The SkyePod

Guess what time it is? Once every year, David French and Skye Jethani devote an episode to movies, TV shows, and pop culture nerdery. This year's Nerdfest focuses on Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey," and David makes his case that the film is a Trojan horse filled with conservative values. They also react to the new "Avengers: Doomsday" trailer, why superhero movies aren't working anymore, and their shared hatred of multiverses. Finally, from the non-nerd world, they discuss new data showing Gen Z is turned off to Christianity by the evangelical support for Donald Trump. What's really behind the numbers?
 
0:00 - Theme Song
 
1:24 - The Conservatism of The Odyssey
 
16:04 - The Odyssey and Culture Wars
 
25:42 - Marvel, Star Wars, and Decay
 
43:24 - Is Trump Driving Gen Z from Church?
 
1:03:00 - End Credits

Christopher Nolan's take on Homer's epic "The Odyssey" is the biggest film in the world right now. Holy Post Pundit and New Testament scholar, Nijay Gupta, joins Skye to talk about what it tells us about pagan religion in the ancient world. He explains how the faith taught by the Apostles contradicted the kind of idolatry and superstition described in "The Odyssey," and what the ancient Greek understanding of hospitality toward strangers—a major theme in the movie—shares in common with both the Old and New Testaments.
 
0:07 - Theme Song
 
2:03 - The Odyssey and the Ancient World
 
8:28 - Demigods Among Us
 
22:02 - Hospitality as a Virtue
 
28:13 - This episode is available only for Holy Post Plus subscribers. Not a subscriber? Head on over to: https://holypost.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-and-the-bible-with-nijay?r=35kf51&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
 
Link to Nijay's Substack series on Paganism: https://nijaykgupta.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-and-the-world-of-the
 
Engaging Scripture (Nijay Gupta's Substack): https://nijaykgupta.substack.com/
 
 
 
Link to Nijay's Substack series on Paganism: https://nijaykgupta.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-and-the-world-of-the
 
Engaging Scripture (Nijay Gupta's Substack): https://nijaykgupta.substack.com/

Drew Dyck is back with another roundup of stories from the web. Are physically unfit pastors spiritually unfit for ministry? Christian influencers are only eating foods found in the Bible. Why non-denominational churches are a myth. What's really behind the falling birthrates, and why aren't economic solutions working?
 
0:01 - Theme Song
 
0:19 - Drew's Newsletter
 
1:39 - Fat Pastors
 
5:25 - Are Pastors Aspirational?
 
22:58 - The Bible Diet
 
27:24 - This episode is available only for Holy Post Plus subscribers. Not a subscriber? Head on over to:
https://holypost.substack.com/p/drews-news-fat-pastors-non-denoms

Historian Daniel G. Hummel joins Skye Jethani to talk about the changing relationship between American evangelicals and Israel. Driven by a particular view of the end times, Hummel explains the origin of evangelical support for the modern state of Israel, and why current events are testing that commitment. They also examine influential media voices, like Tucker Carlson, who are aggressively pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories and half-truths about the origins of Christian Zionism.
 
0:07 - Theme Song
 
6:54 - Secularism and Zionism
 
12:03 - Dispensationalism
 
19:29 - Israel and Blessings
 
22:02 - Controlling God
 
27:56 - Carlson's Anti-semetic Anti-zionism
 
30:33 - End Credits
 
CT's article on Tucker Carlson and the Scofield Bible:
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/06/what-tucker-carlson-got-wrong-cyrus-scofield-christian-zionism/

In honor of Independence Day, Holy Post Media released a new explainer video titled "Should America Rededicate Itself to God?" The short 12-minute video featured clips of a conversation between Skye Jethani and Caleb Campbell, the pastor of Desert Springs Bible Church in Phoenix and author of "Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor." This episode features their full conversation, including Campbell's journey from neo-Nazi skinhead to senior pastor, what America's founders really thought about pluralism, and why so many pastors failed to speak up as their church members got sucked into Christian nationalism.
 
0:00 - Intro
 
1:29 - Theme Song
 
9:42 - The Founders RejectedNationalism
 
15:30 - Shouldn't Laws be Aligned to God's Will?
 
21:45 - How Caleb Changed
 
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https://holypost.substack.com/p/caleb-campbell