James Dobson's Bastard Kids

This Fire Podcast joins us again to continue our Carman series.

Carman’s rise through Christian music opens a sprawling journey into satanic panic, QAnon, cult susceptibility, and charismatic spiritual warfare. The discussion explores dominionism, Joel’s Army, the New Apostolic Reformation, demon-focused ministry, Christian nationalism, antisemitic imagery, and Carman’s theatrical experiments with rap, resurrection, and crucifixion spectacle.

Carman’s unusual ministry model, prosperity-gospel connections, and rise through Pentecostal networks take center stage. The discussion explores his theatrical biblical storytelling, aggressive synth-pop theology, political Christianity, purity culture, and troubling portrayals of illness as demonic. It also covers his money-making strategies, mainstream pop influences, and unforgettable Jesus-versus-Satan boxing spectacle.

A nostalgic deep dive into Carman’s rise from New Jersey performer to Christian music phenomenon. The discussion explores his rebellious youth, conversion story, charismatic church roots, theatrical albums, biblical storytelling, mob legends, prosperity-minded ministries, and crossover appeal. Along the way, the hosts revisit evangelical childhoods, moral comedy, Pentecostal spectacle, and the strange machinery behind a larger-than-life ministry brand.

We finish up our talk on tongues

Chrissy is taking the wheel again for our series on speaking in tongues.

Chrissy takes the wheel for this series

We finish up our tebow series this week

This week we sadly cover the death of Aaron Hernandez among other things with Tim Tebow

This week, we cover Tebow's draft, his time with the broncos and how the evangelical and sports world felt about him.