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The Holy Post
Join VeggieTales and What's in the Bible? creator Phil Vischer and co-host Skye Jethani (author, speaker, pastor) for a fast-paced and often funny conversation about pop culture, media, theology, and the fun, fun, fun of living a thoughtful Christian life in an increasingly post-Christian culture.
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690: Flying Bishops, Evangelical Ignorance, & Slow Theology with A.J. Swoboda & Nijay Gupta
For the first time ever, the U.K. has appointed a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead the global Anglican Communion. Kaitlyn, Skye, and Mike...
689: The Rapture, Repentance, & Redefining the Good Life with Grace Hamman
After a South African pastor claimed that Christ would come for his church on September 23, TikTok became rapture obsessed. Mike Erre joins Skye and K...
688: The MAGA Contradiction & Educational Injustice with Terence Lester
The memorial service for Charlie Kirk revealed a deep contradiction with the MAGA movement. Kirk’s widow was cheered when she forgave his assassin and...
687: Charlie Kirk & the Conflict Entrepreneurs
Last week, a gunman in Utah killed Charlie Kirk on a college campus. Rather than uniting the country against political violence, Kirk’s assassination...
686: Shootings, Single Fathers, & the Shadow Side of Ambition with Miroslav Volf
Following the school shooting in Minneapolis, The Christian Post has offered a definitive answer for why these massacres keep happening and why gun re...
685: Finding Unity in a Divided Church with Beth Moore
Is unity in the church still possible when everyone is so divided? At the Legacy Conference in Chicago, Beth Moore joins Esau, Kaitlyn, and Skye to wr...
684: Dobson Died, Cracker Barrel Cancelled, & Flipping Christian Politics with James Talarico
James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, died this week. Critics are saying Dobson was the “godfather of child abuse,” while his fans are say...
683: The Meaning of the Scopes Monkey Trial 100yrs Later with Chris Staron
New data shows the nations with the highest standards of living are seeing the sharpest declines in wellbeing, while people in poorer countries are re...
682: Why We Still Need the Institutional Church with Brad Edwards
The Holy Post crew is suspicious of a new study that finds MAGA supporters score higher in authoritarianism, social dominance, and malevolent persona...
681: Strategically Small Churches with Brandon O'Brien
A whites-only community has launched in Arkansas under the legal guise of a “private membership association.” The founders claim it’s about preservin...
680: Cancelling Colbert, Starving Gaza, & American Charisma with Molly Worthen
CBS has cancelled the top-rated late-night talk show. Was it really a financial decision, or was it done to get the Trump administration to approve a...
679: Individualism, Transhumanism, & Learning from Abolitionists with Daniel Lee Hill
Why is our society so fractured and angry? David Brooks’ recent article draws from the work of moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre to explain how we...
678: Is Gen Z Having a Religious Revival? with Ryan Burge
The IRS has decided churches are no longer prohibited from endorsing political candidates. Is this a win for free speech or a reason for some churches...
677: Ending PEPFAR & Why the Self-Esteem Movement Failed with Sharon Hodde Miller
When George W. Bush created the PEPFAR program in 2003, it was celebrated by evangelical leaders and has saved more than 26 million lives in Africa fr...
676: Classroom Culture Wars & the Spirituality of Secular America with Rachel Martin
With Phil on vacation, Kaitlyn and Esau join Skye to talk about the Supreme Court’s ruling that public schools must allow students to opt out of gende...
675: Iran, End Times, & the Political God Gap with Senator Chris Coons
Nothing fires up the End Times industry faster than America dropping bombs in the Middle East. After President Trump decided to attack Iran’s nuclear...
674: Parades, Protests, and Habeas Corpus with Michael Bird
It was a wild weekend. Donald Trump presided over a military parade on his birthday while an estimated 5 million Americans protested around the countr...
673: The L.A. Protests & Becoming a Priest and Podcaster with Esau McCaulley
Protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s immigration policies have turned violent, but will the images of vandalism and attacks on p...
672: Gender Worship Wars & the Joy of Being Cultural Outsiders with Patrick Miller
In the past, debates over worship styles were often marked by generational differences; however, a new article suggests that this is changing. For Gen...
671: Mailbag! God’s Pronouns, Project 2025, & Asking Jesus Into Your Heart
Phil, Kaitlyn, and Skye respond to questions from the listeners, including whether lay people should go to seminary, how important is attending a chur...
670: The Nicene Creed is Cool Again & Reading the Bible like Dallas Willard with Dave Ripper
Why are more churches rediscovering and reciting the Nicene Creed? And what can the ancient articulation of Christian belief offer the church in these...
669: From Common Good to Culture War—Lessons from the Q Conference with Katelyn Beaty
We have a pope and he’s American! Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago is now Pope Leo XIV, and his connection to The Holy Post is closer than anyone...
668: Pope Donald, Human Flourishing, & the Pastor’s Wife with Beth Allison Barr
The White House is facing backlash for posting an AI image of Donald Trump as the Pope. Was it a careless joke or a calculated distraction? The most e...
667: The Future of Faith in America with John Kasich
A slate of new articles analyzes Pope Francis through America’s progressive-conservative polarization, but are they confusing political categories wit...
666: Lessons from the Satanic Panic with Mike Cosper
Pope Francis died on Monday. Will the Catholic Church continue to move in the direction of inclusion and reform, or will it elect a more traditional l...
665: Can Democrats Win Back Religious Voters? with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
It’s Holy Week, and an article in the New York Times argues that Palm Sunday wasn’t a worship procession; it was a protest march. With that theme in m...
664: An Atheist Says America Needs Jesus with Jonathan Rauch
Donald Trump launched a global trade war because he thinks America’s trade deficit makes us “losers,” but does he even understand what a trade deficit...
663: Snow White, Scarcity, & Why Immigration is Pro-Life and Bri Stensrud
Disney’s new live-action remake of Snow White has been a disaster with people on all sides of the political divide and culture wars finding something...
French Friday: Now Only on The SkyePod
French Friday is now only available on The SkyePod!
Follow The SkyePod now on your podcast streaming platform of choice for full episod...
662: Why Nazi Comparisons Don't Help & Hosting Cultural Conversations and Lee C. Camp
It’s become popular to compare our current political moment with the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s, but what if the better comparison...
661: Non-Cringy Christian Media & the Nicene Creed and Glenn Packiam
A new slate of Christian movies and television shows is managing to draw both acclaim from critics and the attention of non-believers. Are the days of...
660: Following Christ in “Negative World” and Charlie Peacock
With declining church attendance and shifting values, there’s no denying that our culture’s posture toward Christianity has changed. Some say America...
659: The Root of Racism is Greed Not Hate with Malcolm Foley
After a made-for-T.V. meltdown in the Oval Office between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine, the administration cut all military aid t...
French Friday: A Unified Theory of Trump
In his first month in office, Donald Trump has broken international agreements with allies, ended all foreign aid, voted with America's enemies in th...
658: Justice, Mercy, & Becoming Good News People with Derwin Gray
Has Wheaton College, the flagship of evangelical higher ed, gone woke? Concerned parents and alumni have published a letter accusing the school of val...
The SkyePod - SkyeDIVE: Worship & Justice
Skye explains the strong biblical ties between two seemingly related concepts: worship and justice. Can you even have one without the other?
657: The Government, God, & Grift with Katherine Stewart
Since WWII, the United States has been actively engaged in foreign aid as part of its strategic foreign policy, and Christians of all theological and...
656: Defunding USAID and Blue Like Jazz’s Gospel of Vibes with Ross Douthat
The White House is defunding USAID, one of the largest distributors of foreign aid, and blaming it on wasteful spending—like a D.E.I musical in Irelan...
655: What If Jesus Was Serious About Justice with Skye Jethani
During a recent Fox News interview, Vice President J.D. Vance cited “an old school and very Christian concept” to justify rejecting refugees and endin...
French Friday: What Happened to Checks & Balances?
David French brings us his thoughts on why the GOP is no longer the party of the Constitution. Have political party allegiances broken the system? Wha...