Seekers and Swindlers with Glynn Washington
Podcaster and storyteller Glynn Washington grew up in an extremist religious sect called the Worldwide Church of God and also hosted the Heaven’s Gate podcast about the UFO cult that famously committe...
14 Dec 202024min
CHARISMATIC LEADERS
The charismatic leaders we are talking about today offer utopia and doomsday, salvation and absolute truth, perfection of the self and of the world at large, as long you dedicate yourself completely t...
7 Dec 20201h 3min
Walk with Me
“I would like to step out of my heart/and go walking beneath the enormous sky”, poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in 1918, probably consumed with a similar human anxiety to the one we each bear every weir...
30 Nov 202040min
Black Evangelicalism and the Christian Right with Anthea Butler and Lerone A. Martin
Today we are talking to two scholars of religion, Professor Lerone A. Martin of Washington University in St. Louis and Professor Anthea Butler of the University of Pennsylvania about the relationship ...
23 Nov 202055min
TELEVANGELISTS
At this point in American culture, televangelists are often seen as overblown parodies, with their pleas for private jets, their fiery sermons, their many scandalous falls from grace. However, million...
16 Nov 202053min
Falling for Fascism with Jason Stanley
Today we are talking to Jason Stanley, Jewish-American professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of the New York Times bestselling book 'How Fascism Works'. He'll help us understand more a...
9 Nov 202034min
FAKE NEWS
PLEASE VOTE!!! Fake news was the unofficial buzzword of 2016, as incendiary disinformation spread prolifically across the tabloids, TV news reports, and social media, along with accusations of liberal...
2 Nov 202050min
CrimeCon and Columbiners with Rachel Monroe
Today we’ll be talking with one of the big influences for our True Crime episode, Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession. Rachel talks to us about ...
26 Okt 202047min
