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Welcome to the Holy Watermelon podcast where a Christian and an atheist talk about religious studies. Join us, Katie and Preston, as we dive into the world of comparative religion. We use hu...
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Totalitarian control is popular in religious groups. Zinnia escaped the Christadelphian church a few years back, and now she hosts a podcast...
Previously a Patreon Exclusive episode: We're opening the vault to showcase some of our older subscriber content. For the first time, Katie...
Is belief a choice, or are our beliefs inherent to us? How do we decide whether something is true or not? With more than 8 billion people on...
Martin Luther is a hero to countless Christians around the world. The birth of European Protestantism and the Lutheran Church cannot be expr...
Tasawwuf is the old word for dressing in wool, the typical identifier for a monk, ascetic, and mystic. Today, we pronounce it Sufi. The Sufi...
Christian mysticism is widely spread through this relatively common but fairly new tradition derived almost exclusively from what might have...
Kabbalah isn't just another branch of Judaism--it's more mystical and personal. The idea is hat you really connect with the creator of the u...
Over millennia, countless dietary traditions have formed around the world; many are tied strictly to religious traditions, and have thereby...
Mina Angotti has a Master's degree in theology, focusing her studies on Mary, the Mother of Christ. Mina is a longtime friend of the show, a...
Vatileaks (or Vatican Document Leaks) caused a lot of trouble in Rome in 2012, leading directly (allegedly) to the Pope abdicating his offic...
Daoism (formerly called Taosim) is the more prominent indigenous religion of China. Daoism incorporates philosophical writings from ancient...
Shoko Asahara (born Chizuo Matsumoto) led a modest cultus that grew rapidly beyond the borders of its native Japan. A blind acupuncturist, A...
Literature is full of doomsday cults, but the real world is much more chilling. This week we explore the Great Green Arkleseizure, the Cthul...
Hoodoo is a terribly syncretic religion, developed as a sibling to Voodoo (and there are other siblings in this family, too). Magickcrafts h...
Keith Raniere is the object of worship in the NXIVM cult, a god in the plainest sense of the word. The founder of a few MLMs, this guy knew...
New Age religion is a lot more than a scheme to sell books and crystals, it's a belief that a new age of enlightenment is dawning--or did so...
Latin America has managed to preserve some of its pre-Columbian religious heritage, so we're going to explore the traditions of the Olmec, M...
It's time to take another look at religion in popular culture, in particular, cults in film, and why we love telling these stories. The Wick...
Dr. Sean Hannan did his post-graduate studies at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of MacEwan University in Edmonton Albe...
After ragging on people who surely don't deserve the veneration they receive from faithful Christians around the world, for their questionab...
The Church of Rome doesn't represent all of Christianity, but it is a major portion of the global population, so it's time for us to look at...
Gods of the underworld are not the same as gods of death, nor are the guides the same--not even the Grim Reaper. Hades is the minder of the...
Religious clothing is as varied as any other kind of fashion, but there are a few common themes that we will highlight: Chastity is encourag...
If sin were ugly, the world would be a paradise. Sin has a lot of faces in religious traditions around the world, some more consequential th...
What is a church? How does a religious society really differentiate itself from any other kind of society? What does it take to become a pri...
Why are there no bear ghosts? Nearly all the ghosts in the world seem to come from a specific period of time, long before any of us were bor...
Angels in most traditions are heavenly messengers, and modern pop culture has greatly exaggerated almost every feature. While it makes sense...
Katherine Spallino is the author of The Bad Cadet , a memoir of her days as a child-slave to the secretive Scientologist "Sea Org." Before s...
Bonnie Lu Nettles and Marshall Herff Applewhite, Jr. founded what is known today as Heaven's Gate , a fantastic group of UFO enthusiasts and...
Apotheosis is the process of becoming a god, and that gift isn't always limited to the dead. Some classic examples include Asclepius, Ariadn...
Euhemerism is essentially the hypothesis that many of the gods who have been celebrated throughout history may not have been simple fabricat...
Ever wonder why we bother with the groundhog, or horseshoes, or four-leaf clovers? Have you noticed city employees relying on divining rods...
Zarathustra is the mythical hero at the foundation of Mazdaism, and thus it is better known as Zoroastrianism. Because ancient sources disag...
Frank McMahon served in the VATICAN . Now, he's joining us to talk about his experience with Playboy, puberty, alcohol abuse, Buddhism, and...
St. Nicholas' Day has passed, but we're not done with Christmas visitors yet. Santa has taken a few different forms over the centuries, and...
There's no shortage of saints with questionable careers, even during their "faithful years." For others, we might be looking at people who n...
Andrew Penner grew up in the Mennonite tradition of the Anabaptist movement. The Anabaptists have a colorful history of subversion from the...
As we close out the spooky season, it's time to talk about Puritanism and the extremism that led to witch hunts and barbaric murders of inno...
Halloween is--despite what you might hear from your local evangelical group--a Christian holiday... kinda. There's a lot to it, and there ar...
We've really enjoyed doing this show together, and we've learned a lot. It's time to reflect on the foundation we've built. The natures of k...
Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is right around the corner, and we've decided to interrupt our regular programming in fav...
If you think you know Mormonism, this one's for you. We examined the origins of the Latter Day Saints last month, and now we're taking a loo...
Brigham Young gets a lot of credit as the "American Moses," but it's nothing compared to the work Joseph Smith did to earn that title. Moses...
Lost books include apocryphal literature from heretics, grifters, and entrapment-dodging translators, but there's also genuine works that we...
Staring Down the Canon might be intimidating for some, but now that we've explored several holy texts, we're ready to talk about the nature...
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is one of the best books of religious satire released this century, and maybe it will hold that s...
The Book of Mormon has a better story than you might think, though not quite what you might have heard in Stone & Parker's musical of the sa...
What is the Granth Sahib? What is the Adi Granth? The Guru Granth Sahib is the last and eternal Guru, an authoritative collection of sacred...
What is the Quran? It is among the most published texts in the world, and among the most vilified in the global west. Who was really respons...
The Christian New Testament is a tiny collection of letters, and a small handful of modestly interdependent testimonies of a personal Jesus...
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