Prodigal The Podcast

🎙️ Prodigal: The Podcast — Religion, Faith Deconstruction & Spiritual Freedom Prodigal: The Podcast explores the intersection of religion, faith, politics, culture, and spiritual reconstruction in modern society. Hosted by Don Jackson and Big Sean , the show features honest conversations about faith deconstruction, belief systems, religious institutions, and the search for meaning beyond traditional church structures. Inspired by Don Jackson’s upcoming book Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God , the podcast creates space for people questioning inherited beliefs while exploring deeper spirituality, identity, and truth. Each episode brings together diverse voices — including theologians, psychologists, philosophers, scientists, former pastors, and spiritual seekers — to examine how faith evolves in a changing world. What You'll Hear on Prodigal Faith

Prodigal The Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Hosted by Don Jackson, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Hosted by Don Jackson hosts Prodigal The Podcast, a news show with 28 episodes published.

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  Episode 30: The Pulpit Protected Him

  Sep 29, 202614 min

  Send us Fan Mail Episode 30: The Pulpit Protected Him A registered sex offender was one signature away from becoming a state overseer of a national Black church network. In this episode, Don Jackson and Daysha Voss don't ease into it — they identify the problem, notice the pattern, and lay out exactly what has to change, plainly and without softening it. Content note: this episode discusses a real case involving a past sexual assault of a minor by a religious leader. It's handled factually, not graphically, but it's heavy — listener discretion advised. Don and Daysha walk through how Timothy Price III rose to pastor one of the most historically significant Black churches in the country, how close he came to an even bigger promotion this month, and why it took outside advocates — not the institution itself — to stop it. Then they name what actually has to change: real background-check policies at every promotion, survivor-centered reporting channels independent of church leadership, and redemption that doesn't erase consequence. It closes differently than usual: instead of Don, Daysha leads a guided meditation to help you sit with what you just heard and turn it into something you can actually act on this week. This episode, and this week's Newsbeat, are brought to you by FemChoice — a private, standalone cycle tracker. No app, no phone, no account. Get FemChoice on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGVTJH2B?maas=maas_adg_5E4C6F31CE7261E3C5F94C7201247B50_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas Full written companion piece: prodigalbreakingnews.com Talk to the AI companion guide: prodigalai.app #ProdigalThePodcast #NoticeThePattern #IdentifyTheProblem #ChangeIt #Accountability #FaithLeadership Support the show https://prodigalbreakingnews.com/

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  Fertile Ground — A Guided Meditation

  Sep 28, 202616 min

  Send us Fan Mail Fertile Ground — A Guided Meditation We are overcomers. We create reality — it doesn't just happen to us. In this guided meditation, Don Jackson walks you onto the fertile ground inside all of us: the place where mind, heart, and coherence get planted on purpose, before they ever show up in your actual day and week. This one's longer than usual and built to be sat with, not rushed. Daysha opens the door, then it's Don the whole way through — settling in, naming what's already growing in your life that you never planted on purpose, pulling it out by the root, and planting mind, heart, and coherence in its place. A real storm moves through before the harvest comes, because overcoming only means something if something was actually there to overcome. It closes on why showing up for a practice like this isn't a small, private act — it's how real change actually spreads. Plant it. Live it. Be prolific. This meditation is sponsored by FemChoice — a private, standalone cycle tracker. No app, no phone, no account. Get FemChoice on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGVTJH2B?maas=maas_adg_5E4C6F31CE7261E3C5F94C7201247B50_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas Full written companion piece: prodigalbreakingnews.com Talk to the AI companion guide: prodigalai.app #ProdigalThePodcast #FertileGround #GuidedMeditation #WeAreOvercomers #WeAreSource #Mindfulness Support the show https://prodigalbreakingnews.com/

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  PRODIGAL — THE PODCAST Episode 29: "The Leash Reaches the Ballot Box"

  Sep 28, 202610 min

  Send us Fan Mail The Leash Reaches the Ballot Box Two episodes ago, Don and Daysha told you the national debt was the leash — an infrastructure of control built by people nobody voted in and nobody can vote out. They closed with one ask: vote, every time, all the way down the ballot. Six days later, the Supreme Court answered. This episode follows that same leash straight to the ballot box. The Court let the Trump administration resume bulk-screening voter rolls against citizenship records using a system called SAVE — a system a ProPublica investigation already found wrongly flagging real, legitimate citizens as noncitizens in at least five states. Three justices dissented, with Justice Jackson writing that the harm of disenfranchising lawful voters "outweighs the nonexistent harm" the government claims to be preventing. And in a twist that proves this isn't a one-party story, that same Court blocked a different, Trump-backed restrictive mail-voting rule just months earlier. But this one doesn't end in "go brace yourselves" — it ends in "look who already showed up." The NAACP has committed $20 million to mobilize 6.5 million voters across 13 states. The "SO VOTE" campaign is putting $4.5 million into the South. Black Voters Matter, BlackPAC, Higher Heights, and more are already on the ground. Don and Daysha break down the ruling, the pattern, and the organizing already answering it — plus two Prodigal Breaking News updates: Grant Keller on the Justice Department's fight to kill Evanston's reparations program, and Elena Cross on Venezuela, six months after the U.S. removed Maduro from power. Notice the pattern. Interrupt it. This episode and the Prodigal Breaking News segment are sponsored by FemChoice — a private, standalone cycle tracker. No app, no phone, no account. Get FemChoice on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGVTJH2B?maas=maas_adg_5E4C6F31CE7261E3C5F94C7201247B50_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas Full written deep dive: prodigalbreakingnews.com Talk to the AI companion guide: prodigalai.app #ProdigalThePodcast #TheLeashReachesTheBallotBox #SAVESystem #VotingRights #Midterms2026 #BlackVote #NoticeThePatternInterruptIt Support the show https://prodigalbreakingnews.com/

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  Open Hands — A Meditation on Letting Go of Control

  Sep 27, 20265 min

  Send us Fan Mail Open Hands — A Meditation on Letting Go of Control Most of us walk around gripping something all day — a schedule, an outcome, a person who hasn't texted back. It feels like responsibility. It's actually fear wearing a control costume. In this guided meditation, Don leads you through releasing the grip and choosing trust instead — the stronger move, not the weaker one. Plus a word from today's sponsor, Fem Choice (femchoice.app). Read the full deep dive on Substack, grounded in a 2025 resilience study, DBT's radical acceptance, and the Stoic dichotomy of control. meditation, mindfulness, guided meditation, mental health, letting go, self-care, spirituality, consciousness, Prodigal Podcast Support the show https://prodigalbreakingnews.com/

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  Episode 28 / "The Debt Is the Leash"

  Sep 25, 202611 min

  Send us Fan Mail The Debt Is the Leash $38.9 trillion. That's the U.S. national debt right now, growing by roughly $7 billion a day — and Don and Daysha want you to sit with a hard truth before you get mad at whoever's in the Oval Office: the President didn't create that number and can't erase it. He's a tenant. The people actually holding that debt don't run for office, and nobody votes them out. So this episode follows the leash all the way up. What are the people at the very top actually building while the country argues about a press conference? Massive AI data centers, all over the country — and a real, documented political fight over the power and water they consume. A proposed global, programmable digital dollar, with the stated goal of beating China but the built-in capability to track and freeze money the second somebody decides to use it that way. And a precedent that isn't hypothetical at all: car manufacturers already have, and already used, the ability to remotely disable a vehicle's features while someone was driving it. Coherent, controversial, and built to start an argument at your dinner table — plus two Prodigal Breaking News updates from Latisha Sky: a federal judge blocking the White House's ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, and the administration cutting roughly 760,000 people off their Obamacare coverage. This episode contains explicit language throughout. Notice the pattern. Interrupt it. This episode and the Prodigal Breaking News segment are sponsored by FemChoice — a private, standalone cycle tracker. No app, no phone, no account. Get FemChoice on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGVTJH2B?maas=maas_adg_5E4C6F31CE7261E3C5F94C7201247B50_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas Full written deep dive: prodigalbreakingnews.com Talk to the AI companion guide: prodigalai.app #ProdigalThePodcast #TheDebtIsTheLeash #NationalDebt #DigitalCurrency #AIDataCenters #NoticeThePatternInterruptIt Support the show https://prodigalbreakingnews.com/

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