Episodes List
Desire Got There First: Paul Hoard on Lacan, Faith, and What’s Actually Driving You
19 Oct, 2026Unite and Conquer: What the White Christ Costs White Workers
15 Oct, 2026We Are the Miracle: Schleiermacher and Soft Empire
29 Sep, 2026Biblical Womanhood Came from a New Thought Press: Kristin Du Mez on Live Laugh Love
21 Sep, 2026Empire Hard, Empire Soft: Joerg Rieger on Las Casas and the Conquest That Learned to Be Nice
18 Sep, 2026Every Empire Thought It Was the Exception: Barry Harvey on the American Shelf Life and What the Church Does Now
14 Sep, 2026Anselm's God Can't Just Forgive: Joerg Rieger on Why That's Good News, Not Cruelty
12 Sep, 2026Embracing Division: Robert P. Jones on Unity, Justice, and the Lines We Have to Draw
10 Sep, 2026Who Owns the Creed? Joerg Rieger on the Conservative Gimmick and the Surplus They Missed
05 Sep, 2026You're Probably Assyria: Anna Sieges on the Book of the Twelve and the Empire You're Actually In
03 Sep, 2026Is That Really a High View of Scripture? Craig Allert on Scripture, Canon, and the Story We Weren't Told
31 Aug, 2026Empire Goes All the Way Down: Joerg Rieger on What "Christian Nationalism" Misses
28 Aug, 2026Ancient Israelite Religions, Plural: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott on Household Shrines, Figurines, and Yahweh's Asherah
27 Aug, 2026Tripp Hijacks Religion on the Mind with Dr. Dan Koch
24 Aug, 2026Constantine Is a Cipher: Tony Jones on the Emperor Everyone Uses and Nobody Knows
18 Aug, 2026Hope Does Not Exist": O'neil Van Horn on Making Hope and the Practice of Resurrection
14 Aug, 2026We're the Ones Lamenting: James McGrath on Reading Revelation from Inside the Empire
12 Aug, 2026Faith Has Been Snorting Modernity This Whole Time: James K.A. Smith on the Trad Wife, the Manosphere, and Hegel
06 Aug, 2026Doubt Is the Door: Chaplains in the Trenches, George MacDonald, and the Bebbington Quadrilateral w/ Timothy Larsen
03 Aug, 2026What If the American Revolution Had Failed? with Diana Butler Bass
01 Aug, 2026Thank God I Am an Atheist: Thomas Jared Farmer on Gianni Vattimo's Weak Thought
28 Jul, 2026The MLK Monument Has No Jesus on It: Vincent Lloyd and Luke Bretherton on Secularism as Ideology
24 Jul, 2026Al Mohler's Nightmare: Interpreting Scripture While Female with Jennifer Garcia Bashaw
16 Jul, 2026Winter in America: The Double Deac Deans on the 250th, Christian Nationalism, and the Questions That Do Not Get Answered
12 Jul, 2026You Are the Christ: Ilia Delio on Taking Paul More Literally Than the Catholic Church
07 Jul, 2026Guilty of Its Own Innocence: Cornel West on Baldwin, Matthiessen, and America's Peter Pan Problem
04 Jul, 2026The Second Naivete of a Nation: Diana Butler Bass on America 250, Anger, and Believing Again
02 Jul, 2026The Allergy to Otherness: What Modernity Did to the Pew Next to You with Ilia Delio
01 Jul, 2026Religion Before Belief: What's actually dying and what was always the deeper thing
18 May, 2026