explore season I

Check out our episodes and season guests, along with zine and art releases below.

This season is all about understanding our situation. What has gone so dreadfully wrong? And why do we seem to be incapable of taking significant collective action to change it?

The answer, we think, has to do with the gods of the status quo and the imperial religion, which most of us follow without realizing it.

Round I : Introducing the Imperial Religion

What’s going on with us? Why are we knowingly heading down a path of collective self-destruction, and why can’t we rise up to stop it? How do good people become part of the machine?
I introduce the story as An American Tale, of conquest, propaganda, and the “pioneer” days.
See our discussion on church ministry, leaving Christianity, and wrestling with who we are here.
I review “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen.

Round II : Renouncing Christianity

(& all Imperial Religion)

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This is where things get interesting! We begin discussing what we mean by being Christians who are renouncing Christianity—and who call all people everywhere to renounce the Imperial Religion wherever they may find it.
One of the interviews I was most excited to do and cannot wait to share from my Ugandan elder and anti-colonial uncle, Zac Niringiye.
Here’s where we get into the ways Jackson and Jensen—though secularists—make use of theological language, and the way their approach shows us the shortfalls of even the best secularism, especially on critical topics like love.

Round III : The 7 Gods of the Status Quo

and the foundations of all Imperial Religion

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And the imperial pantheon. Here’s where we get into the core beliefs about what it means to be human which keep us locked in our current status quo. We explore how these core beliefs have been propagated by every empire in history, and see how that can help us gain insight for our own times.
In this episode, I discuss these ideas with former mega church pastor Jeremy Jernigan. Because we need an Anglo white guy on here at some point.
DBH is the only living theologian I pay much attention to, and his translation of the New Testmanent is fire.