Deep Drinks

What happens when someone who lived inside Bethel’s world finally tells the whole story?In this episode of the Deep Drinks Podcast, I sit down with Jubilee Dawn to talk about Bethel, the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, charismatic Christianity, prophecy, healing culture, spiritual abuse, and what it looks like to deconstruct after years of believing it all was real.We get into the rise of Bethel’s influence, the media and personalities that helped shape that world, and the deeper cost of movements built on supernatural claims that never seem to deliver when it matters most.https://posty.social/@deepdrinks

In this episode of Deep Drinks, I sit down with Professor Neil Van Leeuwen, author of Religion as Make-Believe, to unpack one of the most fascinating ideas I’ve come across in the psychology and philosophy of religion. We explore the difference between factual belief and religious credence, why some beliefs update with evidence while others seem untouched by it, and why so many conversations between believers, atheists and apologists end up going nowhere.https://posty.social/@deepdrinksMUSIC: @dcuttermusic

In this episode of Deep Drinks, I’m joined by Aaron Kelly, a former pastor who came out publicly in 2020 after years of trying to “pray the gay away” and navigating church-led conversion practices. We unpack what the Bible does (and doesn’t) say about homosexuality, the “clobber verses”, Sodom and Gomorrah, purity culture, and what deconstruction looks like when your faith, community, and identity collide. Honest, messy, and surprisingly hopeful.https://posty.social/@deepdrinksMUSIC: @dcuttermusic

I ask Professor Graham Oppy — one of the world’s leading philosophers of religion with 30+ years in the field — the blunt question: “Is there a God?” and we get into why he confidently says no, how atheism, agnosticism and naturalism actually work, why people believe in God in the first place, whether miracles and fine-tuning are good evidence, if morality and meaning collapse without religion, and what consciousness really is if there’s no soul. We talk problem of evil (why pray to a God who didn’t stop the Holocaust), deconstruction, raising kids without faith, and what keeps people holding on. We even rapid-fire the classic arguments for God — cosmological, design, morality, resurrection — and ask which religion, if any, is most likely to be true.https://posty.social/@deepdrinksMUSIC: @dcuttermusic

In Episode 115 of Deep Drinks Podcast, I talk with Drew (Genetically Modified Skeptic) about whether gay conversion therapy works, focusing on its psychological harm and how experts have discredited it. We explore the clash between religious teachings and LGBTQ+ rights, emphasizing the importance of personal truth and human rights.https://posty.social/@deepdrinksMUSIC: @dcuttermusic#gayconversiontherapy #lgbt #deepdrinks