Religion for Breakfast

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Live webinar this afternoon

Hey friends!

I wanted to let you all know I’m hosting a live Zoom webinar today (Aug 14) with Dr. Leif Tornquist on the overlap between fitness and spirituality in American life (think yoga, clean eating, and CrossFit as moral or religious practices). I’d love for you to join us (i'm making it free for all RFB patron...

Patron 10-Year Anniversary Stream is live!

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Religion For Breakfast 10-year Anniversary stream

Hey everyone! I'll be streaming later on today (Friday, October 18) to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Religion for Breakfast. I published my first video ten years ago in October 2014!

Here is the link for the stream: https://youtube.com/live/EAt4Q...

Livestream is live!

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Patrons Livestream Tomorrow: Friday, Jul. 19, 7:30 AM (US East Coast)

Hey everyone! It's been too long since I've hosted a patrons livestream, so I'm fixing that! I'll be live-streaming starting at 7:30 AM tomorrow, July 19 (US East Coast time).

I'm still in Turkey, so unfortunately the timing is tricky as I need to stream during Turkey's business hours. This will probably be inconvenient for those in the U...

Livestream is live!

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Welcome new patrons (and livestream tomorrow)

There has been a huge surge in new patrons over the past month, so I just wanted to say welcome! Thank you so much for joining the community and supporting RFB! Super excited for what we'll try to accomplish this year in 2024.

Tomorrow (Feb 16), I'll be hosting a livestream for all $5+ patrons at 8:00 AM US east coast time! I'm current...

New Video!: The Origins of the Christmas Tree

I just posted this year's Christmas special...a deep dive into the origins of the Christmas Tree. You can watch it here. 

This was a shockingly difficult video to research. I thought it'd be super easy, bu...

New video!: The Origins of Lilith

I always try to publish a "spooky" episode every October. This year it's Lilith...the notorious demon from Jewish folklore. 

This is one of those videos that I started assuming that I already knew all there is to know about the topic. But I actually learned a ton during the research phase...mostly realizing t...

New video!: Akhenaten

Here's my new video on Akhenaten, the Pharaoh who attempted to turn ancient Egyptian religion away from the traditional gods to the sun disc god: Aten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEfGI-8QRgc&ab_channel=ReligionForBreakfast...

Episode 1 in a short A.I. series!

I've been fascinated by artificial intelligence narratives over the past few weeks, and how these ideologies intersect religion. This first episode covers apocalypticism. I'm envisioning two more episodes...one on "animism" and AI (how people ascribe personhood to technology), and the third episode will cover New Religious Movements that worship...

Discord Server glitch

For those of you that are members of the RFB Discord server, Patreon changed the code yesterday that connects Patreon and Discord automatically. The change seems to have accidentally booted a few patrons from the server. Let me know if you are one of them, and I will add you back manually!

~Andrew

Livestream is live!

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Patrons livestream: Tuesday, Feb 7

Hi everyone! I'm scheduling a daytime $5+ patrons livestream at 1:00 PM Tuesday, February 7. Hopefully that isn't too inconvenient of a time, but I will try my best to schedule a weekend or evening stream later this month!

I will post the link here when the stream is live! Hope to see you then!

Andrew

Podcast guest suggestions

Hi everyone! I'm launching an RFB podcast early this year that will feature interviews with religious studies scholars, religion journalists, and others (artists/writers/game designers) who focus on religion in their work. 

I already have 10 episodes recorded ready for release, but I'd like to ask you all for suggestions! Who would yo...

2022 Year-in-Review

Hello everyone! Sorry for being missing in action for the past few weeks. I'm finally settled in my new apartment in Washington DC after 2 years abroad in Egypt. I thought I'd share a few stats from 2022! 

Subscriber Growth: 170K new subscribers! We officially passed half a million subscribers in 2022, which is so exc...

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New video (Daoism)! | Livestream tomorrow! | Hinduism Series

A few announcements!:

1) New video: I published the Intro to Daoism video this week. The topic was so fascinating that I decided to expand this into a multi-episode series. So I've hired Dr. Jennifer Bussio (a scholar of Daoism) as...

New series! Choose the next episode!

I'm launching a new series: How Religious is the World?Each episode will focus on  the religious landscape of a particular country. Episode 1 is on Iceland (watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPDfhs7APDY

What episode...

Livestream is live!

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Livestream today: 9:00 AM EST

Hi everyone, just a reminder that I'll be livestreaming for Patrons today at 9:00 AM EST. I'll post the link here when I'm live. 

Andrew

Livestream is live!

Hope to see you there!

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500K Celebration Stream today!

Hi everyone! We passed 500K subscribers two days ago! I'll be hosting a stream for the whole channel at 8:15 AM US East Coast time today. After the stream, around 9:30, I'll switch over to a Patrons-only after-party stream for $5+ Patrons.

Here is the link to the stream: 2022-08-03 08:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post

New video!: Why Humans Evolved to Play Music

One of my favorite topics of all time is the evolution of religion. I'm utterly fascinated thinking about the religion of our Pleistocene ancestors (whatever that may have looked like). Yesterday's video gets a bit into this topic by marrying comparative musicology and religious studies. 

The writer and researcher for this episode is ...

Patreon Livestream is Live!

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Livestream tomorrow! (1:00 PM US East Coast time)

Hi $5+ patrons! I'll be livestreaming tomorrow afternoon (Saturday, 1:00 PM, US East Coast time). I'll post the link here. Hope to see you there!

Andrew

Live-streaming with ESOTERICA at 3:00 PM EDT!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to let you know that I'm publishing a collab with Dr. Justin Sledge of the channel ESOTERICA today. Our videos will be published today at noon, and we will be live-streaming on his channel at 3:00 PM EDT to discuss the topic.

Here is the link to the live-stream: 2022-05-20 15:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Livestream is Live!

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Livestream at 5:00 PM (US East Coast time)

Hi all $5+ patrons! Just letting you know that I will be livestreaming tonight at 5:00 PM. I'll post the link here on Patreon. 

Hope to see you there!

Andrew