ChristiAnarchy Today

Meet the Hosts

Christianarchy podcast explores diverse Christian perspectives, focusing on youth issues and personal faith over rituals, challenging traditional views and stereotypes.

Christians Who Don’t Go to Church, Part 1

Christianity centers on accepting Jesus as Savior, living His teachings, and personal faith beyond church. Church aids growth but isn't essential; focus on love, not…

Christians Who Don’t Go to Church, Part 2

The teaching highlights the tension between personal faith and church attendance, emphasizing genuine community and spirituality beyond traditional structures and rituals.

The Kid Has Something to Say

Shawn stresses church-state separation, urging Christians to vote by conscience, not religious mandates. Open dialogue and respect for diverse views are key, avoiding political manipulation.

The Vote

Shawn predicts a narrow Trump win, highlights voting reforms, advocates for state rights, open dialogue, and optimism in politics, emphasizing faith and respect.

After the Vote

Shawn's teaching highlights the tension between faith and politics, urging Christians to balance civic duties with spiritual priorities, prioritize Christ's teachings, and encourage independent thinking.

The American Christ?

Faith in Christ varies culturally; Shawn critiques Mormonism, promotes free thinking, open dialogue, and challenges Calvinism's determinism, emphasizing freedom in faith.

Being a Mormon vs. Being an Atheist

Shawn's teaching compares Mormonism and atheism, emphasizes openness to diverse beliefs, explores election skepticism, and envisions a future led by youth and truth.

Body Image

Social media amplifies body image issues, pressuring conformity to unrealistic standards. Embrace individuality, faith, and self-worth beyond appearance, fostering true connections.

Should Christians Use Drugs?

Christians should assess drug use's impact on growth and spirituality, balancing moderation and personal convictions. Emphasizes personal choice, responsibility, and faith over rules.

Christians & Drinking

Teaching emphasizes moderation in alcohol, personal limits, accountability, kindness, and understanding in faith, challenging legalism, and promoting personal responsibility.

Is Jesus Coming Back, Part 1

Shawn discusses Jesus's imminent return, New Testament prophecy, rapture, historical context of Revelation, fall of Jerusalem, diverse Evangelical views, and environmental responsibility.

Is Jesus Coming Back, Part 2

Belief in Jesus's return shapes Christian life, emphasizing love and forgiveness. Interpretations vary, with some seeing a past return in 70 A.D., promoting hope and…

Addressing Your Comments – Dec 2020

Shawn emphasizes empathy, open dialogue, and love in Christianity, focusing on understanding societal pressures over judgment. He discusses scriptural interpretations, body image, and ethics on…

Why Does God Heal Some but Not Others

God's healing shows intention, like Jesus' healings proving Messiahship. Focus on spiritual healing, not just physical. Challenges teach faith, not prosperity. Prayer invites divine intervention…

Did God Create Venomous Snakes and Spiders

Healing by God glorifies Him, encourages faith, and involves spiritual growth. Medical advances are seen as divine gifts, but not all recoveries are divine. Faith…

Transgenderism

Transgender individuals can be Christians; gender identity doesn't affect their relationship with Christ. Focus on love, respect, and empathy over political ideologies.

Can I Be a Christian and a Substance Abuser & Comments

Shawn's teaching examines Christianity's view on mental health meds, advocating acceptance like other meds, urging open dialogue, deep understanding, and respectful debate.

Define Evil

Evil is disobeying God, with views on its nature and hierarchy. Teaching against faith has greater spiritual impact. Evil is absence of God. Free will…

How Do I Use My Talents for God?

Use unique talents for God beyond church roles, express faith authentically, impact the world, connect with audiences, align with God's will, inspire others.

What Are the Powers in the Universe Today?

Explores spiritual powers, light vs. darkness, Satan's role, human actions as evil catalysts, cultural beliefs, generational views on social issues, God's power as true.

Are All Prayers Answered & What Rules Do Christians Live By?

Shawn explores spiritual powers, good vs. evil, God vs. Satan, historical views on human nature, societal changes, and generational beliefs, concluding God's power is supreme.

Did Jesus Pay for the Sins of the World?

Jesus's sacrifice covers all sins, requiring faith acceptance. Emphasizes love over fear, critiques traditional views, and encourages open dialogue on salvation and theology.

Is There a Sabbath Any Longer?

Shawn's teaching explores Sabbath observance debates among religious groups, highlighting differing interpretations, historical shifts, and critiques of Sunday worship's motives.

Is Jesus God?

Explores Jesus's dual nature in the Trinity, emphasizing open dialogue, grace, and diverse theological perspectives. Encourages understanding through discernment and love.

Should Christians Idolize Rockstars?

Admire talents of public figures like athletes, but avoid idol worship. Keep admiration balanced, ensuring reverence is directed to God. All are human and equal.

Is the Bible Inerrant?

Acknowledge translation errors, cultural context; core doctrines remain authoritative. Interpret with context, spirit-led guidance. Choose Bible version by preference.

Aliens & UFOs

The discussion examines aliens' existence, challenging evangelical views, considering the universe's vastness, and the Fermi Paradox. It suggests extraterrestrial life doesn't conflict with Christianity.

Evolution

The teaching argues that evolution and Christian faith can coexist, encourages open-mindedness, and suggests integrating science into religious understanding to enrich both fields.

How To Know Truth

Truth is objective, not relative; spiritual truths are absolute but interpreted subjectively. Art is subjective; scientific facts evolve. Belief in God requires faith and evidence.

What Is the Purpose of Life?

Explores life's purpose via Christian views, love, gospel, creation mystery, free will vs. predetermination, personal growth, societal impact, freedom, faith, potential.

Homosexuality

The teaching emphasizes the sin of homosexuality in the Bible, advocates love and support, warns against judgment, and stresses faith in principles over flawed leaders.

Comments from May

If I Have Enough Faith, Will God Do What I Want & Evidence of Jesus, Part 1

Faith doesn't compel God to act on personal desires; Jesus' teachings on faith were for apostles' mission. Jesus' existence is accepted; debates focus on his…

Evidence of Jesus, Part 2

Teaching highlights Jesus as Messiah through fulfilled prophecies, historical records (Josephus, Tacitus), and transformative personal experiences, urging integration of historical context in debates.

Catch Up on More Comments

Jesus's sacrifice fulfills justice, no fear of judgment. Christian anarchy: Christ as sole ruler. Satan's role shifts. LDS views on Fall differ. Christianity vs. Mormonism…

Can We Justify Hell: Is It Eternal or Literal?

Shawn's teaching questions eternal hell, introduces annihilationism, separates hell from the lake of fire, and critiques fear-based religious control, urging love-based faith.

Guns and Christians

Christian teachings on self-defense and gun ownership stress ethical use, balancing faith and self-preservation. Personal faith guides decisions, not socio-political agendas.

Bisexuality

Explores bisexuality and pansexuality, emphasizing fluidity, personal agency, and diverse attractions within societal and religious contexts, advocating for open dialogue and understanding.

Why Don’t I Hear from God?

Recognizing God's communication involves spiritual insights, scripture, dreams, and signs. Emphasizes discernment, patience, and confirmation for interpreting divine messages.

The Trinity, Part 1

The teaching challenges traditional Trinitarian views, promoting modalism and critical thinking. It emphasizes Christ's saving grace over strict doctrinal adherence.

The Trinity, Part 2

Shawn's teaching explores the Trinity's complexity, gender perceptions of God, and Christian ethics, advocating open dialogue and understanding beyond rigid doctrines.

Christian Sex

Shawn's teaching covers evolving Christian views on sex, marriage, and ethics, addressing topics like sodomy, homosexuality, and monogamy, with humor and open-mindedness.

Does the Holy Spirit Leave Me When I Sin?

Belief in Jesus is a personal choice for salvation, guided by the Holy Spirit. Redemption is through faith, not actions. Engage with non-believers, explore spiritual…

Can a Christian Own a Sinister Business?

Christians should align business with faith, avoid judgment, and foster love and understanding, focusing on shared beliefs and respectful dialogue for transformation.

Swearing

Christians should align language with biblical teachings, focusing on intent and context. Avoid negative language, respect cultural contexts, and set a Christ-like example.

Modern Day Revelation with Bonus Topics

Shawn discusses modern-day revelation, faith-science coexistence, belief in Christ, heart transformation, God's existence through design, and the universe's mysteries.

Children with Incurable Disease

Terminal illness in children raises questions of divine love, free will, and suffering. Religion offers eternal perspective and comfort, contrasting atheism's transient view.

Can You Be a Christian and Be Wealthy?

Christian wealth isn't contradictory; it's about perspective, acquisition, and use. Prioritize God, manage wealth wisely, avoid corruption, and maintain spiritual focus.

The Flood

Shawn leads a discussion on Noah's flood, suggesting it was regional, supported by science and biblical hyperbole. He encourages balancing faith with logic and open…

The Law of the Land vs. The Law of God

Shawn distinguishes between following secular and divine laws, urging Christians to respect government laws unless they conflict with Christian principles, like proclaiming Christ's kingdom.

Does God Want Us to Go to College?

The teaching summary highlights the personal nature of faith decisions, the centrality of Jesus' resurrection, the role of faith in religious claims, and the importance…

Does God Change?

God's traits are constant, but He may change His mind due to intercession, showing a dynamic relationship with creation and prompting reflection on prayer's impact.

Does God Hate Fags?

God's love is unconditional, embracing all regardless of sexual orientation. Focus on personal faith, not societal norms. Preach Christ, respect individual choices.

Do We Need to Ask for Forgiveness?

Shawn teaches God's love for all, regardless of sexual orientation, emphasizing love, faith growth, and acceptance without judgment, focusing on Christ's transformative power.

Determinism or Free Will?

Shawn's teaching balances determinism and free will, emphasizing love's need for choice. It contrasts theological views, noting probabilistic existence allows diverse outcomes.

Smoking Cigarettes

Christian perspective on smoking/vaping: prioritize faith over worldly habits, avoid fear-based teaching, focus on mature faith discussions, informed decision-making.

The Mongoose on the Loose – Let’s Talk About Sex

Shawn's teaching covers human sexuality's complexity, focusing on natural development, cultural/religious challenges, biblical views, and the importance of open dialogue.

Creation Story

Creation story: literal vs. metaphorical; harmonizes faith with science. Upcoming topic: Can one be both a Christian and a Communist? Balancing meaningful discussions.

Can I Be a Christian and Communist?

Christians can hold any political belief without affecting faith; faith transcends politics. Focus on love, Christian values, and spiritual growth over political ideologies.

Justify God Killing Children in the Bible

The summary explores God's role in suffering, divine justice, and faith's mystery, while questioning God's omnipotence with the paradox of creating an unliftable rock.

Can God Create a Rock So Big He Cannot Pick It Up?

God acts within logic, can't contradict His nature or do evil; Christianity stresses love for God/others and faith, avoiding division by politics or personal identities.

Jesus Fish

Christian symbols in business can cause ethical issues; maintain clear identity. God controls creation, guiding all for believers' good, deepening faith and trust.

The Fall Story

The fall of man shows choice's importance, as Adam and Eve's rebellion began with a decision, highlighting humanity's ability to choose wrongdoing, even in perfection.

Is Porn Harmful?

Pornography, unlike art, aims for arousal, harms relationships, fosters addiction, aggression, and selfishness, weakening societal bonds and ethical teachings.

Is the Bible Misogynistic?

The Bible, often seen as misogynistic, actually promotes spiritual equality, with figures like Mary Magdalene showing redemption and equality in Christ, misunderstood due to historical…

Is It a Choice to Be Forgiven of Sin?

Forgiveness is a completed act through Jesus, independent of faith; God has forgiven the world. Repentance is a personal choice to change, separate from forgiveness.

Can a Christian Be a Cross Dresser?

Being a Christian and a cross-dresser is compatible; fashion is personal and doesn't impact faith. Clothing styles vary historically, and self-expression is key to happiness.

Did God Create Evil?

God's presence as light implies evil as darkness, not directly created but as absence of light. Scripture supports God creating both light and darkness, defining…