About The Soul’s Garage
A Place to Work, A Place to Talk, Maybe Tell a Story or Two
Welcome to The Soul’s Garage—where we’ve opened our metaphorical garage door to hang out and tinker with this vehicle called faith. We’re David Ezekiel and Paris Donehoo, and we believe it’s possible to take your faith seriously without taking yourself seriously at all.
Our Story
Picture this: What if faith didn’t have to fit into neat, somber boxes? What if following Jesus could include belly laughs alongside deep reverence, honest questions alongside heartfelt worship? That’s the space we’re creating here at The Soul’s Garage—a place where the sacred meets the silly, where wondering is welcome, and where “barely Christian” isn’t a failure but an honest starting point.
We’ve both spent years navigating the tricky territory between rigid fundamentalism and cynical skepticism, and we’ve discovered there’s a beautiful third way. It’s messier than perfect theology and more joyful than joyless religion. It’s the kind of faith that recognizes Jesus probably had a pretty good sense of humor—and gives us permission to have one too.
What We Believe
Faith without humor becomes puritanical fundamentalism, while humor without faith leads to total cynicism. We need both working together to be fully human.
We’re convinced that God shows up in garage conversations just as much as cathedral services, and that sometimes the hand of God on a troubled world looks a lot like friends gathering to laugh, question, and discover what it really means to follow Jesus. As humorist Grady Nutt said, “Laughter is the hand of God on the shoulder of a troubled world”—and we desperately need that divine touch in our anxious, divided times.
Who We Serve
The Soul’s Garage is for people who find themselves in the in-between places:
- The questioners who love God but aren’t afraid to wrestle with difficult passages
- The laughers who find joy in their faith and refuse to check their sense of humor at the church door
- The wounded who’ve been hurt by religion but still sense something sacred calling to them
- The seekers attracted to Jesus but sometimes repelled by his followers
- The tired who are weary of performative faith and long for something authentic
If you’ve ever wondered “Where exactly do I fit in all of this?”—you fit here.
Our Approach
We approach faith like good mechanics approach a beloved but complicated vehicle: with patience, curiosity, and the understanding that some things need gentle tinkering rather than complete overhauls. We’re not here to convince anyone to check their brains at the door or pretend they don’t have doubts. Instead, we create space for honest conversation about the beautiful, messy, sometimes hilarious reality of trying to follow Jesus in the real world.
Through our podcast, conversations, and community, we explore questions like: Did Jesus have a sense of humor? How do we find hope in hard times? What does authentic faith look like when life gets complicated? We believe these conversations matter because they help us keep our faith running smoothly through all of life’s ups and downs—preferably with a good laugh along the way.
Why “The Soul’s Garage”?
Just like a garage is a place where you work on things that matter to you—where you fix what’s broken, maintain what’s precious, and sometimes just tinker for the joy of it—The Soul’s Garage is where we work on the vehicle of faith together. It’s not a showroom where everything has to be perfect; it’s a working space where honest people can get their hands dirty wrestling with what it means to live a life of faith.
As G.K. Chesterton observed, “Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly.” We’re learning to fly by holding our convictions firmly while holding ourselves lightly, creating space for grace to work in unexpected ways.
Join the Conversation
The garage door is always open. Whether you’re a longtime believer, a curious skeptic, or somewhere beautifully in between, there’s room for you here. Come as you are. Bring your questions, your doubts, your hopes, and yes—your laughter.
Because we believe that when we cry, Jesus cries with us, and when we laugh, Jesus laughs with us too. Not at us, but with us. And sometimes, that shared laughter might just be exactly what our troubled world needs.
Ready to start tinkering? We’ll see you in The Soul’s Garage.
