Pastor With No Answers: The MIXTAPE Era

Chip Judd (30 years counseling experience) and Ellen Mauro (co-host of Depolarize! Podcast) debate and discuss the risks of spending alone time with the opposite gender in date-like scenarios, car rides, closed doors.  Is this playing with fire?  Or is this a dated policy that churches need to abort from so females can stop feeling like they are merely hot-bodies, dangerous, predatory, male-slayin...

What’s the difference between unhappiness and depression? I don’t really know. Also, my times of happiness are better than yours. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Closing song by Derek Minor and other music by Mechanical River.  

Husband and wife podcast duo is in the middle of Anatomy of Marriage Season 2.  Seth is a Licensed Family and Marriage Therapist, but these guys never had the perfect marriage.  What they do have is unprecedented transparency of the dark side of their marriage and great insight on how they weathered monstrous storms, came out on top and have a healthy marriage.  Friends of the PWNA crew, the four...

Richard Rohr appears on Pete Enns’ Bible for Normal People Podcast.  He makes a case for the importance of spiritual experience and how virtually all believers rely on it to sustain their faith.  Additionally, Rohr explains lenses of maturating consciousness that the bible needs to be read through.  Jack Hoey comes on to evaluate Rohr’s take on both of these issues.theme and background music broug...

Father Wesley Walker (a BadChristian Media listener mind you) educates Joey on his religious affiliation and shares how he views and carries out his role of a priest.  These two are both seen as “pastors,” but both have different self-reflections on what that means.  It’s my opinion (Joey) that both approaches of shepherding are equally valid, equally flawed, and both approaches equally needed dep...

I like sharing songs from my friends.  “What Nobody Should Know” is from Andy Squyres album “Cherry Blossoms” and can be found on Apple Music and Spotify.  You can track down Andy here:http://andysquyres.bigcartel.com/ E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Closing song by Derek Minor and other music by...

Schizophrenia is real and this couple has a story to tell.  Richie, Schizophrenic husband to Rayah, hears voices, experiences gruesome hallucinations and is in and out of the mental institution.  They started a podcast, Depth of Echoes, to tell more of their story and the stories of other folks with mental illness.  The more we’re honest and open about mental illness, the better off we all are. #m...

Personal friends of mine, AJ and Natalie, stop by to share how they have walked through major changes in their faith and why they are uneasy to come completely clean to their family.   Also, check out episode 87 to hear from Natalie on her life as a Christian bisexual, heterosexually-married, young lady.  Contact them at ajmestre@yahoo.com <%22mailto:> if you are in the Tampa area and intere...

I caught myself getting sad, realized it wasn't based on anything, and was actually able to "snap out of it". Thought I'd tell you about it. The more we're honest and open about mental illness, the better off we all are. #mentalillnessunite E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music...

In fact they’re (Jack Hoey Jr, and Jack Hoey III) pretty much sure their belief of Jesus’ salvation through his death and resurrection is logically the most accurate approach to what transpired with “the Nazarene,” based on accounts of the events by eyewitnesses themselves; many of whom were murdered a martyrs death refusing to deny this belief. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being...

Joey’s friend John Lotterhos comes on to discuss his marriage, divorce and how he feels the church could possibly rethink how they steer folks to hurry up and get married.  To make things a bit more interesting, Joey is the one who did John and his wife’s premarital counseling and wedding ceremony.  Lastly, John just started a podcast and it’s actually good enough to give you a little taste of it...

Morgan joins us to share her appreciation for Badchristian and Pastor With No Answers as a lesbian listener.  According to Morgan, this family of podcasts does well in keeping an open heart, admitting ignorance and approaching sensitive subjects with humility, something she says the church is unfortunately too often lacking.  As a result, folks like Morgan go through seasons in which they are unsu...

Derek Snook learned Christian values at an early age and was troubled by what he saw as a lack of true empathy among many who worked to alleviate poverty. By living with (that’s right, living with) and getting to know personally many homeless folks, he learned just how difficult it was for this population to land and keep good jobs.  He decided to start an organization to help fix this problem and...

I like sharing songs from my friends. “Sometimes I Forget” can be found on Apple Music and Spotify. Visit RobbieMadison.com for more info on Robbie. PWNA theme and background music brought to you by DanKoch.net E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Closing song by Derek Minor and other music by Mechani...

Starting a new Q & A segment, hosted by my good friend, Jack Hoey (the lesser). Want all your theological questions answered? He’s got you covered, unlike the pastor with NO answers. Today (and only this time) Joey asks Jack all the questions. Recently The BadChristian Podcast had two guests whom many would label heretics. They both have some non-traditional views on salvation, the after-life,...

Tune in to get caught up with BadChristian’s endeavors to take over the world.  For those of you near Seattle WA or Tampa FL, e-mail some friends of ours to hang. Maple Valley, WA:  tsethstudley@gmail.comTampa, FL:  ajmestre@yahoo.com E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Closing song by Derek Minor an...

Radio show host, Christian, introverted, skeptical, highly analytical, and falls on the autism scale, Brant Hansen, reflects on his place in the church by writing Blessed Are the Misfits.  Don’t feel like you fit in to most or all churches?  Are you terrible at praying, hearing from God, telling people about Jesus and possibly prefer to be alone?  Brant has a message for you.https://branthansen.co...

Joey’s sons chime in on the discussion of love and Joey shares a chapter in his book depicting the story of him and his wife’s terrible honeymoon.  Lastly, there’s an important announcement from the get-go.  Thank you listeners for making PWNA so fun to make! E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Closi...

A friend of mine drops in to share the story of how she lost her 5-year old brother to a tragic accident when she was eight.  We discuss that tragic day and she reflects on her parents’ pain,  shares how she processed this loss as a young child, and shares insight on some healing words that she has yet to hear. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song...

Herman joins us to discuss his weed growing / weed selling career.  What motivates him to sell weed?  Is he constantly paranoid of getting caught?  What separates him from many other weed dealers, where does he grow it, who does he sell it to?  Hopefully this one will at the very least dispel some preconceived notions on marijuana and some of the good folks out there who sell it illegally. E-mail...

De and Reconstruction With the Pastor and His Wife (part 1): Tracing our relationship back to the beginning and walking through time reflecting on where we were at in our faith 20 years ago, how we’ve changed and how we've influenced one another over time. In this episode, we discuss Pricilla’s early heartache on how the church wrote off LGBTQ lifestyle as sin, while Joey was fine with a “bec...

Many of you know Chad as “the Tooth and Nail, Takehold, Come and Live” guy; now you can also know him as the author of the book, One Thousand Risks.  Chad and I are both Christians with extremely different upbringings which seem to have amounted to significantly different beliefs and approaches to miraculous healing.  We’ll just nickname this episode the “Iron Sharpens Iron Episode of Healing.”  A...

Ben DeBono has a relatively unique story, transitioning  from a Protestant faith to reciting prayers to Mary and Saints of old, confessing sins to priests and working for one’s salvation.  At least that’s most people’s perspective of Catholicism.  Could our assessments be off? Let’s ask a Catholic. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Priol...

We’ve all experienced it.  Looking on the shelf at the grocery store, about to grab what you need when you see an organic option.  You also see the substantial extra cost, but is it worth paying the money for the organic version?  Or are we all being duped? E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Closing...

Joey invites a friend on who has a lot to say about the controversial topic of vaccines.  Is it possible that health has been improved to such a high degree through medicine, we now want to pick apart the means in which we’ve gotten to this improved state? Michael Overcash graduated from med school in 2002, specializes in dermatology and knows a lot about a lot. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey&apos...