# Jeremy Alder

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What's Funny About Failing at Christian Rock? (ft. Jeremy Alder)

Jeremy Alder is a comedian who mines his life as a homeschooled youth group kid growing up in Texas for jokes that will probably be very relatable for our audience. We talk with Jeremy about his special, Purity Pants, his album, Almost A Grown Man, and his failed Christian rock band, Nineveh (or 9v…

Jeremy Alder - How a Homeschooled, Philosophy-Majoring Preacher Got Into Comedy

Jeremy Alder headlines comedy clubs and bars around the country and has opened for several nationally touring acts, including Demitri Martin, Russell Howard, Tom Papa, Aparna Nancherla, Nicole Byer, and Chad Daniels. He received his B.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, and his…

Alone Being Homeschooled Before It Was Popular with Comedian Jeremy Alder

This week we are joined by Jeremy Alder! Jeremy Alder is a dry, spiritually curious comedian who draws on his upbringing as a homeschooled kid in a deeply religious Texas family to craft quietly audacious, deceptively sharp comedy. His Dry Bar Comedy special has surpassed 5 million views, and he's …

Empathy Revolt! Trailer

On Empathy Revolt!, religion journalist Liz Charlotte Grant and comedian and social worker Jeremy Alder are making empathy great again with their weekly politics show for the Christian Left and their friends. Each week they're joined by a guest (authors, activists, comedians, journalists, faith lea…

An Exvangelical Author and a Deconstructing Comedian Walk Into a Pod: Introducing Your Hosts and Why They're Like This

Meet the co-hosts, Liz Charlotte Grant and Jeremy Alder! We’re political Leftists (socialists?) and also progressive Christians. (Yes, we are walking oxymorons, thanks for noticing!) This episode, you, the listener, have a chance to “speed date” the hosts in a rapid fire q&a addressing the topics t…

Letting our Talafreako Flag Fly with Zach Lambert

Pastor and author Zach Lambert joins Liz and Jeremy to discuss the midterms, with a close focus on the Texas Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico.(Or, as Zach calls him, Jimmy! That’s right! They’re friends!) Can Texas really flip any race blue? Or is it all media hype? What makes this…

Unmanifesting Destinies: Talking Dirty Europeans and Trans Lions w/Fr. Joash Thomas

Happy Columbus Day to all who celebrate? Oh wait, that’s only MAGA because Columbus was a ACTUALLY colonizer who raped and pillaged indigenous communities in Bahama? Yeah, he’s not our best American ancestor. And Trump’s obsessed with him, having now installed two statues of the pirate explorer in …

Clergy Protests in Black and White w/Andre Henry

This week, organizer and musician Andre Henry joins Liz and Jeremy to talk about the surging white Religious Left protest movement against ICE deportation efforts in cities like Minneapolis and Chicago. What makes this moment unique, and how will we sustain the power we’re building for change? (And…

On Being Pro-Choice for Life w/Chelsea Kim Long

This week, three pro-choice Christians talk abortion bans. The bad news: we’ve entered the alternate universe of The Handmaid’s Tale. The good news: advocates of reproductive rights are fighting back in the courts, including using the “religious freedom” argument against the pro-lifers. ('Cause not…

Immigrant Children and Selective Empathy w/Isaac Villegas

Are there real-life Nazis in the White House? That’s the question Liz and Jeremy are asking Isaac Villegas this week. A Mennonite pastor and journalist, Villegas has thoughts about the horrifying policy to deport as many immigrant children as possible. (Thanks a lot, Stephen Miller.) Fair warning: …