Raw Faith. Real Stories.
Long-form conversations with people who have walked through war, addiction, trauma, violence, and broken relationships — and found, or are still finding, their way to faith. No polished testimonies. No formulas. Just real people whose faith was forged in genuinely hard places.
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Chris Ostberg sits down with Dan Black to trace a winding, unflinchingly honest path from a homeschooled childhood in small-town Massachusetts through 16 years of Army service, to an affair that ended his career and his first marriage, to roofing houses on Fort Bragg as a form of unexpected grace, to a Facebook message that brought him back to church and to the woman who became his wife.
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Veteran / Former Tattoo Artist / Host
Dan Black has lived more than one life — soldier, tattoo artist, and now the voice behind conversations the Church usually leaves out. He doesn't come to these stories as an outsider looking in. He's walked through hard places himself, and it shows in the way he asks questions and the way he listens.
The Rugged Path exists because Dan got tired of polished testimonies that skip the messy middle. Every episode is an unscripted, honest conversation with someone whose faith was forged — or is still being forged — in real hardship. No formulas. No performance. Just the truth, however long it takes to tell it.
"I'm not interested in the highlight reel. I want to know what it actually looked like in the dark."Full Story