689: The Rapture, Repentance, & Redefining the Good Life with Grace Hamman
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
After a South African pastor claimed that Christ would come for his church on September 23, TikTok became rapture obsessed. Mike Erre joins Skye and Kaitlyn to discuss our ongoing fixation with this bad theology, why people get caught up in rapture predictions, and how it damages the credibility of the faith. Kaitlyn talks to Medieval scholar, Grace Hamman, about her new book, "Asks of Old Paths." Hamman says Medieval literature is rich in wisdom for modern Christians on how to define a good life, using the language of virtues and vices. Also this week—a secular writer examines the benefit of confession and repentance, which makes us wonder why so few Christians practice it.
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2:10 - Theme Song
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5:20 - The Rapture's a Tiktok trend?
12:52 - Why's The Rapture so Popular?
32:04 - Psychology and Repentance
41:00 - Self-Interest and Righteousness
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56:26 - Interview
58:05 - Why is Medieval poetry relevant?
1:05:22 - Virtues and Vices
1:16:20 - What's a Vice We Misunderstand?
1:27:02 - End Credits
Links Mentioned in News Segment:
Rapture Last Week!
https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/jadegomez510/the-rapture-2025-tiktok
Psychological Value of Repentance
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/briefing/the-psychological-value-of-repentance.html
Other Resources:
Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues and Vices for a Whole and Holy Life by Grace Hamman: https://a.co/d/6WRgTtu
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. After a South African pastor claimed that Christ would come for his church on September 23rd, TikTok became rapture obsessed. |
| 0:09.5 | Mike Erie joins me and Caitlin to discuss our ongoing fixation with this really bad theology, why people get caught up in rapture predictions, and how it damages the credibility of the faith. |
| 0:20.4 | Then Caitlin talks to medieval scholar Grace Hammond about her new book, Ask of Old Paths. |
| 0:26.1 | Medieval literature is loaded with wisdom for modern Christians about how to define a good |
| 0:30.7 | life using the language of virtues and vices. |
| 0:34.1 | Also this week, a secular writer examines the benefits of confession and repentance and makes us wonder why so few Christians practice it. |
| 0:41.4 | Here is episode 689. |
| 0:44.2 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Holy Post. I am Sky Jatani. I am sitting in this chair because our faithful host, Phil Vischer, is under the weather. |
| 0:52.4 | He messaged us this morning saying that he |
| 0:54.8 | had chills and a fever and all kinds of spilcus coming out of different places. |
| 1:00.5 | Okay. He did not give that many details. We hope you recover well. But I am here with Caitlin |
| 1:07.6 | Chess. Hi, Skye. Hi, Caitlin. Yay. And that other voice you're hearing is none other than |
| 1:13.0 | Michael Carl Erie. Oh, yes, with big shoes to fill. This, I feel like you should like tell us |
| 1:19.3 | your college and what team you're on and like, oh my, okay. So I'm on team Sky because we went to |
| 1:26.9 | Miami University. Um, but I'm a house Sky because we went to Miami University. |
| 1:29.0 | But I'm a house state Buckeye fan, which means things are good for us these days. |
| 1:33.8 | And although we were there when Miami had the longest non-winning football street, do you remember that? |
| 1:39.7 | Were we there then? |
| 1:40.8 | We had a good basketball team, though. |
| 1:42.7 | We did. |
| 1:43.4 | We did. |
| 1:43.9 | That was before Zurbia. But anyway, so yes, I good basketball team though. We did. We did. |
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