Living After Faith

Rich Lyons recently came out of 20+ years worth of religious indoctrination and abuse trying to find out who he was and what life was all about. Now he's sharing his journey with you.

Rich and Deanna get stoned and converse about cannabis in a lighthearted but informative way.

Sometimes we can’t live with social media, and we can’t live without it. In this episode, Rich and Deanna Joy discuss their strategies for living with and in many cases, on, social media. We would like to hear from you! Leave us a comment!

Rich and Deanna share some techniques they use to escape from the harsh realities of the world.

Back in the early days of Skype, we spoke with YouTuber Stephen James, who did an especially good take down of the Christian YouTube sensation of that day. We also announce our new sponsorship in this episode. Living After Faith is now sponsored by Tellectual Press! We’ll tell you more about them and how this … Continue reading Skepicktok with Stephen James – Episode 82

We were so excited to finally get to do a trans-Atlantic (or “across the pond”) interview with our friend, Bethany Turner! We learned a bunch and had an awful lot of fun. Bethany is the creator of the Eon’s World webcomic, loves dogs, and is smart as hell.

We have a wonderful conversation with Joshua Richards of the JRR Talking Podcast. He is a former minister, former addict, and now he’s Living After Faith. JRR Talking

Content Note/Trigger Warning: We discuss sexual assault, emotional abuse, bullying, PTSD, and suicidal thoughts. We figured we should probably talk frankly about our mental health and life challenges that led us to go on podcast hiatus. Deanna Joy discusses a lot of the things she has been through in recent years in detail, hence the … Continue reading All The Content Warnings – Episode 79

Here it is: Our first official announcement of our return to podcasting. This special crossover episode was one of the most fun we’ve ever done. I didn’t think we could alternately laugh so much and have serious conversation all in the same session. We’re eternally grateful to Amy with a Y and Ami with an … Continue reading Secular Soup Crossover – Episode 78

Way back in 2013-ish we had the good fortune of speaking with PZ Myers in our studio in Seattle. Even back then, we thought maybe we were being a little too cynical about the direction of the atheist movement but when we look back now, I feel like we were still so innocent. Such a … Continue reading Sweet Summer Children With PZ Myers – Episode 77

We thought we were pretty knowledgeable about many of the branches of organized religions, but Ed Suominen absolutely blew our minds with his story. Content note: There’s talk of some pretty intense practices, death, abusive reproduction control among other things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laestadianism

Way back a million years ago (okay, five), we were invited to speak with the Sudbury Humanist Association via Skype. We had tons of fun and hope you enjoy this trip in a time machine that only travels in one direction.

We recently traveled to New Orleans for a wedding and while we were there we met up with a couple of old friends. You get this special two-part extra long show! Jerry DeWitt has been on LAF a couple of times. We recorded on the beach with our iPhones at sunset. The weather was beautiful … Continue reading Visiting Old Friends in NOLA – Episode 74

In 2012, our good friend Meemo wrote a blog post for us. It told the story of growing up in Rich’s Pentecostal church and the hardship it is to suppress who you are in order to conform to an outward fundamentalist ideal. We sat down together for a conversation to catch up with Meemo to … Continue reading Catching Up With Meemo – Episode 73

After the world’s longest podcast hiatus (which we will explain later) we have a new episode, and a new direction. Get ready to LAF with us again! Do you remember when we first talked with Shelley Segal in 2013? She has done so much and soared so high since then. She has produced three more … Continue reading We’re Back! Starring Shelley Segal – Episode 72