"Woe to you, when all people speak well of you" | False Prophet James Talarico's Brand of Fradulent Christianity | Blake Bozarth | Ep. 278

Kindled Podcast | Truth and Grace, Boldly

Haley Williams

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

James Talarico's brand of Christianity is being touted the world over as "a loving response to Christian nationalism" - but IS IT?

We evaluate the ideas that undergird his slick sayings and hold them up to what the Bible actually teaches.

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0:00.0	Well, hello and welcome back to today's episode. This is Kindled podcast, and I'm your host,
0:16.1	Haley. Today I have a conversation with Blake Bozarth that is a friend that I met on Instagram as I meet so many awesome conservative Christian voices.
0:24.4	And Blake is going to share a little bit of his testimony of how he had to transition his entire business and platform when he was convicted about actually sharing the truth, no holds barred, as well as we are going to be digging into the theology
0:39.5	of progressive Christianity as expressed through James Telerico. You've probably heard of him.
0:46.8	If you haven't, you might be living under a rock and I might be very jealous of you. But I know
0:51.7	that it's not just him who's espousing this ideology. It's become
0:55.2	sort of the modern representation of what, you know, Jesus really is, and this is the true
1:01.5	Christianity, and this is everything else besides this is bigoted and hateful, and those Christians
1:06.4	don't understand the Bible. You're hearing this from your friends, your community, your
1:10.4	coworkers, your family. your co-workers, your
1:11.3	family. So I think it's very important that we actually understand why it is not biblical
1:17.1	Christianity and be able to respond to those claims and accusations as well as be able to defend
1:22.4	the true faith once for all delivered to the saints. So that's the goal with this episode. I know that it's
1:28.4	going to be encouraging to you, whatever your personal family, friend, situation, life looks
1:35.4	like it was to me. Before I get into that conversation, I want to remind you, if you have been a
1:41.7	longtime listener of Kindled, I would love for you to leave
1:44.8	a rating and review of the podcast. Thank you in advance to those of you who have already done so.
1:50.2	Be sure and come find me on Instagram at hailey.com. That's where I'm talking between the episodes
1:55.4	about all kinds of things, really whatever interests me. It's the Wild West over there.
1:59.9	You can find my
2:01.1	substack at kindled.substack.com where I am always building tons of resources over there, book lists,
2:08.0	recommendations for how you can learn and grow, as well as articles from me and guest writers.
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