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Religion on the Mind

Interviews with experts, writers, psychologists and more on the intersection between psychology, religion and spirituality… with a little bit of cussing.

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Psychology & Religion at the World Cup (#408) Jul 06, 2026

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⁠**Participate in my next Spiritual Abuse Research Study**⁠

Guests: Victoria Jackson & Terry Shoemaker

Topics:

Religion, sport, and the sacred — evangelical baggage and finite vs. eternal stakes (7:00)
Maradona's "Hand of God" and sport as modern mythology (13:42)
Victoria's World Cup travel plans and fan culture on the road (20:36)

FIFA corruption, Infantino, and Trump's soccer obsession (36:13)
Masculinity, grace, and violence across sports (44:45)

Promotion, relegation, and why an MLS club costs more than Bournemouth (56:29)
Final predictions: teams to watch (58:00)

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GGCH: World Cup, Down Syndrome and Have US Men Stopped Reading? (#407) Jun 29, 2026

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Guests: Tony Jones & Josh Gilbert (Generation Gap Culture Hour returns!)

Topics:

Culture roundup: All the Pretty Horses, Dave on Hulu, The Strokes (3:28)
Streaming piracy & the ethics of stealing (19:58)
Dude lit & the book club (30:53)
Men and reading (Tony's Substack crossover moment) (36:27)

Patron Half Begins (46:55)

World Cup (46:30)
Down Syndrome screening, disability & ethics of life (1:01:40)
Jesus and the just world hypothesis (1:14:54)

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Christianity Vs. Existentialism | Part 2 (#406) Jun 22, 2026

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Guest: Daryl Van Tongeren Returns! (⁠Hope College⁠ / ⁠"Done")

Topics:

Are most people living in a kind of illusion? (0:00)

How people spend their time (17:14)

What makes humans special: Christianity and existentialism agree (27:37)

The five givens of existence and how Christianity responds to them (32:23)

Religious certainty and the road to violence (45:14)

It's never too late (48:14)

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Christianity Vs. Existentialism | Part 1 (#405) Jun 15, 2026

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Guest: Daryl Van Tongeren Returns! (Hope College / "Done")

Topics:

What is existentialism and existential psychology? (5:25)

Does life have a predetermined purpose, or do we make our own? (19:00)

Faith and uncertainty (42:21)

Objective morality, self-sacrifice, and the doormat problem (54:02)

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Why Tribalism is So Natural (#404) Jun 08, 2026

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Guest: Barrabas! (Tim Burnette returns)

Topics:

• Religion after religion (7:04)

• In-group Religion (10:58)

• Is there moral and spiritual progress? (25:04)

• Haidt's Rider & Elephant (32:51)

• Collective effervescence & human bonding (38:37)

• Out-groups & non-duality (42:27)

• Moral foundations theory (1:05:33)

• Christian nationalism & the remnant (1:17:34)

Previous Episode with Tim:

Self-aware Christianity with Tim Bunette (#383)

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Study Hall: Sex, Aging & Purity Culture (#403) Jun 01, 2026

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Sex drive, religious formation, and the stubborn residue of purity culture — welcome back to Study Hall, where I bring you along as I cram for my licensure exam and connect to the psychology of religion along the way. Today we're staying in developmental psychology but moving into territory that, let's just say, came up a lot in my Christian high school years.

Religious adolescents start later — but skip contraception
The gender gap in sexual activity widens with age
Purity culture hits women harder, and the shame sticks longer
Religious residue shapes your sex life even after you leave the faith
Gay couples have the most sex. Lesbians the least. Straight couples, middle.
Married religious couples report higher sexual satisfaction — here's why

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The Many Faces of Fundamentalism with Trauma Therapist Ryan Kuja (#402) May 25, 2026

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Licensed therapist and trauma specialist Ryan Kuja joins me to examine the surprising parallels between Christian fundamentalism and new age spirituality — particularly how both can enable spiritual bypassing, discourage authentic questioning, and ultimately fail to hold space for the full complexity of human pain and experience.

Ryan's Link Tree

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When Theater Kids go to Youth Group (#401) May 21, 2026

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In this episode, comedian and podcaster Jordan Morris describes growing up as a youth group kid in Orange County, and how those experiences informed his new graphic novel Youth Group, which treats its faith-filled characters with nuance and genuine affection rather than cheap satire.

In the Patron-only second half, we get into the DIY ethos that both church basements and punk rock scenes share, the appeal of making the supernatural literal in his storytelling, and his ongoing creative collaborations with Rhett and Link of Good Mythical Morning.

Jordan's Link Tree

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Purpose & Calling After Religious Change (#400) May 18, 2026

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Psychologist Dr. Pamela Epstein King returns to explore how religious systems provide purpose, calling, and meaning — and what happens to those foundations when people go through significant religious change.

Pam's Faculty Page

Episodes Mentioned:

Trusting Yourself After Religious Change | #370

The Six Facets of Spiritual Health | #285

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The Jewish Renewal Movement with Rabbi Simcha Raphael (#399) May 11, 2026

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I sit down with Rabbi Dr. Simcha Raphael and learn about his remarkably wide-ranging spiritual journey. From a traditional Montreal Hebrew education through India, the San Francisco counterculture, and ultimately into the Jewish Renewal Movement as a scholar of death, afterlife, and the inner life of Judaism, his story mirrors what so many of us are navigating in our own religious explorations.

In the Patreon-only second half, we explore what Judaism's rich tradition on death and the afterlife offers to the dying, the grieving, and anyone trying to build a vibrant spiritual life beyond the boundaries of where they started.

Highlights:

Montreal Jewish upbringing
India, gurus, and culture shock
Jewish Renewal and Reb Zalman
Ecstatic vs. contemplative spirituality
Death, grief, and felt presence
Judaism's afterlife teachings

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