Ep 4 - Not That Kind of Baptist PK with Josh Lieuallen

Pastor's Kid

Piper Ramsey-Sumner is back to hosting Pastor’s Kid! In this episode, she interviews fellow podcaster, Josh Lieuallen. They discuss growing up as pastor’s kids in the 90’s and what it is like now to reflect on Christian culture and its influence. Piper and Josh bond over their shared experiences at the touring worship event/spectacle that was Acquire the Fire and muse over psychology and how religion functions in society.

Josh Lieuallen is a Montana-raised, Baptist PK, who now lives in Seattle and flirts with being ecumenical and sometimes calls himself a Christian-ish agnostic.

Growing up in the peak of 90’s American Christian culture, church has been a central experience for Josh. He had a Larryboy mural in his room from grade school through college, and he’s pretty sure his first crush was Connie Kendall from Adventures in Odyssey. Church also got him to learn how to play the drums, volunteer to be a youth leader, and attend ministry school before college.

Coincidentally, Josh always managed to play the part of “the drunk” in the Lifehouse Everything skit, and then went on to study Alcoholics Anonymous and spirituality for his undergrad in psychology and sociology.

Josh’s passion for people and meaningful dialogue extended into launching a project called Beerlosophy, where he has facilitated over 100 roundtable discussion events on controversial and current philosophical topics.

Josh currently is a co-host on a podcast called Ravel, works in the corporate side of the coffee industry for his day job, listens to too many podcasts, and is always searching for a good book.

Check out Ravel here. And find Josh on TikTok (@joshualieuallen) and Twitter (@joshlieuallen)!

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