Snarky Faith

CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) often acts as a mirror to modern-day Christendom. It sounds pretty and looks good, but it's just lots of empty words and vague phrasing. The truth is, both are all about celebrity and money and not the gospel. In CCM, Jesus is your boyfriend as long he doesn't do anything to rock the boat. The Tomlins and W. Smiths have worked so hard to neuter the faith and Crow...

For too long, Christians have allowed themselves to be duped by the resident charlatan of the week. Always looking for a messiah and never accepting personal responsibility. It's the sheep always seeking a shepherd mentality that continues to allow the faith to be lead astray. Whether it be Kanye West's new money grab called Sunday Services or fake health insurance like Medi-Share, Christians are...

Throughout the history of Christianity, women have underestimated, underappreciated and downright oppressed. The playing field has never been level and men often twisted scripture to abuse, shame or subdue women. Sure, in ancient times, culture was patriarchal, but we are now thousands of years past the time of Jesus and these problems still exist within the church, especially within conservative...

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.  -Henry David Thoreau  In these crazy and calamitous times, it's easy to lose perspective and rely on emotional reactions. When topsy turvy becomes normal, it's hard to keep your bearings straight. Too often, do we let pastors and pundits tell us how to look at the world. They warp our perspective and then we proceed to engage the world in...

The sheer fact that Evangelicals have worked so hard to grab political power and shun culture is dripping with irony because to be Evangelical at its root means you must evangelize (i.e. make converts). To evangelize should mean that you can't shun culture. It also means that power isn't your ultimate aim. The madness they have made out of their pursuits has pushed culture away and made any witnes...

Oh, Liberty, what has happened to you? Once a shining beacon for evangelical conservatism, has now been rocked with scandals. Scrutiny and allegations are hitting Liberty University's emperor, dictator, grifter, president, Jerry Falwell Jr. He's cronies with Trump, a proponent of political evangelism and turned Liberty U into a cash grab through financial mismanagement. Liberty University is just...

We should all rejoice that Benny Hinn has finally seen the light and renounced the prosperity gospel! Yes, it's true. That Benny Hinn. You know the one that knocks people to the floor with the power of the Holy Spirit. The one that tells you to give him money for God to bless you. The prosperity gospel, greasy grifter, owner of private jets, Benny Hinn. That one? Yes, supposedly he's turned over a...

Let's talk about the insanity happening in Christianity. In the age of Trump, it's only gotten more wild and crazy. Typically on our program, we devote the first segment of the hour to the Christian Crazy. This show today will devote its entirety to the crazy. So buckle up as we delve into the Christian lunacy for a higher purpose. Is it mockery? No, but there will be plenty of that, don't worry....

Bon Jovi once iconically sang, "You Give Love a Bad Name." It was an 80's anthem and an ode to big hair and arena rock. Today that song summarizes up the modern posture of the Evangelical church. Love no longer has a good name within Christianity. With the elections of 2016, the Evangelical Church in America showed us its true colors. 80% of white Evangelical voters signed up, part and parcel, for...

In the sad state of the world today, one thing has become more and more clear. American Christianity is a religion driven more by fear than faith. Fearfulness drives us to suspicious. It drives us to be paranoid. It drives us to hate. Fear has no place within Christianity, it only toxifies and warps worldviews and drives us as far from love as we can be. If Jesus said, "fear not," why has fear bec...

I have so many questions for the American Church. What are we doing? How did we get here? What's the point anymore? The most important of these questions is who are we? The church has forgotten its identity and it's forgotten why it exists. This can be seen easily by the things that Christianity has somehow gotten involved with like politics and commerce. Today, it's more of a business than the mo...

Another week, another mass shooting in America. It's become all too normal for us. We respond in the same ways and call for the same reforms and still nothing ever changes. We're outraged, but this outrage is all too familiar a feeling. Let's take a different look at part of the problem. I'm not talking about big, sweeping solutions that politicians pander. Nope, I'm talking about small things tha...

Scott Shay is not a rabbi or a theological scholar, he’s the founder and chairman of Signature Bank in New York. So, of course, you'd assume that he's written a book about faith, right? In his new book, In Good Faith: Questioning Atheism and Religion , Scott seeks to reexamine the relationship between faith, reason, and ethics. It’s an honest take on how a modern person finds meaning and purpose w...

Within modern American Christianity, we have forgotten what it means to be sacrificial. We've traded this humble posture of Jesus for a consumeristic, materialistic, and comfortable faith where we shop for churches like we look for fast food options. There is a lost art of sacrifice that has been long forgotten. If you lose sacrifice from the faith, you're just left with a judgmental, selfish reli...

"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities." - Kendra Cherry Join us today a...

I'll be honest with you. I hate reading Christian memoirs. They're too saccharine, too fake, and everything ends up with Jesus fixing everything in the end. I hate them because life rarely shakes out that way and these types of books read more like fiction. From my experience, life is hard and doesn't always make sense. Everything doesn't always have meaning or a teachable moment. And actually, Je...

Hearing that the American Church is broken isn't a new thing for this show. We've talked about it endlessly over the years. Though I'm becoming more convinced that there's no fix for the problem. Jesus isn't the problem. He never was. We've built up the church as an idol. We've learned to worship pastors. We've forgotten what it means to be servants. We've lost the heart of Christ in the process o...

"Christian persecution complex is a belief, attitude or world view that Christian values and Christians are being oppressed by social groups and governments. This belief is thought to be held by certain American Protestant Churches, some Christian- or Bible-based cults and in Europe as well. It is has been called the ' Evangelical' , ' American Christian'  or ' Christian Right'  ' Persecution Comp...

Leave it to the Baptists to invent new things for us to fear, condemn, and judge. With technology rapidly changing, we all need to fear the take over of sex robots. It's kind of like the Terminator with a little more lube. Recently the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention compiled an extensive statement on the evangelical stance on artificial intelligence that...

Palm Sunday is the oft-overlooked appetizer that leads us to Easter. We know how the story ends, so we rush through it as if it's a preamble. Once we look deeper a the events that surround Jesus's entry into Jerusalem before his death, it starts to make the entire narrative take a different shape. These events are way more political and way less spiritual than it seems. So, I think it's far time w...

We're living in a post-Muller report world and it's a stark reminder that we put too much faith in saviors. Your political persuasion doesn't matter. Whether we had the hope that Muller would save us from the ongoing Trump dump or if we thought that Trump was the orange messiah to save us from the brink, we were fooling ourselves. When we put hope in false messiahs, we're abdicating our own role i...

Since when did it be okay that the gospel of grace has been replaced by the gospel of grifters. The sacred message of Jesus' love for mankind has been hijacked by charlatans, con artists, televangelists, and conspiracy prophets. Instead of being driven by love and compassion, the faith is now fueled by greed and lust for power. Join us as we talk about the rift between the mission of God and the g...

On Friday, March 15th, 50 people were killed and dozens were injured after a gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attack was the worst mass shooting in New Zealand's history. What do we do when the world is in chaos and things cease to make sense? Violence begets violence and the cycle continues on. So what are we to do? We mourn. We meditate. We contemplate. Then, w...

Never heard of Project Blitz? Well, you need really to know about this legislative assault pushing hardline Christian conservative values in states across the nation. Do conservative legislators advancing a culturally subversive agenda sound scary? Well, it is. It's really scary. Like Franklin Graham + 1984 scary. Come along for the ride as we skewer through life, culture, and spirituality in the...

Do you ever find yourself wishing your kids could experience the same indoctrination of judgment, intolerance, and misogyny, not just Sundays, but every day of the week? Do the words secular and education send chills up your spine? Want to hide your children from the real world, hermetically sealed and sheltered in a bubble of fear? Looking to pay loads of money for a subpar education? Well, then...