Joshua Haymes
American podcaster and pastor
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Joshua K. Haymes is an American podcaster and pastor. He hosts the Reformation Red Pill podcast.[1]
Haymes served as a co-pastor of SOMA Venice, a church within the SOMA church network, from 2020 to 2023. According to Bob Smietana, writing for Religion News Service, Haymes was a "ponytailed hipster church planter with a soul-patch."[2] Haymes helped plant the congregation in March 2020,[3] but as he and the other pastors became Reformed and postmillennial, they decided to close the church.[4] Haymes then moved to Nashville and became a pastoral intern at Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a congregation in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. He now works full-time in media and content creation.[5]
Haymes is an advocate of sphere sovereignty and Christian patriarchy.[6][7] He is an enthusiastic supporter of United States defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who is a member of his church.[7] According to Jason Wilson, writing for The Guardian, Haymes subscribes to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.[5] He has stated that slavery is not inherently evil and that all Christians should share the same sentiment.[8]
Bob Smietana includes Haymes in his list of "Jim Crow theobros", and notes that Haymes has claimed that Adolf Hitler was "misunderstood".[2]