The Analog Gospel with Jason Parrish
The Analog Gospel Podcast: An ancient faith in a future world. A weekly podcast with Pastor Jason Parrish -- a deep dive into theology, faith, and a behind the scenes look into what didn't make it into the weekly sermon on Sundays at The Well in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Episodes
Everyone is asking whether AI has a soul. That’s the easy question. The harder question is what AI is doing to our souls.
In this episode, Pastors Jason Parrish, Joshua Bingle, and Howie Smith join host John Rowa to take a pastoral look at artificial intelligence and human identity.
Not recipes and outfit-of-the-day prompts, but the deeper thing underneath: if being human means bearing the image of God, what happens whe...
Many people have never heard where tithe & offering money actually goes. In this episode, Pastors Jason Parrish, Erica Parrish, and Joshua Bingle join host John Rowa to pull back the curtains on how tithing really works in a church.
The team also gets honest about the parts that don’t get said out loud. Why pastors sound protective when they talk about money. What happens when a church plant can’t make payroll. Why ...
Most of what you believe about the end of the world, you probably learned from a movie.
A film in a church basement, a book series your mom had on the shelf, a chart on a wall, or a rapture song that DC Talk covered. Somewhere in there, a theology got installed without anyone ever walking you through it.
So we walked through it. Most of it. The rapture, the millennium, the tribulation, the four ways Christians read Revelation, and ...
Flat earth. The moon landing. Who really did it. There's an entire industry built to monetize your curiosity, and it's working. But Paul had a phrase for this two thousand years ago, and it wasn't a compliment: myths and endless genealogies.
But the Bible never claims all conspiracies are fake. Scripture records dozens of them. The warn...
Lots of people talk about church hurt online. But there's almost nobody talking about who’s actually doing it.
The conversation runs one direction: institutions wound individuals. Pastors abuse, systems fail, people get crushed. All of that happens, and it’s serious, and we’re not minimizing it.
This might be the most important podcast episode we've ever done and you're going to want to share it with your friends and family.
In this episode we take the historic Christian position that hell is real, conscious, and everlasting, and we work to separate that doctrine from four centuries of accumulated cartoon.
The horns and pitchfork came from a Greek goat god and a 17th century poem. The possession you picture came from a 1973 horror movie. The portals you were warned about came from a con man and a Parker Brothers board game.
Strip all of that away and what's left is a text that says less than you expected and more than you were ready for.
Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, Pastor Josh Bingle, and John Rowa work through what Scr...
Forgiveness is by definition undeserved. If someone deserved it, releasing them would be justice, not mercy. So the real question was never "do they deserve it." It's whether you're required to absorb the cost of what they did to you.
In episode 26 of The Analog Gospel, Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa work through what forgiveness actually is and what it absolutely is not. The conditional versus unconditiona...
Scripture says God does not change. Scripture also says God relented, at least a dozen times, and usually because somebody asked him to. So either prayer moves God, which means God can be talked into things, or prayer does not move God, which means every command to pray is theater.
The historic Christian answer refuses both.
Everybody has a favorite Bible verse. Most of us have never read the verse above it.
In Episode 24, Pastors Jason and Erica Parrish join John Rowa as they work through three of the most misused passages in the Bible and the reading mistake behind all of them: confusing what Scripture describes with what Scripture commands.
Acts 2 doesn't establish socialism. Jeremiah 29:11 wasn't written to you. And Paul wasn't thinking about your ...
Everybody has a megachurch take. Too big, too flashy, too shallow, too much fog machine and not enough gospel. But when you actually look at the data and the Bible, the case falls apart fast. Bad churches are bad and good churches are good, and size is almost never the thing that decides which one you're looking at.In this episode, Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Ro...
Are Christians dumb?
We put the question on the table and then checked whether the data actually supports it. The answer is no, and that lets us off the hook far too easily. Because the same people who affirm the Trinity at 98% also say, at 53%, that the Holy Spirit is a force and not a person. We were taught the words without the meaning.
That is not an intelligence problem. It is a discipleship problem. And it shows up in how we ...
Pastors Jason & Erica Parrish join John Rowa to answer questions people have always wondered about what it's like to lead a large church in Utah. Why are people transitioning out of the church? Why don't we do midweek services or worship nights? What do pastors actually do when nobody's watching? What's a conviction we've changed our minds about? Plus, why the modern way of leavin...
A lot of people get saved, get on fire, and immediately want to preach, lead a small group, or start something. And then their pastor tells them no. Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa walk through why the church does this, what scripture actually says about it, the difference between intensity and faithfulness, and what "being on fire for God" really means past th...
Episode 19 of The Analog Gospel addresses the hard question with the plain answer. Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa take on one of the most charged conversations in American life, what scripture actually says, the stats behind 73 million abortions per year, the difference between holding a conviction and holding compassion, and what the church is actually doing ...
Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa walk through how Christians should actually think about Pride Month. We talk about grace and truth, what to say to your kids, whether to attend a gay wedding, pronouns at work, and the cultural strategy most believers don't see coming. Episode 18 of The Analog Gospel you can't miss if you're a Christian!
The marriage and dating questions you're probably too shy to ask... answered by your Pastors! Pastors Jason and Erica Parrish join John Rowa on Episode 17 of The Analog Gospel podcast to talk about Christ-centered marriage, modesty, intimacy, in-laws, and the daily rhythms that actually matter. Plus, why "going to church" is the bottom shelf of godliness.
A pastor really said this online. Lead Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa unpack the theology behind "women can't think," what mutual submission actually means, why the Bible never says "husbands, lead your wives," and what "kephale" really translates to. Plus... why our pastors cook dinner, watch the kids, and do the laundry.
Episode 15. Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa talk mutual submission, the marriage stats nobody wants to talk about, and a hard look at why everyone's suddenly comfortable with aliens but not with demons. Plus, why "unbiblical" might be the most overused word in Christian comment sections.
Recorded at The Well Chur...
Episode 14. Pastor Jason Parrish, Pastor Howie Smith, and John Rowa get into it in this one! The honest take on anger, why "nice Christian man" isn't a thing, what the Greek word "porneia" actually means, and why every academic gymnastic move trying to soften scripture eventually lands in the same place: I just don't want to obey it. Plus — comfort and pleasure as gods, social m...
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