Episodes
Dec. 29, 2025
Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor
A line-by-line analysis of "Elizabeth Taylor" from Life of a Showgirl. This episode explores how the song contrasts fame, glamour, and public permanence with private loneliness and the longing for lasting love — without biogr...
Dec. 28, 2025
Taylor Swift: Fate of Ophelia
A line-by-line analysis of "The Fate of Ophelia," the opening track of Life of a Showgirl. This episode defines Ophelia's literary fate, then carefully examines the song's lyrics to explore themes of rescue, devotion, possess...
Dec. 28, 2025
Life of a Showgirl: Introduction
This introductory episode establishes why The Life of a Showgirl deserves careful attention. Focusing on measurable data — sales, streams, chart performance, and reach — the episode explains how the album became the most domi...
Dec. 28, 2025
The Weight of Christmas Pt 4
In this episode, we turn to the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) and its four defining boundaries that shaped how the church speaks about Christ. Rather than explaining the mystery away, Chalcedon draws firm lines—protecting the...
Dec. 27, 2025
4 Little Foxes, 1 Big Misinterpretation
Song of Solomon 2:15 is often used to warn believers about hidden sins—the "little foxes" that supposedly threaten our relationship with Christ. But is that what the verse actually means? In this episode, we examine one sermo...
Dec. 26, 2025
The Great Unchurching: 2026 Predictions
America is experiencing The Great Unchurching, the fastest religious shift in modern history. In this episode, we look 2026
Dec. 26, 2025
The Great Unchurching
America is experiencing The Great Unchurching, the fastest religious shift in modern history. In this episode, we examine the data behind church closures, rising religious disaffiliation, political Christianity, and the colla...
Dec. 25, 2025
The Weight of Christmas Pt 1
We say Christmas is about Jesus—but rarely do we stop and ask who He truly is. In this episode, we move past sentiment and tradition and take a serious look at the theological weight of Christ Himself.
Dec. 24, 2025
One Day Before Christmas
As candlelight Christmas Eve services stream across the country, this episode pauses to ask a simple but rarely examined question: how did Christmas Eve become the emotional center of Christmas, and what has that shift formed...
Dec. 23, 2025
Two Days Before Christmas
A reflection on Hallmark Christmas movies, comfort stories, and how our longing for tidy endings shapes what we expect Christmas—and even the church—to deliver.
Dec. 22, 2025
Three Days Before Christmas
A reflection that begins with Superman and leads to a deeper question many face at Christmas: how do we live with a God who is said to be with us, yet often feels unreachable? This episode explores the tension between power, ...
Dec. 21, 2025
Four Days Before Christmas
Christmas often intensifies emotion—joy, longing, grief, loneliness, and everything in between. In this episode, we reflect on why the season carries such emotional weight, how expectations and memory shape our experience, an...
Dec. 21, 2025
A Theological Christmas
Christmas is often presented as warmth, wonder, and encouragement. Scripture, however, presents it as something far more serious—and far more necessary. This episode is not about how to feel at Christmas, but why Christmas ha...
Dec. 20, 2025
Five Days Before Christmas
Five days before Christmas, churches are filled with music, lights, pageants, and carefully crafted moments meant to make us feel comforted. But what if what shapes us this week is atmosphere rather than Scripture?
Dec. 19, 2025
Anatomy of the Believer Pt 2
I conclude my review a sermon that is using, Song of Solomon 7:5-6 to somehow talk about the anatomy of a believer.
Dec. 18, 2025
Anatomy of the Believer Pt 1
I begin to review a sermon that is using, Song of Solomon 7:5-6 to somehow talk about the anatomy of a believer.
Dec. 18, 2025
Catholic Theology in Protestant Clothing Part 4
In Part 4 of Catholic Theology in Protestant Clothing, we confront the tension that has driven the entire series. Scripture commands, "Repent and believe"—but if repentance and faith are treated as human actions that secure j...
Dec. 17, 2025
No Room In the Church
This episode reviews the Christmas message "No Room for Jesus" by examining how Luke 2:7 is often expanded beyond what the text actually says. We address the hermeneutical and theological problems that arise when speculation ...