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Season 3
Episode One:
Use the Force Bitch: Star Wars and Religion
Episode Two:
The Capitalist Christianity Of Kanye West And Joel Osteen
Episode Three:
Artifacts? More like Artifalse: Christian Relics Part 1
Bonus Episode:
Dungeons and Dragons and the Devil
Season 2
Episode One:
St. Patrick: Man vs. Myth
Episode Two:
Julian of Norwich and Her Bloody Revelation
Episode Three:
Easter Part 1: Death of Jesus
Episode Four:
Death Of Jesus Part 2 - Resurrection
Episode Five:
Texts Of Terror: Why are They in the Bible?
Episode Six:
Jesus - Messiah, Teacher, or Resistor
Episode Seven:
Witch of Endor - Witchcraft in the Bible?
Episode Eight:
Christian Utopias And Cults: More Like Utopi - Nah
Episode Nine:
Christian Cults And Utopias Part 2: The Horror of Unsafe Sects
Episode Ten:
Judith - The OG Resistor
Episode Eleven:
Purity Culture
Episode Twelve:
Mary Magdalene Part 1: The Real Origin Story
Episode Thirteen:
Mary Magdalene Part 2: Lies and More Lies
Episode Fourteen:
Harry Potter and the Christian Allegory
Episode Fifteen:
The Jesus Generation: Kids Who Want to Save the Environment
Episode Sixteen:
Antichrist Part 1: The Early Years
Episode Seventeen:
Antichrist Part 2: Welcome to Trump's America
Episode Eighteen:
My Vagina is an Ark: Interview with Zahra Noorbakhsh
Episode Nineteen:
Dear America: An Interview With Jose Antonio Vargas
Season 1
Episode One:
Get Behind Me Satan
Episode Two:
Let's Talk About Sex
Episode Three:
Hell Yes!
Episode Four:
Badass Ladies of the Old Testament
Episode Five:
Badass Ladies of the NT
Episode Six:
All About Eve
Episode Seven:
Sarah & Hagar -A Horrifying Handmaids Tale
Episode Eight:
What Even is a Biblical Wedding?
Episode Nine:
Bathsheba - A Whore No More
Episode Ten:
We Are Legion!
Episode Eleven:
Who Would Jesus Deport?
Episode Twelve:
Six Flags Over Fundamentalism w/ Trip Fuller
Episode Thirteen:
Ruth, Here's Your One Chance, Fancy
Episode Fourteen:
God and Guns
Episode Fifteen:
Samson: Long Hair, Don't Care
Episode Sixteen:
Zipporah: Taking Matters Into Her Own Hands
Episode Seventeen:
Judas: Asshole or Antihero
Episode Eighteen:
Apocalypse and Pop Culture Part 1
Episode Nineteen:
Apocalypse and Pop Culture Part 2
Episode Twenty:
Courting in the Court: The Story of David and Jonathan
Episode Twenty-One:
Beatitudes: #Blessed
Episode Twenty-Two:
Hail Mary?
MeetTheBibleBitches

Rev. Laura Barclay, MDiv, MAMFT, is a practicing Marriage and Family Therapy Associate and ordained Baptist minister. Laura holds a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary ('16), a Masters in Divinity from Wake Forest University ('08), and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Louisville ('05). She previously worked in denominational ministry and released her first book, "With Us in the Wilderness" in 2014 about spiritual narrative and empowerment. She loves spending time with her spouse Ryan Eller and her two dogs, Gryffin and Dobby, as well as watching Harry Potter movies and talking a great deal about the intersection of mental health, the Church, and public policy, making everyone extremely uncomfortable at the dinner table. She does not enjoy having to tell all her friends to keep calling their representatives to preserve basic human rights, but hey, we are living in the dumpster fire of Trump's America...

Sara Hof kicks the shins of patriarchy from her small Los Angeles apartment while binging netflix, pizza, and scotch. She has a couple of masters degrees, one in divinity from Wake Forest University and one in women's studies from Claremont Graduate University, and enjoys reading and thinking about both while doing nothing with either. Her most notable achievements are yet to come, which can be done easily because, to date, that honor goes to not falling down the last time I went rollerblading.