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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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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’s 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 “Bluff the Listener.” And, a 57-year-old woman experiences an “adverse event” in an MRI machine.
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1:06 - Intro
2:02 - Theme Song
2:24 - Show Starts
3:30 - News of the Butt
8:40 - Welcome Esau!
11:40 - Phil’s story of 2023
24:16 - Kaitlyn’s story of 2023
37:20 - Skye’s story of 2023
49:50 - Esau’s story of 2023
1:02:36 - 2024 predictions
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1:13:16 - Bluff the Listener
1:33:12 - End Credits
Links mentioned in news segment:
Why a bucolic Tennessee suburb is a hotbed of ‘Christian Nashville-ism’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/11/08/nashville-suburbs-christian-nationalism/
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’s lost when religion becomes a ‘luxury good’
https://religionnews.com/2023/07/28/whats-lost-when-religion-becomes-a-luxury-good/
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0:00.0 | This episode is being sponsored in part by Calvin University. |
0:04.0 | What do Ken Jennings, Rick Steeves, |
0:06.1 | Esau Macaulay, and Enti Wright have in common? |
0:09.2 | They've all spoken at the January series at Calvin University. The January series is a free 15-day lecture series that takes place each year at |
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0:31.8 | The 2024 January series runs from January 15th to February 2nd, |
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1:07.0 | Welcome to a very special episode of The Holy Post. |
1:10.0 | This week we have a recording of our recent live event in Wheaton, Illinois, |
1:14.4 | where Phil Caitlin and I were joined by New Testament professor, award-winning author, |
1:19.1 | and New York Times columnist E. Saul Macaulay. |
1:22.0 | We gathered before a live audience of Holy Post Plus subscribers for a great time. |
1:27.2 | In this episode, we review what happened in 2023 and offer our picks for the most important |
1:32.1 | stories of the year. |
1:33.0 | Topics range from Tim Keller's passing, |
1:35.0 | the naval gazing of American evangelicals |
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