Episode 1276: Passion's Kristian Stanfill on Sobriety, Freedom and His Most Honest Album Yet
The RELEVANT Podcast
RELEVANT Magazine
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Worship leader and Passion artist Kristian Stanfill joins us to talk about the long road from addiction to five years of sobriety, the moment everything changed and how his new album 'Come to Jesus' was born from real healing and real joy.
Cameron, Jesse, Derek and Emily also bring RELEVANT Buzz, our weekly breakdown of the latest at the intersection of faith and culture — and of course, we close the show with Slices, where the crew dives into the funniest, weirdest and most unexpected stories the internet has to offer.
Show Highlights
01:25 — Denver altitude, sinus infections & Cameron’s Chap Stick disaster
04:36 — The Colorado horse-ride saga and Derek’s conspiracy theories
08:55 — RELEVANT Buzz
09:00 — Daniel Caesar’s faith-filled album hits the charts
11:00 — The wild bike-prank video Jesse found on his cursed algorithm
12:05 — Vine is officially coming back… sort of
16:20 — Jenna Jameson gets baptized and shares her story
18:15 — Guest: Kristian Stanfill joins the show
18:45 — Why he made a solo album (Come to Jesus)
21:00 — “I needed a revelation of Jesus” — Kristian on what actually changed him
26:15 — What year four to year five of sobriety taught him
27:20 — The power of community, vulnerability and refusing isolation
28:15 — Advice for pastors, leaders and anyone afraid to ask for help
31:20 — Does he get tired of talking about his darkest season?
33:55 — Slices: A horse falls into a family’s backyard pool
39:20 — An AI song hits No. 1 on the country charts
45:55 — Congress quietly bans Delta-8 and similar THC products
48:20 — The dark side of unregulated synthetic drugs
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| 0:00.0 | It's episode 1276 and it's the relevant podcast here in Orlando. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm your host, Cameron String. |
| 0:10.4 | And joining me from Loverland, Virginia. |
| 0:12.0 | It's Jessica Gary. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:13.4 | From Nashville, artist, producer, Mogul, Derek Miner. |
| 0:16.4 | What up, Do? |
| 0:17.3 | And just on the street, there are managing editor downtown Emily Brown. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey, y'all. |
| 0:21.3 | So apparently it's crimson season there in Nashville. |
| 0:24.8 | You guys are matching today. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.3 | Shrewp farms, bed and breakfast. |
| 0:29.6 | Harvard, higher education. |
| 0:32.7 | Did you actually, why do you have a Harvard sweatshirt? |
| 0:37.6 | Did you teach a class there or something? |
| 0:39.4 | No, I was, you know, during my nonprofit ownership is a new black, one of the people that was working with us was actually a, was actually doing her doctorate or it was her MBA at Harvard. |
| 0:52.6 | And she asked me to speak to Harvard about black |
| 0:57.5 | ownership and different things like that and then they sent me some swag so sweet here's what |
| 1:02.8 | and I love it too Derek because like people can uh be like oh did you go to Harvard you can say no |
| 1:08.2 | I actually taught there um yeah it's like Michael. He's a guest adjunct speaker. I like it. No, I, you know, my undergrad's from somewhere else, but it's actually briefly taught at Harvard. By briefly, I gave me one afternoon. Very. 40 minutes. Very briefly. But technically, if someone ask about the, you say, now I taught there. |
| 1:31.1 | You know, I taught there. |
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