Faith on the Fringe
The Bible is stranger, darker, and more glorious than you were taught. Let's talk about it. Faith on the Fringe Podcast is where Leah Steele Barnett and Malaine Lea Butler explore the supernatural biblical worldview that most modern churches have quietly shelved. Spirit-Filled. Bible-Obsessed. Slightly Unhinged. The Divine Council. Fallen Watchers. The Nephilim. Pre-flood history. Spiritual warfare with real teeth. We bring the scholarship, the Spirit, and zero religious performance. We are not doom-scrolling through Revelation or building bunkers. This is a Kingdom-forward conversation rooted in the belief that God's story is bigger, wilder, and more victorious than mainstream theology has made room for. For the believers who never stopped asking questions. For the Christ-followers who want the whole Bible, not just the comfortable parts. MEET THE HOSTS OF FAITH ON THE FRINGE LEAH STEELE BARNETT Faith-led cultural commentator, AI educator, and host of The Culture Cast operating at the intersection of technology, culture, and Kingdom stewardship. She examines cultural deception, belief systems, and power structures through a biblical lens. She is pattern-oriented, allergic to hype, and built for the kind of theology that doesn't flinch. On The Fringe, she brings the research, the receipts, and a refusal to let comfortable doctrine go unchallenged. MALAINE LEA BUTLER Deliverance-driven disciple of Jesus Christ who walked out of the New Age and into radical transformation through the power of the Gospel. Host of Kingdom Talk and founder of Eden House, she creates space for raw, deep, and confrontational conversations that call hearts into full surrender and freedom in Christ. On The Fringe, she brings fire, spiritual authority, and zero tolerance for religious performance.
Episodes
Jesus never once punished anyone for asking Him a question.
Season two opens with Leah and Malaine questioning everything, starting with the label they just set down and what deconstructing Christianity has actually done to their walk with Jesus. They talk about the cost of leaving the New Age and the cost of this next step, the lifelong Protestant woman who just found out her King James Bible once held fo...
After months of research for this show, Leah and Malaine are ready to say it out loud. They are disciples of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and they no longer identify as Christians.
In this episode they walk through how deconstructing Christianity brought them here, the doctrine they found was written by men far later than they were ever taught, and why Leah tried so hard to be the good Christian girl until the red...
Your biggest cheerleaders will be the people holding the pitchforks.
Leah and Malaine both spent years being platformed in the New Age, and both say what they're seeing in Christian celebrity culture right now goes further than anything they saw there. Nobody who ends up exposed online set out to start a cult. Good people with a heart for God get platformed and pedestaled, the work of maintaining the platform starts eating the time...
Leah had decided a pastor was blasphemous before she had watched a minute of his sermon.
A guest cancelled, so this one is off the cuff, and it opens with Leah admitting she did the exact thing this show tells people not to do. She saw clips of Otha Turnbow's sermon on Jesus going to hell, felt the emotional charge, went looking for other people's reactions, and sealed his fate in her mind without going to the source. In this conve...
Your Bible probably says sons of Israel in Deuteronomy 32. Israel was not born for another two generations.
The Qumran copy of that verse runs a thousand years older than the text every modern translation was built from, and it reads sons of God, while the Septuagint that Jesus read has angels of God. Leah Steele Barnett opens the July Supernatural Bible Session on that discrepancy and builds the divine co...
A missionary came in for early stage Alzheimer's and turned out to be still attending rituals.
Content warning: satanic ritual abuse, ritual abuse inside churches and at the hands of ministers, dissociative identity disorder, parts and programming, child abuse, trafficking and suicide. Nothing graphic is described. Handled with care, still heavy. Headphones if there are little ears nearby.
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Two verses after "freely give," Jesus tells His disciples the worker is worthy of his food.
Matthew 10:8 has become the verse people quote whenever a minister charges for anything. Leah and Malaine read the whole chapter, starting with who Jesus was actually sending out and what He told them to take with them.
From there the conversation moves through deliverance ministers charging sixty dollars a session, megachurch tithes and bui...
People are tithing ten percent they do not have, then stepping over a man sleeping on the street on the way in.
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Two mothers, two countries, three children each, killed on the same day of the same month.
***Content warning: the deaths of children, infanticide, abortion and postpartum psychosis. Handled with care, still heavy. Headphones if there are little ears nearby.
Leah opens with the numbers. Ninety three thousand abortions a month in the United States. Nine states and one district carrying no gesta...
Soul fragmentation came out of the occult, and it still works on Christians.
Leah & Malaine both came out of the New Age, so they recognise the vocabulary on sight. Soul loss, soul retrieval, soul parts, soul contracts. It sits in Kabbalah, in Egyptian texts, in ancient Chinese sources, in shamanic practice, and Leah taught versions of it herself for years. The kingdom of darkness builds real weapons, ...
Forecasting your own retaliation attack is a spell, and it gets spoken in church every week.
Leah and Malaine both came to Jesus out of the New Age, where a practitioner is trained to recall a negative word the second it leaves her mouth. That training was lifted from something God wrote first, and the hosts walk it back to Proverbs 23:7, Proverbs 18:21, and Ezekiel prophesying over a valley of dry bones. ...
Augustine of Hippo read Greek badly, and the Western church ran with his interpretation and still reads Genesis 6 his way.
That is why most pastors skip the four verses where the sons of God take human wives, and it is where Leah Steele Barnett, Malaine Lea Butler and Jenny Embrey opened the first Supernatural Bible Session. Leah reads Genesis 6:1-4 from the NKJV and teaches it from the divine council view...
The New Age works. It runs on principles God wrote, used without Him.
Leah and Malaine had the crystals, the Buddhas, the tarot decks, and two businesses built on top of new age and occult practices, with clients still paying and a year of commitments to wind down. Leah cried out to God from the floor of an apartment in Porto in August 2023, surrounded by sheets of white paper with every part of her life written...
Her husband kept waking up not knowing her name, and no doctor or pastor could tell her why.
***Content warning: childhood physical abuse, satanic ritual abuse that took place inside a church, and demonic manifestation. Handled with care, still heavy. Headphones if there are little ears nearby.
Wendy Nelson is a nurse of twenty five years who married the love of her life in December 2010 and f...
People pass rattlesnakes down the pew because of twelve verses somebody added.
Every Bible in print today is a copy of a copy of a copy. No original manuscript exists anywhere on earth. So when someone says the Bible is the infallible word of God, Leah and Malaine want to ask the obvious follow-up question: which Bible, and which version?
This episode walks through what actually happened to the text. Twelv...
The kingdom of darkness heals too. It just sends you an invoice later.
Sexual assault allegations against GeorDavie surfaced this week, along with Kathryn Krick's response to them, and it changed the shape of a conversation Leah and Malaine had already started. This week on The Fringe Files they work through what came out, why the church name changed when it did, and the question underneath all of it: whet...
They keep us sick, depressed, and toxic so we never have the bandwidth to see it. That part is by design.
!!! Content Warning: This episode discusses satanic ritual abuse, child sexual abuse, trafficking, and trauma-based mind control. Please use discretion, especially around young listeners.
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Every compromise makes the next compromise easier. That is how discernment dies.
Sarah Beth Terry grew up in Louisiana where Catholic saints and voodoo altars shared the same block, and it messed with her radar for what counts as "spiritual." Now she's the internet's favorite feral Christian, and she sits down with Leah and Malaine to...
What happens when a former political influencer begins tracing cultural control, spiritual deception, and bloodline iniquity through the lens of Scripture?
Content Warning: This episode contains a first-person account of childhood sexual abuse and discussion of ritual abuse, child predation, and genocide. Please use discretion, espec...
What if the spiritual warfare exhausting you is connected to one dangerous decision: stepping outside God's will?
In this episode of The Fringe Files, Malaine and Leah discuss spiritual discernment, obedience, divine assignments, and the pressure of navigating a chaotic world. They explore how mixture, partial obedience, false beliefs, an...
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