Unbelief

By Jeremy Steele

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The Unbelief Podcast is your space to question, explore, and release the beliefs that no longer serve you—or maybe even caused harm. Hosted by Jeremy Steele, the Skeptic Pastor, this podcast dives deep into deconstruction, offering progressive and thoughtful insights on ancient spiritual texts like the Bible. Through interviews with leading scholars and candid conversations with those navigating their own faith journeys, the Unbelief Podcast invites you to rethink, rediscover, and rebuild your spirituality on your own terms. If you've ever felt disillusioned by what you were told to believe, this is the podcast for you.

Episode Date
What If God Shows Up More in Art Than in Sermons?
May 03, 2026
Criminalizing Ejaculation, Tarrifs, Bonhoeffer, The Neverending Story and the new book, Saints Sinners and Clickers
Apr 26, 2026
The Bible Doesn’t Have One Jesus. It Has Four
Apr 19, 2026
The Tea: Queer Pastor Cancelled by a Christian Podcast and Her Story of Coming Out and Getting Ordained
Apr 12, 2026
Interviews on Faith from the No Kings Protest in DC
Apr 06, 2026
Being "Slain in the Spirit" and the Science Behind It
Mar 29, 2026
Evangelical Camp Drama: How a Spotify Post Became a Faith Crisis
Mar 23, 2026
Brainwashing Techniques Used by Evangelicals to Teach Hell
Mar 08, 2026
Fiction Author and Human Trafficking Survivor: Dirinks and Deconstruction
Feb 22, 2026
When “Modesty” Comes With a $10 Fine
Feb 15, 2026
Jesus Didn’t Have to Die: Escaping the Evangelical Blood-Requirement
Feb 10, 2026
Prayer After Deconstruction: Letting Go of the Cosmic Vending Machine
Jan 18, 2026
Drinks and Deconstruction: A Roman Catholic Doubting Thomas
Jan 11, 2026
Tribulation Survival Guide: Roasting Rapture Culture with Stuart Delony
Jan 04, 2026
A New Year Ritual for People Who Don’t Trust New Year’s Resolutions
Dec 28, 2025
What Is the ACTUAL Date of Christmas?
Dec 14, 2025
Jesus Wasn’t Born in Bethlehem or a Stable (And That Changes Everything)
Dec 07, 2025
Theatre Kids and the Pope: Origins and Legends of the Christmas Tree
Nov 30, 2025
Revelation Isn’t About the Future or Microchips
Nov 23, 2025
Deconstructing without Losing Faith (kind of)
Nov 16, 2025
1946 and the Bible’s Big Gay Mistranslation (and How to Handle the Haters)
Nov 12, 2025
Tower of Babel vs. Linguistics: What Really Happened to Our Languages?
Nov 09, 2025
The Theology of Algorithms (and Why Church is Boring)
Nov 05, 2025
No Historical Evidence that Jesus Existed?
Nov 02, 2025
Deconstructing Satan, Demon Possession and Halloween
Oct 29, 2025
Does Jesus say people are going to Hell and Do I Have to Believe in the Bible to Believe in God?
Oct 26, 2025
Progressive Youth Ministry?
Oct 19, 2025
Stopping the Exodus of Young Adults from the Church
Oct 08, 2025
Ruth: The Rated R Scene
Oct 05, 2025
Fictional Deconstruction with Brian McLaren
Sep 28, 2025
What Really Happened in Jesus’ Last Hours and the Female Disciples of Jesus
Sep 25, 2025
The Historical Jesus: The Missing Pieces
Sep 21, 2025
Pharisees Are Good Guys and Jesus Gender Bending
Sep 14, 2025
Why People Are Leaving the Church and How to Stay Engaged in Spirituality After Leaving
Sep 10, 2025
Virginity Rocks: Deconstructing Purity Culture
Aug 27, 2025
Ruth: The Art of Seduction
Aug 24, 2025
A PhD in Religious Trauma!?
Aug 20, 2025
Ruth: The Mystery Revealed
Aug 17, 2025
Jesus Unarmed aka Make Jerusalem Great Again
Aug 13, 2025
Ruth: The Holiness of Social Welfare and Hard Work
Aug 10, 2025
Q&A: Buddhist Christians, Inclusive Reading of the Bible, Hell Isn’t in There, and the True Translation of the Bible
Aug 06, 2025
Ruth: The Relationship We Are All Looking For
Aug 03, 2025
Old Maid at 22 Comes Out a Decade Later
Jul 30, 2025
Ruth: an Anti-patriarch Bible Book about Inclusion and Political Protest
Jul 27, 2025
Deconstructing Purity Culture: Masturbation Addiction
Jul 24, 2025
Deconstructing Purity Culture: Damaged Goods
Jul 16, 2025
Parable of the ten bridesmaids and being open
Jul 13, 2025
Deconstructing Purity Culture: Cohabitation and Living in Sin
Jul 09, 2025
The Parable of the Weeds and Why People Aren't who You Think They Are
Jul 06, 2025
Purity Culture Damage from Being "Unequally Yoked’"
Jul 02, 2025
When Jesus Threw Wine in the Pharisee’s Face
Jun 29, 2025
What is Religious Trauma?
Jun 25, 2025
The Rapture isn’t Real: a Verse-by-Verse Guide
Jun 22, 2025
Ancient Jewish Secret for Reading the Bible
Jun 18, 2025
The Only Gay Kid in Town: A Story of Communally Inflicted Trauma
Jun 11, 2025
The Parable of the Mustard Seed: Read It However You Want—That’s the Point
Jun 08, 2025
How to Have Relationships with Unaffirming Friends and Family (and when to let them go) Interview with Sharon Roggio Director of 1946 the Movie
Jun 04, 2025
Jesus Told a Story About Classism, and We Made It About Hell... It's Not
Jun 01, 2025
Deconstructing the LGBTQ ‘Clobber Verses’—and Our Own Deconstruction
May 28, 2025
Excuses, Entitlement, and Why You Might Get Uninvited
May 25, 2025
Altar Calls, Emotional Manipulation, and the Psychology of ‘Come Forward’
May 21, 2025
Why Matthew Probably Didn’t Write Matthew: unlocking the Four Soils and the Mystery of the Kingdom,
May 18, 2025
The Faith Healing Was Fake—But the Damage Was Real
May 14, 2025
The Petty Soap Opera of Herod and Cleopatra — The Parable of the Talents
May 11, 2025
Burning CDs for Jesus—And Other Regrets
May 07, 2025
The Parable of the Two Hot Mess Brothers
May 04, 2025
Hell Houses, Fistfights, and Breaking the Cycle for Our Kids
Apr 30, 2025
The Ten Commandments—You’ve Been Reading Them Wrong
Apr 27, 2025
What the Hell Is Hell, Anyway?
Apr 23, 2025
Easter’s Pagan (kind of), Words Change, and the KJV Is Horrible
Apr 20, 2025
Romans: The Book That’s Been Misused for Centuries
Apr 16, 2025
Why You Keep Making the Same Mistakes—And Why You Can’t Fix Them Alone
Apr 13, 2025
Deconstruction, Patriarchy, and the Atheist Boyfriend Who Got It
Apr 09, 2025
The Wilderness Sucks - Even Moses Needed a Dance Break
Apr 06, 2025
The Bible: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and Why Constantine Didn’t Make It
Apr 02, 2025
God is not a Magical Genie
Mar 23, 2025
Leaving Mormonism, Preaching Atheism, and Finding a More Chill Path
Mar 19, 2025
This Story Is Not a Children’s Lesson—Boils, Hail, and the Final Plague
Mar 16, 2025
Why Purity Culture Messes Up Kids—And Why Atheists Might Be Onto Something
Mar 12, 2025
From Church Pews to the Solstice - a Theatre Kid Rediscovers God
Mar 05, 2025
No, the Bible Doesn’t Say Being Queer Is a Sin—Let’s Prove It (also it's Pro-Trans)
Mar 02, 2025
Southern Baptist Illuminati outs a Gay Deacon and Ruins His Life
Feb 27, 2025
Snakes, Plagues, and Denial—The Real Exodus Story
Feb 23, 2025
A Reformed Southern Baptist Comes Out - Yeah, You Read that Right
Feb 19, 2025
The Bible: Now with 100% More Dysfunctional Families and Insecure Leaders
Feb 16, 2025
How to not Suck as a Christian
Feb 11, 2025
How to Make an Authoritarian Really Mad
Feb 09, 2025
Time is a Lie, the Universe is a Mess and Religion is a Paradox
Feb 05, 2025
Moses, Murder, and a Mystery Foreskin
Feb 02, 2025
And then I had an Out of Body Experience
Jan 29, 2025
Speech Impediments Freee Slaves
Jan 26, 2025
The Faith of a Nerd, Geek and Gamer
Jan 22, 2025
An Introvert Saves the World
Jan 20, 2025
Life After Doom and Should You Stay Christian with Brian McLaren
Jan 15, 2025
Moses the Murderer and the Basket Baby
Jan 12, 2025
A Mars Scientist Becomes a Medium
Jan 08, 2025
Attempted Genocide Thwarted by Two Unlikely Women
Jan 05, 2025
An Ancient Ritual to Make 2025 Better then 2024
Jan 01, 2025
A Feminist Geneology? In a Patriarchal Culture?
Dec 29, 2024
The Christmas Story through a Queer Lens and The History of the LGBTQ Relationship with the Church
Dec 25, 2024
When Santa Claus Slapped a Guy in a Church Meeting
Dec 22, 2024
Drinks and Deconstruction: Kali and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Dec 19, 2024
The Pagan Origins of Christianity and Exactly How Many Year's It's Been Since the First Christmas
Dec 15, 2024
Drinks and Deconstruction: A Japanese Deomon, Tarot Cards, and the Celtic Fire Festiva l.
Dec 12, 2024
Biblical Sitcom and Why Sodom and Gommorah is not about Homosexuality
Dec 09, 2024
Drinks and Deconstruction: Rocking the Boat with Doubts and Justice - a Conversation With Craig Mendoza
Dec 04, 2024
Circumcision, Anxiety, and the Origins of Islam
Dec 02, 2024
An acient bloody ritual that helps loneliness
Nov 24, 2024
A mental health diagnosis led to doubting and freedom from evangelicalism: Anna Gazmarian
Nov 20, 2024
The Secret of Finding Purpose is Ancient Genealogy
Nov 18, 2024
An Interview with an Actual Heretic: Matthew Disefano
Nov 13, 2024
Tower of Babel is about the iPhone
Nov 10, 2024
A Catholic Lets go and Comes Back: Drinks and Deconstruction with Juliette
Nov 06, 2024
Noah's Ark Isn't Real: Another Book Club in Genesis
Nov 04, 2024
Why do Preachers Suck with Dr. Sam Parkes
Oct 30, 2024
Genesis 2 Layers of Meaning from Why Bad Things Happen, to the Beginning of Science
Oct 28, 2024
Navigating Cancer Anti-Vaxers and More: Drinks and Deconstruction with Michele
Oct 24, 2024
Genesis 1 is not About Science
Oct 21, 2024
A Podcast for People Who Don't Church: Introducind UnBelief
Oct 18, 2024