Crisis Of Faith With Joe And Drew

Drew abuses the power of Covid-19 to avoid getting a haircut. Joe tries to perform his own Quaker wedding live on the air (but screws it up so nobody ends up married). And then they respond to 3 sets of questions about the bible from YOU, the listener. Of course, that collective "YOU" doesn't refer to all of YOU as much as it refers to 3 of you, but still...they tried. 

And here are some Notes that Joe references for those of you looking for a deeper dive...

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume: Marvin W. Meyer, Elaine H. Pagels, James M. Robinson, Wolf-Peter Funk, Paul-Hubert Poirier: 8601404340802: Amazon.com: Books

Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament: Ehrman, Bart D.: 8601404547010: Amazon.com: Books

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew: Ehrman, Bart D.: 9780195182491: Amazon.com: Books

The Gnostic Gospels: Pagels, Elaine: 9780679724537: Amazon.com: Books

Godly Play: Jerome Berryman: 9780806627854: Amazon.com: Books

Stories of God at Home: A Godly Play Approach: Jerome W. Berryman: 9780898690491: Amazon.com: Books

Joe and Drew argue over who THOUGHT they were poorer (not who WAS poorer). Joe thinks the bible is wrong about “ant behavior” and that’s all he cares about. Drew thinks God founded a publishing company that really came off the rails when the bible was printed. And they both reveal that they would be kicked out of basically any denomination if they were honest about what they really believed about the bible.

Joe flips off a congresswoman and then denies it. Drew tries to help Kanye West achieve full non-profit status. And we all unlearn a little bit of what our Sunday school teachers taught us about the bible. 

In this episode Drew’s God is a perfect gentleman. Thomas Jay Oord tries to take over as co-host of the show, but Joe narrowly defeats him. And we all learn what God can’t do.

Drew barely survives a twisted ankle and gets an eye infection from holding eggs on his face, maybe?! Joe shows no sympathy. And the two of them finally admit that they have never "saved people from their sins" like they're pretty sure they were supposed to all these years. 

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Joe's mom knows the satanist's secrets about Halloween. Drew's mom accidentally fell in love with the Harry Potter books and now may be one of those satanists. Joe and Drew discover they each had a small collection of tiny plastic fetuses given to them by evangelicals at events for Christian teenagers. Joe tries to convince Drew that the whole "Christians voting pro life thing" is a conspiracy put on by Jerry Falwell or something like that. You know how conspiracies go... always landing back at the Falwells and all. 

Joe thinks he HAD mice. Drew thinks Joe HAS mice. The Pope enters into a civil union with civil unions. Joe and Drew are both concerned that the world thinks white Christians are racists and white Christians don't seem to be concerned about that. 

In the second part of this conversation Joe and Drew talk about the one thing we've all been waiting for since the start of this podcast - CIRCUMCISION. At one point Joe accuses Drew of accidental antisemitism and at another point Drew compares the redemption of the whole world to "bringing cupcakes to a cupcake-less town for the first time." 

In this episode, Joe and Drew talk about Joe's children listening to the podcast, thus learning how to use curse words more effectively, then we talk about speaking in tongues for WAY LONGER than we ever planned to (but Drew spent a solid portion of his life in tongues world so I suppose we should have expected that), and it all comes together to begin to paint a picture of how we determine who's "IN" and who's "OUT" when it comes to Christianity. 

Joe and Drew start out in a conversation about last week's presidential debate but move on quickly into much more important matters like what band made the WORST Christian music that either of them listened to growing up (I'll give you a hint: it was a Christian ska band). And Then the bulk of this episode is devoted to responding to some really smart and important questions from YOU, our listeners!