Profane Faith

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! It's season 7!!! Yeah, we're back and stronger than ever! Check out this state of the "union" epsidoe as I talk with Kathy Khang and Jeanelle Austin to hear their thoughts on where we find ourselves.

Our season finale is here! What a season it's been too...wow! We end on a great note by discussing Dr. Francois' new book and engaging with what that all means in this era. Check it out and see you all in season 7! Profane Faith is a Dauntless Media Collective podcast. Visit dauntless.fm for more content.

!!!EXPLICIT!!! This week I bring my good friend Dr. Philip Butler back on to continue the conversation around religion and science. This is a good one fam! Profane Faith is a Dauntless Media Collective podcast. Visit dauntless.fm for more content.

!!!EXPLICIT!!! This week I get to talk with 3 of the authors from this new and amazing book, Liberating Church. This text is focused around Afrocentric theology and a liberating perspective. Listen on in! Profane Faith is a Dauntless Media Collective podcast. Visit dauntless.fm for more content.

!!!EXPLICIT!!! We finish up our series on the fallout of Roe V. Wade with the infamous and great Irene Cho; she really does break some crap down! Listen in and make sure you check the others in this series.

!!!EXPLICIT!!! We continue our series on the fallout of Roe V. Wade with Ashley Dunston. If you haven't heard the last two episodes check them out now!

!!!EXPLICIT!!! We continue our series on the fallout of Roe V. Wade. Up next, the great Leo Wolters Tejera. Check it out!

!!!Explicit!!! A series exploring the fallout of the fall of Roe V. Wade. This week listen in on The Heathen Queen and her perspective and how this new era we're entering is much bigger than just 'saving a life.'

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! Jesus H man...after this last week and the fall of Roe v. Wade, we have a lot to process...join me and my good friend, Dr. Travis Harris, as we continue our season series.

It's time we had a talk; a talk about money. Yeah, I know, capitalism has made this awkward...but, trust me, this is good, pragmatic, and worth your time! Listen in as Brian and I have a convo about savings, budgets, and all things money matters.

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!! Shoo-wee fam...a lot to process this week!! Luckily I got my newfound friend The Heathen Queen and she breaks it down...check it out and listen in.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Yeah, you know we had to have this discussion....and it's so layered. Join us as we go in on this mess. Elonda and Sean, Profane Faith contributed, chime in.

What does research look like regarding White U.S. Evangelicals' capitalization to capitalism and free-market....yeah, that! Dr. Rachel Schwaller joins me this week to discuss that and the colonization of Xtianity on many different levels.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! What does it mean to leave the might evangelical culture...and what might it signify within a Latinx context...yeah, deep! Check out Joey's story about survival, grit, and perseverance within toxic contexts. This one is long, but SO worth it.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! Fam, this week my man Chase comes on and breaks. shit. down! As a Rector of All Saints in Pasadena and a poet, this brutha is putting in work. Check it out.

Author, pastor, and fellow seeker in all things religion, Rev. Dr. Katie Hays joins me to talk about her new book, the amazing things she's doing in their church out in Texas, and just life as a pastor in 2022. Deep! Listen in.

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! This week I sit down and hear one amazing story about an ex-evangelical's journey out of the madness. I mean....wow. You've got to hear Ashley's story man!

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! The great and always wise Lisa Sharon Harper is back! This time she get's into her own family history and their connection to U.S. slavery, racism, and the pursuit of equity. Join us during Black History Month 2022 to hear this and more!

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Our series continues to welcome in Black History Month 2022 with brutha Sean. This series explores the social construct of God in relation to the social construct of God forms...yeah, deep stuff! Check it out.

!!!EXPLICIT!!! The amazing and sharp theologian herself, Melissa Florer-Bixler joins me this week and oh do we go in on some things! We even touch on a hostile White take over of the U.S.! Yeah, listen in!

This week I talk with one of my colleagues who teaches a host of courses in the field of Communication Arts. She has a really innovative approach to education and pedagogy in the classroom. The work she does has her classes packed out...listen in!

Khristi is back! And with a new book on top of that! Join the Profane Faith conversation and hear how she's navigated the pandemic, being an author, and working with a new generation of Black women who are doing uh-may-zing things! Happy 2022 fam!

!!!!EXPLICIT!! We're back after the holiday break, and wow...what an episode to jump into with Tori Williams Douglass. She breaks some stuff down on race, religion, and being a mom through all of that. Listen up!

!!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! A new series dealing with theology, God, being...ecclesiology...all that good stuff. Join Profane Faith correspondent Dom and I to get in on this convo.

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Shoo-wee! A barn-burner of an episode this week. The convo that just stumps most Xtian spaces is sex...or there is so much bad info on it, that people end up in really bad spots. Tune in now to hear Erica talk on all that!

!!!EXPLICIT!! We're back! Season 6 in full effect! Dr. Megan Goodwin joins me to talk gender, possession, Satan, and all the myths around that. Get it and listen in!

Season 5 Finale!!! Well, you know I wasn't gonna leave you hanging. Summer got the best of me. Check out S 5 finale with none other than J.R. and a nice ending to this series! Check it out and see you in season 6.

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!! Oh yeah, we continue on with our series here! This week, Dr. Christopher Driscoll, religious studies scholar, joins me and digs right in on the convo. Check it out!

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! A new series dealing with the ontological and cultural essence of God idealogy. This week we kick off with my good friend, Sean Watkins. Check it out!

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! This week will be worth the wait! The great and wise Alicia T. Crosby is on the show this week, and, wow...is this a barn burner!!! Check it fam!

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! This week in honor of pride month I get to talk with a new friend, whom I know will be a long-time one, Leo Wolters Tejera. We go in on race, religion, human sexuality, and our current era. Check it!

Wow. What a treat! My long-time friend Dawn Finch and I finally get a chance to have a conversation about her amazing work with youth and young adults in L.A. A true O.G.!

This week the amazing Tamisha Tyler hijacks the show to turn the tables and interview me! We get into my 2nd book, The Soul of Hip Hop.

!!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! This week I welcome Emily Joy as she talks about her new book #Church Too: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing. Yo...this is DEEP! Buckle up!

!!!!EXPLICIT!!! So here you have it...an array of voices talking about their thoughts and reflections regarding the George Floyd trial. This one is long but so worth the time. Dig in!

Oh, you don't want to miss out on this conversation! The great and amazing Rosa Clemente is with me this week and we talk politics, gender, Hip Hop, and the work she's been doing for equity. Listen in!

This week we wrap up our series with an old friend, Ki Martinez. Ki is a coach and facilitator for anti-oppression at Both/And, based in NYC, in the areas of identity exploration and somatics. They break it down and really anchors this 3-week series....

The 2nd part of our series has me talking with my family friend Pastor Mayra Macedo-Nolan. She's doing some amazing work out in Pasadena and as a woman doing work in a male-dominated context, she's helped create space to engage more with gender,...

This week we start a 3 week series on exploring Latinx faith workers in a variety of contexts. This week, my dear friend The Rev. Werner Ramirez is on to talk about his life as a Guatemalan immigrant and how that also informs his faith work. Listen...

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! I finally get to have a convo with my good friend and mentor, Dr. Craig Detweiler. Craig is an amazing thinker on religion, theology, pop culture, and film. We get a chance to talk on all that plus the new work he's into. Check...

Having been fired myself I know firsthand what that entails when you work inside of Xtian orgs. This week, my guest is a good friend Heather Haginduff who talks about navigating those areas along with aspects of race and gender. Another good episode!...

What happens when Joy, pain, suffering, and lament come together....well, find out when my guest Dr. Angela Williams Gorrell joins me this week talking about her new book and research.

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! This week I talk with Anna Otaola artist extraordinaire! She also has quite the story being married to a spouse in an evangy org. Yeah...this is also part 2 from last week!

!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! I finally get to sit down with my long-time friend, soon to be Dr. Pablo Otaola. We talk about his journey in leaving an evangelical outreach org and just race and religion...all good stuff!

Dr. Leah Payne joins me this week to talk about her work, pedagogy, podcasting, and the mess we still find ourselves in today. Good talk, check it out.

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! Welp, White Supremecy is at it again, figured I'd bring Kathy & Irene on to talk about this B.S. stinking up religious spaces.

Dr. Kristin Du Mez joins me to talk about her new book and how Christian Evangelicalism is connected to hyper-masculinity and a host of issues that help make trump, trump.

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!! This one is dope AF! Skyer J joins me to talk all things Trans Embodiment and how it connects to theology...good deep stuff! Check it out.

Oh, you gon want to listen in on this! The great Dr. Turman is on this week to talk on life, theology, Blackness, and even the Black body. Dang skippy...this is fire!

!!!!!EXPLICIT!!!!! Oooh wee! Leaving a religious flock is never easy...add in fundamentalism, strong cultural mores, and you have quite a mess. Check out this convo I have with an amazing spirit, Josue Calderón !!

Back at it in the new year! And once again, the amazing and wise J.R. is back. This is a long one, so, feel free to break this one up into two...it's some good stuff. Make sure you check out the show notes too.