User:Zac Gandara

Zac Gandara is a podcast host and brand founder.

With BA's in both Theology and Leadership he spent almost 2 decades leading in religious corporations.

After kidney failure, two years as a dialysis patient, and then a recipient of a kidney transplant. He began to center his focus on the teachings and life of Jesus and became disillusioned with institutional Christianity. This desire for deeper followership of Jesus, a passion for community and neighborhood development in urban settings, he founded the non-profit Love is not Lost Communities which looks to build community through neighborhood life and service.

Zac is an avid writer, writing for his own blog, various blog conglomerates, community news sites, and magazines.

His podcast, Losing Our Religion, is about losing religion and ideologies that divide us. It hit over 10,000 downloads in its first week after release and was rewarded by being named to iTunes New and Noteworthy in three different categories.With righteous inclusivity and full-hearted sincerity, Losing Our Religion explore[1]s the third-rail topics that everybody else is trying to avoid. Speaking through his own broken experience with Church™, host Zac Gandara has this great ability to make you laugh, reflect, and befriend your next door neighbor, all while he interviews the most diverse cast of characters of any podcast on iTunes.It's a hilarious and candid look at religion and culture, with a former pastor as the host. Who now is commune living lover of sinners. As he has drinks with former religious freaks, and others he used to shun. Gays, Anarchists, Queers, Atheists, Transsexuals, Punk Rockers, and the rest of us that are considered rejects on this island of misfit toys.

The love in Zac's life is his wife Jen of twelve years. He enjoys antiques, art, music, baseball, shopping, dining, city life, movies, reading, dogs, volunteering in his community and most importantly Star Trek.