The Religion Business Exposed (ft. Nathan Apffel)
Chrisley Confessions 2.0
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week on Chrisley Confessions 2.0, Todd Chrisley sits down with filmmaker and entrepreneur Nathan Apffel for a conversation that challenges a lot of what we think we know about faith, the church, and the systems built around it.
Nathan is the director of The Religion Business, a docuseries that takes a hard look at how money, power, and lack of accountability have shaped modern Christianity. And from the start, Todd makes it clear… this isn’t going to be a comfortable conversation. It’s one that asks questions, digs deeper, and forces a closer look at what faith is supposed to be versus what it’s become.
The two dive into everything from billion-dollar church empires and financial transparency to cover-up culture and the responsibility of believers to question what they’re being taught. Nathan shares what led him down this path, including personal experiences that changed the way he saw the church, and Todd opens up about how this project made him reflect on his own upbringing in faith.
This episode isn’t about tearing faith down. It’s about separating truth from tradition, asking better questions, and understanding the difference between believing in God and trusting the institutions built in His name.
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| 0:23.5 | Welcome to Krista Confessions 2.0. Folks, I have a guy here today that his publicist, |
| 0:30.7 | Nathan Appell, whose publicist reached out to me many months ago about a topic regarding faith and about a project |
| 0:41.1 | that you were working on regarding the churches around the country. And everyone knows that we |
| 0:47.5 | have a strong, faith-based background and that we are Christian. But your project has caused me to take a much deeper look |
| 0:59.5 | into what faith really means in our country today. |
| 1:03.2 | And so I know that everyone loves to hear all things Chrisly. |
| 1:09.5 | I was just told a couple of weeks ago that our shows rate the highest when it's family talking to family. |
| 1:17.6 | But I'm giving you this today because I want to educate you, the people that are listening, the same time that I'm being educated. |
| 1:25.6 | Because we're going to talk about some heavy stuff |
| 1:28.1 | in this first round, and some of it's gonna be uncomfortable for me. |
| 1:33.6 | So I have said to you today, |
| 1:36.1 | talk about whatever it is that you wanna talk about, |
| 1:38.8 | and educate me. |
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