Religion Unplugged

Joseph Holmes interviews Joseph Josselyn, director of the new Jesus film done entirely through American Sign Language. They discuss the making of the film, what they hope to convey about Jesus, and what the church can do better to partner with the deaf community.

Joseph Holmes interviews online influencer Vanessa Rosa (known online as "Gothix") on the new documentary about her, and how she went from being canceled to becoming Christian. 

Machines all around us are becoming more intelligent. Like all technology, this can be used for good or evil. Matthew Peterson interviews Religion Unplugged Executive Editor Clemente Lisi this week about whether artificial intelligence can change humanity for the better, what people of faith think about it and how journalism can play a role.

CEO of Great American Media explains why his company merged with Pure Flix to launch Great American Pure Flix and how they plan to raise the quality of family-friendly faith-based content.

Religion Unplugged’s Matthew Peterson talks to several Christians affiliated with organizations that are dealing with climate change to evaluate their nuanced perspectives on the issue. 

Sarah McCammon is a National Political Correspondent for NPR and cohost of The NPR Politics Podcast. Matthew Peterson interviews Sarah on the contents of her recent book, The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church.

Actress and producer Roma Downey joins Joseph Holmes at Religion Unplugged to discuss her new Prime Video show  The Baxters , and why making faith-based content in mainstream spaces is important to her.

Istanbul’s Chora Church, which has stood for 17 centuries and famous for its mosaics and frescoes depicting the life of Jesus and Mary, will be reopened as a mosque in May as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan moves forward with plans to convert iconic Byzantine churches into Islamic houses of worship. Roberta Ahmanson   interviews Alexei Lidov, noted  art historian and Byzantinist, on the pas...

Culture critic Joseph Holmes interviews actress Alshey Bratcher (Unplanned) about her new faith-based movie with Great American Pure Flix streaming "Finding Faith", and how her own faith drives her career decisions. 

Matthew Peterson, Religion Unplugged's intern, talks to several Christians involved in ministries which utilize Virtual Reality in order to understand why they believe it is important and how it works.

Culture critic Joseph Holmes interviews celebrated author Rabbi Shai Held about his new book "Judaism is About Love" to explore what both Jews and Christians get wrong about Judaism, and how Jews and Christians can learn to disagree better.

Religion Unplugged contributors Joseph Holmes and Mariya Rajan discuss the differences and similarities between Christian Nationalism and Hindu Nationalism, and how people can be smart consumers of news on these topics.

Maureen Gaffney Wolfson is an artist who recently opened a gallery featuring her work in Chatsworth, Calif. Matthew Peterson spoke with Maureen about how her complicated life story and her Catholic beliefs have led her where she is today.

Eustace Wolfington, Executive Producer of the new "Cabrini" film talks about what inspired him to make a movie about the Catholic Saint Mother Cabrini, why she's not as famous as Mother Teresa, and what his hopes are for the film. "Cabrini" is in theaters March 8th. 

Culture critic Joseph Holmes interviews Yasmin Al-Bustami, who plays Ramah in the hit Christian series "The Chosen", about her role in the series and the status-quo altering events for her character in The Chosen's latest season. "The Chosen" is in theaters now and on streaming soon.

Why are people today so much more willing to date outside their religion, but so much less willing to date someone with different politics? How does one navigate an interfaith relationship? Joseph Holmes asks Naomi Riley, author of the book "Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Relationships Are Transforming America" for her insights. 

In this episode, Joseph Holmes interviews culture critic Aaron Renn on his new book Life In The Negative World, which explores how Christians can and should respond to the challenges that come with living in an increasingly non-Christian America.

In this episode Melissa Harrison interviews Bobby Ross Jr. about what he predicts will be the biggest religion news stories in the year ahead.

Roberta Ahmanson interviews Ben Quash, chair of Christianity and the Arts at King's College London and director of the Visual Commentary on Scripture, about art, faith and a four-thousand-mile pilgrimage that covered more than 2000 years of church art and architecture. 

Melissa Harrison interviews Stephen Daniel Arnoff, CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, about his organization's three-day solidarity mission to tour the remains of Kibbutz Be’eri, where Hamas terrorists went house to house slaughtering residents on October 7, 2023.

In this episode, Melissa Harrison, interim executive director of The Media Project, interviews Clemente Lisi, executive editor of Religion Unplugged, about the site's religion coverage, his new role, what he looks for in story pitches and his vision for RUP's coverage in the year ahead.

Joseph Holmes interviews Professor Nancy Pearcey on her new book  The Toxic War On Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles The Sexes  in a wide-ranging discussion that explores the origin of the concept of toxic masculinity, where our culture has gone wrong on masculinity, and how Christianity can provide a better script to men on how to be a man.

Culture editor Jillan Cheney and film critic Joseph Holmes discuss this year's huge crop of faith-based films and what they say about the state of religion in the country and the state of the faith-based film industry. 

Joseph Holmes interviews author Dr. Carolyn Weber about her memoir "Surprised By Oxford" about how she came to faith, and the upcoming movie adaptation about her memoir of the same name.

Joseph Holmes interviews YouTube personality and animator Rachael Alenxanda  (ILoveKimPossibleAlot ) about her Reformed Jewish upbringing and how Adam Sandler's new film "You're So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah" holds up.