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Sex & Sexuality
It's Missy's turn for a solo-host episode, and she brings the facts and the figures surrounding one of the topics the church deems one of the most taboo: Sex. Very specifically, the damaging and traumatic echoes of purity culture. Fair warning: there migh
Pagan As F*ck!
Why is Christmas on December 25th? What a rabbit got to do with Easter? Why do we have cake on our birthdays, and why are there candles on it? Why do some people wear makeup? In this episode, Missy returns to co-host with James as they take a look a...
It's Just A Theory!
"But it's just a theory!" is the oft-heard retort by many when debating the validity of the Big Bang or evolution or climate change, but use of such a fallacy gets us nowhere. Thus on this episode of Unbelievable, James is joined by astrophysicist a...
The Roots of Religion
In this episode, James takes a look at where religion comes from. How did early religions get started? How did they propagate? Perhaps the Cargo Cults of the Pacific can tell us more about that, plus a couple of solid recommendations to follow the e...
Mid-Season Mythbusters
Season 1 has hit the half way mark, and this episode takes a different direction for the occasion, as James brings the words of the experts to bust some mythical myths. There's physicists, geologists, and preachers, oh my!
Religious Trauma Syndrome
James' old pastor used to love to say "this is where the rubber meets the road" when emphasizing a sermon point. This is the podcast version of that. James brings some f***ing facts that are neither relevant nor particularly important, while Missy b...
What The Hell, Part 2
In the second of a two part discussion on the rejecting the darker side of religious belief, we're...well, basically, we're all over the place. Hell. Death. TV Evangelists. Religious Trauma Syndrome. It's all here, and it's all just a bit crazy. Plu...
What The Hell, Part 1
It's the return of the...oh wait, you're kidding, Missy didn't just say what I think she did...did she? HELL YEAH SHE DID. Your unbelieving co-host duo are back to the usual format in episode 6 with the first part of a two part discussion on the oth...
To Err Is Human, To Forgive...Also Human!
There's been some pretty drastic changes in James and Missy's life, and in this episode James plays the part of solo host to discuss why forgiveness, so often tied to religious thinking, is a human quality that we should embrace, even without the th...
The Moral of the Story
As if we didn't go deep enough in episode 3, episode 4 "The Moral of the Story" gets a notch deeper with a look at one of the hardest post-religion question; the nature and origins of morality. James goes off on a monologue about the different philo...