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Hosted by Randy Knie & Kyle Whitaker · religion · EN-US · 156 episodes
Mixing a cocktail of philosophy, theology, and spirituality. We're a pastor and a philosopher who have discovered that sometimes pastors need philosophy, and sometimes philosophers need pastors. We tackle topics and interview guests that straddle the divide between our interests. Who we are: Randy Knie (Co-Host) - Randy is the founding and Lead Pastor of Brew City Church in Milwaukee, WI. Randy loves his family, the Church, cooking, and the sound of his own voice. He drinks boring pilsners. Kyle Whitaker (Co-Host) - Kyle is a philosophy PhD and an expert in disagreement and philosophy of religion. Kyle loves his wife, sarcasm, kindness, and making fun of pop psychology. He drinks childish slushy beers. Elliot Lund (Producer) - Elliot is a recovering fundamentalist. His favorite people are his wife and three boys, and his favorite things are computers and hamburgers. Elliot loves mixing with a variety of ingredients,
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Signup to Generate a PitchMixing a cocktail of philosophy, theology, and spirituality. We're a pastor and a philosopher who have discovered that sometimes pastors need philosophy, and sometimes philosophers need pastors. We tackle topics and interview guests that straddle the divide between our interests.
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar is hosted by Randy Knie & Kyle Whitaker. The show has published 156 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Hidden History Of Evangelical Gay Activism" (20 October 2026, 74 minutes), "Live Laugh Love" (11 September 2026, 98 minutes), and "Faith and Unbelief" (23 August 2026, 75 minutes).
A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 68 minutes across 156 episodes.
Booking probability for A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar are Religion & Faith. A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar has a religion audience and around 810 subscribers on YouTube.
Randy Knie & Kyle Whitaker hosts A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar, a religion show with 156 episodes published.
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Episode #2
Text us your questions! A single footnote in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Live Laugh Love sent us down a rabbit hole we didn’t know existed: organized evangelical gay activism in the 1970s and 1980s, and the effort by white...
Episode #17
Text us your questions! We sit down with Kristin Kobes Du Mez to talk about her new book Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made . We discuss how what looks like consumer...
Episode #16
Text us your questions! Randy and Kyle get brutally honest about the moment doubt stops feeling like “questions” and starts feeling like unbelief, including what it’s like to say that out loud when you’re a pastor with...
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Text us your questions! Prayer can fall apart slowly. One day you are sure your words move heaven, and eventually you can't tell if you're talking to anyone at all. We return to the topic of prayer to discuss what...
Episode #14
Text us your questions! We wanted something different from our usual fare, so we invited musician David Gungor to help us see spirituality through an artist’s eyes: beauty, story, woundedness, and play. What starts as a...
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Text us your questions! Democrats can pass huge bills and still lose the argument with the people those bills are meant to help. That’s the tension we dig into with Chuck Rocha, a longtime Democratic strategist, Bernie...
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Text us your questions! We continue our conversation with pastor and author Matt Erickson of Eastbrook Church in Milwaukee. The job of many pastors feels like that of a CEO, with a focus on leadership strategy and the...
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Text us your questions! Randy and Kyle sit down with Milwaukee pastor and author Matt Erickson to explore a different vision of pastoral ministry: not the pastor as CEO, brand manager, or religious expert, but the...
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Text us your questions! We talk with Preston Sprinkle about his book From Genesis to Junia and the long road from a John MacArthur shaped complementarian framework to an egalitarian view that affirms women teaching...
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Text us your questions! The news cycle is moving so fast it’s training us to forget. We invited Mike Madrid, a longtime classical conservative political strategist, commentator, and Lincoln Project cofounder, back on...
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Text us your questions! Prayer doesn’t always happen in a church. Sometimes it happens under streetlights or beside old trees. We open with Randy’s simple practice of late night walks and how nature has slowly become...
Episode #7
Text us your questions! Bart Ehrman, an atheist New Testament scholar with a penchant for annoying evangelicals, now claims that the teachings of Jesus determined the moral instincts of the West. Bart joins us to talk...
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Text us your questions! AI can now generate essays, photos, songs, and video that look real enough to fool experts. This impacts how and whether humans can trust one another, and it’s already reshaping how we learn...
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Text us your questions! We recorded this live gathering in Chicago with the Post Evangelical Collective, and it still feels uncomfortably current. Alongside Dr. David Gushee and Keri Ladouceur (director of the PEC), we...
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Text us your questions! What kind of God is worth trusting when life falls apart? We pull up a chair with Thomas Jay Oord and guest Chris Lilley for a spirited, vulnerable conversation about omnipotence, evil, and why...
Episode #3
Text us your questions! Our friend Jeff Cook—writer, podcaster, and Enneagram systems thinker—is back with us to discuss his recent book (volume 1 of a series because of course it is): about the Enneagram. (See our...
Episode #2
Text us your questions! Is the drive to be better than others making us worse? We talk with theologian Miroslav Volf about his book The Cost of Ambition and explore why comparison-based striving saturates our schools...
Episode #1
Text us your questions! We talk with political strategist, author, and Lincoln Project member Mike Madrid about data, culture, and why both parties keep getting the Latino vote wrong. Mike takes us inside the Lincoln...
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Text us your questions! Dawne Moon and Theresa Tobin are back to discuss their book Choosing Love , which represents the culmination of their research over the last several years into the community of conservative...
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bestselling author and founder of the Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender, Center for Faith, Gender, and Sexuality
theology professor and director of the Center for Faith and Culture, Yale University
author of The Latino Century: How America’s Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy, Lincoln Project
author of "The Gap in God's Country", professor of Political Philosophy at Kansas State University, co-founder of the Maurin Institute, Springdale Public Schools
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