Interview: Melissa Dougherty – Happy Lies

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Greg talks to Melissa Dougherty, author of Happy Lies: How a Movement You (Probably) Never Heard Of Shaped Our Self-Obsessed World, about how the 19th-century New Thought movement is still affecting the church today.

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0:00.0	La La La La, La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. La La La La La, la, friends, welcome to the show.
0:30.6	And I'm glad you joined me for this particular hour because I have a special guest who has written a special book, and my guest today is
0:40.8	Melissa Dordy.
0:42.1	She's a Christian apologist, probably best known for the Melissa Dordy YouTube podcast.
0:48.2	It has over 318,000 subscribers.
0:50.7	I think that's more than we listen to our show.
0:52.8	I don't know, but that's pretty impressive. And her videos, which primarily cover new age stuff and new thought, have been viewed
1:00.8	over 18 million times. And I've had many conversations with Melissa on the telephone, on
1:08.9	YouTube. I'm rather, I zoomed.
1:10.9	I've been on her show, met her at events and everything.
1:14.0	More than all the accolades, though.
1:15.5	She's my buddy.
1:16.9	Melissa, great to have you on this show today.
1:19.6	Yeah, it's an honor to be here.
1:20.9	I'm glad that we get to hang out because I think we just hung out on Saturday over a Zoom call.
1:25.2	That's right.
1:25.3	We Zoomed, right.
1:26.1	It was great. It was, it's always a lot of fun to talk to you. And I'm so,
1:30.3	I'm thrilled for your book, touching on an area that needs discussion. Now, a lot of people
1:38.2	are familiar with new age, but they're not so familiar with new thought. By the way, I'm just
1:43.3	curious. We've done so many
1:45.5	things together in so many venues. Is this the first time you've been on the show?
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