Joshua
Analytical anchor
Joshua builds the case. He brings the sources, the numbers and the uncomfortable counter-argument, and he would rather be corrected than be comfortable.
Outside the Chapel Network · Season 1
Soul Fuel Cafe
The arguments the internet is having this month, taken seriously and taken apart. Two hosts, a lot of research, and no interest in pretending the easy answer is the true one.
About the show
Pull up a chair. This one gets into it.
Soul Fuel Cafe takes one live cultural argument per episode and stays with it for the whole hour. One week it might be the manosphere, the next tradwives or the cost of living, whether Jesus was a socialist, or what it means that people are forming real attachments to AI companions.
The rule of the show is that both sides get stated properly before either gets answered. Joshua works the argument, the data and the counter-case. Kristin works the human cost and the pastoral reality. Faith is not saved for a tidy closing thought; it runs through the whole conversation, with Catholic Social Teaching doing real work rather than decorating the end.
You will not always agree with where they land. That is fine. Nobody here is trying to end the argument, only to have it honestly.
At a glance
- Hosts
- Joshua and Kristin
- Format
- Two-host deep dive, one topic per episode
- Length
- 50 to 55 minutes
- Season
- Season 1, in production
- Grounded in
- Catholic Social Teaching
- Produced by
- ICON Ministry
The hosts
Two very different ways in.
Kristin
Pastoral and relational voice
Kristin keeps asking who this actually happens to. She is the reason the show never reduces a person to a position.
Season one
What the first season takes on.
Episodes release in order. Full audio lives on your podcast app of choice.
- EP 02 Back In My Day The cost of living crisis, and why every generation thinks the last one had it easy.
- EP 03 Modern Dating Apps, scarcity, and what happens to courtship when the market never closes.
- EP 04 Is the Manosphere Helping Young Men? Part one of a pair. Taking the appeal seriously before taking it apart.
- EP 05 Tradwives Gone Viral Part two. Gender roles, homemaking, vocation and what the aesthetic is really selling.
- EP 06 Why Does It Have to Hurt? Suffering, without the shortcut.
- EP 08 Character Development The self-help industry, and the difference between optimising a life and living one.
- EP 09 Do You Actually Know Him? What people mean by a personal relationship with Jesus, and whether they have one.
- EP 10 Virtually Alone Digital life, AI companions, and loneliness that technology promised to fix.
- EP 11 Was Jesus a Socialist? Where the Gospel actually sits relative to the politics people recruit it for.
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Where to listen.
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Think they got it wrong?
Good. Tell them. Pushback from listeners is where a decent share of these episodes come from in the first place.