

Evangelicalish
Evangelicalish
Weekly Livestreams on YouTube on Wed nights at 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific with hosts Ashley Swearengin and @UnconventionalPastorPaul, Paul Swearengin. She served as mayor of a city, Paul was an evangelical pastor. Together, they were deep in the middle of the rise of Christian nationalism.
Come join us as we discussing a spirituality that reaches beyond the walls of a church building and connects deconstructing people of faith to a renewed identity and a beautiful connection to divine love and goodness. We would love you to join us so we can all grow together in community.
Come join us as we discussing a spirituality that reaches beyond the walls of a church building and connects deconstructing people of faith to a renewed identity and a beautiful connection to divine love and goodness. We would love you to join us so we can all grow together in community.
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Oct 21, 2021 • 1h 17min
Immigration & the Border; Decolonizing Faith w/ Pastor Alex Vaiz
Paul, Jeremy and April are joined with special guest Pastor Alex Vaiz to talk about his experience as a Pastor of Color within White evangelical spaces and the importance of decolonizing your faith. He also talks about his experience going down to the southern border and what Christianity should look like when it comes to immigration.
Links to organizations Alex mentioned:
Al Otro Lado (AOL) (CA border)- https://alotrolado.org
We Care- https://somoswecare.com
Matthew25 (CA border)- https://matthew25socal.org
Raíces (Texas border)- https://raicestexas.org
Global Immersion- https://globalimmerse.org
NM Cafe (New Mexico border)- https://organizenm.org
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Oct 14, 2021 • 1h 3min
Halloween, HeII Houses & Jon Gruden
It's October and churches are gearing up for their Harvest Fests, Hallelujah Nights or Judgment/Hell Houses. April, Paul and Jeremy talk all things Halloween and the fear tactics used by Evangelical churches over the years.
Then, they discuss Coach Jon Gruden resigning from the Las Vegas Raiders amid racist, homophobic and misogynistic emails that recently surfaced. They talk about the difference between persecution and accountability.
The episode ends with a new segment called 2-Minute Takes where they talk about whatever is on their mind for a timed two minutes.
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Oct 7, 2021 • 1h 9min
God's Not Dead, Bad Christian Art & Facebook Stuff
Jeremy watches the God's Not Dead 4 trailer for the first time live on this episode. Paul, April and Jeremy then talk at length about the God's Not Dead movies and other bad Christian art. They also talk about the Facebook whistleblower and the impact of social media sites becoming targeted echo chambers.
They end the show with coming up with titles for God's Not Dead 5 and read live responses from the chat.
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sep 30, 2021 • 1h 12min
SBC Abuse Cover-Up and Evangelical Gullibility
Paul, April and Jeremy discuss the Southern Baptist Convention's decision to have a closed investigation of the more than 700 sexual abuse cases within SBC churches. The messengers wanted an open investigation and full transparency of all findings, and the higher ups at the SBC voted against the will of the people to protect themselves. So, they discuss the implications of this and how widespread abuse is in churches beyond the SBC.
They also talk about the gullibility of evangelicals and how 19 of the top 20 Christian Facebook pages were controlled by foreign troll farms.
https://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech-gaming/almost-all-of-facebooks-top-christian-pages-are-run-by-foreign-troll-farms/
The show ends with some improv sermon illustrations.
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Sep 23, 2021 • 1h 24min
Are American Evangelicals Listening?
Countless exvangelicals have been sounding the alarms about the American Evangelical church but nothing seems to be changing.
To discuss what can be done, Jeremy & April are joined by Antwuan Malone who is the Executive Director of Elevate a young adult ministry in Texas and host of Colored Commentary podcast. He is working within evangelical spaces to try to get churches to listen to the stories of those hurt by the church.
The three of them discuss how that's been going and is it worth trying to change from within. The show ends with a fun Q&A.
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Sep 9, 2021 • 1h 37min
Jeremy Resigns From His Church, Texas Abortion Bill, Fun Q&A
Join us as we kick off season 4 of Evangelicalish.
Jeremy recently resigned from his church as Worship Pastor and tells a bit of that journey. The team discusses the feelings of leaving a church community behind and what church means for them going forward.
They also dive into the new Texas Abortion Law. If you want to hear them argue about pointless things, you'll enjoy the the lighthearted Q&A at the end.
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Aug 19, 2021 • 1h 23min
Afghanistan, School Mask Mandates & Improv Altar Calls
On the last episode of the 3rd season, Jeremy, Paul & April talk about the terror that is happening in Afghanistan, how we got here, and what we can do now. They also talk about mask mandates as kids go back to school and the parent protests popping up in school board meetings across the nation.
They end the season on a fun note: Improv altar calls. The topics for the sermon illustrations were given in the live chat of this episode.
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Aug 12, 2021 • 1h 26min
Christian Democrats, Nationalism & Covid Conspiracies
Kelly Krout, a christian democrat who ran for office in Arkansas, joins April & Jeremy to discuss faith in politics and how faith led them away from their former conservative beliefs.
They also discuss the Covid vaccine, how Christian nationalism is prolonging the pandemic and the ridiculous Covid conspiracies running rampant in conservative circles.
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Aug 6, 2021 • 1h 19min
The End Times and Anti-American "Patriots"?
Are we in the end times? Ever since we can remember, the evangelical church has been warning that we are in the end times and that the Rapture is imminent. We discuss where we are on this belief and the fear tactics used to enforce end times rhetoric.
We also talk about the far-right and how their "patriotism" is actually anti-american. This discussion was brought on by this article by VOX "The Anti-American Right": https://www.vox.com/22600500/olympics...
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jul 29, 2021 • 1h 29min
Simone Biles, Jan. 6 Testimonies & Can Good Be Salvaged From Harmful Churches?
April, Jeremy and Paul talk conservative hatred towards Simone Biles and the Capitol Police.
We also discuss the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Mark Driscoll and is it possible to hold onto the good after seeing the ugly in evangelical churches?
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🎧 Thank you for listening to Evangelicalish!Connect with Us:Join Pastor Paul's Substack Community: Sacred RebellionCheck out Paul’s international blog with the anti-empire group The Quollective 📲 Follow Evangelicalish:Instagram | TikTok | YouTubePaul's Blog on The Quollective Blog Site 🎧 Subscribe & Review:Help us reach others by subscribing, rating, and leaving a review wherever you listen. 💛 Support our work: ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteBuy Paul’s Book: Religious Right Religiously Wrong: A Modern Day Parable 🌐 More from Paul & Ashley:ISH/Pastor-Paul WebsiteEvangelicalish Livestream Sundays at 9am PTThank you for being part of this growing, healing, irreverent, and hopeful community. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.


