Kindavangelical with Pete Briscoe

I am no longer a Christian after listening to this podcast series. I feel free to "do as thou wilt". Thank you, Pete.

Pete, I listened to all the episodes. I appreciate what I’ve heard bc I want the church to be accountable for what’s wrong but keep my faith in Jesus. However, it kinda feels like bc you had a failure and the elders didn’t welcome you back with open arms, that you might be deflecting. What you’re saying would seem more genuine if you spent more time analyzing where you personally went wrong, what led to the addiction and deception / inauthenticity. In your therapy, what did you learn about what pain you were numbing? Why did you choose to numb it that way instead of more healthy/godly choices? I’ve been abused by religious men and religious institutions up the wazoo and didn’t make those choices. Not to be on a high horse here, but while you’re taking up the cause of people like ME, an abused woman, maybe do more self-introspection on your personal responsibility instead of all those other people or the church. Yeah, I get it, there’s a lot wrong with the church. What was wrong with YOU and how did you get that way? Answering those questions might help us all to get to the bottom of what’s wrong with the CHURCH.

I really appreciate the intellectual courage and curiosity to think again about how to live a life that follows the teachings and examples of Jesus. The honest appraisal of what fundamentalist evangelicals created when developing and defending the concept of biblical inerrancy, or as Theologian Karl Kuhn refers to in the title of his recently published book, “Reading the Bible Badly”, “How American Christians Misunderstand and Misuse their Scriptures”, disentangles so much of what has become the unloving and unkind, tacitly taught and accepted, but judgmental and harmful, doctrines that droves of fundamentalist evangelicals have unwittingly complied with, to “fit in”. Even the older mainline denominations in our country have much to learn from these podcasts about how to do church in this post-modern era! Thank you for your honesty and courage to be a champion for change, in a world that really needs a HOPE with practical answers and a sensible pathway for doing Church and living the Christian Life in a more beautiful way. Linda GS

Pete was probably one of the most influential and compassionate pastors I have ever known. I am compassionate and respectful of his current journey. However his continued references on this platform and facebook of the "white evangelical " as the cause of all wrong in this world and his, is disappointing. He is getting ready to post an interview with Janet Kellogg - who, in a summary of one of her books calls out "white evangelicals " as the main humans that protested C19 vaccines.- as if no other race protested this. This seems agenda driven and a pretty isolated point of view. Calling out and pointing fingers is far from peaceful and kind. This is also very label driven- "the white evangelical " "the mega church " "the lgbtq" "the homosexuals " -how about just humans ?humans are sinners? humans make mistakes? and how about critical thinking? As long as we are calling out specific people , labeling people, - we will continue to create animosity and angst amongst us. There are some good things about Pete's new social media journey- unfortunately you have to sift through his personal angst.😔