This week I'm happy to share my interview with Josiah Hesse, author of the new book On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right . Josiah was a guest on Exvangelical back in 2018 , and we met u...
This week I’m happy to share with you the pilot episode of the new show, Reign of Error with Sarah Posner ( Apple Podcasts link), produced by our friends over at Axis Mundi Media . Longtime listeners will know Sara Posner fro...
This week I’m happy to share with you the pilot episode of the new show, Reign of Error with Sarah Posner ( Apple Podcasts link), produced by our friends over at Axis Mundi Media . Longtime listeners will know Sara Posner fro...
In the first interview of 2026, I talk to Sara Moslener about her latest book, After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America. (Buy the book from bookshop.org here & support the show)
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This episode was originally released on The Good Books . In this episode, I chat with author Angela Denker about her latest book, Disciples of White Jesus . Subscribe to Angela's newsletter .
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In this latest interview, I speak with Lucas FW Wilson about the anthology Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors' Stories of Conversion Therapy . The interview starts about 5:00 minutes in after a long intro/update. This episode w...
Blake Chastain is host of the Exvangelical and Powers & Principalities podcasts and writer of the Post-Evangelical Post newsletter. He started the #exvangelical hashtag and helped popularize the term. He lives in the Chicago area with his family.
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