The Joshua S. Porter Podcast

EOT 003: I wanna write fiction, but I have a hard time finding the right idea to pursue.

AN EXCHANGE OF TEETH, 003 / DECEMBER 2025
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EOT 002: How do I make sense of a world where the values of Christ are utterly inverted and then passed off as “Christian?”

AN EXCHANGE OF TEETH, 002 / NOVEMBER 2025
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EOT 001: How are you still so wrapped up in religion/the church?

AN EXCHANGE OF TEETH, 001 / OCTOBER 2025
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How to Die: Audiobook Excerpt

How to Die: Chaos, Mortality, and the Scandal of Christian Discipleship is out. Find out more.

The Great Georgia Dirt Dragon: Chapter One

My new novel, The Great Georgia Dirt Dragon, is out on Tuesday, October 1st. Of all the things I've written or made, this is my favorite. You can order a paperback, audio, or digital copy wherever you prefer to buy books.  
What follows is chapter one of the audiobook version, read by the amazing Rickel Hayes.
 

It Wasn’t/Was Intended to Be Offensive (with Jeff Suffering)

With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.
Jeff "Suffering" Bettger has been an integral part of controversial acts like Ninety Pound Wuss, Raft of Dead Monkeys, and Suffering and the Hideous Thieves. We have a conversation about his philosophy pf art, inspiration and influence, and whether or not Jeff regrets any of the outrageous art he's made.

Sanctification in What You Watch, Listen To, and Read (With Matt Hughes)

With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.
Matt Hughes works in advertising, but he's also a voracious reader, a music lover, a cinephile, and he wrote a novel for the fun of it. After a terrible season of depression, Matt found healing and renewal, and he decided to rethink the way he approaches art and entertainment.

Some Creative Integrity Will Be Sacrificed (with Tyler Hanns)

With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.
 
Tyler Hanns has been doing design, illustration, filmmaking and creative carpentry for years—many of which he spent working with Christian non-profits and megachurches. He and I are about talk about compromise, communication, and the toll “branding” can take on creativity.

The Greatest Formational Tool is Songs (with Christian Dawson)

With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.
 
Christian Dawson is the pastor of worship at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. He and I are about to have a conversation about musical influences, what qualifies as worship music, and pushing up against church expectations with art.

Worship, Death, and Cake (with Whitney DePaoli)

With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art is out. Find out more.
 
Whitney DePaoli is famous for Sugar and Sparrow, a cake-baking and decorating blog that has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, eventually leading to the bestselling cookbook Anyone Can Cake. But what her cake-loving social media fans might not realize is that before Whitney was famous for her culinary creativity, she led worship bands in church and has since quietly written and released music in experimental punk rock bands—and she didn't arrive at any of those gigs painlessly. We talk about the way tragedy affects creativity, reinventing yourself in new mediums, and living in radically different creative spaces.