Christian news talk with a crooked grin.
The Holy Post mixes church-world critique with newsy cultural conversation, moving from presidential spectacle and war rhetoric to Easter pageantry, immigration enforcement, and Catholic converts. It is serious about Christian ethics, but loose enough to make room for jokes, side trails, and the occasional absurd animal story.
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The Holy Post is a Christian conversation show built around a lively panel, sharp news instincts, and a willingness to let theology interrupt the easy take. It starts from the week’s cultural noise and follows the moral thread. Recent episodes move through Donald Trump, Pope Leo, the war in Iran, immigration enforcement, MAGA’s effect on evangelical morality, Catholic conversion, Christian nationalism, Bible sales, Easter spectacles, public health distrust, and women in church leadership. That sounds heavy. The show keeps it human with teasing, side stories, self-aware jokes, and oddball news about cocaine sharks, snow leopards, mini-livers, and other palate cleansers. Its real center, though, is the question of Christian witness in public. What does prayer sound like when leaders talk about war? What happens when churches trade neighbor-love for spectacle? Why do some forms of evangelical culture feel disenchanted, shallow, or politically captured? The panel does not treat those questions as abstract culture-war material. It keeps returning to Scripture, historical theology, church practice, and ordinary acts of mercy. Guests add reporting, books, ministry experience, and historical background, from immigration work and public health journalism to the Scopes Monkey Trial and debates over biblical interpretation. The show is especially attentive to evangelical America, but it often looks over the fence at Catholic, Pentecostal, and broader Christian traditions. It is playful without being careless. It is critical without sounding clinically detached. The result is a smart, busy, sometimes mischievous table conversation for listeners who want their politics, theology, and culture talk in the same room, where someone can joke about wedding hot takes and then turn around to ask whether public faith is being bent out of shape.
Made for: For Christians, church leaders, and theology-curious news followers who want cultural analysis with moral stakes. It especially fits listeners tracking evangelical politics, public witness, and faith in public life.
What sets it apart: The show pairs quick, funny panel chemistry with serious theological critique, so the conversation can move from absurd headlines to Augustine, immigration, war, or church practice without changing rooms. It is less punditry than a recurring argument about Christian formation under pressure.
Join VeggieTales and What's in the Bible? creator Phil Vischer and co-host Skye Jethani (author, speaker, pastor) for a fast-paced and often funny conversation about pop culture, media, theology, and the fun, fun, fun of living a thoughtful Christian life in an increasingly post-Christian culture.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Holy Post tests American political claims against Christian ethics while keeping serious theological disagreement conversational and readable.
The Holy Post reads American politics through Christian ethics, asking how faith should shape judgments about war, immigration, political power, and the conduct of churches.
Helicopter Easter eggs meet wartime prayer; your church-news whiplash has a place to land.
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A broad, thoughtful episode on Catholic conversion, evangelical disenchantment, immigration enforcement, and AI's effect on human tolerance.
The Holy Post uses a reported rise in Catholic converts to ask why older Christian traditions can feel more substantial to some seekers. Mike Erie joins Phil and Caitlin to tie that pull to disillusionment with evangelical churches, where warehouse spaces, plain services,…
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A thoughtful Christian political conversation about war, immigration, and the neighbors ideology can hide.
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Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
The Holy Post episode 697 examines why conservative Christians are rejecting the term 'Judeo-Christian' and how Christian nationalism is driving defenses of slavery and the Confederacy.
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The Holy Post hosts discuss extravagant Easter spectacles like helicopter egg drops and drone shows, questioning their theological message.
The show opens with the president's latest round of comments and posts.
The hosts open with extravagant Easter celebrations.
This episode explores the surge in Catholic converts ahead of Easter, compares trends in evangelical churches, discusses immigration enforcement's impact on Hispanic communities, and examines how AI affects human tolerance.
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This episode explores the evolving definition of American Christian fundamentalism with Mike Erie and features an interview with Bob Goff about his Holy Land video series and maintaining joy in difficult times.
The panel opens with Donald Trump's new war with Iran.
Phil Fisher, Caitlin, and Caitlin Beatty open The Holy Post 710 by weighing Trump’s Iran strike, the Austin shooting, and Carrie McKean’s interview on immigration and distrust.
Phil Vischer interviews Chris Staron about the historical significance and cultural impact of the Scopes Monkey Trial 100 years later, exploring how fictional retellings shape modern perceptions.
This episode discusses the evangelical response to the end of PEPFAR and critiques the self-esteem movement through a Christian lens.
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