The Mega-Church Money Machine
Eyes on the Right Podcast
Amy
4.7 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Are Churches profiting off of its members?
In this epsiode, Amy is joined by Nathan Apffel and Chris Ayoub to discuss The Religion Business, a 7-part docuseries which conducts an unflinching investigation into accountability—or the lack thereof—within religious institutions , specifically mega churches in America. In this interview we discuss what was discovered through interviews with former clergy, whistleblowers, and survivors, the series exposes systemic issues: alleged misconduct, financial mismanagement, and deliberate cover-ups across denominational lines. It also delves into the complex interplay of church and state separation and tax-exempt status.
We discuss some of the following questions: What if religious institutions were truly held accountable? Could that lead to transformative societal impact—by healing the sick, feeding the hungry, or saving lives wronged by injustice? and what might change if transparency were non-negotiable?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. I am so excited today. I have with me, Nathan and Chris, |
| 0:11.6 | they are collaborating on a seven-part docu-series called The Religion Business. And we're going to break |
| 0:17.1 | this down today. I'm super stoked to have you guys here. I want to, |
| 0:21.1 | I want you guys just to, to start us off with telling us how you got here. How did you get to |
| 0:27.4 | this, this juncture making this docu series exposing all of this? Yeah. So the docu series is called |
| 0:33.8 | the religion business. It's a seven part docu series.series. The finish runtime is over six and a half hours. |
| 0:41.0 | So it's a massive educational curve. |
| 0:44.4 | And then it's very entertaining. |
| 0:46.6 | But to understand the process behind the show, |
| 0:49.5 | it's just it's a snapshot of my life pretty much. |
| 0:52.6 | You know, I was raised in a Christian megachurch in Los Angeles, sang in choir, you know, |
| 0:57.6 | volunteered in junior high programs, high school programs. |
| 1:00.2 | I tithe. |
| 1:00.8 | I went to every summer camp, Christian summer camp you could go to. |
| 1:03.9 | You know, I love the experience. |
| 1:07.5 | You know, I kissed my first girl hiding behind the pulpit in church. |
| 1:10.3 | You know, there's all these like markers, you know, youth markers. And as I grew up, though, I started to |
| 1:17.2 | travel the world for TV. You know, I made a lot of travel TV and I moved into some really |
| 1:22.0 | trashy TV like Temptation Island. But I started traveling and everywhere I would go, I would visit churches or seminaries, |
| 1:29.8 | just because I love my faith. And I love Christ and I love the body of Christ. And I like to see |
| 1:35.6 | how it's working around the world. And with travel TV, I'd go to really remote exotic location. |
| 1:41.7 | So Indonesia, New Zealand, all through Central and South America, |
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