Weird Religion 

Weird Religion is a podcast for people who think religion is weird but love it anyway. Your hosts, Leah Payne and Brian Doak, are both professors, authors, and pop culture aficionados, whose interests range from archaeology and history and linguistics to LARPing and The Walking Dead. Episodes tackle some piece of media highlighting the wonderful weirdness of religious experience—a documentary, a television show, a Twitter scandal—and use that as a "thread" on which to hang reflections on a wide variety of topics. Cults. The perils of fame within the evangelical world. Church attendance. Atheism. Gamer communities. Millennials and avocado toast. It's all here.

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Title	Date published
106 THE HIGHLIGHTER (on reading and erasing the Bible)	2023-05-10
105 THE PAPERCLIPALYPSE (pre-existent AI spirituality and doom scenarios)	2023-05-03
057 THE QISAPPOINTMENT (failed QAnon prophecies, prediction disappointment) [January 2021]	2023-04-26
104 THE CALLMEMAYBE (Third Eagle of the Apocalypse rises with Carly Rae Jepson analysis)	2023-04-19
032 THE CREATOR (Elizabeth Holmes gender smackdown) [August 2019]	2023-04-12
103 THE INDIANA (...Jones, that is!!)	2023-04-05
102 THE CONSULTANT (does Jesus look at you with compassion...or anger!)	2023-03-29
101 THE DECAPITATED (the Wind tells me I'm a ghost; Tucker says Trump is “demonic”)	2023-03-22
100 THE NATIONALISTS (Deuteronomy ch. 32, Moses sings, and Republicans want a Christian nation)	2023-03-15
099 THE DOMINION (a new Christian dating site, and the Gospel Coalition sex article scandal)	2023-03-08
098 THE BREAKFAST (Brian scores an exclusive and mysterious invitation)	2023-03-01
097 THE REVIVAL (examining debate about the "revival" at Asbury University)	2023-02-22
096 THE SUPERBOWL (wealthy people selling Jesus to Americans during a football game)	2023-02-15
095 THE NEPHILIM (who are they, and why did they create the Federal Reserve?)	2022-11-16
094 THE GIANT (conspiracies about long-dead giants on YouTube)	2022-11-09
093 THE MIDTERMS (on voting as a religious act and who loves Israel most)	2022-11-02
092 THE SKULLS (creepy but maybe comforting neolithic plastered skulls from Jericho)	2022-10-29
PROGRAMMING NOTE (summer break)	2022-08-03
091 THE MARDEVIL (reviving a soap opera’s weirdly religious moment)	2022-07-20
090 THE PROFESSOR (the sage, the mentor, the crush, the villain)	2022-07-06

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