Holy Shit Pod

In this episode, the HSP crew provides listeners with a brief update on what is to come for the podcast.

Earlier this year, Vanity Fair released an article entitled, "Inside Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Unlikely Rise and Precipitous Fall at Liberty University [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/inside-jerry-falwell-jr-unlikely-rise-and-precipitous-fall]." The report provides insight into one of America's most-least favorite leaders on the religious right and how a sex scandal with his wife and a pool boy rocked the foundations of the Christian empire created by his father. In this episode, the HSP crew discusses the article and the state of the church. Should we let the church die? Is it producing fruit anymore? Where do we go from here?

In this episode, the HSP crew talks about cancel culture by revisiting some of the most public cancelations of the last 20 years (e.g., Janet Jackson, Bill Cosby). Is canceling people the work of justice? Is cancel culture consistent with Christian theology? What do we do after we've successfully canceled someone? What comes after the cancelation?

In this episode, Brandon, Katie, Sam, and Natarsha discuss the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reboot now streaming on Peacock TV, Presbyterian College Women's Lacrosse Team and their verbal racist assault of the Howard University Women's Lacrosse team, and why the Catholic Church in America is nullifying thousands of baptisms.

Nearly sixty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice..." In this episode, the HSP crew asks, "are white progressives the new moderates?" Listen in for a conversation about the limitations of white progressivism and how we forge ahead in the struggle for justice. This week's church announcements: (1) Truckers Protest Vaccine Mandates Around the World, (2) Mississippi's Anti-CRT Bill, and (3) Marjorie Taylor Greene Pledges to Defund/Replace the Police with Gazpacho Force.