doesn't mean. Plus, our Heretic of the Week is Brian K. Wilson, author of the new Purplynd Sci-Fi novel from Quoir Publishing. Today's episode is brought to you by Returning to Eden by Heather Hamilton, a book that, according the David Hayward, will "benefit many on their spiritual journeys." To...

We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to bring you the Rani and Rose show. This week, we've kicked out Katy and Keith and are going to hear from the newest members of the Heretic Happy Hour: Sandhya and Desimber, as they deep dive into who they are and what brought them here. To support the Heretic Happy Hour podcast on Patreon, please go to www.patreon.com/heretichappyhour . As this is a...

In the first episode of our new series, we'll examine the Bible and explain what it is, what it's not, and share our favorite - and least favorite - translations. Plus, an eye-opening conversation with Bible scholar and author Dr. Jennifer Bird , our Heretic of the Week. Today's episode is brought to you by Sola Mysterium , by our very own Keith Giles. Pick it up today on Amazon. To support the He...