The BadChristian Podcast

By Matt Carter and Toby Morrell

Society & Culture Comedy Religion & Spirituality Christianity

What's The BadChristian Podcast about?

Matt, Toby and Joey discuss funny, controversial, and personal stuff with guests from the music business, leaders in the Christian world, and interesting folks from well outside of the Christian world. In other words... REAL TALK. | Bad Christian The language and topics used in this podcast are for mature listeners. Listen at your own discretion.

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All of Emery plus Aaron Lunsford hangout and tell stories from the road and life. Some of these are embarrassing but it all has led us here to The Weak's End special which comes out next Wednesday Jan 27th.

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01.21.2021 MEMERY'S All of Emery plus Aaron Lunsford hangout and tell stories from the road and life. Some of these are embarrassing but it all has led us here to The Weak's End special which comes out next Wednesday Jan 27th.
01.13.2021 #546 So You're Deconstructing... w Sarey Martin and Dan Koch In this episode we talk with Dan Koch and Sarey Martin about their new website soyouredeconstructing.com. This site is intended to help folks who are moving away from traditional Christian fundamentalism and into more thoughtful ownership of their faith. www.soyouredeconstructing.com ...
01.07.2021 #545 Lief Thomason Director of Underoath Observatory Leif Thomason is a film maker and director who oversaw and directed Underoath’s Observatory live specials and also directed Emery’s two new specials which air Jan 9 and Jan 27th. The UO Observatory shows were a massive success. We talk ...
12.31.2020 #544 A Conversation with Chad Johnson and the Provoke and Inspire Podcast We don't talk about Christianity or our specific faith as much as we used to on this podcast. Mostly this podcast has been the journey of learning to let go of things that seem very important and unlearning the behaviors ...
12.23.2020 #543 Hardwired Dr. Robert Barrett and Dr. Louis Francescutti have written Hardwired which looks at how our deteriorating wellness is rapidly becoming a public health emergency. Our “caveman within” is evolved to hunt for any small morsels or measures of reward like ...
12.16.2020 #542 Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire Dr. Jessica Johnson is a professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary, and the author of Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire, where she chronicles the rise and fall of Mars Hill ...
12.09.2020 #541 Why is Audio Storytelling So Compelling? With Jonathan Mitchell Jonathan Mitchell is the award-winning writer, director, and producer of the fiction story-based podcast The Truth. He has contributed to RadioLab, Studio 360, This American Life, All Things Considered, and many more. His unique abilities and interests provide ripe ground ...
12.03.2020 #540 Walt Shelton: Is Having a Routine and Practice-Oriented Approach Essential for Meaningful Living? Walt Shelton and his new book, The Daily Practice of Life, really made an impression on us. Having a practice-oriented approach is essential for meaningful living, but is that realistic? Walt draws from Christianity and what Jesus's practice may have ...
11.18.2020 #539 Matt MacDonald in his Pre-Creativity Mode Matt MacDonald of The Classic Crime is closing out the Kickstarter campaign for their 7th full length album, and we spend an hour of procrastination talking about being older and what that means when you're an artist. The aging artist ...
11.11.2020 #538 What If The Power Grid Goes Out? Kyle Mills is the author of Total Power, a thriller novel about America being thrown into chaos because of an attack on the power grid. He discusses what he learned doing research for the book, as well as his unique ...
11.04.2020 #537 BC Stories: Brandon Brandon’s story is one of perpetual bad authorities. He grew up never really trusting his dad, and got into drugs as a punk kid way of acting out for attention, but what he was left with was a lack of ...
10.28.2020 #536 Dead People in Corners BadChristian isn’t a debate podcast, but when Alex Tsakiris of the Skeptiko Podcast and author of Why Evil Matters stops by to talk about how our consciousness lives on, Matt and Alex have a great time going back and forth ...
10.20.2020 #535 The Gay Pastor Michael Robison is a successful former pastor who tried to do everything he could to not be gay. But it didn't work! In this episode, we discuss the traditional roles of pastors and husbands and how the church can often ...
10.14.2020 #534 Republican Jesus Republican Jesus is the new book by author Tony Keddie. Tony talks to the guys today about how American Christianity is a pawn in American politics and why Christians have adopted dangerous political leanings that look nothing like the teachings ...
10.07.2020 #533 Maintain Your Own Reality Toby hijacks the episode right away and becomes introspective about how his self narratives are also his own limits, but if thats true, then who is doing the limiting? Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com BCx69 Challenge: thebcclub.com/fall69 Check out Emery's ...
09.30.2020 #532 Meat and Climate Jim Giles is a journalist who investigates food consumption issues, food waste that is filling up landfills, and how the mass production of animal products is affecting the Earth's climate. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com BCx69 Challenge: thebcclub.com/fall69 Check out ...
09.23.2020 #531 Justin Dean, Mars Hill PR Director Justin Dean was the Head of Public Relations for mega-church pastor, Mark Driscoll, from Mars Hill Church. In this episode, we talk about Justin's relationship with Driscoll, some of the issues that caused Mars Hill to implode, and the parallels ...
09.16.2020 #530 Tim McTague of Underoath We catch up with friend of the show, Tim McTague, on how he's been weathering the Covid storm, both as a small business owner in Florida, and as an innovative member of Underoath. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com BCx69 Challenge: ...
09.09.2020 #529 Bad Cult Members Dan Koch joins the show to talk about the transformation that fatherhood has caused in him. We then speculate about the role of church in our and our children's futures with how the decline of the church as a social ...
09.04.2020 #528 Do What You Do For Future You We're raising the stakes for the fall round of BCx69, and giving you all a chance to win $1,000! No, really. Registration is open to everyone now at thebcclub.com/fall69. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Check out Emery's new album "White ...
09.03.2020 #527 Blurry Creatures and Blurry Tour Stories Is Bigfoot a physical creature that disproves science, or a mystical spirit realm being? Nate Henry and Luke Rogers started their new podcast Blurry Creatures to explore these ideas and more. But first, we catch up with our old friends ...
08.26.2020 #526 LA Paul and Transformative Experiences As a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Yale University, Laurie Paul's book "Transformative Experience," is an interesting bridge between religious and spiritual experiences that change the essence of who you are in a real way. I'm Only A ...
08.19.2020 #525 Cold's Bassist Lindsay Manfredi Lindsay Manfredi is living her dream of playing with her favorite band, Cold, and has recently put out a book called "Unfuckwithable: A Guide to Inspired Badassery." I'm Only A Man vinyl pre-order: emerymusic.com/ioam Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Check ...
08.13.2020 #524 The Masters of Rock Douglas Jerolmack is a Philadelphia professor interested in experimental geophysics. Toby was intrigued after reading a paper he did on mathematically demonstrating Plato's cube theory, and wanted to have him on to talk about his genuine interest in rock science. ...
08.08.2020 #523 The Aaron Sprinkle Music Machine What has Tooth & Nail legend Aaron Sprinkle been up to for the last few years? We catch up on his life over the last few years, and examine the future of music given a recent debate over a statement ...
08.06.2020 #522 A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching Host of the podcast, "A Christian Reads the Tao te Ching," Corey Farr thoughtfully considers concept written in the Tao te Ching and how they integrate with his Christian faith. He also works with Syrian orphans in Lebanon, not far ...
07.30.2020 #521 Covid's Affect on the American Church Data nerd and pastor, Ryan Burge, joins the show again to fill us in on some trends he's been seeing in how the pandemic has affected churches financially, attendance, and their relationship with government. FREE TRIAL MONTH: thebcclub.com I'm Only ...
07.23.2020 #520 Four Things On My Mind Matt's has some things he needs to discuss: Kim Kardashian's mental health tweet, economy predictions, education crisis, and the arrival of unparalleled AI. FREE TRIAL MONTH: thebcclub.com I'm Only A Man vinyl pre-order: emerymusic.com/ioam Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Check ...
07.15.2020 #519 Revisiting Emery's Biggest Mistake with Devin Shelton You all know our good friend Devin Shelton, member of Emery and shipper of all BC merch. We discuss the album that changed our perspective on music creation, and why we want to update it now, 13 years later, and ...
07.11.2020 #518 Get Rich Or Die Trying Friend of the show, Aaron Lunsford, shares his recent successes in playing the game of life. FREE TRIAL MONTH: thebcclub.com Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Check out Emery's new album "White Line Fever" at emerymusic.com Policy Genius: policygenius.com Brooklinen: brooklinen.com ...
07.08.2020 #517 Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail Front-man of Senses Fail, Buddy Nielsen has gone through a lot of change over the last 15 years, from coming out as bisexual, to changes in his spiritual life. We are happy to have him on and get to know ...
07.03.2020 #516 Stephanie Tait and the Emerging Menlo Church Scandal Stephanie Tait joins to fill us in on what's going on with a current scandal at Menlo Church that is seemingly being swept under the rug by the Christian media. FREE TRIAL MONTH: thebcclub.com Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Check ...
07.01.2020 #515 Hawk Nelson's Jon Steingard No Longer Believes in God Coming from the Christian rock world, Jon's announcement that he no longer believes in God made national headlines. Since leaving Christianity, he's actually been thinking about God more, and was surprised by the benefits of that come with doubt. FREE ...
06.25.2020 #514 Differently Wired with Debbie Reber Author and fellow podcaster, Debbie Reber, joins to talk through some neuro-divergent parenting styles, how women are often overlooked in the discussion, and why America should start addressing PDA (pathological demand avoidance). Tilt Parenting: https://tiltparenting.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com ...
06.16.2020 #513 Jemar Tisby: The Color of Compromise Our friend Jemar Tisby returns to the podcast . His book "The Color of Compromise," came out last year, but has found new legs in the current anti-racism movement, along with a new companion documentary of the same name. The ...
06.16.2020 #512 Anti-Racism Saves Dan Koch joins our verbal processing about the religious elements we are noticing in the conversation around racial injustice, which might actually be a good thing? Campaign Zero: emerymusic.com/campaignzero Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Check out Emery's new album "White ...
06.11.2020 #511 Activist's Awakening, Maryam Nayeb Yazdi Maryam Nayeb Yazdi found her passion for activism after spending years literally in the closet. She is the founder of Seed Operations, and Oslo's Women's Rights Initiative, which was founded on the idea that collaboration is key to supporting universal ...
06.03.2020 #510 Real People Talk About Race Members of the BC Club decided to hold a zoom call on Sunday night to talk about the weekend's events and how the club has responded. We were pretty inspired by their open conversation about race, and decided it was ...
05.27.2020 #509 "The Church Has Hurt Us" Andy Othling We've seen our good friend Andy Othling (Lowercase Noises) go through a lot of inner turmoil in the last few years struggling with mental health and faith issues, and he's ready to talk about it and share his "testimony" if ...
05.21.2020 #508 Variolation is Sounding Better and Better Our talk with economist Robin Hanson, not very long ago at all, shaped the way we thought about the coronavirus before it was even a pandemic. Now we have a lot of updating to do, so we invited Robin back ...
05.14.2020 #507 Communities in the New Digital World Dan Koch is in the middle of a PHD program, dedicating his life to studying and doing therapy in the Christian/post-Christian online space. The small, off-beat, corner of the internet, and a certain generation, is emerging to be a field ...
05.07.2020 #506 Ed Latimore Heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore got a degree in physicals and mathematics while boxing professionally, and is now an author. This gives him quite an unusual combination of attributes that brings a unique perspective to the concept of discipline and learning. ...
04.30.2020 #505 ESPN's Tattooed Music Scene Guy Daniel Dopp is a crossover guy, not only with music and sports, but also an indie to mainstream crossover guy. Daniel has been involved in putting out vinyl for acts like Chris Staples (twothirtyeight), Emery, The Classic Crime and the ...
04.23.2020 #504 The Hard Times with Founder Matt Saincome As DIY musicians, we've been fans of The Hard Times for awhile now, so it was a pleasure to have Matt Saincome on to talk about his use of comedy and their non-political way of testing what material gets used ...
04.16.2020 #503 Leaders Might Use Covid to Steal Your Rights Gissou Nia is a human rights lawyer who helps us compare authoritarian states like China and Iran as an example of how leaders could use the vulnerability of a global pandemic to affect our rights. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com ...
04.09.2020 #502 What’s The Deal with Data? with Tom Seiple Data science and visualization is currently the most sought after and highest paying field there is. Our society is increasingly dependent on numbers and data, which has made two particular areas increasingly complex. There is the data that we all ...
04.02.2020 #501 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Tour We're giving you all a peak at what the BC Club gets every day! This is a fun conversation reminiscing on famous people we've run into at shows before, and tour culture. BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.badchristiancon.com/ Links & ...
03.26.2020 #500 Covidiots-500 We made it to 500 episodes! Today's a party; we have Dan Koch, Matt MacDonald, Aaron Lunsford and Devin Shelton here to celebrate! BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD TICKETS: https://www.badchristiancon.com/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: ...
03.19.2020 #499 Philosopher Agnes Callard Agnes Callard teaches Philosophy in Chicago, and is an author for Point Magazine. We discuss with her a couple articles from The Point in particular: Parenting and Panic, Thoughts and Prayers, and The End is Coming. BADCHRISTIAN CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD ...
03.11.2020 #498 Buy All the Alcohol You Can with Matt MacDonald Our first guest ever, friend of the podcast and lead singer of The Classic Crime, Matt MacDonald, joins to talk about how things have changed over the last six years since we started, and how he'll have to keep changing ...

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