Skye and Kaitlyn discuss Harry Potter—covering its weird relationship to Christianity, who Hermione should have ended up with, and why it had such a deep effect on its fans.

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Skye and Drew talk about gambling, phone addiction… and get mildly depressed. In this edition of Drew's News, Drew's brought stories about the dating recession, the dark side of servant leadership and AI being out of control. All of this leads Skye to ask if we should let children have cigarettes.

0:05 - Theme Song

3:50 - The Dark Side of Servant Leadership

12:51 - The Disciples' Arrogance

20:01 - Gambling Money on Jesus' Return

27:05 - End Credits

The Dark Side of Servant Leadership:

https://comment.org/the-dark-side-of-servant-leadership/?mc_cid=56cb06941f&mc_eid=ffb786c716

Have our churches been designed to keep us from going deeper with Christ? Skye draws on brain science to explain why we need a lot more than the church gives us if we're going to become more like Jesus.

0:06 - Theme Song

1:35 - Puppy News

3:15 - Up Soon on Holy Post

8:33 - Pilots Forgetting to Fly

13:37 - Thinking Fast and Slow

22:41 - Jesus' Community Was a Challenge

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Efficiency! Remove the redundancy!" This is the cry of our individualistic, market-driven culture, but Skye thinks there's some very good reason to make things redundant. How does this lack of redundancy hurt us spiritually, politically, and socially? What does it mean for our government, our churches, and… for Boeing airplanes?

0:04 - Theme Song

0:36 - Updates

8:34 - Why Are Airplanes so Safe?

15:08 - Anti-Fragile

20:23 - We're Too Efficient

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Skye and Kaitlyn talk about James Talarico's Christianity as presented in a recent Ezra Klein interview. Talarico's progressive view of Christianity both loses a lot of the richness of the Gospel and has left America wanting something more. How does orthodox Christianity offer the world something it's deeply longing for?

Philip Yancey's affair raises questions about how we respond to the sins of famous Christians. And should prayers be written by ChatGPT? What about sermons? What about podcast devotionals? And why are people calling Justin Bieber's pastor a "hype priest?" Drew's got news and Skye's ready to talk about it.

0:06 - Theme Song

3:12 - Philip Yancey's Affair

18:05 - ChatCGP Prayeres

29:35 - End Credits

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Skye's here to answer questions—and talk about the Stranger Things finale. Is there a secret episode called "ConformityGate?" Then he talks about the questionable Christian cliches we use around grief and more.

Questions:

• Why do you tout your public education experience and say that you support public education?
• What are your thoughts on participating in interfaith outreach?
• When Jesus said to help the poor, did he mean in the local church or in the general?
• Is there a secret finale of Stranger Things?
• What was it like writing The World Born in You, since it's in a more autobiographical style?
• Does evil still exist in the Kingdom of Heaven?
• How do you express assurances and comfort when someone dies that reflect a biblical view about the person's state between now and the restoration of all things?

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As we wrap up our Christmas break, here's an oldie but a goodie from one of our first Skyepod episodes. Mike Erre and Michael Bird join Skye to break down our explainer video on the Rapture. We'll be back next week with a brand new episode.

0:13 - Theme Song

2:06 - Responding to Comments

7:36 - Urgent Preaching

14:23 - Is Jonah's Whale in the Bible?

18:23 - Harpazo?

22:42 - Hour of Trial

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Covering topics from politics to pop culture, Skye Jethani offers a slate of 2026 predictions to David French. Will the public finally rebel against the social media companies? Will Texas elect its first Democratic senator in nearly 40 years? Will we finally get definitive proof of UFOs? Will "Dune Part 3" or "The Odyssey" dominate the box office? French unpacks the predictions and explains which ones are overreactions and which are more plausible.

0:00 - Theme Songs

2:15 - Nolan's Odyssey

6:23 - First Texan Democrat Senator?

11:52 - Social Media Bans

29:15 - US Government Has Alien Technology?

36:25 - Trump Appoints New Supreme Court Justice

44:05 - Transgender Self-Identification Decline

58:55 - End Credits

Skye's prepared to get on his soapbox to respond to Drew's news stories and internet controversies. We all know Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but is Home Alone a Christian movie? Is Old Man Marley a Christ-figure to young Kevin? Skye agree with Kirk Cameron that annihilationism makes sense—but many have hinged their faith on eternal conscious torment. And do stories in sermons actually help people remember?

0:00 - Theme Song

3:03 - Is Home Alone a Christian Movie

9:40 - Kirk Cameron on Hell

22:35 - The Neuroscience of Worship

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Topics Covered:

• Is Home Alone Christian?: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/home-alone-catholic-heart
• Kirk Cameron's Theology of Hell Changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RflbA8Vt_Y
• The Neuroscience of Worship: https://relevantmagazine.com/current/science/the-neuroscience-of-worship/
• Do Sermons Need Stories?: https://x.com/RebeccMcLaugh/status/1998783054626611250
• Therapy culture replacing religion: https://www.freyaindia.co.uk/p/no-not-everyone-needs-therapy