- 1 hour 22 minutesTherapy vs. Coaching (#416)
Guests: Josh Gilbert and Kristen Tideman
Topics:
- Therapy vs. coaching (3:48)
- Licensure and regulation (11:20)
- Scope of practice (20:47)
- Actionable plans (38:00)
- Existential psychology (45:14)
- Religious landscape expertise (52:00)
- Trauma and self-diagnosis (58:27)
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8 September 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 18 minutesPeak Youth Group Era with Tyler Huckabee (RELEVANT, Sojourners) (#415)
Guest: Tyler Huckabee | Sojourners, RELEVANT Megazine
Tyler's Article | Reckoning With the Youth Group That Raised Us
Topics:
• Adolescent development (8:36)
• Columbine and martyrdom culture (14:45)
• Braveheart (25:00)
• Youth group as third space (31:44)
• Summer camp autonomy (37:45)
• Deficit-based views of teenagers (56:55)
• Doubt and the exvangelical wilderness (1:02:48)
• Trump and belief (1:09:10)
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31 August 2026, 10:00 am - 46 minutes 59 secondsDan in the Hot Seat with Tripp Fuller (#414)
Guest: Tripp Fuller (Homebrewed Christianity)
Topics:
• Cognitive-existential therapy (11:56)
• Self-deception & “ultimate concern” (27:06)
• ADHD & embodiment (31:09)
Patron Half
• “The Hell of the Same” (43:00)
• Wasting your life in every era (1:00:45)
• Christian bookstore CDs & punk rock (1:20:14)
• College Counseling & Young Adults (1:44:31)
• The dark magic of rock and roll (1:47:02)
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24 August 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 27 minutesIs "Spirituality" the Best We Can Do? (#413)
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Guest: Jay Michaelson (Both/And)
Topics:
- Why "spirituality" makes a bad communicator (3:07)
- Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and inventing God in our own image (5:04)
- Psychedelics, myth-making, and religion as "proto peer review" (16:56)
- The case for spirituality's broadness (32:04)
- Crystals, gurus, and spotting spiritual abuse (38:07)
- Peak experiences, Kierkegaard's leap of faith, and the trouble with certainty (59:07)
Previous Episode with Jay:
Rabbi and Journalist Jay Michaelson (#366)
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17 August 2026, 10:00 am - 38 minutes 25 secondsGGCH: Nolan’s Odyssey & Tony’s New Novel (#412)
Guests: Tony Jones & Josh Gilbert (Generation Gap Culture Hour returns!)
Topics:
- Culture roundup: alliteration bios, Son of Helena, dude lit & Lonesome Dove (1:58)
- The Odyssey: theater reactions, IMAX chaos & the OCD popcorn guy (14:33)
- Nolan's rewrite: war, Xenia & the Christianization of the Odyssey (23:11)
Patron Half Begins (35:44)
- Casting choices: Helen, Elliot Page & the "DEI" debate (36:19)
- Oral tradition, the Emily Wilson controversy & Nolan/Bond rumors (44:27)
- Agamemnon's sacrifice, Isaac & OCD scrupulosity (54:54)
- Writing historical fiction: polenta, plums & Constantine's conversion (1:03:22)
- AI as research assistant: therapy, health & the future of work (1:16:12)
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10 August 2026, 8:00 am - 1 hour 41 minutesDan Passed the Exam! & a Timely Rebroadcast
Episode #370 | Trusting Yourself After Religious Change
*Original Description *
To Trust Your Experience (Dustin Kensrue) (#38)
Is experience potentially a direct pathway to the God of the universe? Or is it simply “the heart [being] deceitful above all things”? Can we trust our spiritual experience, and if so, which experiences are trustworthy? This topic was recommended by my guest Dustin Kensrue (singer/songwriter of the band Thrice, former worship director at Mars Hill Church in Seattle), and I jumped at it. In today’s episode, we go through Dustin’s own story, from young Christian punk rocker, to prominent Neo-Calvinist, to church scandal whistleblower (sort of), to reconstructed liberal Christian, all the while considering the role of experience in that journey.
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3 August 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 21 minutesA Jewish Sex Educator Reads the Gospel of Matthew (#411)
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Guest: Jenn Mason (WinkWink Boutique)
Topics:
- Growing up Jewish in a small rural town and rediscovering Judaism as an adult (1:43)
- National media attention, antisemitic harassment, and finding a spiritual framework (6:26)
- Why read the Gospels: side-eye toward Christianity and swimming in a Christian culture (10:57)
- Softness, disability, and getting "off template" (24:53)
- First impressions of Matthew: the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus at the center (34:23)
- Anti-Pharisee texts, the Great Commission, and the religion of Jesus vs. Christianity (43:32)
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27 July 2026, 10:00 am - 40 minutes 12 seconds“Conspirituality” & Wellness Culture (#410)
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Guest: Valerie Martin (Gaia Center / But For Real Podcast)
Topics:
- Tarot, astrology, and Valerie's path into new age spirituality (4:57)
- Wellness coaching, MLM culture, and spiritual bypassing (10:53)
- Cialdini's Influence: social proof and identity enmeshment (24:03)
- Money, ethics, and the "Wild West" of spiritual coaching (31:24)
Patron Break
- The Telepathy Tapes: facilitated communication and the case for and against (43:51)
- Near-death experiences, psi phenomena, and the limits of a materialist brain (1:00:53)
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20 July 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesChristianity Vs. Existentialism | Part 3 (#409)
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Guest: Daryl Van Tongeren Returns! (Hope College / "Done")
Topics:
- What is existentialism and existential psychology? (5:25)
- Does life have a predetermined purpose, or do we make our own? (19:00)
- Faith and uncertainty (42:21)
- Objective morality, self-sacrifice, and the doormat problem (54:02)
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13 July 2026, 10:00 am - 1 hour 7 minutesPsychology & Religion at the World Cup (#408)
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Guests: Victoria Jackson & Terry Shoemaker
Topics:
- Religion, sport, and the sacred — evangelical baggage and finite vs. eternal stakes (7:00)
- Maradona's "Hand of God" and sport as modern mythology (13:42)
- Victoria's World Cup travel plans and fan culture on the road (20:36)
- FIFA corruption, Infantino, and Trump's soccer obsession (36:13)
- Masculinity, grace, and violence across sports (44:45)
- Promotion, relegation, and why an MLS club costs more than Bournemouth (56:29)
- Final predictions: teams to watch (58:00)
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6 July 2026, 10:00 am - 50 minutes 36 secondsGGCH: World Cup, Down Syndrome and Have US Men Stopped Reading? (#407)
Guests: Tony Jones & Josh Gilbert (Generation Gap Culture Hour returns!)
Topics:
- Culture roundup: All the Pretty Horses, Dave on Hulu, The Strokes (3:28)
- Streaming piracy & the ethics of stealing (19:58)
- Dude lit & the book club (30:53)
- Men and reading (Tony's Substack crossover moment) (36:27)
Patron Half Begins (46:55)
- World Cup (46:30)
- Down Syndrome screening, disability & ethics of life (1:01:40)
- Jesus and the just world hypothesis (1:14:54)
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