Faith, feelings, and steady practical hope.
Helping Healing Humor is a warm, conversational faith-and-mental-health show centered on Ben and Travis. Episodes move from jokes and personal stories into scripture, counseling insight, and practical encouragement for handling anger, self-worth, service, and family pressure.
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Helping Healing Humor is a faith-forward conversation about emotional life, ministry, family, and Christian practice. It is steady and familiar. Ben and Travis talk like people who have spent years turning ordinary moments into lessons, questions, and reminders from scripture. The show often begins with banter, a personal update, or a project from the Ben and Travis world, then works its way into anger, humility, service, singleness, parenting, or resilience. It is not slick. That is part of the appeal. Recent episodes show a clear pattern: name the feeling, slow the reaction, bring in a biblical frame, and leave the listener with something concrete to try. In “Be Angry...,” the conversation treats anger as something that can be handled with listening, gentleness, space, and self-control rather than escalation. In “Humility vs. Low Self Esteem,” the subject turns toward the difference between honest humility and a diminished view of oneself. The Gen Z episode gives Destin Hayes room to describe camp, baptism, church classes, and adults whose faithfulness shaped his own. The Good Samaritan conversation makes kindness feel close at hand, from meals and visits to refusing to make social media worse. Other episodes stretch the format. An ’80s edition wanders through G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Legos, He-Man, Godzilla, cliffhangers, birthdays, and friendship. A Read Across America visit at Mars Hill Bible School turns favorite books into reflections on belonging, attitude, hurry, and influence. Conversations around The Adventures of Ben and Travis and the Joyrider bring disability, courage, family love, and the character Bradley into a thoughtful discussion of representation. The Divided Kingdom material points toward divorce and the big feelings children may need help naming. The show’s humor keeps the room warm, but its center is pastoral. Scripture is used as a bridge from emotion to practice. Counseling language appears without making the tone clinical. Ministry experience gives the advice a lived-in texture. Helping Healing Humor works best for listeners who want Christian encouragement that can admit messiness, laugh a little, and still ask for a better response.
Made for: For Christians, ministry families, church volunteers, parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends who want emotionally honest conversations shaped by scripture and everyday care.
What sets it apart: The show blends pulpit experience, counseling-minded reflection, and easy Ben-and-Travis banter without losing its practical edge. It treats mental health, family strain, and Christian growth as lived realities, not abstract lesson topics.
Did you know that a 2018 Lifeway study showed that 49% of ministers say they never talk to their churches about mental illness? The same study found that 59% of Christians suffering from mental illness said that they wanted their church leaders to speak more openly on the subject. We strive to normalize the discussion about mental health among Christians. Ben, a licensed professional counselor, also provides valuable insight for the family members and friends of those who suffer from mental illness to help their loved one during their time of need. Get more information at BenandTravis.com.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ben Hayes and Travis Creasy connect scripture, counseling insight, and warm conversation to the practical work of Christian living.
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A plainspoken Christian episode on meeting anger with patience, gentleness, and a chance to repair.
Anger is treated here as something to answer with patience, not matched force. Travis Creasy and Ben Hayes tie "slow to speak, quick to hear, slow to anger" to Jesus' deliberate posture and to Proverbs 15's reminder that a gentle answer can turn away wrath.
A grounded reflection on how camp, classrooms, and service help shape lasting church life.
Destin follows faith into the ordinary settings where church life tends to become durable: a camp tied to baptism, classes that still stand out years later, and teachers who made Sunday routines feel connected to service.
A relaxed, friendship-led return to 80s toys, television, and the suspense of waiting for answers.
An 80s childhood turns into a warm reunion as Travis Creasy and Ben Hayes revisit the toys, shows, and games that shaped them. G.I. Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Legos, He-Man, and Godzilla all open the door to vivid memories, from toy-filled bedrooms to an…
Ben and Travis talk about practical kindness, including when saying nothing may be the kinder choice.
For Good Samaritan Day on March 13, Ben and Travis ask listeners to notice where someone needs help and do something about it. They extend the idea beyond the observance itself, pointing to communities, schools and workplaces.
A school visit draws out the family stories behind books people remember sharing.
At Mars Hill Bible School, a Read Across America visit gives people room to talk about the books they keep close. One speaker remembers Corduroy for its assurance that you belong even when you are not perfect.
A warm faith-centered conversation about dignity, confidence, and giving a wheelchair-using child room to be fully himself.
Jacob Hennigan turns the mic toward Ben and Travis in this Helping Healing Humor episode, drawing out the heart behind The Adventures of Ben and Travis and the Joyrider.
Mitch Henry discusses Faulkner's AI certificate and the lectureship's place in its work with churches.
Faulkner University president Mitch Henry talks with Ben and Travis about the university's work with students and churches. He describes an AI certificate available to every student and a law professor who teaches law students about ethical AI use.
A Christian election-day reset on gratitude, heavenly citizenship, and the limits of every earthly nation.
Election Day becomes a question of proportion in Helping Healing Humor with Ben and Travis, as the promised survival kit is aimed at protecting sanity, friendships, and relationships under political strain.
A season-by-season history show pairing dramatized Rasputin and Salem narratives with historian interviews.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Weekly Portuguese-language sermons from Pastor Pedro Bastoge on scripture, end times, and church life.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Two Methodist pastors and guests work through forgiveness, control, and grief in scripture.
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Hosts Ben and Travis interview President Mitch Henry of Faulkner University to spotlight its ministry and growth.
Ben and Travis, along with guest Will Myhand, provide a Christian-focused survival kit for navigating election day 2024.
Ben Hayes and Travis Creasy use Ephesians 4:26, James 1:19, Proverbs 15, and Proverbs 16 to argue that anger is an emotion to manage, not a lifestyle to excuse.
Destin Hayes describes a senior year shaped by illness, a gallbladder removal two weeks before graduation, and a missed final week of school.
Ben Hayes turns Travis Creasy's birthday episode into an 80s memory tour, anchored by Travis's claim that kids today do not understand life before the internet.
A religious podcast episode discussing how God works through imperfect people and offering encouragement to singles based on biblical teachings.
Ben and Travis discuss the difference between low self-esteem and humility, and promote their new children's book about helping kids process feelings related to divorce.
Travis Creasy and Ben Hayes use March 13's Good Samaritan Day to connect Titus 3:14, "engage in good deeds," and the story of helping a neighbor in need.
Helping Healing Humor visits Mars Hill Bible School during Read Across America Week, with Travis Creasy, Ben Hayes, and Will Mahan asking teachers and staff for books that mattered to them.
Ben Dothan, Travis, and illustrator Jacob Hennigan discuss "The Adventures of Ben and Travis and the Joyrider," a book tied to Bradley Hennigan, CYC, and "count it all joy" from James chapter one.
Ben Hayes introduces his guest Lonnie Jones and discusses their time at the EAPA conference in Gulf Shores.
Ben and Travis discuss their experience at the Lads to Leaders conference in Nashville, promoting their book series and a sponsor.
Ben and Travis interview Phillip Randolph about Faulkner University's Bible program and his approach to college recruitment focused on spiritual growth.