#55 Awake… or Deceived? Inside Jen Hatmaker’s New Gospel
Unshaken Faith
Alisa Childers & Natasha Crain
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unshaken Faith, Alisa and Natasha take a deep dive into Jen Hatmaker’s new best-selling memoir, Awake—a book that has already sold over 100,000 copies and is captivating Christian women across the country.
Hatmaker describes Christianity as the greatest source of oppression in her life—and replaces it with what Alisa calls the “unholy trinity” of feminism, critical pedagogy, and even witchcraft. Together, Alisa and Natasha unpack the book’s six central themes, reading key quotes directly from Hatmaker and comparing them with biblical truth.
You’ll hear:
Why Awake is far more than a personal memoir—it’s a theological manifesto.
How post-Christian spirituality often replaces Scripture with self-worship and emotional “truth.”
The danger of calling something “Jesus” when it’s crafted from our own imagination.
How witchcraft, energy rituals, and self-trust have become the new spirituality for many women.
A biblical response to the cultural message: “Follow your heart.”
Alisa and Natasha approach the topic with both compassion and conviction, acknowledging the heartbreak in Hatmaker’s story while showing why her conclusions lead women away from the true gospel.
???? Listen to the end as they remind listeners that real freedom isn’t found in rejecting God’s authority—it’s found in surrendering to it.
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| 0:00.0 | she kind of identifies Christianity as the biggest force of oppression in her life. Then she replaces |
| 0:05.4 | it with the unholy trinity of feminism, critical pedagogy, and witchcraft. And I mean, yes, |
| 0:11.9 | actual witchcraft, as we'll see. Now she's living from that worldview, which, trusting the goodness |
| 0:18.4 | of my own safe body, that's a quote from the book, leads her into being |
| 0:21.2 | awake, sexually liberated. That was a huge theme, too, especially at the end, and ultimately happy. |
| 0:26.6 | And she does all of this in the name of a Jesus that is crafted by her own imagination. |
| 0:41.0 | Hey, friends, welcome back to the Unshaken Faith podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | We are so excited to be back with our second episode in this season. |
| 0:48.6 | In case you listened in the past and you missed our last episode, I want to make sure everyone knows that we're doing something a little bit different now that we have restarted |
| 0:52.5 | the podcast. |
| 0:53.1 | We used to do very brief, maybe 15 minute episodes every week, but now that we have restarted the podcast. We used to do very brief, |
| 0:55.5 | maybe 15 minute episodes every week. But now that we're restarting this new season, we've gone to |
| 1:00.3 | once a month, reserving the right to periodically do it more often. But at least once a month, |
| 1:04.4 | we're bringing you a longer form episode where we're going deeper into a topic that we think is |
| 1:08.5 | relevant and helpful. And hopefully we'll just really be |
| 1:12.4 | equipping for those of you who choose to watch or listen. So thanks for joining us today. |
| 1:16.5 | We have a big episode today where we're going to be talking about author Jen Hatmaker and her new |
| 1:22.6 | bestselling book called Awake that came out last month. And we're going to talk about exactly why we have |
| 1:28.7 | chosen that for this month's episode. But before we do that, we do have a couple of announcements |
| 1:33.4 | that we just want to get out there to all of you. Number one, we just got back from an amazing |
| 1:37.9 | unshaken faith conference. As most of you know, we do that conference with our good friend, Frank |
| 1:43.0 | Turek. This was number 11. |
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