J. A. Bouma
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The intersection of the sacred and story, offering a space of short stories that inspire and thrill with commentary drawing out the religious elements of our favorite yarns. bouma.substack.com
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Religion & Fiction Podcast gives Christian fiction readers author led commentary where theology, crisis of faith, and supernatural stakes stay close.
Religion & Fiction Podcast sits in Religion & Spirituality, with Jeremy Bauma using narrated fiction and book club style commentary to connect story craft with Christian faith.
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A careful guide to the theology behind Left Behind.
Episode 17 focuses more on the theology behind Left Behind than on the series' spectacle. Jeremy Bauma places the books in their dispensationalist frame, walking through the assumptions behind the rapture, the tribulation, and the way passages like Matthew 24:21 and Revelation…
A plainspoken reading of Revelation that treats end-times language as present pressure and final return.
The episode treats Revelation less as a timeline chart and more as a book for a church under pressure. Jeremy Bauma moves through the letters to the churches, the seals, and the already-and-not-yet gap between Christ's resurrection and final return, using biblical theology to…
A thoughtful book-club opening for listeners drawn to faith, story, and honest wrestling.
Jeremy Bauma uses this book-club opening to frame A Rediscovered Faith as more than a title on a list. The focus stays on why stories about doubt and belief matter, especially in a stretch of Christmas and New Year reflection.
A careful setup for the historical and literary context of Left Behind.
This episode offers a careful look at the historical, literary, and theological machinery behind Left Behind. Bauma treats the series as more than a religious fiction success, linking the rapture backdrop, Nicolai Karpathia, and the one-world-government plot to the broader…
A measured Naomi Torres story that turns a found sarcophagus into a case for witness and remembrance.
Jeremy Bauma's special reading of a Naomi Torres story treats a found sarcophagus as more than a mystery object. It becomes a way to think about names, memory, and who gets to stand as witness.
A week-five book-club close that treats grief, doctrine, and grace as matters with consequences.
Religion and Fiction Podcast closes its week-five book club by tracing Peter Daniel Young through grief, responsibility, and the uneasy sense that ideas can have real consequences.
A reflective book-club opener that treats faith crisis as a story of questioning and reimagining.
Religion and Fiction Podcast episode 25 opens week one of the Religion and Fiction Book Club with A Rediscovered Faith, the first fiction Jeremy Bauma wrote and a story that draws on his own spiritual journey and crisis of faith from about 20 years ago.
A creator's tour of apocalyptic fiction that treats memory as the church's survival skill.
Jeremy Bauma spends this episode laying out the theology behind End Times Chronicles, and the point lands clearly: his apocalyptic sci-fi is built around the church's memory as a way of surviving.
Vatican news with institutional memory.
Islamic argument in the public square.
Survivor stories after religious exile.
Host Jeremy Bauma analyzes the historical and literary context of the bestselling Left Behind series, exploring its roots in 1990s geopolitics, the conspiratorial background of co-author Tim LaHaye, and how the series aimed to mobilize evangelicals politically and evangelistically.
Jeremy Bauma opens week one of the Religion and Fiction Book Club with *A Rediscovered Faith*.
Jeremy Bauma uses Religion & Fiction Podcast Episode 19 to break down the End Times Chronicles cast, starting with Alexander Zarouk, John Mark Ford, Junia Kaminsky, Sasha Pavlovich, and Father James Ferrero.
Jeremy Bauma returns from spring break and picks up the final stretch of his End Times Chronicles series.
Jeremy Bauma returns to the Religion and Fiction Podcast with a special reading from his Order of Thaddeus series.
Jeremy Bauma returns after a break and leans into spooky October to talk about his supernatural dark tale, Rite of Darkness, while keeping the podcast centered on the overlap between the sacred and story.
Religion and Fiction Podcast closes out week five by finishing the book club's walk through the final chapters of A Rediscovered Faith.
Jeremy Bauma returns for week two of the Religion and Fiction Book Club with his own spiritual coming-of-age story, *A Rediscovered Faith*.
Jeremy Bauma continues the Religion and Fiction Podcast's walk through chapters 26 through 31 of A Rediscovered Faith for week four of the Religion and Fiction Bookmasters.
Jeremy Bauma opens the 24th episode of the Religion and Fiction Podcast by kicking off the next five-week Book Club.
Jeremy Bauma opens the Halloween episode by pairing Stephen King with the season's usual language of horror.
Jeremy Bauma continues the Religion and Fiction Book Club with week three of A Rediscovered Faith.
Jeremy Bauma opens the door to End Times Chronicles.
Host Jeremy Bauma analyzes the theological underpinnings of the Left Behind series, focusing on dispensationalism, the rapture, and the great tribulation.
This episode features the first chapters of 'Apostasy Rising,' a sci-fi story set in 2123 where a priest named Alexander faces persecution, a new religious order, and a secret mission.