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#290 Former Elevation Church Member Jun 22, 2017

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Given the numerous times mega-church Elevation (Charlotte, NC) has made headlines in recent years, this church and its gifted celebrity pastor, Steven Furtick, has often been a topic of conversation on this podcast. On this episode, we brought on a former super-volunteer and intern from the church and discussed some of the oddities behind the scenes there. Matt is also worried about the current state of our country and world, Toby made a video to his future hit worship song (Hillsong, beware), and a Packer fan takes his wife’s last name because her last name is “Packer.”

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#289 The Implications of Dave Bazan Opening for John Mark McMillan at Christian Festival (AudioFeed) Jun 19, 2017

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Luke Welchel, co-founder of AudioFeed Festival joins to discuss the mixed lineup. As he says, “If we want non-Christians to come to the festival, why wouldn’t we let them play it?” Joey’s senile grandma is stealing from other nursing home residents, and Toby wants to rename female genitalia.

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#288 The Alt-Right is Evil plus Jordan Harbinger (The Art of Charm) Jun 16, 2017

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Jordan Harbinger, host of The Art of Charm podcast, which has 3 million monthly listeners, joins to discuss the alt-right and how we should think about and treat internet trolls like toddlers. Matt, Toby, and Joey praise the Southern Baptist Convention for officially condemning the alt-right movement. Plus, Joey has an embarrassing parenting moment, and Toby brings some new truth to an old story.

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#287 Potential Benefits of Nudity & Replay of Joey's Epic Penis Confession Jun 13, 2017

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Sex is either treated as overly-sacred or overly-vile. This influences how parents manage nudity in their household amongst family members and how “private parts” are treated and discussed. Would society benefit from everyone just chilling out a bit? If nudity wasn’t so taboo, would people’s sexuality benefit? In other topics, is it weird that God would just beat the hell out of someone for not listening to Him and Muslim salvation tracks vs. Christian salvation tracks. Don’t forget the Damn News! Is it fair for a transgender male athlete to label himself female and compete in females athletic events?

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#286 Abortion and Hell. Our Actions Don't Match Our Beliefs. Jun 08, 2017

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Which may mean we don't believe what we think? Matt doesn’t think he really believes a lot of what he intellectually accepts as true. Oh, and he doesn’t think you do either...about abortion, hell and gay people. Matt also makes some bold statements concerning parents of LGBTQ people. Joey and Toby are present too, don’t worry. Lastly, Emery has the “bus blues.” Are we witnessing the end of Emery?

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#285 What’s The Chances We Divorce Our Wives? Jun 06, 2017

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Does Joey have too lofty of expectations with his marriage? Especially given he’s been depressed lately. I mean, how long can his wife survive that sad stuff? Toby cried himself to sleep a few times lately due to struggles in his marriage and Matt claims most guys wouldn’t have stayed married to his wife as long as he has but also calls his wife a treasure. Lastly, Joey teaches his mom that that “Prayer of Jabez Book” is a fraud.

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#284 Christians Should Chop Kathy Griffin’s Head Off Jun 01, 2017

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As a society, we have serious problems with being too serious. We disagree with people but we want to destroy them as well? It’s crazy. It’s getting out of hand when one person’s life and legacy can be defined by 140 characters. Also, Joey steals from a restaurant.

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#283 Bradley Hathaway, the Illusion of Christian Morality and Epic Failure of Worship Music May 30, 2017

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Toby thinks worship music deals too often with pain and struggle, especially when the song-writer lives in a first world country, plays the music with expensive instruments and state of the art equipment. I mean, how bad can things be, right? Joey sheds some different light on this observation. In addition, Matt, Toby and Joey discuss patriotism, constipation and "Things that Make Toby Angry." Lastly, our guest Bradley Hathaway discusses his new album "Flesh Eater" and its unorthodox, risky and potentially seen as risque' expression of sexuality.

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#281 Every Deconstruction Needs a Reconstruction May 23, 2017

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During this episode, you get a snapshot as to why BadChristian exists, how much money is made through this operation, where that money goes and why Matt, Toby and Joey spend a lot of time on things that make no money at all. The headliners of this episode however, are the hosts of BadChristian.com's newest podcast, "Reconstruct: The Collective Reconstruction of Our Faith." Join Dan Koch and John Raines on Reconstruct Podcast as they provide resources and community for people who are rethinking and reconstructing a faith in God.

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#280 Do Rachel Held Evans and Jen Hatmaker Need to Stay Quiet Unless They Have Church Accountability? May 20, 2017

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On this episode we discuss a recent article from Christianity Today in which Anglican Priest, Tish Harrison Warren, claims that there is a "crisis of authority." She feels that bloggers like Jen Hatmaker and Rachel Held Evans don't have, but need formal accountability to be qualified as "teachers."

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