The Yours Truly Podcast

In this episode of the Yours Truly Podcast, Christian Baxter sits down in the actual studio with longtime friend Seth Gschwandegger for one of the most personal and spiritually charged conversations the channel has hosted so far. What begins as a conversation between old friends slowly unfolds into a meditation on exile, grace, sacrament, suffering, music, memory, embodiment, and the strange spiri...

This is a channel update, but it is also a way of naming what this whole project has been becoming. For the last two and a half years, this channel has mostly lived inside a particular corner of the internet — downstream from Jordan Peterson, Jonathan Pageau, John Vervaeke, Paul VanderKlay, Martin Shaw, Paul Kingsnorth, and the wider conversation around meaning, symbolism, Christianity, and the se...

Style ≠ Order. Modern worship may be confusing the two. In this conversation with Dr. Matthew Wilkinson — organist, Director of Music, and host of The Pursuit of Beauty — we explore why modern worship often confuses aesthetic preference with spiritual depth. What happens when worship becomes a stage? When transcendence is traded for emotional immediacy? When beauty is reduced to branding? Matthew’...

What happens when Christian language collapses but the experiences don’t stop? In this conversation with @treyhuntley we explore the fault line between the cross, the psyche, and the return of the sacred—where Jung, prayer, discernment, and lived experience refuse to stay in separate categories. Many people today aren’t losing faith—they’re losing language. This conversation with Trey Huntley sits...

In this conversation, I’m joined again by Bob the Baptist to talk about Christianity in the digital age—and the growing gap between discourse and formation. Online Christian conversations can generate urgency, clarity, and conviction. But they also move faster than people can be formed, stabilized, or responsibly led. Throughout this discussion, we return to a central tension: some people need imm...

In this conversation, Christian Baxter sits down with Daniel of @O.G.Rose. Michelle.and. Daniel to explore what happens when Christianity is reduced to ideas, arguments, or online content—and why belief alone is no longer enough to sustain faith in a fragmented, post-institutional age. The discussion moves through art, beauty, political economy, apologetics, and local community, tracing how modern...

In this episode, I sit down with a fellow seeker who has been navigating Christianity, coherence, and personal responsibility in the midst of the modern “meaning crisis.” Our conversation explores the difference between understanding ideas conceptually and learning how truth is embodied over time—between having a map and actually walking the territory. We talk about evangelical Christianity, propo...

In this conversation, I’m joined again by Brendan Graham Dempsey to explore one of the deepest questions beneath Christianity, deconstruction, and the meaning crisis: What does it mean for Christianity to be real? We talk about why reducing Christianity to either literal historical propositions or “just a story” misses the point—and how story, ritual, participation, and embodiment function as carr...

Symbol, Tradition, and the Fracturing West — and the Limits of Modern Dialogue In this episode of the Yours Truly Podcast, I’m joined by Yosef, a Jewish participant in This Little Corner of the Internet, for a careful conversation on Judaism, Christianity, and the crisis of trust shaping the modern West. We explore how symbol, tradition, and religious memory function in an age of fragmentation—whe...

How Meaning Forms at the Estuary | @rigelwindsongthurston This conversation with Rigel Thurston explores how people actually form—not through debate or certainty, but through trust, presence, and gradual participation. We talk about the internet as an estuary, where structure and openness meet, and why meaningful conversation happens when we stop trying to arrive and learn how to enter.

A deep conversation with Cadell Last about Hegel, Christianity, digital culture, and why truth may only reveal itself when our stories - and our world - break apart. In this conversation, Cadell Last returns to explore one of the most unsettling and clarifying questions of our time: Does truth emerge through collapse? We trace a lineage that has shaped the modern West: Dawkins → Harris → Peterson...

What if Acts 15 wasn’t a theology debate at all—but a battle over identity, belonging, and who gets a seat at the table? In this episode of Conversation Craft, Christian Baxter sits down with Dutch theologian Bas Van Os to explore the deep currents running beneath the early Christian story. Bas grew up inside Dutch Christianity and lived long enough to watch it collapse. Christian grew up in the A...

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In this conversation, PF Jung and I trace the line from the 2016 Jordan Peterson explosion to the strange moment we’re in now — a moment where many young men look at Peterson’s “Daily Wire era” and feel the shock of a cultural father who seems to be collapsing under the weight of his own contradictions. We talk about what it means to laugh at the fallen father versus what it means to cover his sha...

OUT Now on Streaming! 🎬 Watch Jim vs The Future: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/jim-vs-the-future/umc.cmc.187cheh4z8wtul85jdjtwam14 Buy DVD: https://a.co/d/e1NmjYQ Trailer: https://youtu.be/FGAXBYhex74?si=_LpsKFonNgbhGYKF Writer–director Joseph Holmes joins Yours Truly Podcast to talk about his new film Jim vs The Future — a story about free will, destiny, and meaning in a multiverse world. We exp...

In this episode of Conversation Craft, I sit down with Rick Walker, author of 9 Steps to Build a Life of Meaning, to explore what it takes to live with purpose in a post-collapse world. Rick represents the last serious generation before the cultural and institutional unraveling, while I speak from the first serious generation after it. Together, we examine the tension between those worlds — betwee...

James Taylor Foreman returns to the Yours Truly Podcast to talk about faith, homecoming, and the New Renaissance he calls Techno-Rural. After years in Los Angeles, he and his wife left Hollywood for Louisiana—choosing marriage, meaning, and decay over abstraction, ambition, and illusion. We talk about his viral essays “Choosing Penelope” and “The New Renaissance Will Be Techno-Rural”, the symbolic...

In this episode of Yours Truly I sit down with Adam and Wambui for some Conversation Craft, — two people who met across continents and found Christ through the ruins of modern spirituality, the chaos of academia, and the burnout of Silicon Valley optimization. Wambui’s story begins in Nairobi and winds through NYU and the self-designed religion of postmodern life — yoga, myth, therapy, and self-cu...

America’s unspoken civil religion — be nice, feel good, God’s chill — has crashed. In this conversation, Sam Tideman (Transfigured) and I trace the rise and fall of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, the “default faith” of modern America. From Harvard Unitarianism to megachurch moralism, from the Chicago World’s Fair to the Jordan Peterson wave, we explore what happens when the background religion of “...

Ross Byrd returns to the Yours Truly Podcast for a heavy but necessary conversation. We wrestle with what it really means when pastors fall — not just “a sinner like the rest of us,” but men entrusted with sacred office, whose failures ripple through families, churches, and communities. We dig into Ross’s Patient Kingdom essay on the cliché “There but for the grace of God go I” — asking whether th...

Conversation Craft — Ep. 129: The Meyers Faith, family, and conversation as a craft. Miles and Rebecca Meyers (of Our View from the Plains) share their journey—from early grief and a rocky start to marriage, to rediscovering a call to ministry and building a household shaped by prayer, table, and church. They talk candidly about repentance, identity, and how to move from one-time “conversion momen...

Neil Daedalus joins me to trace a journey from Jordan Peterson’s Genesis lectures and Sam Harris debates, through Jung, grief, and a searing encounter at Mass, to entering the Catholic Church. We get into Babylon 5’s “Rangers” as a living metaphor for TLC, why Gen Z’s arena feels more political than personal, video games as training-grounds for agency, resentment/journaling as shadow work, and why...

Guest: Henry ​⁠@Unfocusedfaiththoughts — a first rando telling of his story: nominal Christian home, rare congenital birth condition, a grandmother’s steady love, youth-group altar-call anxiety, getting black-pilled by comic-book culture wars, COVID isolation, college + ecclesial anxiety, and finding Peterson/PVK, House of Woo, and the spirit of play that rebuilt agency. We talk LEGO as imaginal p...

@PresidentFoxman - Substack in response to to Charlie Kirk’s Death: https://open.substack.com/pub/presidentfoxman/p/its-been-a-tough-few-days?r=433pnb&utm_medium=ios @AphraelPilotson stream on the thoughts after Kirk’s death - https://www.youtube.com/live/fpzfP1MUT80?si=79Wt6farcfk_tMXN Playlist of my other conversations with the panelists: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVdyuKdUJ45AWbbDC6...

In this conversation, Christian welcomes Courtney Trotter—a Beeson Seminary MDiv, language nerd (Greek/Hebrew), youth-ministry veteran, and now an Orthodox catechumen—to talk about growing up Southern Baptist on the Gulf Coast, discovering creed and calendar, and why “church that doesn’t feel like church” quietly hollowed out our formation. We trace Courtney’s path from Beeson through youth minist...