Why is it so hard to let go of harmful things?
Curiously Kaitlyn
Phil Vischer
4.9 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We all know the story of Lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt, but have you ever stopped to look at it from her perspective? Kaitlyn unpacks this strange story to talk about God's mercy, our tendency to return to things that harmed us, and how to read the Bible when we come across stories we do not fully understand.
0:00 - Theme Song
2:07 - Why Was Lot's Wife Turned Into Salt?
9:00 - Why Salt?
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17:33 - Why's the Bible Written Like That?
34:30 - End Credits
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Curiously Caitlin, where we try to make theology make sense. |
| 0:06.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:10.1 | That doesn't make any sense. |
| 0:13.1 | What? |
| 0:14.3 | Curiously, Kate, yeah. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome back to Curiously Caitlin. |
| 0:22.1 | I am joined once again by producer Mike. |
| 0:24.5 | Mike, how are you? |
| 0:25.5 | I'm feeling salty today, Caitlin. |
| 0:28.2 | What are you salty about? |
| 0:29.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:30.1 | I just, I'm annoyed with the weather. |
| 0:32.9 | I like winter. |
| 0:33.6 | What? It's getting warmer. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah, but not. |
| 0:36.0 | This is the thing. |
| 0:37.0 | I lasted longer this winter than last winter. Before you got all. Before I got all grumpy. But I'm like, I think you're kind of grumpy all the time. Whoa, I am not Sky Jatani. Do not. No. I do feel like every day I come into the office, you just dispositionally have something you want to be annoyed about. |
| 0:54.7 | There are times where it's the bit I play. Maybe it's because I'm still kidding. I come in and I'm |
| 1:00.6 | sunshine and puppies. It's just like, well, it's just kind of fun to be the foil sometimes. |
| 1:05.8 | I remind people like, oh, and we live in a broken world. Okay. All right. But you're, so you're not, |
| 1:11.6 | you're, you're not enjoying the weather. No, I'm ready. What about you? You've survived |
| 1:15.4 | the super cold stretch. Everyone was right when they said that after it's freezing, freezing, |
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