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One of the biggest religious storylines of 2023 has been: the huge number of people leaving their faith communities. Because Christianity is the #1 by volume religion in America, the loss has been felt heaviest there. Why has this been happening? And how many have left? A new book shares the latest research, and the data may shock you (= clickbait)!!! We review and comment and teach.
The Great Dechurching (new book): https://www.amazon.com/Great-Dechurching-Leaving-Going-Bring/dp/0310147433
Ryan Burge, PhD: http://ryanburge.net/
Ryan Burge substack, âGraphs About Religionâ: https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/
âGood Faithâ podcast interview with Great Dechurching author Michael Graham: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-great-dechurching-with-david-french-and-michael-graham/id1594454747?i=1000631285992
Peterâs Choiâs book on George Whitefield: https://www.amazon.com/George-Whitefield-Evangelist-Religious-Biography/dp/0802875491
Buck Williams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Williams
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Beware, lest ye try to convict others in court, that ye have never sinned! We review some recent weird religious news with an eye toward non-obvious stories. From dreams of living forever to Taylor Swift promoting witchcraft: while away this thirty minutes with us.
Lori Vallow statement, opens with âhe who is without sin throw the first stoneâ: https://youtu.be/uJ4nFtSsa3U
On the woman caught in adultery story: https://www.bibleodyssey.org/passages/main-articles/the-woman-caught-in-adultery-john-81-11/
Bonus story: Natalee Hollawayâs murderer claims to have changed his ways, to born again Christianity: https://www.christianpost.com/news/joran-van-der-sloot-claims-hes-now-born-again-christian.html
The man who thinks he can live forever: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11679715/Tech-tycoon-45-spends-2-million-year-team-doctors-regain-teenage-body.html
The longevity industrial complex: https://www.axios.com/2023/09/24/longevity-podcasts-huberman-rogan-science
Pastor locks himself into cage with lions to show divine protection: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/pastor-goes-cage-full-lions-31066685
Historian Mary Beard on men getting obsessed with the Roman Empire: https://time.com/6317735/men-roman-empire-mary-beard-history/
Church buildings going empty: https://slate.com/business/2023/07/church-real-estate-development-west-park-presbyterian.html
Taylor Swift promotes witchcraft: https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/taylor-swift-promotes-witchcraft-on-tour-in-willow-performance.html
Religious Group Shinzo Abe assassination: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/10/shinzo-abe-assassination-japan-unification-church-moonies/675114/
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Fehlende Folgen?
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We prepare to engage in the yearly ritual of scholars in our field: the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), abbreviated AAR-SBLâŠor is it SBL-AAR? The order makes all the difference. Quality tips are shared to survive an academic conference of this type. Brian shares the tale of his first panic attack, and leaks crucial details from one of his conference presentationsâabout the Puritan leader Cotton Mather and his belief that the bones of biblical giants had been uncovered in America.
The Society of Biblical Literature (SBL): https://www.sbl-site.org/
The American Academy of Religion (AAR): https://aarweb.org/
The annual meeting online program book (you can search presentations by last name and keyword): https://sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_ProgramBook.aspx?MeetingId=43
Cotton Mather: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Mather
Bozeman, To Live Ancient Lives: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807896273/to-live-ancient-lives
Bryce Traister: https://fccs.ok.ubc.ca/about/contact/bryce-traister/
The text of Cotton Matherâs first letter to the Royal Society about the giant bones: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2936986?origin=crossref&seq=1
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Gather âround for an episode recorded in front of a LIVE AUDIENCE in Portland, Oregon! We take a piece of listener (e)mail and answer the call: to talk about books that have been deeply impactful for our lives and researchâbooks that anyone could read and learn a lot. From classics in the early history of sociology to ritual to women in the church to child sacrifice, itâs a magic carpet ride of books.
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism
Ămile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elementary_Forms_of_the_Religious_Life
Gianni Vattimo, ideas in this book about the incarnation Brian mentioned: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-future-of-religion/9780231134941
On the âdeep incarnationâ idea: https://inters.org/gregersen-incarnation
Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ritual-theory-ritual-practice-9780199733620
Jon Levenson, The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300065114/the-death-and-resurrection-of-the-beloved-son
Anthea Butler, Women in the Church of God in Christ: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807858080/women-in-the-church-of-god-in-christ/
Brianâs third book that we didnât have time to talk about! Mark Smith, The Origins of Biblical Monotheism: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-biblical-monotheism-9780195134803
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The aftermath of the July 2023 Congressional UFO hearing has been fascinating, infuriating, mysterious, and ominous. We get you caught up, and present a chilling conspiracy theory about what has become already one of the most famous airplane disappearances of the past several decadesâMalaysian Airlines Flight 370 in 2014.
The Congressional UFO hearing on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/KQ7Dw-739VY?si=7iKLViEo9ZS-iy8_
Wikipedia page for the whistleblower (David Grusch) claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims
NPR summary of the UFO hearing: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190390376/ufo-hearing-non-human-biologics-uaps
The Hill article puts the situation accurately in Brianâs opinion: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4134891-a-monumental-ufo-scandal-is-looming/
Jesse Michels interview with David Grusch: https://youtu.be/kRO5jOa06Qw?si=lu69_M0SlBdCh9qE
Joe Rogan interview with Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp: https://open.spotify.com/episode/04gQ8km0XhEitU1Vz4lA3j
Malaysian Air (MH370) mystery on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370
Netflix show about MH370: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDg0m2Q3H8c
The orbs video where the orbs take the plane: https://youtu.be/iZPHGJHXNXg?si=45OdsZWDvCA0_Q81
Reddit threads on the orbs video are wild: https://reddit.com/r/UFOs/s/drEbOTTmDD
Some have compared this conspiracy to the Netflix show âManifestâ: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8421350/
Seems maybe the orbs video has been debunkedâŠbut you can always go double conspiracy on it! ââhttps://twitter.com/528vibes/status/1693008013278302498?s=20
Article Leah mentioned: âProphetic Failure and Chiliastic Identity: The Case of Jehovah's Witnessesâ: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2776152
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Let Halloween feelings shower over you as you listen to this, our Halloween episode. One of us loves the horror genre on TV and movies, and the other absolutely does not. One of us can barely handle even watching the trailer for one of these films.
Children of the Corn (1984): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087050/
The Satanic double scene in The Passion of the Christ: https://youtu.be/YgwXF60RTik?si=vEv3anusf4rTpoI7
The TV version of Stephen Kingâs IT: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/
The original Scream, 1996 (opening scene clip): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn5SkCvPEYo
Signs (2002): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286106/
The Village, 2004 (trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTGyhwvdY6k
Arrival, 2016 (trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFMo3UJ4B4g
Smile (2022 film) (the trailer we played part of): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcDK7lkzzsU
The Black Phone: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7144666/
Brandon Grafius, Reading the Bible with Horror: https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Bible-Horror-Scripture/dp/1978701683
NOPE (trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In8fuzj3gck
The Haunting of Hill House (TV): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6763664/
Midnight Mass (TV trailer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UV8vmWXlY
The Cabin in the Woods (2011): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/
Using liking scary movies romantic compatibility: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2582872/Do-like-horror-movies-surprising-questions-tell-relationship-likely-last.html
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What would it be like to grow up in a household guided by the principles of Ayn Randâs Objectivist philosophy? We talk to Things Not Seen radio host Dr. David Dault, of Loyola University Chicago, about being expoed to the ideology of Ayn Rand at a young age. If youâve ever wanted to know about Randâs âObjectivistâ idea but were too afraid to ask, weâll take you there. Along the way, Brian mispronounces Aynâs name, David shares several fascinating and vulnerable personal stories, and we review the dystopian novella Anthem, ending with the hard question: Are these principles of radical self-interest compatible with Christianity?
David Dault: https://www.luc.edu/ips/about/faculty/daviddaultphd.shtml
Things Not Seen Radio: https://www.thingsnotseenradio.com/
Ayn Rand on the pronunciation of her first name: https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2011/1015/Six-things-you-probably-didn-t-know-about-Ayn-Rand/The-name-s-not-Ann
The Ayn Rand Institute: https://aynrand.org/
Max Stirner: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/max-stirner/
Ayn Randâs Anthem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella)
âPaul Ryan and Ayn Randâ (Washington Post): https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/what-ayn-rand-says-about-paul-ryan/2012/08/13/fd40d574-e56d-11e1-8741-940e3f6dbf48_blog.html
Matthew Sitman, Know Your Enemy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/know-your-enemy/id1462703434
Jordan Peterson on Ayn Rand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9aHYj93xJY
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As longtime Weirdo Listeners know, we donât always have guestsâbut when we do, they win awards. Or they should. New York Times contributor Sam Kestenbaum won a 2023 Wilbur Award this past spring and now an AAR Journalism Award for a captivating article on Kathryn Krickâa Christian social media celebrity and charismatic preacher who frequents parks in the Los Angeles area to perform healings and exorcisms. The article is called âDemontime: How a former actress-turned-Christian EDM singer from small-town New York became a Pentecostal faith healer for the TikTok eraâ: https://thelandmag.com/krick-ministry-faith-healer/.
â> In honor of the awards, weâre rebroadcasting this, one of our most popular eps from 2022! In which we talk with Sam about the article and the person behind it.
Updated Notes: Kathryn is still going strongâŠ
Kathryn Krick on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApostleKathrynKrick [[where the majority of her activity seems to be now?]]
Kathryn Krick on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_apostlekathrynkrick [[she seems to have stopped posting new material here??]]
Sam Kestenbaum on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skestenbaum
Kathryn Krickâs church webpage: https://5fchurch.org/leadership
Interview with Sam Kestenbaum: https://therevealer.org/insights-from-a-religion-reporter/
Samâs website: https://samkestenbaum.com/
Samâs Wilbur Award: https://religionnews.com/2023/03/28/religion-communicators-council-names-2023-wilbur-awardees/
Samâs AAR award: https://aarweb.org/AARMBR/Publications-and-News-/Newsroom-/News-/2023/2023-Journalism-Awards.aspx -
Rebroadcasting a popular season finale from several years ago. Aliens are the quintessential sci-fi topic. Leah admits she used to watch Alf. Brian watched Alf too! We all did. Was The History Channel ever really respectable? The true utopian technology prophets will tell us when everything has been illuminated at the same time. Is it possible thatâŠ
UPDATED SHOW NOTES
Ancient Aliens is doing live shows now, on tour: https://bit.ly/46rjfsE
Ancient Aliens on the History Channel: https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens
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To celebrate what appears to be a departure of people of some amount from âTwitterâ (now âXâ?!), we run to the new âThreadsâ app and find dueling weird religious stories to share: (1) Leah finds a joke that leads to rumination on âpremillennial dispensationalismâ (2) and Brian offers an engaging TikTok sermon by âReal Talk Kim.â
Threads has lost 80% of its daily users: https://gizmodo.com/threads-has-lost-more-than-80-of-daily-active-users-1850707329
Musk erodes Twitterâs brand with X thing: https://time.com/6297303/twitter-x-rebrand-cost/
Leahâs rapture joke Thread: https://www.threads.net/@drleahpayne/post/Cvca3OrACHj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
One third of pastors share end-times theology of âLeft Behindâ (in 2016): https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2016/april/sorry-left-behind-pastors-end-times-rapture-antichrist.html
Premillennial dispensationalism: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003463730910600105
Brianâs Real Talk Kim Thread: https://www.threads.net/@realtalkkim/post/CvFP7Vuv_5m?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D; if the Thread link doesnât work, itâs here on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realtalkkim/video/7257640531201625390?lang=en
Real Talk Kim: https://realtalkkim.com/
Real Talk Kim talking about her life: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=309314860357378
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Rebroadcasting because we are jonesing for a new season of Stranger Things. Monsters, the 1980s, neon clothes, loaded memories of teenage drama, and a time when malls ruled supreme over the lives of adolescents. We talk about the Cold War and the child abduction fear craze in the 1980s and wonder: Why are we looking back on this era with fondness, exactly?
UPDATED SHOW NOTE
Stranger Things Season 5 (the final season) updates: https://www.popbuzz.com/tv-film/stranger-things/season-5-release-date-cast-plot-trailer/ (Terminator legend Linda Hamilton joins the cast in an undisclosed role; production suspended currently due to strike; was scheduled to begin filming in June 2023; S5E1 titled âThe Crawlâ; S5 storyline will take place entirely in Hawkins, with Will Byers as the main focusâŠ)
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HEY. Tune in for musings on the definition of a mustache, a profound application of 1 Corinthians 6:12, and a note on our episode rhythm during whatâs left of July and on into August and September. In short: weâve worked to create content this summer around travel and so on, and weâll continue to be a little every-other-week-ish until maybe September, when weâll get back into an every-week-new-content rhythm for the school year. And weâll rebroadcast some âclassicsâ in the gaps. We love you.
1 Corinthians ch. 6: http://web.mit.edu/jywang/www/cef/Bible/NIV/NIV_Bible/1COR+6.html
Does a beard include a mustache? https://www.quora.com/Does-the-word-beard-include-moustache-too
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This week weâre reviewing recent religion news in order to: explore the location of falling gold dust of Godâs presenceâŠdiscuss the latest UFO surprisesâŠget specific how about AI will kill usâŠbe shocked that Silicon Valley is trying to build God and control humanityâŠand understand âSeven Mountains Theology.â Read these stories along with us, or listen to us tell you about them:
Aspen Ideas Festival spirituality: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/01/aspen-ideas-festival-2023-postcard
UFO under a building? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ufo-hunter-claims-spaceship-too-30477150
Government to make UFOs public? https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4097653-senators-to-offer-amendment-to-require-government-to-make-ufo-records-public/
7 AI human extinction scenarios: https://inews.co.uk/news/science/ai-humans-extinct-seven-deadly-scenarios-how-likely-2376633?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Restaurant hires fake priest to spy on employees: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254594/california-restaurant-had-a-fake-priest-hear-workers-confessions-labor-department-says
Bethel Church tries to take over California town: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/how-bethel-megachurch-conquered-redding-18170873.php
âThe Woman Who Bought a Mountain for Godâ (Atlantic), Seven Mountains theology: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/christian-movement-new-apostolic-reformation-politics-trump/674320/
Leah Payne with PRRI on popularity of charismatics: https://www.prri.org/spotlight/the-future-of-born-again-evangelicalism-is-charismatic-and-pentecostal/
âSilicon Valleyâs Quest to Build God and Control Humanityâ: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/silicon-valley-artificial-intelligence/
Mysterious creature in Illinois: https://www.theintelligencer.com/opinion/article/mysterious-creature-reported-downtown-alton-18167740.php
Mormons try to save Great Salt Lake from drying up: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-promised-land-drying-mormon-church-works-to-save-the-great-salt-lake/ar-AA1d0p0G
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This rebroadcast revisits an unfortunately still-timely topic. We begin with a throwback to the Cold War of the 1970s and quickly arrive at the current war instigated by Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine. What are the demographics of religion in Russia today? What is the relationship between Church and State in Russia? How does Ukraine function as âspiritual spaceâ in the Russian imagination? Is this a âreligious warâ? Check out the sources weâre discussing:
UPDATED LINKS
The Guardianâs Ukraine news page (updated): https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine
The so-called âWagner Uprisingâ in Russia (attempted coup?): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/prigozhins-march-on-moscow-chronology-of-an-attempted-coup
The Late Great Planet Earth (Hal Lindsey): https://www.amazon.com/Late-Great-Planet-Earth/dp/B000GT1GUS
US State Dept. on Russian religious affiliation (see Section I: Religious Demography): https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-religious-freedom/russia/
Putinâs spiritual destiny: https://unherd.com/2022/02/putins-spiritual-destiny/
Between Two Fires (Joshua Yaffa): https://www.amazon.com/Between-Two-Fires-Ambition-Compromise/dp/1524760595
A critique of Levadaâs âSoviet Manâ: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/rip-soviet-man-scrapping-homo-sovieticus-the-spirit-yuri-levada
Understanding Putinâs narrative: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/23/putin-narrative-ukraine-master-key-crisis-nato-expansionism-frozen-conflict?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Putin wants religious soul of Ukraine: https://religionnews.com/2022/02/24/putin-is-after-more-than-land-he-wants-the-religious-soul-of-ukraine/
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What do we know, based on social scientific data, about what it takes for children to carry on with the faith of their parents? We dive into a new book by two noted authors on the topic. The results are strange, shocking, exciting, depressing, and intriguing. Worth thinking about as a bigger story of what religion has become for us in the 21st century. This might be a part 1 of a 2 part thing. So watch for part 2 later maybe.
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk, Handing Down the Faith: How Parents Pass Their Religion on to the Next Generation (Oxford, 2021): https://www.amazon.com/Handing-Down-Faith-Religion-Generation/dp/0190093323
Fig. 2.3 from the book about faith retention 10 years later based on parenting styles (showing remarkably little difference in church attendance, across all parenting styles, for kids of parents who placed a âhigh importanceâ on religion): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZAb_kYpIRxnQ_Jlbx1_V-Mx91Pdz8Bv-/view?usp=sharing; we partly misspoke here in the podcast about what we were seeingâit is parents with âauthoritativeâ style (i.e., the âgoodâ style), not âauthoritarian,â who saw the highest rate of kids reporting they NEVER attending religious services, but only for those âauthoritativeâ parents who placed a very low value on religion. Itâs a complicated set of data. Have at it.
Example review of the book, by Clara Gerhardt, Samford University: https://christianscholars.com/handing-down-the-faith-how-parents-pass-their-religion-on-to-the-next-generation-2/
David Brooks, in The Atlantic (March 2020): âThe Nuclear Family Was a Mistakeâ: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/
The Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga movie is called A Star is Born (sorry everyone).
Bradley Cooper on his faith and his father: https://aleteia.org/2021/06/04/covid-reveals-actor-bradley-coopers-devotion-to-his-mom/
Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible: https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Made-Impossible-Biblicism-Evangelical/dp/158743329X
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Has the rise of the personality test replaced traditional faith narratives as a way to explain our own lives? How does one pronounce the word âEnneagramâ? We investigate. With a powerful excursus into the purpose of work meetings (= to control people).
Origins and history of the Enneagram: https://bit.ly/3qLGpK3
Jackie Hill Perry warns Christians against the demonic Enneagram: https://www.christianpost.com/news/jackie-hill-perry-warns-christians-not-to-use-demonic-enneagram.html
Enneagram popularity soars: https://religionnews.com/2022/06/02/as-enneagrams-popularity-soars-having-an-experienced-teacher-is-more-important-than-ever/
Enneagram of your fav Bible character: http://blog.baysideonline.com/2018/02/the-enneagram-according-to-your-favorite-bible-characters/
Saved by the Cityâs Personality Test Extravaganza: https://religionnews.com/2023/05/25/a-personality-test-extravaganza/
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Weâre here this week to discuss potentially shocking revelations in the UFO âdisclosureâ community, and get you fully caught up on what has been said recently about aliens and such things. Brian went to a UFO festival and heard a specialist talk about âUFO Experiencersâ for MUFON (yes, the same MUFON as referenced on the X Files!). Leah attended the free parade. A new government whistleblower claims we are in possession of multiple and even full âcraftsâ of non-human origin. Garry Nolan, scientist at Stanford, says that he is â100%â certain extraterrestrials are here. And respected Australian journalist Ross Coulthart has someâŠdisturbing theories.
Bob Lazar, who is he: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar
MUFON (Mutual UFO Network): https://mufon.com/
Earl Grey Anderson: https://ufofest.com/earl-grey-anderson-2/
NYT 2017 article that started this era: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
Article out: new whistleblower, with unassailable credentials (?), says we have craft: https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/
Sample article on Assyrian propoganda: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1535132
Garry Nolan, Stanford: https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/garry-nolan
Garry Nolan bombshell interview at SALT Conference: https://twitter.com/UAPJames/status/1659299977762308098?s=20
Reflection on the NASA UFO hearing and how people get angry about this topic, harass NASA scientists online and in person: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/nasa-ufos-conspiracy-theories/674259/
Ross Coulthart commenting on Elizondoâs âsomberâ comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3kxeU_oDE&t=9301
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The News Roundup is back: bringing back the dead, briefly; robbing a piece of hair from your fav celeb to have a baby with them; Elizabeth Holmes is finally in jail; Silicon Valley woo; and the Popeâs exorcist.
A brief interaction with your deceased loved one: https://futurism.com/ai-seance
Tag-on story: Having a designer baby with a celebrity??!! https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178103188/scientists-near-a-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-human-reproduction
Soul Boom by Dwight Schrute // Rainn Wilson: https://sojo.net/articles/rainn-wilson-office-wants-spiritual-revolution
Elizabeth Holmes reports to 11 year prison sentence: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/tech/elizabeth-holmes-prison/index.html
Film about the Camino pilgrimage: https://religionnews.com/2023/05/15/the-way-emilio-estevezs-film-about-the-camino-returns-to-theaters-as-pilgrimage-picks-up-post-covid/
Why a Silicon Valley culture that was once obsessed with reason is going woo: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rational-magic
âAn American Tailâ is now a musical: https://www.jta.org/2023/04/17/culture/an-american-tail-musical-adaptation-bets-the-storys-jewish-immigration-story-will-resonate-in-2023
Only 16% of Americans say religion is most important: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176206568/less-important-religion-in-lives-of-americans-shrinking-report
Popeâs exorcist is a fan of horror films: https://religionnews.com/2023/05/05/the-real-priest-behind-the-popes-exorcist-was-a-fan-of-hollywood-horror-films/
Tears of the Kingdom, Zelda thing, full of religion: https://zelda-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Christianity
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Weâre rebroadcasting an early episode this weekâto us, a classic, and perhaps as good as new to newer listeners. What happens when a movie series becomes not just your favorite or your religion, but literally forms the basis for all of your thinking and imagination and everything for your entire life? Such is the power of the Star Wars franchise. We dive into the murky depths of Star Wars fandom through the documentary The People Vs. George Lucas to think about authorial intent, the biblical canon, who owns our imaginations, and what it means to truly love fictional characters.
Updated Notes
The People vs. George Lucas: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1325014/
â10 Harsh Realities of Being a Star Wars Fanâ: https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-fan-negatives-downsides/#the-original-movies-keep-changing
âStar Wars Fans and Their Collections,â The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/12/star-wars-fans-and-their-collections/420561/
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We give in-the-moment commentary on a surprising spoken word track on Lana del Reyâs new album. The material is delivered by the famous and hip Churchome pastor Judah Smith. With Lana del Rey cooing in the background. Some deep moments, some weird moments.
Roomful of Teeth, âPasacagliaâ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LlE41gvNcw&list=PLEwLYWjsY88Wj84zSQ0dkiFgFjJpIG4Y2
Jennifer Garnerâs Methodist Church ties: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jennifer-garner-miracles-from-heaven_n_56cca718e4b0ec6725e42004
Judah Smith bio: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/judah-smith
Lana del Rey, âJudah Smith Interludeâ (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-vMgLEXo4
DC Talk with Billy Graham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTANlTnpeo
Jeremiahâs letter to exiles, seek the welfare of your city: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2029%3A1-13&version=ESV
Jimmy Swaggart preaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKE-9qVGJa4
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