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my God has two arms

The season finale! In today's episode, Randy (Josiah's dad) joins Josiah to talk about his faith journey from drugs and rock music to Golden Dawn occultism, on to a born again conversion to Christianity during the 90s. We discuss the rise of the charismatic movement bringing him to Reformed theology, and the impact all of this had on Josiah's faith growing up.  PUBLISHED 6/28/2021 16 Shells from a 30.6 - Tom Waits  Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  Flood - Jars of Clay  Entertaining Angels - Newsboys  You Are The One - Keith Green  Reality - Newsboys  The Church's One Foundation - The Scottish Festival Singers  Tonight - The O.C. Supertones  There is a Kingdom - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

religion is not for everyone

In today's episode, Monikpal (@MonikpalSingh) joins Josiah to discuss Sikhi, interfaith, and the divide between Eastern and Western religions. He clarifies some major misconceptions about the faith, and we talk about the similarities and differences between Sikhi and Christianity. PUBLISHED 6/21/2021 Lovely Allen - Holy Fuck  Skin Game - DIIV  Expect the Bayonet - Sheer Mag  I'm On Fire - Electrelane  Sikhi video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRTtYUONgs] "What is God?"

God is one

In today's episode, Kyle (@mma_marxian) joins Josiah to talk about his recent conversion to Islam. We trace his journey from southern evangelicalism (both charismatic and reformed) into agnosticism, Buddhism, and mainline Christianity before eventually coming to the conclusion that God is one. PUBLISHED 6/14/2021 Every Thought a Thought of You - mewithoutYou  Wolves at the Door - David Bazan  Allah Allah Allah - mewithoutYou

gay jewish christianity

In today's episode, Sam (@motherenergy__) joins Josiah to discuss her religious journey from orthodox Judaism to Episcopal Christianity, liberal Christian anti-semitism, and the weird communities that the internet fosters. PUBLISHED 6/7/2021 Green - Young Jesus  Christian Brothers - Heatmiser, Elliott Smith

overthrowing physics (the soulism episode)

In today's episode, Lennox (@coolzonepod) and Shea (@shea_said) from Cool Zone join Josiah to investigate the incredibly obscure political philosophy, Soulism: a form of anarchism that seeks to abolish and/or overcome the laws of physics themselves. Special thanks to Elis for the interview at 1:00:20 PUBLISHED 5/31/2021 Are Friends Electric? - The Dead Weather  Force of Habit - Paris Texas  Let's Write a Book - Field Music  Wave of History - Downtown Boys  Links Political compass [https://imgur.com/gallery/R79AL48] Meme that Josiah loved [https://imgur.com/gallery/tgTJLJ9] r/serioussoulism [https://www.reddit.com/r/serioussoulism/] is the primary subreddit we explored There is also r/soulism101 [https://www.reddit.com/r/soulism101] and r/soulism [https://www.reddit.com/r/soulism/] In Service of the Mute God [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kuereu8VoXckrFERUNq_RQkfV5xCwymIUysk4DkIZko/edit] by u/notbob17 Soulist-Eternalism [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJAW2QbywssnE8taQg-UhzBnPvHGWHLFbAQsAoaaVJo/edit] Logic: the Uncovering of Quintessence [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ewrzGNQV1KRzQUoNHeODPFzNDTi6vkdgM5lylfzGm_Q/edit] Redcat's Twitter [https://twitter.com/zak61707480?s=21] Jackson (@jhussy42) Burgundian system [https://the-new-order-last-days-of-europe.fandom.com/wiki/Burgundian_System]