by Josh Galt | Nov 8, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Rev. Dr. Robert K.C. Forman has practiced Transcendental Meditation every day for 57 years. He was a professor of comparative religion at the City University of New York, founded the Journal of Consciousness Studies and The Forge Institute, served as a hospital...
by Josh Galt | Nov 5, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni is the first Thai woman fully ordained in the Theravada tradition and the abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. Before she took the robe she was Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, a professor at Thammasat University for...
by Josh Galt | Oct 30, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Richard Ostler is a believing Latter-day Saint, a former bishop of a congregation of about 300 young single adults, and the host of Listen, Learn & Love, a podcast where LGBTQ members and others tell their own stories. At 65 he still sustains his church, and he...
by Josh Galt | Oct 23, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Chris Shelton grew up in Scientology. His parents joined when he was three, he went on staff straight out of high school, and at 25 he signed the Sea Org’s billion-year contract. He worked for the church for 25 years before he left in 2012, and within a year he...
by Josh Galt | Oct 15, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Bill Reel converted to the LDS Church at 17, became a bishop at 29, and started a podcast while still bishop to defend the faith. He was, by every measure the church uses, very good at his religion. The research he did to help people stay is what took him out, and in...
by Josh Galt | Oct 9, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Justin McSweeny was raised Catholic, was refused his First Communion as a boy because his parents were divorced, and walked away from church at 15. A health crisis at 41 sent him back to meditation and then deep into philosophy. Today he calls himself an ignostic, a...
by Josh Galt | Oct 1, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Father Augustine Wetta has been a Benedictine monk at Saint Louis Abbey for 30 years. He teaches high school, coaches rugby, turns the Psalms into rap, and wrote Humility Rules, which has sold over 100,000 copies. He met his first monk on a bus in Rome while fending...
by Josh Galt | Sep 25, 2026 | Bad At My Religion
Michael Hirtzel is a Civil War historian, documentary filmmaker (Calcutta is My Mother), author of The Papa Bull, and a PGA apprentice who teaches golf in Florida. He was raised in the Assemblies of God, moved through the evangelical world, landed in Calvinism, and is...
by Josh Galt | Sep 18, 2026 | GALTmode
Why do we put up with the way this world is wired? Animals just are. They don’t dread Mondays or wish for the weekend. We built civilization, which I like, and then forgot how to just be. I talked with a successful business owner today. Many locations, owns the...