Pastor With No Answers

Jarrid Wilson took his life last year in September.  A few years back, he hosted this show while my wife and I took the place of “guests," sharing the effects my depression has had on our marriage while Jarrid shares his story of battling depression as well. Lots of laughs, lots of heartfelt introspection, while openly discussing and de-stigmatizing this common sickness that many endure.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E-mail [email protected] f

Thomas Oord  (ThomasJayOord.com) wrote a book entitled “God Can’t.”  It’s an articulate  presentation of Open Theism, a belief that supposes for freewill to exist, the future is unknowable, even to God.  So if God doesn’t know the future, this would mean limitations in his power which goes against what most believe about God.  At the same time, this posture is more suitable to make sense of all the pain in this world.   It goes like this: It’s not that God allows evil, but rather because He gave us freewill, He doesn’t know the evil we’ll do and thus can’t stop it.  This is an intriguing discussion in which Jack Hoey and I try to make sense of this theology as well as poke holes in it.  Although I do not hold this view, it’s certainly not as far-fetched as it may appear at first glance.  Thomas Oord:  www.thomasjayoord.com Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportu

“It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,” “Deck the Halls,” and “Holly Jolly Christmas” for many, but for others, it’s nothing but a “Blue. blue, blue blue Christmas.”  Many stories of grief have been shared on this podcast (Episodes 21,22,35,39,122,150) so I wanted to process the in’s and out’s of grief with a professional, especially pertaining to the holidays.  I sat down with a local therapist here in Charleston SC  for us to glean more understanding and guidance about interacting with those who are grieving.  What are the best ways to be supportive?  Are there times when it’s appropriate to push a bit?  What should one say (or not say)? There’s also some helpful information directed towards those listening who are currently grieving during the holidays.  Merry Christmas and we remember those who do not find it merry at all.  Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our curren

The church should be notorious for welcoming questions, having conversations without the short fuses and pretense, and allowing for environments where people are comfortable with being brutally honest.  Because supposedly, we’ve been rescued by love and “perfect love casts out fear,” right?  So what do we have to be afraid about? Today’s guest had questions about sexuality and him merely having these questions was not welcomed by his church.  So Jonathan Foster wrote a book about his experience entitled “Questions About Sexuality that Got Me Uninvited from My Denomination.”   The church, the gay community, more understanding, possible unity.  At the very least, can we have a conversation? keep up with J. Foster’s work here: https://www.jonathanfosteronline.com/Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Jo

Today’s guest says “not so fast” in regards to last episodes liberal handling of wife to husband submission.  These verses, according to him, are clear and consistent enough to grapple with.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E-mail [email protected] for correspondenceExecutive Producer of PWNApod: Jared Svendsen

It almost feels archaic to follow these instructions but many couples raised on fundamentalism perceived these passages as instructions for a healthy marriage and many still do.  Our two guests, Trisha Wilkerson and Ellen Mauro, join SvenZone to discuss insight on how they arrived at a different place. Once gaining a way more robust, rich outlook on marriage, neither adhered any longer to the simplicity of submission and that has bid them well in their relationship with their husbands.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustrati

Jack Hoey joins us to discuss shortcomings on doctrines of God, his take on speaking in tongues, and the relevance of the Old Testament Law post resurrection of Jesus.  We also have some fun pondering God’s omniscience and how incredibly that may play out in every day life.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E-mail [email protected] for correspondenceExecutive Producer of PWNApod: Jared Svendsen

Therapist, Andrew J. Bauman, unapologetically lays out the current epidemic of womanizing. So how about the men who are sincere in their desire to honor women but may not be aware of the blind-spots that keep them from doing it? How do we honor female beauty but not mentally devour it? Bauman outlines how even the “good guys” have issues with this that need to be acknowledged, dealt with, and humbly fought against. Womanizing is an epidemic that has to be taken seriously; with all male’s hands on deck. Keep up with Andrew Bauman and his books: https://andrewjbauman.comInstagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com

A large part of western Christianity has made Jesus a life coach who gives us an agenda to follow, spiritual requirements to check off of our list; and are missing the point. What if the real point was receiving hope and passing that hope along to others? Instead, we are all busy trying harder and either getting full of pride because we’re mastering the ways of Jesus or getting full of despair because a we just can’t measure up. Matt Johnson, author of Getting Jesus Wrong, claims that the death and resurrection of Jesus is the antidote to “doing more” and “trying harder.” He also feels that deconstructing isn’t so simple and typically stems from a privilegedpoint of view.Getting Jesus Wrong by Matt Johnson available at amazon and wherever else you order books.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Joi

Author of this book, Steve McAllister, lived his life without money for one whole year. He’s got some very interesting thoughts on focusing on the red letters of Jesus, dismantling our male-dominance culture and even ideas about universal basic income. He believes we are living in great times of dismantling corrupt governmental structures for the sake of amazing change for this world. Read this book for free: Stevemc.xyzInstagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E

Logan joins Jared and Joey to discuss their top 50 bands, today they work through #’s 41-50. But before we do that, Joey rambles a bit about how faith fundamentally has to start with mystery. There’s some bonus material at the very end as Joey talks music with Matt Johnson (author and drummer of former Tooth and Nail band, Roadside Monument) and reminisces about the early glory days of the Christian Indie Music scene.Music in episode: Warfare by Vengeance RisingMy Life is Green by Roadside Monument*Scaterd Few concert was in 1991 NOT 1999Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (796

5 questions, two smart guys (Dan and Jack) answering them.This was recorded in the winter of 2019. Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E-mail [email protected] for correspondenceExecutive Producer of PWNApod: Jared Svendsen

Most of us are familiar with Catholicism and Protestantism but Easter Orthodox, not so much.  Matt Hinton and Father Chris, both in the band Luxury (first two releases on Tooth and Nail Records) drop in to school us all on the second largest sect of Christianity.  After a lengthy discussion of its origins, we look into eastern orthodox approaches to scripture, the afterlife, the rapture, evangelism and various other subject matter common to Christianity.  When it’s all said and done, at the end of the episode, we treat you to one of their songs.  Chase down the guys in Luxury:  https://www.facebook.com/parallellovefilm/Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https

These are my words, not hers, but it’s true.  Each of us who uphold the bible as a special book are all doing the best we can to make sense of it. Even when one is convinced God is guiding her personally,  he is still making a decision to trust that gut feeling and believe that specific way.  Sidenote: humility would always serve us well when considering anything involving “hearing God.”  Bonnie is writing a new translation of the bible.  You can read about it here:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1945582321/timshel-an-idiomatic-bible-translationInstagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-4

Jack Hoey joins us again to help us make sense of Jesus being fully God but not fully knowing. And why should we listen to Paul’s other teachings when he was erringly convinced on a very significant belief that Jesus would come back during Paul’s lifetime? We also talk a lot about mega churches, their eventual demise and even an Old Testament passage that endorses abortion. Follow Jack @jackthelesserIntro music to this podcast courtesy of: http://dankoch.net/Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApod Current DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voic

*Special note below on this episode* We talk about a famous pastor of a huge church with a former intern who learned the culture of this church from being on the inside. From staff being required to stand up when this Pastor walks into a room to him being presented in the same light as prophets in the bible, many are left wondering, who is this guy and how can some one be so far off the mark of Jesus’ example? How does he justify his actions? Who are his followers and why are they following? Do the onlookers from the outside just not have the full picture of what’s going on? After hearing about James’ experiences at this church, we speculate about the leader, wonder about who he is behind the scenes and lastly, we make some guesses about his future.*Special note* One of the last questions presented to our guests had to do with "this going viral." The basis of the question was Furtick spontaneously making an "apology video" on his own accord (unrelated to this episode) and that video going

Jared (Joey’s bro) comes on to discuss Joey’s latest season of struggle with mental illness.  They both process whether podcasting in hard times like these is a net positive and reflect on privacy in the context of their personality differences.  Joey shares “Depression Journal Part 3” and psychiatrist, Dr. Ara Darakjiian shares his expertise in the context of mental illness, including medicine’s effectiveness and the potential impact of nutrition on mental health. Dr. Ara Darakjiian graduated medical school from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, completed my psychiatry residency at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center.  He is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist.Time stamps are as follows:(0:00) Joey and Jared’s conversation(27:00) Depression Journal Part 3(49:20)  Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “s

I am being a bit obnoxious by calling this “season 2,” but undoubtedly there has been a lot of change, challenge, learning and pain recently.   Thus, a new season in this journey of my battle with mental illness.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E-mail [email protected] for correspondenceExecutive Producer of PWNApod: Jared Svendsen

I am being a bit obnoxious by calling this “season 2,” but undoubtedly there has been a lot of change, challenge, learning and pain recently.   Thus, a new season in this journey of my battle with mental illness.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PWNAtalkhttps://twitter.com/pwnapod https://twitter.com/joeysvendsen https://www.facebook.com/PWNApod CALL 507-403-PWNA (7962): Questions, Comments, Feedback, Pushback, frustration? Air it out on our voicemail and we may air it on an episode. E-mail [email protected] for correspondenceExecutive Producer of PWNApod: Jared Svendsen

A special edition of Indie Rock Talk brings on guitarist of the infamous Tooth and Nail band, Joe Christmas (influenced by bands like The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr. and Codeine). Russell shares his perspective of the early Tooth and Nail days, which included their debut of Joe Christmas’ Upstairs Overlooking and followed by sophomore release North to the Future.  We talk about the flack Joe Christmas received from Christian “music fans,” for the band not being Christian enough, we hear how these guys initially  connected to Tooth and Nail Records and we get an inside scoop of who these guys were as people when they weren’t rocking that noisy garage sound indie flavor.Instagram account: www.instagram.com/PWNApodCurrent DonorSee: https://donorsee.com/pwnahelpsGet notifications each time we start raising money to get more information on our current opportunity to “save the day” for team humanity. Text PWNAd to 31010.Join us as a patron! https://www.patreon.com/pwnapodJoin the discussion: https://www.facebook.com/group