Jesus Wept

After five years away, Boen returns to Chinese church—the place/institution/community he was immersed in from infancy until age 22—but this time with his microphone running. Join Boen as he sings hymns in English and Mandarin, learns the etymology of “quiet-quitting,” and decides once and for all if you can go home again.

In 1997, Dr. Rosaria Margaretha Champagne Butterfield had it all. A full professorship of English at Syracuse University. Two beautiful houses in town. A committed relationship with a woman named T. And a sense of fulfillment from her activism in the local LGBTQ community. But then: she threw it all away to convert to Christianity, marry a man, and become a pastor's wife and ho

Join us on an examination of the youth ministry juggernaut Young Life and its meticulously calculated discipleship techniques. This episode features Grace's personal story of how they fell deep into Young Life as a high schooler and ended up launching a new YL chapter at their college campus—before it all came crashing down. We’re thinking about the ethics of evangelizing t

Episode 3 is an examination of the youth ministry empire Young Life and the extensively calculated discipleship and "megachurch marketing" techniques the organization, and others, have pioneered to "win kids for Christ."  This episode features Grace's personal story of how they feel deep into YL as a high schooler and ended up launching a new YL chapter at their college campus

In which our favorite Australian creationist debates Bill Nye, sues the Commonwealth of Kentucky, uses taxpayer money to subsidize what Grace describes as a "big log of shit"—and somehow ends up more powerful than ever.

The epic story of how an Australian fundamentalist named Ken Ham moved to America, created a global evangelical empire, and founded a purported "natural history museum" in Kentucky that teaches its visitors that the earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is a myth. This is Jesus Wept. Every episode, writers Grace Gilbert and Boen Wang will take you into the depths of evangelical Ch