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hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl

church: community or cult?

hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl

Emily, Madelyn, Jen

Relationships, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

no really tho... is church a community or a cult? maybe a bit of both? the rituals, traditions, and practices in many faith contexts can be high key overwhelming for anyone. in this episode, the hot pursuit ladies share their thoughts about how church can feel kinda whack (and toxic) from the outside, but can sometimes be the place where they've experienced deep relationships (and somehow found each other). 0:00 rapid fire: getting our feet wet 16:49 rapid fire: getting cult-y 27:40: rapid fire: getting culty-er for sure 30:48 so is church a cult? 43:10 can church be a community? CONNECT WITH US Connect with us @thehotpursuitpod on Instagram/TikTok/Youtube.  Email us at ⁠hello@thehotpursuitpod.com⁠.  Learn more at ⁠thehotpursuitpod.com⁠. THE HOT PURSUIT PODCAST: Hosted and written by: Jennifer Han, Emily Lin, and Madelyn Ong Produced by: Hot Pursuit Media and AsianBossGirl Edited by: Josh Jang Theme song composed by: Shawn Halim Art by: Kelsey Cordutsky Motion Graphics by: Matt Ebling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.5

Hello and welcome to another episode of Hot Pursuit,

1:06.9

a podcast about creating conversations

1:08.9

where nothing is off-women.

1:12.9

I'm M. I'm Jen.

1:19.2

And I'm Madeline. And today we're talking about a very juicy topic, and that is church.

1:26.2

Is it a community or is it a cult? Let's talk about it. This has been highly requested.

1:30.2

It has been, yeah. So many comments. Give us the church episode.

1:37.8

So we are here to deliver. Yeah. So we're not shy about just dropping hints that we are Christians,

1:43.2

all three of us. That's how we found each other. And that's one of the reasons why we love each other so much.

1:44.9

And it's kind of difficult to talk about church and our faith without kind of dismantling the outside perspective of what church looks like.

1:56.1

And we know there's like a lot of things in our faith that do look and feel cultish and we just want to talk

2:01.1

about it. So this episode is just going to be about church as a whole, just like the systems

2:06.7

of church and our experiences with it. All right. We jokingly had an alt title for this episode,

2:12.6

which was going to be, why are Christians so weird? Which I still love that one, too.

2:19.5

It's really a thesis.

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