Pod Only Knows #051 – Acute Religious Experiences – with Richard Saville-Smith
Richard Saville-Smith joins Kelly and John to discuss his book “Acute Religious Experiences – Madness, Psychosis, and Religious Studies”
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Pod Only Knows #050 – Severance: The Church of Keir – with Niki Dolfi
Kelly and John are joined by Niki Dolfi to discuss identity, capitalism, and cultish devotion (and goats) in “Severance”
Pod Only Knows #049 – Our Pope Watch Has Ended – Leo XIV and the future of the Catholic Church
Kelly and John talk all the Pope news, including the MAGA freakout over Leo XIV, and what this all means for the future of the Catholic Church
Pod Only Knows #048 – Annika Brockschmidt
John talks about the perception of the American Christian Right in Europe and Pete Hegseth’s tattoos with historian Annika Brockschmidt
Pod Only Knows #047 – Rethinking “Lord of the Flies” in the age of MAGA
Kelly and John discuss why people maybe get “Lord of the Flies” all wrong, and why what it’s REALLY about matters a great deal right now.
Pod Only Knows #046 – “First they came for the academy…” : The MAGA Attack on Higher Education
Kelly and John discuss the attack on higher education, the cynical manipulation of antisemitism, and the complicated role religion is playing