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On this episode, we're joined by both Jen and James of Fundie Fridays. They are a cornerstone of a relatively new online community known as "fundie snark" which deconstructs and pokes fun at American evangelicalism and fundamentalist beliefs. Subscribe to our Patreon for the full episode.

We talk about their religious upbringings, evangelical culture, American politics, religious deconstruction, fundie snark, and do an audience Q&A.

In this episode, God-lover Kyle chats with Mackenzie Thomas about a psychotic turn of events in her life that made her come to believe she was chosen by God to do His job. You may know Mackenzie from her Tiktoks where she reads from her old diary. For the full conversation, start a free trial at patreon.com/ineedgod.

Content warning: drugs, mental illness, self-harm

This week we speak with Ariel from Trans Regret Snoopy Presents the Bible podcast. We talk about the bible - what is it? How should we approach it? And we talk about Ariel's experience with religion, depression, and the internet.

In the second half, which you can find on our Patreon, we do some bible reading and break down Romans 8:31 along with all the passages from a meme we posted.

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This week we talk to Armenian American artist, writer, and teacher Ani Tatintsyan about her experience of being visited by the holy spirit and about redemption. Her essay "fFaith Exercise" is available at www.patreon.com/ineedgod for patrons at the God-lover tier and above.

Topics covered include:

Armenian Orthodoxy

The Soviet Union

Immigrating to the United States

Adult baptism

Spirituality of acting and photography

Being visited by the Holy Spirit

Jungian shadow work

In the full episode, we cover:

The Bible

What is redemption

Armenian genocide

Eternity

Memory

Kyle’s story about JCC summer camp

Karma

Money

Astrology

Reacting to INGIEMOML memes

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God-lover Kyle talks to journalist Taylor Lorenz about being online, social media, spirituality, and her IG page @TaylorLorenz3.0. This episode ended up being less about God, but we promise future episodes will be more godly. Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/ineedgod for the full-length episode.

Topics include:

Claddagh rings

Taylor’s guardian angels

Being a poster

Tumblr Era and fuckyeah blogs

Taylor explains what I NEED GOD is

How she started her writing career

Facebook moms

Techno optimism

Fake news and belief

Narrative force

Being online during the pandemic

Topics we cover in the full episode:

Finding higher power in the face of death

Advice on being a content creator

Taylor on Jesus faking his death

Leaning into conspiracy

Taylor’s new book Extremely Online

Writing rituals

State of the journalism industry

Crying on MSNBC

Creating boundaries between personal life and the internet

The Caroline Calloway subreddit

Taylor joining Campus Crusade for Christ

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Today we're joined by astrologer Randon Rosenbohm. She writes a weekly horoscope column for Vice and is the reason we know Lana Del Rey's sun sign.

Become a patron to unlock our full conversation with Randon where we give an astrological forecast for the end of December.

Randon has a telegram channel for astrology updates:

https://t.me/goodhoroscope

And one for Berlin local events:

https://t.me/goodhoroscopebln

Topics we cover include:

The practice of astrology

New Orleans and Catholicism

Modern sexuality

Synodal Path

Toxic astrology

How data affects our aura

Astrolocherry

How Kyle started doing astrology

Mercury vs Jupiter

Randon’s trip to the Vatican

Religion in Berlin

In our full-length, Patreon-only episode we also cover:

Medieval books made of skin

Hellenism

Talking to god

Reclaiming your religious roots

A Course in Miracles

Psychic channeling

Jungian psychology

An astrological forecast for December

Join us today at patreon.com/ineedgod to unlock full-length episodes and to join our private Discord channels where we have an astrology q&a chat.

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God-lover Kyle talks to Gabi Abrão aka @sighswoon about her spiritual upbringing and her new book Notes on Shapeshifting. Subscribe (for free) to patreon.com/ineedgod to listen to the full hour-long convo. If you like thepodcast make sure to rate and review it on whatever platform you listen on!

Gabi’s book:

https://notacult.media/books/p/sighswoon

Gabi’s Patreon: 

patreon.com/sighswoon

Gabi’s merch:

www.sunshineshop.la/sighswoon  

Topics we cover:

Spiritism

Contemporary Art

Jungian Psychology

Church choir 

Digital resting points      

Victoria Paris

Walking

Notes on Shapeshifting

Being a visitor

Cultivating support 

Narcissism

Technology 

Writing style 

Ether vs Earth  

God-lover Kyle’s first acid trip

Weed legalization  

Circulation

God-lover Kyle talks to Gabi Abrão aka @sighswoon about her spiritual upbringing and her new book Notes on Shapeshifting.

Gabi’s book:

https://notacult.media/books/p/sighswoon

Gabi’s Patreon: 

patreon.com/sighswoon

Gabi’s merch:

www.sunshineshop.la/sighswoon  

Topics we cover:

Spiritism

Contemporary Art

Jungian Psychology

Church choir 

Digital resting points      

Victoria Paris

Walking

Notes on Shapeshifting

Being a visitor

Cultivating support 

Narcissism

Technology 

Writing style 

Ether vs Earth  

God-lover Kyle’s first acid trip

Weed legalization  

Circulation

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In this episode, God-lover Kyles goes to LA to talk with culture writer and podcaster Molly Lambert about her spiritual disposition.

Topics covered:

Science camp

Charles and Ray Eames power of 10

Werner Herzog

The Heidi World Podcast

Jurassic Park

Irish Catholic Nuns Soup Kitchen

Thich Nhat Hanh You are Here

Zen Buddhism

Social media addiction

Walking meditation

Body image

Alaskan bear cams

Scientology

Being Jewish in LA

Mike Davis the case for letting Malibu burn

Aliens

Mutual Aid

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