The Joshua S. Porter Podcast

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It Wasn’t/Was Intended to Be Offensive (with Jeff Suffering) Feb 13, 2024

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With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.

Jeff "Suffering" Bettger has been an integral part of controversial acts like Ninety Pound Wuss, Raft of Dead Monkeys, and Suffering and the Hideous Thieves. We have a conversation about his philosophy pf art, inspiration and influence, and whether or not Jeff regrets any of the outrageous art he's made.

Sanctification in What You Watch, Listen To, and Read (With Matt Hughes) Feb 05, 2024

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With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.

Matt Hughes works in advertising, but he's also a voracious reader, a music lover, a cinephile, and he wrote a novel for the fun of it. After a terrible season of depression, Matt found healing and renewal, and he decided to rethink the way he approaches art and entertainment.

Some Creative Integrity Will Be Sacrificed (with Tyler Hanns) Jan 23, 2024

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With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.

Tyler Hanns has been doing design, illustration, filmmaking and creative carpentry for years—many of which he spent working with Christian non-profits and megachurches. He and I are about talk about compromise, communication, and the toll “branding” can take on creativity.

The Greatest Formational Tool is Songs (with Christian Dawson) Jan 15, 2024

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With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more. Christian Dawson is the pastor of worship at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. He and I are about to have a conversation about musical influences, what qualifies as worship music, and pushing up against church expectations with art.

Worship, Death, and Cake (with Whitney DePaoli) Jan 09, 2024

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With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more. Whitney DePaoli is famous for Sugar and Sparrow, a cake-baking and decorating blog that has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, eventually leading to the bestselling cookbook Anyone Can Cake. But what her cake-loving social media fans might not realize is that before Whitney was famous for her culinary creativity, she led worship bands in church and has since quietly written and released music in experimental punk rock bands—and she didn't arrive at any of those gigs painlessly. We talk about the way tragedy affects creativity, reinventing yourself in new mediums, and living in radically different creative spaces.

The Secret Deconstruction of the Sex Addict (with Chad Johnson) Jan 03, 2023

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