Episodes
White Too Long (re-release with new intro)
May 26, 2022
Note: there is a leveling discrepancy between the intro comments and the interview, which begins around the 10:30 mark. There's been two major shootings in the last two weeks. I try to piece together some thoughts, and combi…
Nick Ripatrizone, author of Digital Communion
May 19, 2022
Time to talk Marshall McLuhan, [social] media, and religion
Andre Henry, author of All The White Friends I Couldn't Keep
May 12, 2022
The activist, musician, and author joins the show!
The leaked SCOTUS ruling shows why white evangelicals supported Trump en masse
May 4, 2022
He gave them what they wanted.
Audio Essay: Twitter & The Counterpublic Sphere
April 29, 2022
In this audio essay, adapted from The Post-Evangelical Post , I talk about Twitter's role in allowing "counterpublics" to flourish - and how #exvangelical relates to that. New interviews are coming - due to my recent ear sur…
Re-Release: Pete Holmes (2019 Interview)
April 14, 2022
It’s been over a month since I’ve released an episode. That was not my plan nor intention. But sometimes life intervenes. Just shy of a month ago, I had surgery to repair a lifelong issue with my ear - ruptured ear drum, and…
The Both-And of Lent (Audio Essay)
March 3, 2022
Even outside the context of practicing Christianity, the symbolism has value.
(Re-Release) White Evangelical Racism with Dr. Anthea Butler
Feb. 24, 2022
Dr. Butler discusses her book White Evangelical Racism - recorded March 2021.
Melissa Stewart (@lissajostewart on TikTok)
Feb. 10, 2022
In this conversation, I speak with exvangelical Tiktokker Melissa Stewart (@lissajostewart) about her upbringing, how exvangelical spaces continue to evolve, and how platform differences (i.e. Twitter vs. TikTok) enable diff…
Justin Gentry & Sarah Heath are In Revcovery
Feb. 3, 2022
A new IMG show about what it's like to leave professional ministry.
On Forming and Expressing Identity Online
Jan. 20, 2022
An audio essay about online community, culture, and followings.
Powers & Principalities: The Inauspicious Anniversary of the Jan 6 Capitol Riot
Jan. 6, 2022
In conversation with Chrissy Stroop, one year after the failed coup attempt.
R. Scott Okamato
Dec. 23, 2021
In this interview I chat with R. Scott Okamoto about music, life as a Christian college professor, and much more. Scott will also be hosting the upcoming exvangelical podcast, Chapel Probation. Learn more about Scott at his …
On the Deconstruction Discourse
Dec. 9, 2021
Blake talks about the recent discourse about deconstruction & exvangelicals.
Jeff Sharlet (Cheery Thanksgiving Conversation Starter Re-Release)
Nov. 23, 2021
I spoke to author Jeff Sharlet in November 2020, just after the election was called for Biden - but Trump was already signaling that he would not concede. The Jan 6 insurrection had not yet happened, but what would become Th…
1 Year Since the 2020 Election, with Brad Onishi
Nov. 10, 2021
In this episode, I talk with fellow IMG podcaster Bradley Onishi about how things have developed in the last year since the 2020 election. In that time we've seen Trump's decisive electoral loss, the Jan 6th insurrection, th…
Minisode: Funding the Next Chapter of Exvangelical
Oct. 22, 2021
TL;DR - support my work at $8/month & 25% of net revenue will be donated to orgs that serve populations harmed by white evangelicalism.
The Religious Exemption Accountability Project
Sept. 30, 2021
An interview with Paul Southwick & Erin Green
Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of "God, Human, Animal, Machine"
Sept. 24, 2021
9/11 & Transhumanism & Plant Consciousness, Oh My!
Peterson Toscano On Activism, Trauma, and Curiosity
Sept. 17, 2021
Peterson Toscano returns to the show!
Christian Nationalist Political Tactics with Katherine Stewart (Re-Release)
Sept. 2, 2021
This episode, recorded in the fall of 2020, is being re-released due to its relevance following the TX ruling.
In Conversation with Jamie Lee Finch
Aug. 26, 2021
Jamie Lee Finch, author of You Are Your Own, returns to the show! We had been planning to talk this month for quite some time, but our conversation has a different tenor than we anticipated. This is one conversation among ma…
Tucker in Hungary in Context (Sarah Posner Re-Release)
Aug. 19, 2021
Revisiting Tucker Carlson's trip to Hungary.