Heaven Bent

By Tara Jean Stevens

Supernatural signs & wonders. Unusual spiritual practices. Explore the fascinating and sometimes dangerous world of the modern-day prophetic movement, with host & creator Tara Jean Stevens.

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The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.

Heaven Bent episodes:

August 01, 2025 Heaven Bent Headlines: 8.01.25
Join Tara Jean as she unpacks this week's headlines from the Heaven Bent universe. This week: Sean Feucht vs. Canada, here comes Kenneth Copeland, and was Ozzy Osbourne a Christian when he died?
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16min
July 25, 2025 Heaven Bent Headlines: 7.25.25
Join Tara Jean as she unpacks this week's headlines from the Heaven Bent universe. New episodes every Friday. This week: Sean Feucht's cold reception in Canada, Art Lucier's new public statement, and the new documentary series about 'Teen Mania'.
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16min
July 18, 2025 Heaven Bent Headlines 7.18.25
Join Tara Jean as she unpacks this week's headlines from the Heaven Bent universe. New episodes every Friday. This week: evangelical fans turn on Chip & Joanna Gaines, Che Ahn says God told him to run for governor, and Mathew Tait scandal exposes the dark underbelly of the Christian music scene.
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July 11, 2025 Heaven Bent Headlines: 7.11.25
This is the first edition of Heaven Bent Headlines, where Tara Jean unpacks headlines from the Heavent Bent universe: New episodes every Friday.

This week: 'That ChatGPT Tongues Thing,' 'Historic Christian Camp Swept Away by Texas Flood,' 'Jimmy Swaggart, Dead at 90.'
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17min
July 07, 2025 S7E4: Shut This Woman Up
Bob Prater married into a family with roots going back to the very start of the Foursquare Gospel Church. That's how he came to learn about its founder Aimee Semple McPherson. What did his wife's grandfather tell him about Aimee's 1926 disappearance? On this final episode of the Rise of Sister Aimee, Bob shares his story publicly for the first time.

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June 30, 2025 S7E3: One Christian Nationalist to Another
She fed the poor, healed the sick - and mingled with the KKK. On this episode, Tara Jean will explore the connections between Aimee Semple McPherson and Christian Nationalism. Also, how did Aimee influence some of the most powerful women preachers of the future? Paula White, Tammy Faye Bakker, and Kathryn Kuhlman will all come up.
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37min
June 23, 2025 S7E2: The Disappearing Sister
By the mid-1920s, Aimee Semple McPherson had it all — a megachurch, a radio empire, and a captivated nation. But in May 1926, she vanished. Was she kidnapped? Was it a hoax? Or had she simply run away from it all? This episode also examines the grand jury investigations, ensuing media circus, and, a turning point in Aimee’s ministry — when the lines blur between faith, power, and scandal.
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35min
June 16, 2025 S7E1: Farm Girl From Ontario
In 1923, Aimee Semple McPherson founded America's first megachurch, Angelus Temple, in Los Angeles, California. But how did this farm girl from Ontario become the most famous preacher in North America? How did she turn her sermons into showstoppers? And how did she influence the way religion & politics are entangling today? This the first episode in a series that will examine both her rise to fame and her role in one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in American religious history.
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31min
June 09, 2025 The Trouble With Sean Feucht
Sean Feucht is a prolific worship leader and the posterboy for Christian Nationalism, he's also a main character in the Heaven Bent Universe. On this episode, what's his connection to the unrest in Los Angeles this weekend? Why have some former team members launched a public campaign against him? And why does this call for a re-listen to S2E1?

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26min
June 02, 2025 S7 Trailer: The Rise of Sister Aimee
At the beginning of the 20th century, evangelicalism was seen as a dying movement within Christianity. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, came Aime Semple McPherson. Aimee mixed religion with Hollywood-level showmanship to amass a global following and bring evangelicalism to the forefront. A lone female preacher in a sea of men, she founded America's first megachurch and became a pioneer televangelist. But what did it take to build a following of that scale? And who helped her get there? The answers will reveal a complicated history about the fight to put faith back in American politics

*Starts June 16th, 2025
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How many episodes does Heaven Bent have?

The podcast currently has 75 episodes available.

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