Happy New Year!

Hello and a belated Happy New Year (and Epiphany)! We’ve been hard at work the last 6 weeks making new content and building out some new platforms. We have a new schedule for 2024 that we’re excited to share, and we want to invite you to check out our recent updates at Spotify, YouTube, and Facebook.

New Year, New Voices, New Schedule

Nathan Key has joined the Worst Church Ever family, and he and Chris are doing hour-long, 3-segment video episodes that publish every Monday on YouTube and Spotify. Worst Church Ever: Coffee Hour covers a broad range of topics with sincerity, heart, some humor, and, hopefully, a healthy dose of humility. Join us!

Tuesday and Thursdays will be for short-form content on platforms that favor that style. YouTube Shorts, Facebook/Instagram Reels, and, heaven help us, TikTok.

Wednesdays will see the continuation of our Narrative Journeys through the books of Scripture, continuing from where we’ve been in Genesis and moving forward with short, close reads of the text paying particular attention to repeated motifs of trauma and healing.

On Fridays, we’ll share a brand new feature called Songs from a Broken Liturgy. John Hardt joins the fold to tell the story of the Broken Liturgy gatherings. In the dying days of the emerging church movement, John, a pastor, musician, and creator, began convening radically different worship experiences in unlikely places. This is the story of where Broken Liturgy has been and where it might be going.

We hope you’ll add to the conversation in 2024!

Season 2 (Even Worser) Coming Soon!

We’re getting ready for Season 2!

Interesting, Isn’t it?

During Season 1, we ran some Facebook ads to get the word out about the podcast. The comments (and DMs) mostly came from two groups who, on the surface, have little in common. There were triggered diatribes from people who think all Christians are mean-spirited fundamentalists, and there were the triggered diatribes from actual fundamentalists who think all people who aren’t fundamentalists are going to the Bad Place. Interesting, isn’t it?

People who have actually listened to the show seem to appreciate it, and we’re grateful for that. As we launch Season Two (Even Worser), we invite you to bring your questions, (respectful) feedback, suggestions for topics and guests, and welcome you to share your stories.

Here’s what we’re planning:

  • Continuing with the stories of the Old Testament through the lens of generational trauma
  • Deconstructing fundamentalist approaches to scripture in general.
  • Sharing Bonus Episodes (short, sweet, and random)

New for this Season:

  • Interviews 
  • Special Guests
  • Supplemental looks at Gospel passages, Epistles, Psalms, and Proverbs (following the Narrative Lectionary cycle, more or less)

Stay tuned! New shows start in July, but some warm-up Bonus Episodes (Short, Sweet, and Random) may drop sooner!