Pride Month, Pet Peeves & The Pearl of Great Price | Brand New Podcast

It's a rambling, no-script kind of episode — and that's the point. Pastor Shannon O'Dell and the team cover everything from a record-breaking Sunday at Brand New Church to the "healthy" snack that secretly wrecked Shannon's diet, before digging into the big one: a full breakdown of Mormon theology and whether the LDS church is actually Christian.

Along the way they get into how a church really grows in the age of AI, the Mark Driscoll church-split saga, election integrity and the SAVE Act, a viral story about "authenticity gone wrong," and a whole lot of pet peeves. Grab a coffee and hang out with us.

Chapters

0:00 — Rain delays & a record Sunday

4:00 — Praying for margin: the orange Mustang story

7:00 — 350 kids and a packed weekend

17:00 — Hot yoga & a brutal Sunday workout

20:00 — Free diving & the Navy SEAL breath-hold

23:00 — Why we ramble: podcasts, Tony Robbins & Theo Von

30:00 — Filler words & preaching pet peeves

32:00 — Flat bills, hat sizes & getting older

35:00 — Kid leashes & posting your sick kid online

38:00 — The black garlic that wrecked my diet

45:00 — Election integrity & the SAVE Act

48:00 — Mark Driscoll, church splits & staff structure

54:00 — Authenticity over aesthetics: how a church actually grows

56:00 — Why AI can't replace the preacher or the room

1:02:00 — When "authenticity" goes wrong (a viral abortion story)

1:08:30 — Is Mormonism Christian? A full breakdown

1:30:00 — What's blowing up online: Pride Month, Fidelity Month & the Rangers

1:34:00 — "Love you, won't celebrate it": homosexuality, Sesame Street & PBS

1:38:00 — Iran, Islam & where we're headed

1:40:00 — Closing thoughts & prayer

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