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I was driving the other day and I saw a bumper sticker that made me laugh out loud.

It simply said, I remember 5 Iron Frenzy.

I just thought, oh man, I remember 5 Iron Frenzy.

I was 20 years ago when I used to listen to all this Christian rock, punk, scaw, although

I think scaw was just big across music in general, Christian or not.

It seemed like every band had a trumpet at that time.

That was music that I was really into and the reason I bring this up today is because

a lot of people asked me last week to do an episode on John Steingart of the Christian

group, Hawk Nelson, who came out on Instagram recently saying that he had lost his Christian

faith or he had given up his Christian faith.

So I wanted to talk about that and I was doing research into other Christian artists

who had given up their faith.

And there is a surprising number of them, well known ones, and we'll talk about them

today on the show, including artists from groups that I enjoy during my initial conversion

experience like 5 Iron Frenzy.

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Now let's get into what's interesting about these Christian groups, especially 5 Iron

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