Jun 29, 2026
In this episode, Brandon explores how religious, political, and cultural purity codes can become a trap—turning morality into anxiety management and faithfulness into control. Through a Zen parable, John 9, Dallas Willard, and original blessing, he invites us beyond sin obsession and into the deeper morality of love,...
Jun 15, 2026
In this episode, Brandon explores religious rigidity as the attempt to manage anxiety through certainty, purity, and control. Through Jesus’ warnings, the older brother, and the rise of politicized faith, he asks how purity codes can blind us to grace—and how surrender opens the way to freedom.
Jun 12, 2026
Brandon explores religious rigidity as the attempt to manage anxiety through certainty, purity, and control. Using Jesus’ warnings, the parable of the two sons, and the rise of politicized purity codes, this episode asks how goodness itself can become a trap—and how surrender opens the way to freedom.
Jun 1, 2026
In this third episode of the Spirituality over Purity series, Brandon explores the limits of religious purity cultures and the necessary crisis they create. Religion can offer belonging and structure, but it cannot carry us all the way home. Beyond performance and certainty lies a deeper spiritual invitation: learning...