597: Holy Post Live!

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 11 a.m.

New Testament professor, award-winning author, and New York Times columnist Esau McCaulley joins Phil, Skye, and Kaitlyn for a special year-end episode with a live studio audience. They review what happened in 2023 and offer their picks for the most important news stories of the year. Topics range from Tim Keller\u2019s passing, the navel-gazing of American evangelicalism, and the comfort of Cracker Barrel biscuits. They offer predictions for 2024. Esau joins the audience to play three hilarious rounds of \u201cBluff the Listener.\u201d And, a 57-year-old woman experiences an \u201cadverse event\u201d in an MRI machine.

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1:06 - Intro

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2:02 - Theme Song

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2:24 - Show Starts

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3:30 - News of the Butt

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8:40 - Welcome Esau!

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11:40 - Phil\u2019s story of 2023

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24:16 - Kaitlyn\u2019s story of 2023

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37:20 - Skye\u2019s story of 2023

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49:50 - Esau\u2019s story of 2023

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1:02:36 - 2024 predictions

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1:13:16 - Bluff the Listener

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1:33:12 - End Credits



Links mentioned in news segment:

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Why a bucolic Tennessee suburb is a hotbed of \u2018Christian Nashville-ism\u2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/11/08/nashville-suburbs-christian-nationalism/

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The Rev. Timothy Keller, Pioneering Manhattan Evangelist, Dies at 72

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/nyregion/the-rev-tim-keller-dead.html



What\u2019s lost when religion becomes a \u2018luxury good\u2019

https://religionnews.com/2023/07/28/whats-lost-when-religion-becomes-a-luxury-good/



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