Hi everyone! Its been a while since I posted on Patreon. I just wanted to give you a quick update. I finished filming Tuesday's video yesterday, and I will be editing it all weekend. I'll be covering the history of Halloween as a religious holiday from its origins in pre-Christian Ireland through to the early Modern period in Europe. I hope you enjoy it!
I am also researching the next episode "A...
2016-10-13 15:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Just wanted to send out a quick note. Another video drops tomorrow: 3 Famous People Who Majored in Religion. Hope you like the more light-hearted topic!
I've also just finished the research for my first September video: "Freud on Religion," which is slightly less light-hearted. Freud had some....interesting....ideas about religion.
I've also ordered a new micr...
2016-08-29 23:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I just wanted to give you all a quick update on the channel and where it is headed.
Religion For Breakfast has been growing slightly faster over the past 30 days. I expect we'll break 1000 subscribers sometime next week, which is super exciting! 1000 subscribers actually unlocks a few exclusive features from YouTube, so it is more than just a symbolic number. I'll be continuin...
2016-08-10 15:49:04 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-06-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe passed 800 subscribers today! According to my analytics, the channel is averaging about 70 new subscribers per month, so hopefully that means we can pass 1000 by the end of the summer. For whatever reason, I see 1000 as a symbolic number for when a YouTube channel becomes "serious." Thanks again to you all for your continued support. Feel free to drop me a line on Facebook or Twitter if you hav...
2016-06-14 15:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone. I just wanted to send out a quick update. I'm working on Tuesday's video...which is something a little different. It is a video essay (spoken word with accompanying video) that explores the thought experiment: "Would Alien First Contact Destroy Religion?" As weird as this may sound, a lot of religious studies scholars have written on this exact same subject. Many think that if we disc...
2016-06-01 17:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-05-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's video returns to the Varieties of Early Christianity series with a sequel of sorts. 8 months ago I published a video on why the Romans persecuted Christians, but I glossed over the big events under Decius and Diocletian. Here is a follow up to that video!
~Andrew
2016-05-10 14:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, and welcome new donors! Glad to have you aboard. I'm currently researching and writing my next episode, which will be a return to the Early Christianity series: Why Did Emperor Decius Persecute Christians? This will be a sequel of sorts to my earlier video on Roman persecution. Aiming for a May 10th release.
The vlog has grown a lot in the past two weeks. Dr. Wood poste...
2016-05-02 19:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-04-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostI just finished filming Tuesday's episode: "Is Religion the Opium of the People?" Karl Marx makes his first appearance in a RFB video! We'll see what he really means by this controversial quote.
2016-04-23 00:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-31 06:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! So look what just came in today! The new Religion for Breakfast mug for the $15 pledge level. If you're at or above this level, I'll be shipping you one soon with a personal letter of thanks.
I'm currently editing my next video: "How did the Nicene Creed Form?" As usual, I will post it Tuesday morning. This is a return to my "Varieties of Early Christianity" series. I figu...
2016-03-26 18:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I hope you got a chance to watch my latest video. My intent was to show some "real life" examples of how knowing about religion can be helpful in daily life (John Kerry, Bill Maher, and Reza Aslan). Since so many of my friends on Facebook and Twitter are religious studies students/scholars, the Bill Maher exchange exploded on my newsfeed last year. The general consensus among my frien...
2016-03-16 13:54:33 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! I hope you enjoyed the last episode on the invisibility spell. My aim was to destabilize our view of "rationality" and "irrationality" when considering magical ritual. In pre-modern societies, magic was rational in it's own way...even if we reject it as un-scientific today in the 21st century. We'll be exploring these topics more as the Magic/Science/Religion playlist progresses!
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Thank you so much for the support this month!
2016-03-01 07:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostThere are only 3 of you, making you an elite group! I just wanted my first patron-only post to be a personal "thank you." Thank you for jumping in early and supporting the show. Even though it is only a few bucks a month, you guys have enabled me to have a budget for Religion for Breakfast for the first time since its inception. This will lead to better and better videos!
I'm filming the...
2016-02-18 15:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post