Unholier Than Thou
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Unholier Than Thou
Some people came out of the pandemic with a new skill, new spouse, or new lease on life. Others came out with a divorce, a drinking problem, or an identity crisis. No matter how the last year has treated you, journalist Phillip Picardi is back to guide you through the spiritual conundrums that tend...
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Introducing "Work Appropriate": Big Office Feelings with Josh Gondelman
Inspired by her immensely popular newsletter, author Anne Helen Petersen turns her attention to the wild world of work in Work Appropriate. Featuring...
Introducing Imani State of Mind: REALities with grief
Grief…it’s the one thing we all will experience in our lifetime. The ladies of Imani State of Mind discuss the effects grief can have on your everyday...
Introducing Dare We Say
Join Josie Totah, Alycia Pascual Peña, and Yasmine Hamady – three young actresses, disruptors, and best friends as they navigate the issues that affec...
Jesus Christ, Social Justice Star!
Happy holidays! To celebrate the ~festive season~, we thought we'd release a fan-favorite: Phill's conversation with Brittany Packnett Cunningham abou...
Recommitment (with Doctor Darien)
On the final episode of this season of Unholier Than Thou, we end where it all began. On the first episode, Phill sat down with his fiancé, Darien, ab...
Reunion (with Bambi)
This week, Phill is joined by Bambi, who helped him come out of the closet many moons ago in a magical land called gay.com. They talk about what it's...
Restitution (with Sarah Pearson)
This week, Phill is joined by his classmate, Sarah Pearson, who works fighting clergy abuse. She and Phill discuss how high up the chain coverup effor...
Recovery
Alcohol consumption increased 23% during the pandemic, particularly among women and those who live alone. People are cut off from their support system...
Revisiting (with Reza Aslan)
This week, Phill is joined by author Reza Aslan to revisit the early aughts in the American imagination. In the wake of America's withdrawal from Afgh...
Redeemability
And now for something a little different. This week, Phill is joined by a panel of great thinkers, writers, and theologians to tackle a big question:...
Reframing (with Chris Stedman)
Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide
Have you heard the one where the atheist walks into the divinity school? Oh, it’s...
Re-entry (with Michael Arceneaux and Aminatou Sow)
Welcome to covid’s Groundhog Day. Every day’s the same and we constantly have six weeks to go before it’s over. But school’s open, traffic is back, an...
Redefinition (with Michelle Williams)
Phill was always bound to interview Michelle Williams. You could call it fate, but we prefer DESTINY, child. The Gospel Girl talks to Phill about the...
Resurrection (with Samhita Mukhopadhyay)
In the inaugural episode of our resurrected show, Phill talks to one of his favorite people in the world: Samhita Mukhopadhyay. Samhita made some big...
Trailer: Season 2 - Resurrection
Someone must have moved a boulder out of the way, because Unholier Than Thou is back from the dead, baby! And we’re celebrating our resurrection with...
Mother Mary, a Virgin who can't drive
Remember that time Joe Jonas had a Purity Ring and then…didn’t? That’s the Virgin Mary’s fault. Sort of. The most famous woman in all of Christianity...
Jesus Christ, Social Justice Star!
As appealing as hunky blondes can be, Phill isn’t interested in worshipping one (well, at least not as the son of God). There's a whole lot of myths a...
The magic of Judaism
It's Hanukkah, listeners, and you're going to plotz when you see this week's guests. First, Phill shmoozes with author, icon, and national treasure Al...
The military is watching you pray
The Pope wants you to stay home, but Amy Coney Barrett wants to see your ass in church. We check in with Dan Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Fre...
God and...CHANEL?
Now that you're stuffed with stuffing, it’s time to go shopping. Psychology professor Matt Rossano joins to argue that consumerism is filling the hole...
Thanks, but no thanks
Our national revisionist-history holiday is upon us, so Phill has a special guest at his Thanksgiving table. Kaitlin Curtice is a citizen of the Potaw...
Giving Grace and Buying Guns
Now that the facism is ebbing, should the apologies be flowing? That's what Phill is hoping to glean from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg. She walks us through...
Screw you, Mercury
This week, Phill is putting his phone down and looking up to the stars. First, he welcomes ABC News anchor and Ten Percent Happier founder Dan Harris...
The Pope's Big Gay Surprise
This week we’re looking at the church, and more specifically, who’s welcome inside. First, Phill chats with Gerald Posner, a journalist and Vatican ex...
The REAL Hocus Pocus
This week, we’re turning off the news and picking up our brooms. Witches are all around us, and always have been, so Phil decides to debunk some of th...
Amy Coney Barrett: A Catholic Bigot
In this week’s episode, Phill chats with two religious experts about the perversion of Christianity on display during the Supreme Court confirmation h...
So, is this Karma?
This week, Phill takes a deep dive into what’s been on all of our minds: Is Donald Trump finally experiencing the karmic retribution he deserves? Form...
Is it a sin to hate Trump?
This week, Phill has a question on his mind -- is it okay to hate Trump? In a week in which Trump nominated a conservative judge to the Supreme Court,...
The religious radicalization of the Supreme Court
In light of the tragic passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Phill invites Jenny Pizer of Lambda Legal to speak to the power RBG held on the Supreme Court a...
How coronavirus has changed the way people die
As the death toll from the coronavirus reaches 200,000 in the United States, Phill talks to two chaplains about the difficulty of dying in isolation....
A Divine Abortion Story
This week, Phill hears a personal story of how one woman’s relationship to religion changed (for the better!) after her decision to have an abortion....
The sanctity of abortion
This week, Phill dives into the most religiously fraught political battlefield of our time: Abortion. To better understand the fight for abortion acce...
Why Muslims Are Starving in ICE Detention
This week, Phill starts by discussing Jerry Falwell Jr’s resignation from the evangelical Liberty University amidst news of an alleged sex scandal. Jo...
The Surprise Guest at the DNC
This week at the first ever socially distant DNC, leaders from the party were invited to give speeches and remarks in support of the Biden/Harris tick...
Reverend Warnock and the case for the Religious Left
Reverend Raphael Warnock’s name has been in the news a lot lately as the Senate race heats up in Georgia. Just last week, WNBA players—alongside Stace...
Trans People are Sacred
Transgender people are currently fighting for their lives against an administration and a religious right that seems hellbent on denying their existen...
Anti-Racism & Anti-Semitism
In the years following the election of Donald Trump, Anti-Semitism has been on the rise in America, marked by an increase in hate speech and violence...
BDSM and...Buddhism?
This week, Phill talks to Soma Snakeoil, a Buddhism teacher and a professional dominatrix. Together, they chat about the intrinsic link between the se...
On Faith and On Fury
A history of pain and controversy lies beneath the ashes of San Gabriel Mission, which caught fire last weekend. Phil talks to Alan Salazar, a Native...
Apocalypse Now?
2020 has been a hell of a year. Every month we read a new headline that makes it seem like the apocalypse might be nigh. While there's no "how to" gui...