Religion Unplugged

Religion explored through candid conversations and original reporting. This podcast is powered by The Media Project, a network of more than 1,000 journalists worldwide. TMP acknowledges that religion is growing and becoming more, not less important in the world.

Religion Unplugged is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 249 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 84. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  How African Churches Are Using AI

  Jun 2, 202624 minS0

  <p>Last week, Pope Leo cautioned developers and political leaders about the potential for exploitation in Artificial Intelligence development by comparing the AI race to the depravity of slavery. His wording was so strong, that he even called for AI to be “disarmed.”</p><p><br></p><p>In the wake of Leo’s words, Christians around the world have taken a closer look at what it might mean to engage with artificial intelligence wisely—and to consider if that is even possible.</p><p><br></p><p>A Barna study from this spring shows that 66% of Christians believe AI will imp...

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  What A Bahá'í Romance Can Tell Us About Iran

  May 26, 202642 minS0

  <p>“If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.”</p><p><br></p><p>Those words were penned 200 years ago by Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í faith.</p><p><br></p><p>It was for words like these and other beliefs deemed heretical that Bahá’u’lláh spent much of his life being tortured and imprisoned.</p><p><br></p><p>The Bahá’í faith is know...

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  Why Murder Investigations Can Be Complicated By Ashkenazi Jewish DNA

  May 19, 202624 minS0

  <p>There are currently 15,000 open cases of unidentified persons in the United States.</p><p><br></p><p>Bodies are unable to be identified for a variety of reasons including severe mutilation, significant decomposition, no history of medical care or a lack of resources. </p><p><br></p><p>In the vast majority of situations, DNA testing can do a great deal of heavy lifting, but sometimes even this can be unsuccessful</p><p><br></p><p>On November 24, 1989 in Mohave County, Arizona, a woman was found dead on the side of the interstate. Over 30 years later and the woman i...

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  Are Big Churches As Healthy As Small Ones?

  May 12, 202636 minS0

  <p>In C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity he says: “the Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time”</p><p><br></p><p>This idea—that the point of the church is to make disciples is, at its core, not a highly contested one. But ideas about the way disciples are made and the context in which discipleship happens are much more varied.</p><p><br></p><p>And, in these...

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  Pope Leo XIV Before The Papacy

  May 5, 202631 minS0

  <p>This week marks one year since Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV.</p><p><br></p><p>The late Cardinal Francis George who once presided over Leo’s hometown of Chicago famously said that there would never be an American Pope until the United States went into political decline.</p><p><br></p><p>Whether Leo’s election to the papacy confirms this decline or proves Cardinal George incorrect, the reality of an American pope came as a surprise to most of us.</p><p><br></p><p>Following the controversial papacy of Pope Francis, efforts to predict and...

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