Recovery talk with church scars showing.
Church & Other Drugs sits where sobriety talk, Christian theology, and chaotic friend-group banter overlap. Episodes can move from prosperity-preacher outrage or zombie-apocalypse riffing into shame, prayer, atonement, relapse, and grace without much warning.
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Church & Other Drugs is a faith-and-recovery show built out of confession, theological curiosity, and unvarnished banter. It has the speed of a group text and the emotional shape of a meeting after the chairs have been stacked. A joke can run for a while. Then, almost without transition, the conversation is inside addiction, shame, prayer, boundaries, church culture, or the problem of suffering. That volatility is part of the appeal. The show treats humor as a release valve, not as an escape hatch. Recent episodes move between serious Christian interviews and loose Rehab Bromance side conversations. Greg Boyd appears for an Easter discussion of atonement, the cross, pain, prayer, and the idea that God looks like Jesus. Dr. Natalie Atwell brings the show into the tense overlap between mental illness, counseling, spirituality, and talk of spiritual warfare. Aaron and Raph appear in a sponsor-sponsee conversation about recovery dynamics. Rehab Bromance episodes widen the frame into early sobriety, validation, boundaries, new drug threats, pop-culture riffing, and the way people use stories to make sense of wreckage. The show is especially interested in the parts of Christian life that tidy church language often skips: purity culture, sexual shame, addiction, doubt, prosperity-preacher spectacle, and the ache of wanting answers without pretending certainty. Its bluntness can be sharp, but the center is warmer than the surface suggests. The people here tease, interrupt, correct themselves, and keep circling back to grace. For listeners who have been around recovery rooms, Christian subcultures, or both, the texture will feel recognizable. It is messy because the subject matter is messy. It is funny because survival stories often are. And beneath the noise, it keeps asking a plain question: what does healing look like when nobody gets to fake being fine?
Made for: For listeners drawn to Christian faith conversations that can handle addiction, doubt, recovery-room humor, and church-culture baggage without smoothing the edges.
What sets it apart: The show pairs serious theological guests with loose, blunt recovery storytelling, letting deep questions and chaotic friendship energy occupy the same room.
Welcome to Church & Other Drugs. I am a recovered addict and Christian seeker who tells the stories of the beatdown, up and coming, hard-knocked, and healed up. you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn. Conspiracies? Nephilim? Heroin? Comedy? Check. faith|humor|comedy|christianity|spirituality
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jed connects sobriety, Christian belief and unruly humour while keeping the unfinished work of recovery in full view.
Church & Other Drugs keeps recovery close to the mess it came from. Jed moves between guest interviews and loose group conversations, using his own sobriety to ask about addiction, faith, shame, relationships and the habits that can pull someone back toward a substance.
Like the funniest after-meeting you were not invited to, with atonement theory waiting by the coffee.
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A sharp social-media spiral about prosperity culture finds comic relief in keg talk while leaving its PR question unresolved.
Ryan Rey tracks a social-media spiral around prosperity figures turning up on influencer podcasts, from Bryce Crawford's interview with Kenneth Copeland to Logan Paul's conversation with Joel Osteen on Impulsive.
A profane nicotine tangent finds a plainspoken point about addiction, then drifts into apocalypse jokes.
Recovery talk comes through nicotine, Wellbutrin, and the rough impulse to outmuscle a drug instead of waiting to feel normal again. The episode turns a 50-milligram hit into a blunt exchange about the "junky mindset" of doubling nicotine to force a baseline back into place.
A reflective Easter conversation on the cross, Christus Victor, addiction, and redemption amid catastrophe.
This Easter conversation with pastor Greg Boyd takes up a familiar church question, why Jesus died on a cross, and turns it into a reflective discussion of love, evil, healing, and freedom.
A grounded conversation about early sobriety, validation, boundaries, and learning through trial and error.
"Rehab Bromance episode 4!" stays with Rafe, Trayvon, and Jed as they revisit the first six months and first year of sobriety, shifting from the relief of not drinking or using into the slower work of recovery.
A candid episode on purity culture, anxiety, drug testing, and Jed's path into addiction.
Jed's story moves from purity culture and muddled sex education into anxiety, early drug use, and addiction. The apple-core lesson aimed at girls, separated youth-group sex talks, and parental drug testing that nudged him toward harder substances give the episode a sharp social…
A candid look at mental illness, spiritual warfare, church hurt, and the search for freedom.
Dr. Natalie, a clinician and counselor therapist, brings mental illness and spiritual warfare into the same room, asking where demons, schizophrenia, faith, and treatment might overlap.
Dark humor turns self-knowledge into a room nobody quite wants to enter.
Church & Other Drugs opens as a rough comic escape hatch, with Jed framing the episode through potty humor and inventive insults before the mood tilts toward a harder question: whether anyone ever knows the whole of themself.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Scripture, surrender and faith put into practice.
Host, a recovered addict and Christian, interviews Dr.
Host interviews former pastor Jason Lyle about his journey with sex addiction and calming the amygdala, with a brief intro about an album of the year.
Host Jed and his co-hosts engage in a freewheeling, often absurd conversation that jumps from politics to personal revelations.
A Church & Other Drugs host says a "recovery connection" should refer people to Victory, St.
Church & Other Drugs episode 362 centers on Jed's announcement that Josh Patterson and Christy Wallen will bring the show to Theology Beer Camp 2026 in Kansas City as a featured God pod.
Rafe and Trevon open with probiotic gummies, Wellbutrin, and the claim that the gummies made his poops "so much better." The family stories center on Masa's birthday, Bella's caterpillar cake, a mobile petting zoo with a Highland cow, and a touch-a-truck event in Lafayette that drew 10,000 kids.
Church & Other Drugs' Easter special with Greg Boyd centers on God Looks Like Jesus and the question of why Jesus died on a cross.
Two hosts discuss a new potent fentanyl analog and the unintended consequences of drug prohibition.
A podcast episode where the host interviews a former sponsor-sponsee pair about their experience in recovery.
Rehab Bromance episode 4 is a casual roundtable between Rafe, Trayvon, and Jed Payne, the host of Church & Other Drugs who recently relapsed and is returning to sobriety at the six-month mark.
Church & Other Drugs episode 359 features host Jed Payne being interviewed by Jon Seidl on Seidl's 'Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic' podcast, reversing Payne's usual role.
Dr.
Tripp Fuller, a theologian and podcaster, reacts to death metal band Lorna Shore and delivers a Lord of the Rings rant on the Emogelicals podcast.
The host introduces a drug Q&A episode with the elders, discusses his busy schedule, and promotes Patreon and merchandise.
Brad and the host banter about a previous audio issue, Brad's new phone, and a story about Dirty Mike at Walmart.