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Complexified — 105 episodes

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High Church on Chicago’s South Side

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Put on a Pedestal, Kept Out of Power: How The LDS Church Is Losing Women

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The “Pastors In Name Only”: The New (Old) Fight Over Who Counts As Christian

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Data Centers, Dark Money: The Interfaith Group That Won't Disclose Anything

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$438 Million Later, What Does This Faith-Tech Company Actually Do?

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The Catholics Who Broke With Rome. Again.

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Spiritual Technology for the 21st Century

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The Business of Being Good

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Building God, Fearing Doom: The Theology of Superintelligence

10

Pope Leo XIV and the Case for Imperfection

11

America, According to Hillsdale

12

Separation of Church and State Was a Baptist Idea. What Happened?

13

What Stuck: Reading Pope Francis a Year Later

14

What If the Most Powerful American in the World Isn't Who You Think?

15

He Survived Conversion Therapy. The Supreme Court Just Made it Legal Again

16

The Myth of Sudden Change: How the First Woman Archbishop Got There

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Are You a Starseed? The Search for Meaning, Rewritten

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Texas Created a Program to Fund Religious Schools. So Why Are Muslim Schools Missing?

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Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth's Holy War at the Pentagon

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From Purity Rings to Shooting Your Dog: How Christian Womanhood Went MAGA

21

What's Next for American Jews and Israel? A Half-Century of Consensus Weakens.

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When Trauma Becomes Identity: What Young Jews Are Learning After October 7

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The Rev. William Barber II: Fighting Autocrats Starts at the Grassroots

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Abortions Rose After Dobbs—And the March for Life Knows It

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Quiet Quitting Church: When the Numbers Reveal Everything and Explain Nothing

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They Shot the Pastor Anyway: When Religious Authority Met Federal Force

27

What Happened? Top Religion News Stories of 2025 — And What To Watch in 2026 (From The State of Belief)

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A Dictator Was Seized. The Pope Spoke. Everyone Else Paused.

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Faith, Fame, and the Feed: How Influencers Shape What We Believe

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How One Abuse Story Changed a Reporter

31

The Conservative Christian Momfluencer Machine

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From Fringe to Front Page: Why Nick Fuentes Is at the Top of Your Feed. Again.

33

From Pink to Waterproof: The Weird Economics of U.S. Bible Sales

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Beyond Identity Politics: The Mamdani Method in New York

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Chainsaws, Catechism, and Courage: How One Parish Grew Through Crisis

36

Televangelists to Deepfakes: Who Defines the Sacred in the Age of AI? + John Fugelsang

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Cease-Fire Isn’t Peace: Inside the Vatican’s Quiet Work on Gaza

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Willow Creek’s Midlife Reckoning: How a Seeker Church Became the Megachurch Blueprint

39

Baptizing the Battlefield: Pete Hegseth’s Holy War at the Pentagon

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Faith, Labor, and a DOJ Reversal: Inside the BAPS Temple Case

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Pulpit Politics: Why the Johnson Amendment Still Sparks Political Drama

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What Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death Reveal About Religion and Politics

43

Casper ter Kuile on Small Politics, Big Meaning, and the Power of Tea

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Stop Trying to Fix Everything: Simran Jeet Singh on Spiritual Sanity

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Can Small Acts of Faith Change a Fractured Country?

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What the Civil Rights Movement Still Has to Teach Us - Rachel Harding on Spirit & Strategy

47

The Pope Who Blessed the Margins (And Upset the Middle)

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Loose Reins, Tight Factions: the Southern Baptist Convention

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Sledgehammer Reform: USAID on the Chopping Block

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Faith, Politics, and Power: J.D. Vance’s Tightrope Act

51

The Mercy Pulpit & The Sermon Heard Around the World

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President Trump's Crusader

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The Bishop's Gambit

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Crosses at the Border

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A Keffiyeh Conundrum: the Politics of Baby Jesus

56

Elon Musk: “Prophet-in-Chief”?

57

Calling Out Lies, Singing the Truth

58

Alpha Jesus and the Bro-ing of the American Church

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Why Muslim Voters Feel Betrayed

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Rejecting the ‘God of Trump’

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When Religious Power Serves Political Force

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Exposing Soft Christian Nationalism

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When Public Dollars Pay for Religious Education

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The Hindu Vote: Flipping the Script

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Women’s Work: a Catholic Conundrum

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Imagining a Land of Belonging

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Dividing Lines: Life on the Border

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Church Land: Let Go & Grow

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Land of the Violent

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Sowing Seeds, Reaping Freedom

71

Stealing Land in the Name of God

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The Bible is a Book about Land

73

Political Paradox and Prerequisites of the American Dream: Dr. Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

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Between Worlds: Dr. Albert Hernández on The American Dream from his Cuban-American Perspective

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Culture Shock and Consuming a Dream: Nga Vương-Sandoval on fleeing Việt Nam as a Child

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BONUS Episode: LIVE! Why Ban Drag?

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Freedom from Violence: Representative Iman Jodeh’s Palestinian-American family story of seeking refuge and finding a life of public leadership

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Broken Glass & Salty Tears: Rabbi Joe Black and his family story of fleeing persecution and finding purpose

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Ownership, Belonging & Dreaming America: Ben Sanders

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Losing Everything at Indian Boarding School: Bessie Smith (Dzabahe)

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The Stories We Hold: Amanda Henderson

82

Dreaming America: Season 4 Trailer

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Amanda, Lex, and Denise Soler Cox: The Struggle to Belong, & How a Night at a Bar in Miami Changed Everything!

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Amanda, Lex, & Dr. Philip Butler talk Transhumanism, Artificial Intelligence & Religion

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Amanda, Lex, & Ian Silverii: Religion's In Our Politics: It's Inescapable

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Change is Disruptive - Choose Mindfulness

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Amanda, Lex & Dr. Miguel De La Torre: Screw With the Structures & Change Your God

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Amanda & Lex on Season 3: "Change: The Only Lasting Truth"

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Amanda & Lex Wrap Up Season 2

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How Do We Talk Politics with Our Families?

91

Finding Freedom in Your Religious Tradition - The Choice is Yours!

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Why Does the Government Care if We Have Babies Anyway?

93

Rabbi Joe Black: Jewish Thoughts on Abortion, the Gift of Music, and the Messy Parts of Living

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Episode 11: Eric Smith: What the Bible Actually Says about Abortion

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Lex & Amanda talk Abortion, Cults, & Religious Trauma

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Ann Marie Benitez; Reproductive Justice after the fall of Roe

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Rachel Laser: Separation of Church and State: Good for Religion, Good for Democracy

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Answering Those Lingering Questions on Christian Nationalism

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On Changing Hearts, Minds, and Laws

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Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis On Countering White Christian Nationalism: Step 1: Let White Jesus, Go!

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Rob Schenck on the behind-the-scenes agreements that led to the end of Roe

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Lex & Amanda talk Gender, Sexuality & Marriage

103

Rep. Sam Park, Leading with a Broken Heart

104

Brandan Robertson, Religion, Politics & LGBTQ Youth

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