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Highest Power: Church + State
by Baptist News Global
A podcast from Baptist News Global examining the intersection of faith and politics at the highest levels of power. Hosted by Rick Pidcock.
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Ep158: Following Jesus by Defying Tyrants, with Matthew D. Taylor
Thursday, September 3, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep157: Josh Howerton's Use of A.I. & His Lack of Credibility, with Warren Throckmorton
Monday, August 31, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep156: The Christian Crusades Against Islam in Dearborn and Minneapolis
Thursday, August 27, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep155: How Social Location Affects Biblical Interpretation and Authority, with Anna Sieges Beal
Monday, August 24, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep154: How Josh Howerton Belittles His Congregation & Why Feelings Matter, with Jay Myers
Thursday, August 20, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep153: Christian Nationalist Complementarian Polygyny, with Kate Penney Howard
Monday, August 17, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep152: How Republicans are Weaponizing Worship to Spread Islamophobia in Order to Win the Midterms
Thursday, August 13, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep151: Economics & Religion (Part 3): How Competition Creates Systems of Control that Devalue Minorities and Women, with Jacob Robinson
Monday, August 10, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep150: Economics & Religion (Part 2): How Lack of Self-Awareness Leads to Competition and Retribution, with Jacob Robinson
Thursday, August 6, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep149: Economics & Religion (Part 1): How Power Commodifies People, with Jacob Robinson
Monday, August 3, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep148: The Senate Hearing with Dr. Fauci about His Handling of the COVID Pandemic
Thursday, July 30, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep147: How Republican Apathy about the Midterms Is Fueling Christian Nationalist Conspiracy Theories
Monday, July 27, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep146: Men are Starting Lust Free Gyms that Exclude Women
Thursday, July 23, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep145: The Manosphere & the Arrest of the Tate Brothers
Monday, July 20, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep144: A Response to John Piper's Famous "Seashells" Sermon
Thursday, July 16, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep143: How Today's Evangelicalism Is Like Yesterday's Fundamentalism
Monday, July 13, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep142: The Graham Platner Scandal & How Patriarchy Poisons the Left and the Right
Thursday, July 9, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep141: Trump's Independence Day Speech & American Dominionism in Worship, with Keri Ladner
Monday, July 6, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep140: The Bartons' Myths about the Declaration of Independence, with Warren Throckmorton
Thursday, July 2, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep139: The Role of Theological Education in Confronting Christian Nationalism, with Curtis Freeman
Monday, June 29, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep138: BNG Writer's Roundtable on Strategic Partnerships in the Media
Thursday, June 25, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep137: "An Old Fight in a New Time" - Skye Perryman's Juneteenth Keynote Address at the BNG-AWAB-GFM Breakfast
Monday, June 22, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep136: Juneteenth & White Supremacist Myth Making, with Greg Garrett
Thursday, June 18, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep135: Decolonizing the Great Commission, with Fr. Joash P. Thomas
Monday, June 15, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep134: How True Christianity and Christian Persecution Now Hinge on Bending the Knee to Trump
Thursday, June 11, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep133: The Pentagon's Reduced List of Recognized Religions & How the Government Is Defining What Is and Isn't Christianity
Monday, June 8, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep132: The Theology and Politics that Harm Us are the Theology and Politics of Mean Men
Thursday, June 4, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep131: Al Mohler's Views about Why Young Men are Turning to Conservative Christianity while Young Women are Leaving It
Monday, June 1, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep130: The Race Between Ken Paxton and James Talarico & How Communion Theology Shapes Democracy
Thursday, May 28, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep129: Al Mohler's Latest Attempt to Silence Women, with Meredith Stone
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep128: I Attended the Events in Washington D.C. Rededicating the Country to being One Nation under God, Part Two, with Pat Kahnke
Thursday, May 21, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep127: I Attended the Events in Washington D.C. Rededicating the Country to being One Nation under God, Part One
Monday, May 18, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep126: How Should We Respond to the GOP Targeting Black Communities Through Gerrymandering? with Edmond W. Davis
Thursday, May 14, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep125: How Pro-Natalists Coopted Mother's Day & How Black Women Liberate Us from White Patriarchy, with Braxton Wade
Monday, May 11, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep124: Are Aliens Here? Why Pastors are Claiming that Government Officials are Asking Them to Prepare Their Congregations for Disclosure
Thursday, May 7, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep123: The Newsboys Scandal & How American Dominion Theology Is Coopting the Worship Industry, with Keri Ladner
Monday, May 4, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep122: How MLK Jr.'s Nonviolent Support of the Oppressed Contrasts with the Motive in the White House Correspondents' Dinner Shooting, with Lerone Martin
Thursday, April 30, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep121: How Theologies of Hell Can Hold Violent Men Accountable Rather than Threaten Women and Children
Monday, April 27, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep120: How "America Reads the Bible" Is an Attempt to Normalize a Theocracy
Thursday, April 23, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep119: Mark Driscoll's Role in the Freedom 250 Event & How Complementarianism Sacralizes Violence Against Women, with Sheila Gregoire
Monday, April 20, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep118: How the "America Reads the Bible" Event Promotes Myths about Our Christian Past, with Warren Throckmorton
Thursday, April 16, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep117: The 'Trump as Jesus' Painting & My Conversation with Pat Kahnke about the Common Values of Diverse Christian Nationalist Expressions
Monday, April 13, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep116: Healing When Our Families Break Apart over Politics, with Lauren Smallcomb
Thursday, April 9, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep115: How the White House Holy Week Events Promoted Trump
Monday, April 6, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep114: The SCOTUS Ruling Against Colorado's Ban on Conversion Therapy, with Cody Sanders
Thursday, April 2, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep113: Attending CPAC and a No Kings Rally Back to Back, with Mara Richards Bim
Monday, March 30, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep112: Pete Hegseth's Holy War in Iran & the Absurdity of Authoritarian Power, with Ginny Brown Daniel
Thursday, March 26, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep111: The Duggar Scandal, Christian Nationalism, & the Seeming Inescapability of the Abusive Power Dynamics Many of Us Left Behind, with Tia Levings
Monday, March 23, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep110: Rhymes of Power between the Epstein Files & Complementarian Ministries like The Gospel Coalition
Thursday, March 19, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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Ep109: James Talarico, Jasmine Crockett, & Liberating Feminine Wisdom from Christian Patriarchy, with Angela J. Herrington
Monday, March 16, 2026 — You're listening to Highest Power: Church + State, a weekly podcast from Baptist News Global, hosted by Rick Pidcock. Support faith-based journalism at baptistnews.com.
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