Carpe Fide

Two weeks after reacting to NYC Mayor Mamdani's Fourth of July speech, Justin and Jesse bring in the contrast: the founders, speaking for themselves. They read Benjamin Franklin's 1787 speech calling for prayer at the Constitutional Convention — the one where he quotes three Bible verses in three paragraphs and asks why a room full of the most educated men in America forgot to consult "the Father...

NYC Mayor Mamdani sat down on the wrong side of George Washington's desk on July 3rd, squinting into a teleprompter, and turned America's 250th birthday into a 15-minute grievance list. Justin and Jesse go through the whole speech live — the "masked agents stealing your neighbors away in unmarked vans" line, the wealth redistribution language, the claim that American exceptionalism belongs to...

Turns out the country everyone warned the world about has air conditioning, free bread, and people who'll drive a total stranger to a soccer game for free. With the World Cup on American soil and the nation turning 250, Justin and Jesse dig into the flood of foreign tourists discovering — on camera, in real time — that America isn't the crime-ridden hellscape they were promised. They get into the...

Preamble: Who doesn't like free stickers? I offer some if you find the spot and follow the directions. BUT you're gonna have to slog a decent way through the episode to find it...if you do, message us and I'll get you what you deserve ;-) Oh look, another internet theologian has figured out how to solve America’s deepest cultural wounds, and surprise! It involves a shocking amount of...

A Texas Democratic politician went on Joe Rogan and explained that the angel Gabriel asked Mary for her consent before the virgin birth, that God is non-binary because Hebrew nouns have grammatical gender, and that Christians had no theological position on abortion until the religious right invented one in the 1970s — and Joe Rogan said "you should run for president." Justin and Jesse play the...

Welcome to Episode 230, where Justin and Jesse examine how a holiday meant for honoring fallen soldiers somehow morphed into a hyper-local dumpster fire of performative activism. Apparently, the latest trend for progressive politicians involves treating Memorial Day like a personal brand expansion, complete with highly coordinated tone-deafness and a side of crowd-control chemicals.We dive deep...

In episode 229, Justin and Jesse tackle the progressive media's latest existential crisis: the Rededicate 250 prayer rally. According to one "highly vaccinated" USA Today columnist, gathering to pray is somehow a brazen violation of the First Amendment. Justin offers a free, desperately needed history lesson to those who still mistakenly believe the phrase "separation of church and state" is...

In this dispatch from the front lines, Jesse and Justin record from a new "zen" living room setup to equip the saints for cultural engagement. This episode tackles three major cultural skirmishes where Christians must hold the line and uphold a clear biblical standard:The Church as a Family: The brothers draw their swords against a progressive article arguing that the church should stop using...

Welcome to this week's episode of the Carpe Fide podcast. We usually sit down to record together, but due to some unexpected audio issues, we are sharing a powerful recent sermon from Justin instead. In this message, titled "Every Spiritual Blessing: Unending Grace," Justin dives into Ephesians 1:7c–8a to explore the incomprehensible nature of God's unmerited favor. While human beings naturally...

Welcome to a very lonely episode of the Carpe Fide podcast! Jesse is MIA, so Justin is flying solo today to bring you some unfiltered, potentially Patreon-worthy thoughts. First, he tackles the absolute tragedy of the U.S. military losing a few replaceable planes to rescue a downed F-15 pilot in Iran. Justin gleefully roasts the social media critics complaining about lost hardware, reminding...