Ep 1298 | She Left a Movement She Once Believed Was Christian … Millions Still Belong

Unashamed with the Robertson Family

Tread Lively

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jase, Al, and Zach on the growing cultural obsession with self-affirmation, “manifesting,” and the idea that truth comes from within, warning how these popular beliefs subtly replace God with self. They’re joined by author and Christian apologist Melissa Doherty, who shares her journey out of the New Thought movement and explains how feel-good spirituality can distort the Gospel while still sounding Christian. The guys relive their chaotic crawfish business that ended in blood poisoning and helped redirect their lives. They land on a powerful contrast between self-made truth and the light of Jesus, challenging listeners to consider whether they’re drawn to the light—or avoiding it. In this episode: John 3, verses 16–21; John 1, verse 1; 1 John “Unashamed” Episode 1298 is sponsored by: Slow the growth of greys and get 15% off by using code UNASHAMED at http://Arey.com https://ruffgreens.com — Get a FREE Jumpstart Trial Bag for your dog today when you use promo code Unashamed! Text UNASHAMED to 64000 and get a FREE pocket pivot and 10-pattern sprayer with the purchase of ANY size Copper Head hose! http://unashamedforhillsdale.com/ — Sign up now for free, and join the Unashamed hosts every Friday for Unashamed Academy Powered by Hillsdale College Listen to Not Yet Now with Zach Dasher on Apple, Spotify, iHeart, or anywhere you get podcasts. Check out At Home with Phil Robertson, nearly 800 episodes of Phil's unfiltered wisdom, humor, and biblical truth, available for free for the first time! Get it on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, and anywhere you listen to podcasts! https://open.spotify.com/show/3LY8eJ4ZBZHmsImGoDNK2l Chapters 00:00 Family Debate Chaos Before the Show 07:45 Crawfish Facts, AI Debates & Louisiana Logic 12:10 Jase’s Crawfish Business Turns Dangerous 17:40 A Near-Death Breaking Point 22:30 Why the Crawfish Hustle Led to Bible School 26:15 Meet Melissa & the New Thought Movement 31:20 “Manifesting” & the Rise of Self-Made Truth 37:45 Why New Thought Twists Christianity 43:10 Light vs Darkness: What Jesus Actually Said 49:00 Why People Fear the Light More Than the Dark — Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am unashamed. What about you?
0:05.0	Welcome back to Unashame. We had a little dust up here before we got going, but one day that'll be a podcast topic we've decided.
0:15.0	I think it's a family dynamic that every few, we must have an argument.
0:23.4	And I get tickled at the argumentative style because it's such a throwback to our parents.
0:31.6	Because I just remember all those years and all those holidays.
0:35.8	It was just like what I just witnessed this and it's
0:39.1	funny to me but it's a it's good well and we had guests here we embarrassed our so oh we have
0:45.9	guests yeah so jd turned 18 today we're going to have to get them to sign a uh what do you call
0:52.1	a non-disclosure agreement. Yeah, yeah, it's
0:54.3	out of the NDA before you leave. If I don't know on that, I wouldn't have been so sarcastic now.
0:58.0	So, J.D. is turned 18 this week, so he's a young man officially, and his mom works with Lisa,
1:04.4	selling real estate. So they're here today, witnessing what they just saw. But I wonder, as we were doing it, it just, I wonder if Maddie, Maddie stepped in and said,
1:17.1	all right, that's the bell, round one.
1:19.2	Round one.
1:19.9	We got to record.
1:22.3	And then Jay's goes, I think I won that round.
1:26.6	I think I won that round. I think I won that round.
1:48.5	And then that started a whole other. That started a round two. Yeah. Then it's who win. So, Al, let me ask you, if nobody intervened, how long do you think me and Chase would sit here? We would still be gone. It would go all morning. It's because I've seen these. I see. And then at some some point it gets personal, you know, that we never got there.
1:51.4	But at some point it would have gotten into personal attacks.
1:53.4	That's the only way you can really end it. The reason those are helpful, though, is because I found those illuminating.
1:58.3	Yeah.
1:58.6	Because you understand now why Zach is...
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