When Rhett McLaughlin of Good Mythical Morning left his faith, he felt like a man thrown overboard. Now he's put his journey to music. Here is my review of Human Overboard, released this September.โดย Neil Carter

Evangelicals want to leave the world, not save it. Until then, all they want is to be recognized as the true protagonists of the universe.โดย Neil Carter

Preachers like Pat Robertson can't stop making everything about Israel, even the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here's why.โดย Neil Carter

If trees are known by their fruit, then the God of evangelical Christianity has some serious boundary problems.โดย Neil Carter

Find out what it takes to be a celebrated author. On the episode host Maya Browne talks with Mary Dixie Carter, author of the bestseller "The Photographer."โดย Stories from the Brink

A preacher recently suggested people are leaving the Christian faith--or at least they're mentally dismantling it--because it's the cool thing to do. He has no idea what he's talking about.โดย Neil Carter

One partner remains a devout evangelical Christian while the other left the faith. What will they do about the children?โดย Neil Carter

After a long but necessary hibernation, Godless in Dixie is back at the podcasting game, this time using a more traditional format. Soon the blog itself will relaunch alongside a number of others on a new platform called OnlySky.โดย Neil Carter

Special guest Tess Lynch joins Megan and Rob to discuss David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake (2018) and Errol Morris's Gates of Heaven (1978)! Why are the fries at In-N-Out so bad? What do we think about the Impossible Burger? What's the best deli in Fullerton? Did we go full Doughboys on this episode of I-5 Cinemabound? Other topics inclu…

Special guest Mary Anne Carter appears on the podcast to discuss Dumb and Dumber (1994) & Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006). How many stars did Megan give Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!? What airline do we want to sponsor our show? Which celebrity Joshs do Megan and Rob have crushes on? Does Mary Anne think Dumb and Dumber is the best movie in J…

Portland artists Jennifer Jones (aka JJ All The Way) and Laura Glazer join Megan and Rob to discuss a common passion: the films of the legendary Agnès Varda! JJ and Laura tell us how their AGNÈS VARDA FOREVER collaborative project came about (you may have seen the flyers around Portland), and we bounce back and forth in conversation between their v…

Creatures from the deep and creatures who creep! On this episode, Bridey Elliott joins us to discuss The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and My Octopus Teacher (2020). Why is Laura Linney stuck in a cold car? How many photographs of Debra Messing can you have in one movie? Which Richard Gere film is the least horny? Is My Octopus Teacher more wholesome t…

This week Megan and Rob take a trip down memory lane to reflect on the legendary 2004 time capsule, Mean Girls (dir. Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey), and then in a similar vein, chat about Samantha Stark's Framing Britney Spears (2021). Our guest host is none other than the incredible Emilly Prado! Emilly made her radio debut a few years back wit…

Special guest and friend of the pod Mary Kobayashi joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and Dancing with the Birds (2019). On this episode of I-5 Cinemabound, we talk birds of paradise and characters searching for paradise. Is Liam Neeson better in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs than he is in Love, Actuall…

What type of person gravitates towards a career as a pediatric nurse? This week on the Stories from the Brink podcast, host Maya Browne welcomes Liz Vaughan, who has dedicated her life to caring for young patients.โดย Stories from the Brink

This week host Maya Browne welcomes Arlene Gibbs, to discuss her challenges of career and identity. After forging a successful career in Hollywood, Arlene, seeking a more balanced life, moved to Rome where she became a top interior designer.โดย Stories from the Brink

This week Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick get punk af with the multitalented Tea Hacic on two of her favorites, James Merendino's SLC Punk! (1998) and the Punk doc series (2019) from filmmaker Jesse Miller Smith and executive producers Iggy Pop and John Varvatos. Megan also professes her love for Tea's now-defunct-but-still-iconic anonymous Tumblr sex…

You live in NYC with your husband & young kids & are offered a dream job in a foreign country where you don't speak the language. What would you do? This week on the "Stories from the Brink" podcast, host Maya Browne speaks with Georgia Bush, Financial Sector Specialist at the Bank of Mexico, about this challenge of family & career.…

On this episode host, Maya Browne speaks with Franklin Sirmans, director of The Pérez Art Museum Miami, about a career-related challenge he faced, moving from NYC to Milan at a moment's notice.โดย Stories from the Brink

Writer and film programmer Jesse Knight joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Kitty Green's Casting JonBenet (2017). It's the season 2 premiere! Jesse dishes on Josh Hartnett's hair! Megan roasts everyone for not knowing enough about Robert Schwartzman! "Butterfly" by Crazy Town gets brought up…

This week, host Maya Browne Speaks with Andrea DiNunzio, President of Lashify, about a career-related challenge she faced.โดย Stories from the Brink

Host Maya Browne speaks with Shirley Thompson, American Studies Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about the recent health challenges faced by both her husband and son.โดย Stories from the Brink

Grammy Award winner Shayne Ebudo in conversation with host Maya Browne about the challenges he faced as a man of color in the investment banking world.โดย Stories from the Brink

Award-winning actor, best-selling author & philanthropist Hill Harper joins host Maya Browne to talk about the adoption of his son and the challenges (and joys) of single fatherhood.โดย Stories from the Brink

This week's guest is Eric Weingartner, CEO of the Door, a non-profit helping the disconnected youth of NYC. Host Maya Browne talks to Eric about the challenges he faced keeping their vital services going during the pandemic.โดย Stories from the Brink

This week on the "Stories from the Brink" Podcast, Emmy Award-winning television producer Miguel Sancho joins host Maya Browne to talk about his new book "More Than You Can Handle", his riveting tale of the diagnosis and treatment of his infant son's illness.โดย Stories from the Brink

This week, Maya welcomes musician Paco Naveira aka Octopus Kid. Paco talks about his struggles breaking free from the corporate world to pursue his dream of making music.โดย Stories from the Brink

How real people facing real adversity overcame those obstacles and gained hope and strength in the process. On this episode, host Maya Browne speaks with fitness trainer, spiritual trainer, and wellness coach, Kacy Duke.โดย storiesfromthebrink

Julia Shapiro (Chastity Belt, Childbirth, Julia Shapiro) joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Jonathan Glazer's Birth (2004) and Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005)! It's the season finale! Timothy Treadwell may have been the grizzly man, but is Werner Herzog the grisly man? Will Julia finish Nicole Kidman's entire filmography this year? Do…

Content warning: This episode includes ample discussion of mass shootings (including a personal anecdote from a survivor), drug use, and death, and may be disturbing to some listeners. In our ninth episode, Megan & Rob kick off 2021 with a discussion of Brady Corbet's VOX LUX (2018) and Sebastian Jones & Ramez Silyan's LIL PEEP: EVERYBODY'S EVERYTH…

Writer and podcaster Molly Lambert joins Megan and Rob to discuss Futureworld (1976) and Conspiracy: The Royal Family! Do public figures have robot doubles? Is Circus Circus secretly owned by a shadowy corporation named Delos? Just how far did the royal family go when it came to Princess Diana? And finally, is the sushi at Disney World any good? Su…

Cette semaine, Megan Hattie reçoit Laura Pertuy (programmatrice, journaliste et traductrice) et Pierre-Henri Kanyinda (écrivain et photographe) en direct de Paris et en plein confinement pour un épisode spécial du podcast... tout en français ! On discute de deux moyens métrages choisis par Laura (Un monde sans femmes de Guillaume Brac, 2011 et Bamb…

Writer and culture critic Fran Hoepfner (Bright Wall/Dark Room) joins Megan and Rob to discuss Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018) and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin’s Free Solo (2018). Is Tom Cruise more of a high five or fist bump kind of guy? Why do we keep forgetting the name of Motherless Brooklyn? Is Alex Honn…

No guests, no rules. 2 narrative films, 2 documentary films, all coincidentally released within the last 5 years! Rob chose the Zac Efron-starring DJ drama We Are Your Friends (Max Joseph, 2015) and Elvira Lind's 2017 documentary Bobbi Jene. Megan chose the mockdoc Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, 2016) and Garret…

Parisian musician and film buff Guillaume Mathieu joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Werner Herzog's Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) and Richard Curson Smith's BBC telefilm Home (2003)! How much will Megan and Rob haze Guillaume? Who will get closest to doing a Herzog impression? If you're playing a no-nonsense cable guy, are you obl…

Filmmaker Emily Esperanza joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965) and Morgan Neville's 20 Feet From Stardom (2013)! Is the romantic tension between Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef some of the best in film history? Did Emily meet a ghost in the form of a weary caretaker? Just how much does Megan li…

Hop in the car and cruise onto I-5 Cinemabound! On this episode, New York-based film critic Kristen Yoonsoo Kim joins Megan and Rob to discuss Jacques Demy's The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Agnès Varda's The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)! Why was there drama surrounding the cutting of a cake? Is Michael Pitt ready to star in a remake of Demy's…

Hop in the car and cruise onto I-5 Cinemabound! On this episode, get to know your hosts Rob Patrick (film programmer/critic) & Megan Hattie (filmmaker/MFA student) as they discuss 4 narrative and documentary films they thought were worth talking about. Rob's Narrative Pick: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett, 2008) Rob's Documentary Pi…

Lori Arnold explains what it feels like to be unintentionally "othered" by those still in the community of faith. It's less of a door slammed in your face and more of a screen door between you all the time, reminding you that you are still on the outside.โดย Neil Carter

A pastor once invited me to talk to his congregation about what atheists wish Christians understood about them, fielding questions from the church afterwards. Here are the eleven things that came to mind first.โดย Neil Carter

Today the church is waiting around for someone to swoop in and fix everything that's broken through divine cataclysm, removing all responsibility from them. As it turns out, the events they've been waiting for already happened a long, long time ago.โดย Neil Carter

Back in my day, Hell was a lake of fire. But times have changed, and modern folks want a kinder, gentler Hell. Hell 2.0 is basically like putting yourself in Time Out...forever.โดย Neil Carter

Responsibility for every soul condemned to Hell would fall squarely into the lap of the God of the Bible, were any of these beliefs actually true. You cannot absolve an all-powerful deity from something like this, nor does the Christian faith in its original form attempt to do so.โดย Neil Carter

Here are seven reasons absolutely everyone---even those trying to believe the Bible---should reject the notion of Hell. And shame on anyone who feeds this horrific nonsense to children.โดย Neil Carter

The Bible begins with a story disparaging curiosity and exploration, a mood it maintains for the rest of the book. But when you view the mind strictly as a tool of worship, you invalidate learning for its own sake. Free inquiry utterly depends on, well...freedom.โดย Neil Carter

Virtually everything we are told Jesus said or did came to us from churches founded by Paul. As it turns out, this single detail explains more than almost anything else. Ultimately it was Paul, not Jesus, who founded the religion which eventually became the Christian faith.โดย Neil Carter

A lot of prayers have failed to materialize over the centuries, but none so fantastically as this one. And as it turns out, this one was extremely important.โดย Neil Carter

Do you know how many people the Bible says were raised from the dead on Easter weekend? Here's a hint: It's a more than the number of biblical scholars, even conservatives ones, who believe this story actually happened in real life.โดย Neil Carter

Jesus said a lot of things which directly contradict what humanists believe, but composite characters like him say self-contradictory things quite often. Here were five times Jesus said things which modern humanists could have said themselves.โดย Neil Carter

The historicity of Jesus is still up for debate among historians. But the historicity of Christmas? Not so much.โดย Neil Carter