The Rugged Path
Nobody Gets Here Clean
The Rugged Path is a long-form interview podcast hosted by Dan Black — veteran,
former tattoo artist, and a man who found faith the hard way.
This show is not for people who have it figured out. It is for people who have
been through it — war, addiction, trauma, violence, broken relationships, long
stretches of darkness — and either found their way to faith or are still walking
that road. Every guest who sits down with Dan has a story that does not get
cleaned up for the stage. We go into the hard parts, the shameful parts, the
parts people usually leave out. And we watch what God does with all of it.
Dan came to faith after years of living far from it. His background gave him
something a lot of Christian interviewers do not have — the ability to sit with
someone in the middle of their worst story without flinching. No judgment. No
formulas. Just two people being honest about what it actually costs to follow
Jesus when life has not been easy.
The Rugged Path exists because the Church needs more of these conversations.
Not polished testimonies from people whose lives got a little messy before God
tidied everything up. But real accounts from real people whose faith was forged
in genuinely hard places — and who are still standing.
If that sounds like you, or like someone you love, you are in the right place.
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