Pastor With No Answers: The MIXTAPE Era

Joey brings a personal friend on who a couple years ago found himself in a scary struggle with anger. At its peak, he obliterated a door. Does a “regular, nice guy" who struggles with anger have the capacity to hurt his family and land in jail? We’ll never know with Joel because he took the road of accountability and transparency, inviting a few close friends into his personal business with h...

Jesse Smith shares details of his struggle with mental illness including manic and bipolar. Joey, a “fellow sufferer” of mental illness reflects on his struggles and not surprisingly the two find lots of common ground. The importance of proactivity in taking care of one’s mind, the phenomenon of not being able to relate to one’s mentally ill mind using one’s sound mind, suicidal thoughts, the impo...

Wanting to get “deeper into the spiritual things” may not signify spiritual maturity. Joey’s got some thoughts on and experience in this. Secondly, here’s last years Thanksgiving special featuring daughters and sons of Matt, Toby, and Joey. Oldie but a goodie. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka: Riggy Roc ): Apple Music Clos...

As military personnel, Lieutenant Colonel Ted Jacobson has some interesting thoughts on “answering a call” from God that often leads to taking the life of a human.  WWJD, man?  We also talk conspiracies, “NFL kneeling,” whether the Revolutionary War was justified in the context of a Christian worldview, we discuss Isis, reflect on USA’s integrity (or lack of) in fighting wars, reflect on putting a...

Dr. James Yanney, Maxillofacial Surgery specialist, has a grand house in Downtown Charleston.  Many restorations to it’s original 1700s look make a very suitable setting for the ghosts who consistently accompany James and other family members. 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...

Host of “The One You Feed Podcast” comes on to talk mental illness, including his personal struggles with depression and addiction.  Having some personal success in making long-lasting positive life changes by learning good habits and increasing mindfulness and happiness, decreasing anxiety and depression, he now has a podcast with a countless number of insightful guests, to help you do the same....

Wes Fahlenkamp is back on to discuss “the dead in Christ.”  We’ve heard it all the time.  “They’re in a better place.”  “They’re with Jesus now.”  “They are walking on streets of gold.”  But every now and then, you get the less exciting point of view from some one who is convinced that the dead in Christ are totally dead, asleep, their consciousness waiting to be revived when Jesus resurrects the...

Heaven is going to be diverse, all races represented, so congregations should reflect that, right?  We’ve all heard this rationale but just how important is this; and if it’s important, how do we set out to diversify our churches without coming off contrived?  We ask Aaron Nowel (Christian Alcoholic Blog/Ministry) what he thinks.http://christianalcoholic.com E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's w...

When it comes to the death of those who never accepted God’s plan of salvation through Jesus, our two guests agree on one thing.  People are not eternally consciously tortured.  While Chris Date (Rethinking Hell Podcast) believes these people will never see heaven but will rather be destroyed, Wes Fahlenkamp (author of Jesus and Hitler) believes that Jesus saves everyone.  Pull up a chair and grab...

Can autonomous intelligent beings be created or will these “beings” always be machines with complex spreadsheets? If these beings can be created, what does this say about God? Speaking of God, what sort of evidence for “him” is out there, what prejudices affect our conclusions, and are Christians right in their beliefs, dishonest, mislead or just plain stupid? Oh, yeah, and that last question? Sam...

Matt Macdonald and Nate Henry (Don’t Feed the Trolls Podcast) joins Pastor With No Answers to extend last weeks conversation with our Trump supporter, Kerry.  We talk media biases, racism, erasing history and who the real Donald Trump is.  It would be nice if these sorts of conversations were a dime a dozen. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by...

Trump is doing what no other president does.  He’s doing what he said he would….according to one of our guests on this one.  We have a pro-trump and an anti-trump guest on this one to talk Trump’s integrity (or lack of), his successes and how people misunderstand him (or have him pegged). E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prioleau (aka:...

Churches are obsessed with reaching millennials. This may be a huge reason why the church claims to struggle to reach them. “Stop trying to rescue us,” the young generation exclaims, but Ben Holcomb, author of “The Pursuit: Investigating the God-Shaped Vacuum in the Heart of the World,” has a plan he shares with us. E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme...

Is there just as much evidence in the bible for Universalism as there is for heaven and hell, hell being a place for eternal conscious torment?  What joy would it be to find in heaven that God saves everyone?  What if the Christians “rule the nations,” but every one else is happy as a peach?  Wes Fahlenkamp, a Pastor With No Answers listener, author of Jesus and Hitler, writer of the blog The Bigg...

Levi stops back in to talk about how Christians interact with pop culture and together we reflect on Kendrick Lamar's music, lyrics and impact. Levi also shares about a pseudo project he had a hand in that responds to some of Kendrick's lyrics from his most recent release "Damn". E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song by Stoy Prio...

Are porn stars respected behind the scenes?  Do they enjoy being in sex scenes?  Do men working in porn industry get “cheap feels” off set?  What are the male porn actors like?  We ask Brittni about her experiences in the porn industry. 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...

Did Jesus have to die for us in order to save us? Is open theism a credible Christian belief system? Are Christians good at evangelism? These questions and a few more. 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.  

We know of and have heard so many stories of people losing their faith, but what about those who still believe after decades? Experiencing seasons of doubt and unbelief is quite common, but afterwards, why do some come out on the other end still believing, while many do not? Introducing Christians from all walks of life, all angles of faith and one unique relationship with who they still, after al...

Our old friend Godless (The Metal Podcast) started a series of interviews with his son on growing up with an atheist father. This content was originally created for his Patron supporters but we thought it was worth checking out and learning from; so, now it’s for PWNA listeners as well!http://podcastmetal.com/ E-mail Joey here. Support Joey's work by Being a Patron / (Venmo) PWNA Theme Song b...

Continuing our mini-series that we’ll intermittently revisit over the years.  We know of and have heard so many stories of people losing their faith, but what about those who still believe after decades?  Experiencing seasons of doubt and unbelief is quite common, but afterwards, why do some come out on the other end still believing, while many do not?  Introducing Christians from all walks of lif...

Joey has a quick chat with Robbie Madison, his friend and co-worker at Seacoast Church.  He’s had a lot of experience in the music business and talks about leading worship for the New England Patriots, working and leading a worship team with Toby Morrell (Emery, BadChristian) and how he processes “being so talented but not striking it big” (my words, not his).  Lastly, you get to hear his newly re...

Levi and I have some common experiences with depression and have both gone through some dark times as of lately.  Listen to this spoken word extraordinaire discuss these bad times and how its affected his marriage, his art and his life in general.  Levi Mcallister was also deeply involved in the now defunct church, Mars Hill (Seattle WA), and on this episode, reflects on the pain of seeing it inte...

Some folks believe that God always wants to heal.  If He does, why aren’t we all healed?  Who’s fault is it that we aren’t?  If it’s people’s responsibility to pray hard enough but God can heal any time he wants, is He playing games with us?  Such a confusing web of thoughts to navigate; unless, God just doesn’t always want to heal.  One of our guests isn’t willing to make this concession.  Jack a...

Continuing our mini-series that we’ll intermittently revisit over the years. We know of and have heard so many stories of people losing their faith, but what about those who still believe after decades? Experiencing seasons of doubt and unbelief is quite common, but afterwards, why do some come out on the other end still believing, while many do not? Introducing Christians from all walks of life,...

Author of many books including most recent, “Sin of Certainty” and host of the “Bible for Normal People” podcast, Pete Enns stops by to give the Pastor some answers on Calvinism, Nephilim and why the after-life potentially shouldn’t be seen as major doctrine.  For many readers and listeners, Pete Enns' approach to the bible is humble, brings freedom and gives honor to God; while to others, it...