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Dr. Richard Newton is an Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director in the Religious Studies department at the University of AlabamaFrom the University's website:Dr. Newton's areas of interest include theory and method in the study of rel
It's Eclipse Day, so we're releasing a day early!The solar eclipse that will be visible for much of the United States today had evoked all kinds of reactions, from overbooked hotels in wholly unprepared corners of the country to end times zeal
In 2003, Oxford University philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper titled Are You Living in a Computer Simulation, thus giving rise to the modern incarnation of Simulation Theory, which posits that our experienced reality is actuall
Sarah Posner has been covering the Christian right and Christian Nationalism for more than a decade. A regular contributor to MSNBC, her works has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Salon, The Nation, The American
For the last couple years, Amanda Moore has spent her time covering the far right on her Substack The Turtle DiariesAmanda infiltrated the far right during the final year of the Trump administration and has written about her experiences in pub
This week, Kelly and John talk to Dr. Nicole Symmonds, who works as an Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics and, it happens, used to work a few cubicles down from John at Beliefnet a decade and a half or so ago.Dr. Symmonds' work sits at th
As a nice break from all the doom and gloom in the world (and the depressing stuff we often cover), we decided to ask the wonderful Dr. Judith Weisenfeld to come talk to us about her life and work.Judith Weisenfeld is the Agate Brown and Georg
Is Peloton a cult?Well, Kelly owns one, so she is uniquely qualified to answer.In all seriousness, a Google search for terms like "peloton cult" or "fitness cult" yields a lot of results.Fairly or not, the fitness equipment company Peloton h
34 years ago, in December of 1989, Fox aired Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, a Simpsons Christmas special, the de facto pilot to the subsequent primetime sitcom, and a cultural phenomenon was born.To people of a certain age, The Simpsons is
But Scrooge was all the worse for this. It thrilled him with a vague uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing
It's December, which means it's time for everybody's racist uncle's favorite holiday tradition, the War on Christmas.Every year, sure as silver bells chime and lit wreathes line the streets of America's most aggressively white suburbs, Fox New
What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than to have Kelly and John ruin it for you?Just kidding! We're not here to cancel Thanksgiving and we hope you have a lovely one.But holidays are weird things - we often celebrate them without really
Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House or Representatives.And what the media seems to think you should know about him is that he's very nice, he's smart. he's well-respected by his colleagues, he's personally liked by Democrats, and he's
Jenn Tisdale joins John and Kelly to talk about Edgar Allan Poe and the new Netflix series from Mike Flanagan The Fall of the House of UsherLike he did for Shirley Jackson with The Haunting of Hill House, Flanagan's series remixes and reimagin
Jason Bivins is a specialist in religion and American culture an is the author of 2008's Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism. He has also published multiple articles, review essays, and occasional pieces on
Mike Flanagan's "Midnight Mass" revisits a lot of the themes of much of his previous work: grief, death, trauma, loss (and you can listen to our discussion of his "Haunting Of" Netflix series here).But it also covers some a lot of new ground,
If you've been feeling a little off lately, it's probably because FEMA recently tested a new emergency alert system and it activated the nanotech in your covid vaccine and now you're a zombie.As least, that's what a disturbing number of people
Horror would be nothing without Catholic horror. From crucifixes to demon possession, from Dante's "Inferno" to the "The Nun II", Catholic imagery and imagination have shaped horror for centuries.But the intersection of Catholicism and horror
In this Weekend Chit-Chat, we discuss:How the Klan of 1920s used mainstream acceptance and the mantle of Christianity to push their agenda in the center of American life, and we ask how the descendants of that group, like the Proud Boys, have
If you happen to fall within a certain (fairly broad) age range, there is a very good chance that somewhere, at some point, you have encountered Chick Tracts.Jack Chick's horrific, over-the-top, feverish warnings about what happens if you don'
For many, Labor Day is not much more than the end of summer movie season, a reason to have a cookout, or the symbolic beginning of the school year. It's the holiday we talk least about, in large part because the labor movement is one of the mos
Did you know A.I is not just the title of one of the best movies of the 21st century - it's a also a thing that's making a lot of news??Well, we did, because we're very young and hip and with it.In this episode, we consider the implication of
It's Kelly's birthday (John's was yesterday...) and so we decided to talk to one of her favorites - Solomon Missouri, known to those in the know as Twitter's Pastor.In his own words, Rev. Solomon Missouri's ministry focuses on sexuality and sp
Dr. Bradley Onishi is the author of the recent Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next as well as the co-host of the podcast Straight White American Jesus, which focuses on the the state of Ch
On this chit-chat, we try to define what we mean when we say "authentic", what is "the true self", and we are all so prone to dividing religion into "real" and "fake".Also - fitness cults, the console wars, Coke and Pepsi, and Haruki Murakami.
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