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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02.19.2021

We catch up with our good buddy and talented film maker Brandon Vedder. He directed the documentary about Dave Bazan called Strange Negotiations which you can watch on Amazon Prime now. . This episode is so fun. Brandon is on ...

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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 ...
03.05.2020 #497 The Coronavirus with Robin Hanson Author of "Elephant in the Brain" and "The Age of Em," Robin Hanson, is one of the best brains on the planet with the most freedom to explore the things that interest him the most. In this case, that thing ...
02.27.2020 #496 The Church is a Content Creator with Scott Galloway Business professor and author of "The Algebra of Happiness," Scott Galloway joins our conversation on the church being a professional content creator. We also get into his book on keys for happiness and how to best pick a life partner. ...
02.20.2020 #495 Free Burma Rangers Director Chris Sinclair joins to share his 8-year experience creating the documentary "Free Burma Rangers" which documents the life of Dave Eubanks and his family who started a movement of humanitarian aids in Burma and beyond. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com ...
02.13.2020 #494 The Sexuality of the Bible with Professor Jennifer Knust Toby found Professor of Religious Studies at Duke University, Jennifer Knust's, work one day when googling "premarital sex in the bible" and found her take refreshing and liberating when thinking about talking to his kids about sex. Links & Sponsors: ...
02.06.2020 #493 Taboos and Transparency with Aella Matt found Aella through the rationalist twitter community and was intrigued by her statements on radical transparency and research polls targeting things traditionally thought of as taboo. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: ...
01.31.2020 #492 U-Shaped Sex Toys Get a hint of what the BC Club gets on the daily dose episodes with a recent spicy one where Toby got a new toy for Marriage Supply. Marriage Supply Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP ...
01.29.2020 #491 End Times Anxiety with Dan Koch Friend of the show, Dan Koch, joins to share some of his findings through a series he's been doing on his podcast, You Have Permission, about how growing up with "Left Behind" and an emphasis on end times theology have ...
01.23.2020 #490 Beating Guns with Rex Harsin Documentary filmmaker Rex Harsin shares his perspective on gun control and filmmaking from his process of recreating Shane Claiborne's book titled "Beating Guns" into a feature length documentary. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com ...
01.15.2020 #489 The Science of Rick and Morty with Matt Brady The show "Rick and Morty" managed to get Toby interested in science and multiple realities to the point where he researched some of the science found in episodes and found a book Matt Brady wrote "The Science of Rick and ...
01.09.2020 #488 Gazelle Transmogrify The changing of the decade brings on a reflective sense of meaning and purpose that Matt explains using gazelles, pain, surviving, future you, and yes, transmogrify. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 ...
12.25.2019 #487 Race and Church with Dr Emerson Merry Christmas! We have sociologist Dr Michael Emerson on today to answer some questions about racism in the American Evangelical church and how it got that way. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Joybird: ...
12.18.2019 #486 Why Should We Trust Science? With Dan Koch Friend of the show, Dan Koch, uses his new psychology studies to help us understand why there's a perceived gap between the study of science, and religion. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com Tooth ...
12.12.2019 #485 The Rise of the Nones Dr Ryan Burge is a "quant" political scientist, and a pastor. Through one of his articles on biblical literalism, Toby found a whole rabbit hole of intriguing data he's published about religion in America. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join ...
12.05.2019 #484 Know Any Cool New Cults? With the death of religion as we knew it ten years ago, comes a new birth of substitute religions in politics, cults, conspiracies, and any number of things. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com ...
11.27.2019 #483 Derek Webb Has a New Wife and a New Album We catch up with our friend Derek Webb, who had recently gotten divorced last time we talked, and now is re-married, and has a new album coming out. He's been an innovator in the music industry that we've followed the ...
11.21.2019 #482 BCPOD Goes Nuclear Nuclear expert Sean Wagner helps us clear up some myths around nuclear energy, how it works, and what the risks and levels actually are. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland or Get VIP Tickets: emerymusic.com early bird VIP code ...
11.13.2019 #481 China is Watching You Hong Kong and China have had an ongoing political problem for awhile that we have no real idea of, so we asked Asia studies expert Elizabeth Economy on to help us figure out what exactly is happening over there and ...
11.06.2019 #480 Strange Negotiations Brandon Vedder is the filmmaker of the full length documentary about Dave Bazan titled "Strange Negotiations." Dave Bazan and Pedro the Lion have always been the tip of the spear in vulnerability and being critical of ourselves and of our ...
10.31.2019 #479 Dr Kristin Wallace, PhD, LMHC, NCC, MFT Kristin Wallace has more initials after her last name than Matt or Toby have in their first and last name combined. She reached out when we got the terrible news about Jarrid Wilson and wanted to give some insight into ...
10.25.2019 #478 TikTok Toby We're giving you all a taste of what the BC Clubbers get four times a week with a daily dose episode from Tuesday where Toby gets his first video banned from TikTok. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com ...
10.23.2019 #477 Beth Moore Go Home, Says John MacArthur We react to John MacArthur's comments to Beth Moore to "Go home" aka stop preaching, and break down the audio clip that went viral from the conference. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com Butcherbox: butcherbox.com/BADCHRISTIAN HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Marriage ...
10.16.2019 #476 Creating Rambo, with Author David Morrell David Morrell is the author of the book "First Blood," which became one of our favorite movies ever, Rambo. He tells us in what ways they changed the dynamics the book brought out in generational relationships and the effects of ...
10.09.2019 #475 Dustin Kensrue Traded Church for a Podcast Dustin is the only guy we have these three things in common with: hardcore legends (Thrice and Emery), leaders at Mars Hill, and now, podcast hosts. Hear what he's up to now and check out his new podcast, Carry the ...
10.03.2019 #474 The Relevant Magazine Controversy with Andre Henry We invited former Relevant Magazine's Managing Editor, Andre Henry, on to talk through the issues and nuances of his recent Medium article on the toxic culture in his old workplace, and the difference between intention and outcome when it comes ...
09.26.2019 #473 Purity Culture Our good friend Dan Koch did a bunch of research for his podcast You Have Permission on the history and effects of purity culture, so we asked him to share it with us. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: ...
09.19.2019 #472 First Hand Account of the Opioid Epidemic Our guest this week is Jacob Evans, a man who struggled with an opiate addiction, and now works at a recover center called Tree House Recovery. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com Emerald City Rock Show: emerymusic.com/shows HIMS: ...
09.11.2019 #471 The Big Fat Surprise Author and investigative journalist, Nina Teicholz, has done the hard work of sorting out the truths and myths behind our nutritional guidelines and how a low-carb diet could change the state of America's health. https://ninateicholz.com/ https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/ Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com ...
09.04.2019 #470 Jacob Marshall at the BadChristian Conference Founding member of the band Mae, and psychedelic neuroscientist, Jacob Marshall, had one of the most talked-about conversations of this year's conference. I'm sure you can imagine why! Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com Joybird: joybird.com/BADCHRISTIAN25 code BADCHRISTIAN25 ...
08.29.2019 #469 Anger is a Gift Toby realizes that anger might actually be beneficial in that it frees up the barrier you usually have which allows you to freely express how you think or feel in a pointed way. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Join Emeryland: ...
08.22.2019 #468 Is AI an Attempt to be God? We have AI Engineer, Tom Grek, on to explain to us how AI actually works, where it is, and where it's going. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com HIMS: forhims.com/BADCHRISTIAN Tooth & Nail: "A Voice ...
08.17.2019 #467 I Can't Stop Getting Proof for How Shitty Evangelicalism Is Toby deleted Facebook, which is giving him a new excitement for Twitter. He just can't get away from seeing how terrible the evangelical church and pastors are, this time it's an article about the Evangelicals mobilizing to get more people ...
08.15.2019 #466 "I'd Take on Five Lindsay Lohans to One Mega-Church Pastor" Crisis Management Public Relations Consultant, Hunter Frederick, helps manage the public's perception of both celebrities and mega-pastors alike. On the surface, it sounds like a job we're obviously opposed to, but by the end of the interview, you'll see who's ...
08.08.2019 #465 Is it Possible to Find Truth in Journalism? with Lou Jacobson Louis Jacobson is one of PolitiFact's Sr Correspondents, working on sifting through the clickbait in the news to see what is true verses what is a lie in the media today. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Join ...
08.01.2019 #464 Activist Jaclyn Friedman Says Voting Can Improve Sex Ed Last time we had our friend Jaclyn Friedman, author of "Yes Means Yes" and host of "Unscrewed," on the show, she helped us update our thinking on sex and purity culture. This time she gives Matt a run for his ...
07.25.2019 #463 Brandan Robertson at the BadChristian Conference We've started the process of planning next year's conference now, so here's a taste of what this year's conference had to offer with our friend Brandan Robertson. Brandan is a pastor and LGBTQ activist bridging the gap between the evangelical ...
07.18.2019 #462 Unintended Truth-Telling with Brian Zahnd Coming from the Jesus Movement, full-time pastor and occasional author Brian Zahnd joins to talk about the religion of Americanism and the unintended truth-telling of the American church. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Emery Tour: emerymusic.com Join Emeryland: emerymusic.com Stamps.com: ...
07.13.2019 #461 Stick with Mapquest or Be a Hybrid Human Joey’s uncle wanted old-school directions to his house, even though he had an iPhone to easily type in the address like a normal human. According to him though, Joey was the dummy for relying on that dumb MAPS app. Matt ...
07.10.2019 #460 Pick It Up! with Leanor Ortega Till and Jason Zeimet This week's guests are Pick It Up! Ska in the 90s film producers Leanor Ortega Till of Five Iron Frenzy, and Jason Zeimet of Unoriginal Vinyl. We dive into the history of ska music, the inspiration for the documentary, as ...
07.04.2019 #459 Michael Gungor Michael Gungor has had a rough past couple of years, which has come with a lot of change, including being given a new name as a spiritual practice of dissolving the ego and stories we have for who we are. ...
06.20.2019 #458 Tom Farley Remembers His Brother Chris Chris Farley was one of the all-time great comedians and actors. We had the privilege of talking with his brother Tom about his life, career, the impact he had on the world, and implications of the dark side of being ...
06.20.2019 #457 Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged Matt, Toby, and Joey discuss how some of the moralism and purity problematic religious behaviors and image management, that we’ve seen for years in evangelicalism is now appearing in other subcultures and the mainstream. Links & Sponsors: BadChristian.com thebcclub.com Emery ...
06.15.2019 #456 Ted Bond of Craig's Brother Singer of one of Joey's favorite old school Tooth & Nail bands, Craig's Brother, gets vulnerable about some of the reality behind what was going on during some tumultuous times in their earlier years, and what they're up to now. ...
06.05.2019 #455 The Guy Behind Preachers N Sneakers A fan of the sneaker culture, founder of Preachers N Sneakers started noticing rare and expensive shoes on some of the celebrity pastors and worship pastors, made note of it on Instagram, just putting the info out there, and people ...

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