Episodes

  • The Great Georgia Dirt Dragon: Chapter One

    The Great Georgia Dirt Dragon: Chapter One
    Sep 27 2024

    My new novel, The Great Georgia Dirt Dragon, is out on Tuesday, October 1st. Of all the things I've written or made, this is my favorite. You can order a paperback, audio, or digital copy wherever you prefer to buy books.

    What follows is chapter one of the audiobook version, read by the amazing Rickel Hayes.
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    11 mins
  • It Wasn’t/Was Intended to Be Offensive (with Jeff Suffering)

    It Wasn’t/Was Intended to Be Offensive (with Jeff Suffering)
    Feb 13 2024

    With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.

    Jeff "Suffering" Bettger has been an integral part of controversial acts like Ninety Pound Wuss, Raft of Dead Monkeys, and Suffering and the Hideous Thieves. We have a conversation about his philosophy pf art, inspiration and influence, and whether or not Jeff regrets any of the outrageous art he's made.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Sanctification in What You Watch, Listen To, and Read (With Matt Hughes)

    Sanctification in What You Watch, Listen To, and Read (With Matt Hughes)
    Feb 5 2024

    With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.

    Matt Hughes works in advertising, but he's also a voracious reader, a music lover, a cinephile, and he wrote a novel for the fun of it. After a terrible season of depression, Matt found healing and renewal, and he decided to rethink the way he approaches art and entertainment.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Some Creative Integrity Will Be Sacrificed (with Tyler Hanns)

    Some Creative Integrity Will Be Sacrificed (with Tyler Hanns)
    Jan 24 2024
    With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.

    Tyler Hanns has been doing design, illustration, filmmaking and creative carpentry for years—many of which he spent working with Christian non-profits and megachurches. He and I are about talk about compromise, communication, and the toll “branding” can take on creativity.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • The Greatest Formational Tool is Songs (with Christian Dawson)

    The Greatest Formational Tool is Songs (with Christian Dawson)
    Jan 15 2024
    With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more. Christian Dawson is the pastor of worship at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. He and I are about to have a conversation about musical influences, what qualifies as worship music, and pushing up against church expectations with art.
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    55 mins
  • Worship, Death, and Cake (with Whitney DePaoli)

    Worship, Death, and Cake (with Whitney DePaoli)
    Jan 9 2024
    With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more. Whitney DePaoli is famous for Sugar and Sparrow, a cake-baking and decorating blog that has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, eventually leading to the bestselling cookbook Anyone Can Cake. But what her cake-loving social media fans might not realize is that before Whitney was famous for her culinary creativity, she led worship bands in church and has since quietly written and released music in experimental punk rock bands—and she didn't arrive at any of those gigs painlessly. We talk about the way tragedy affects creativity, reinventing yourself in new mediums, and living in radically different creative spaces.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • The Secret Deconstruction of the Sex Addict (with Chad Johnson)

    The Secret Deconstruction of the Sex Addict (with Chad Johnson)
    Jan 3 2023

    Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion is out now wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Find out more.

    Chad Johnson was a prominent figure in underground music before he became a big wheel in the Christian music industry. He's seen his fair share of deconstruction, but it was a secret battle against addiction that brought him to the precipice of his own deconversion.
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    54 mins
  • Colonialism, Sex, and Sacred Bleeding (with Gavin Bennett)

    Colonialism, Sex, and Sacred Bleeding (with Gavin Bennett)
    Dec 27 2022

    Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion is out now wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Find out more.

    Gavin Bennett is a pastor of communities in Portland, Oregon who has experienced a lot of pain and confusion and has walked with others through even more of it. But he can't seem to shake this thing called the church.
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    1 hr and 44 mins