698: De-Christianizing America & Re-Christianizing Advent with Rich Villodas
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
The government of Israel has been criticized for building fences in Gaza and the West Bank, but now it's geofencing American churches. Will its plan reverse the decline of evangelical support for the Jewish state? Donald Trump says he's making the country more Christian, but data shows his immigration policy favors secular immigrants and rejects Christians. Rich Villodas is back to talk about his new book for Advent, "Waiting for Jesus." He says we should use this season to resist consumerism, commercialism, and Christian culturalism. Also this week, a giant flightless parrot has issues Down Under.
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29:00 - Deportations Making America More Secular?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. The government of Israel has been criticized for building fences in Gaza and the |
| 0:06.5 | West Bank, but now it's geofencing American churches. Will its plan to reverse the decline of |
| 0:12.1 | evangelical support for the Jewish state work? Donald Trump says he's making the country more |
| 0:17.1 | Christian, but data shows his immigration policy favors secular immigrants and rejects |
| 0:22.3 | Christians. Then Rich Velodos is back to talk to me about his new book for Advent, |
| 0:26.9 | Waiting for Jesus. He says we should use this season to resist consumerism, commercialism, |
| 0:32.8 | and Christian culturalism. Also this week, a giant flightless parrot has issues down under. Hey, we've |
| 0:39.7 | got two quick announcements before we get started. First, today, Wednesday, December 3rd, is the |
| 0:44.8 | last day to take advantage of our biggest sale of the year. Right now, new subscriptions to |
| 0:49.2 | Holy Post Plus are 50% off. But the sale is ending, so get in fast while you can. |
| 0:55.1 | Secondly, we've just released the second episode of our brand new show on Holy Post Plus, |
| 0:59.8 | Advice-ish. This week, Esau answers a question about how to know whether to leave a church |
| 1:04.4 | or try to fix it. Every week on Advice-ish, a different Holy Post media host or pundit |
| 1:10.0 | responds to your conundrums and |
| 1:11.7 | dilemmas with their very best wisdom. We call it advice-ish because while it's technically |
| 1:16.5 | advice, disclaimers always apply. It's just one of the many, many offerings that are exclusively |
| 1:22.2 | for Holy Post Plus subscribers. So head over to holypost.com and sign up today and snag that 50% off discount |
| 1:29.0 | while it lasts. Here is episode 698. Hey there. Welcome to the Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil |
| 1:36.4 | Fisher. I'm here with Caitlin Chess. Hi, Caitlin. Hi, Phil. Hi. And Sky Jatani. Hi, Sky. Hello. |
| 1:43.3 | Sky is playing the role of lumberjack or longshoreman. Or hipster. Just off the docks. It is cold when you don't have hair. Yeah. It's cold everywhere. But we're in of doors. Yeah, but it's even chilly in here. It is pretty cold, actually, in here. Yeah, you're right. My nose is cold. |
| 2:03.8 | Should we both shave our heads to see if he's telling the truth? |
| 2:04.4 | You first. It makes a difference. |
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