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The Final Service is a society podcast hosted by Mateo Schimpf. It has 155 episodes, with the latest published May 2025.

Church membership in the U.S. has fallen off a cliff and pastors across the country are trying to save their congregations from shrinking to zero. Why have so many people left Christianity and can pastors do anything to save their churches from dying?

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Stigma

2

Chicago

3

Little Lithuania

4

The Mayordomos

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Trailer

6

Jonathan Rauch on the Limits of MAGA and Trump

7

Ambassador Michael McFaul: Ukrainians May Fight On, Even with a Trump/Putin Deal

8

Why You’re Probably Not Going to Church this Christmas

9

Overuse of Antibiotics and the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance

10

Denier-in-Chief: The Threat of Trump and RFK, Jr’s Health Policy

11

Millions of Deportations? Just How Tough Trump Might Get on Immigration

12

Ian Bremmer on What to Expect from Trump 2.0

13

Yascha Mounk on How To Save Diverse Democracies

14

Mike Madrid: Latino Voters and the Working Class ‘Tectonic Shift’

15

Steve Schmidt: Trump’s Victory is a Disaster for the Democratic Party

16

What the Hell Just Happened?

17

Last Look: Can We Trust the Polls?

18

Kara Swisher’s on Whether We Can Trust Tech Billionaires

19

Musk is all in on Trump. What About the Rest of Silicon Valley?

20

Will an “October Surprise” Decide the 2024 Election?

21

Living in Two Worlds

22

Which Candidate Does Mexico Favor in November?

23

SPECIAL LIVE EVENT: Will an “October Surprise” Shake-Up the Race?

24

A Year After October 7th, Is the Middle East Headed for War?

25

Is America Exporting Political Violence?

26

Tom Nichols: Attacking the President Attacks the Nation

27

Can We Trust the Presidential Polls? A 2024 Election Special

28

Anne Applebaum on Autocracy in America, and What’s at Stake in November

29

Can Ukraine Hang On Until November?

30

If it's ‘America First’, Who is American Enough?

31

In AI We Trust? A 2024 Election Special

32

The Healthy Amount of Hooch

33

New Habits in Our Old Age

34

Stuart Stevens: The Lincoln Project is Taunting Trump… And So is Kamala Harris

35

How Cocaine Blew Through the Island of Peace

36

Can Ecuador Keep its Oil in the Ground?

37

Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy

38

Netanyahu's Gambling on Trump

39

The Elites vs… the Elites?

40

Biden is Out, Harris is In: How DNC Donors Reset the Race

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