Viral Jesus
Viral Jesus is a podcast from Christianity Today about digital communication and the power of social connections. Join author and communication scholar Heather Thompson Day as she dives deep with ministry leaders, content creators, and social media influencers to find out how they're starting important conversations, building community, and sharing their faith in digital spaces.
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Anh Lin: Letting Go to Grow
The prolific digital creator opens up about resisting perfectionism, embracing social media’s philanthropic power, and retelling God’s “love story.”
40 min
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Lord of ‘Little by Little’
Why we should thank God for what we cannot see. Plus: Talking politics at the Thanksgiving table.
36 min
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Tori Hope Petersen: Fostering Hope
How Mrs. Universe 2022 uses her story of survival and healing to help foster families thrive.
42 min
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Jordan Lee Dooley: Embracing Your Almosts
What contentment looks like when life disrupts, delays, or disappoints.
53 min
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Amanda Pittman: Stand in Confidence
Understanding our identity in Christ empowers us to rise above our insecurities.
45 min
81
On Gaining Self-Confidence
How can we drink from the well of living water when it feels like we’re in a desert?
40 min
82
Do the Next Right Thing
Faith is not in your feelings. It’s in your feet.
40 min
83
Seth Day: I’ll See You Tomorrow
What if it is hard to see where life is good, when our relationships are bad? Before you quit, listen to this.
53 min
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Sheila Wise Rowe: Understanding Our Own Trauma
What is the true meaning of trauma, and how does it impact our lives?
48 min
85
Sharon Hodde Miller: The Cost of Control
Is our need to control our lives preventing us from living them?
54 min
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Nona Jones: Killing Comparison
Social comparison feeds our insecurities, but God’s Word offers candid wisdom for rejecting toxic thinking.
50 min
87
Chanel Dokun: Life Starts Now
Hard-earned lessons on letting go of the life you thought you’d have and embracing God’s gift of now.
50 min
88
Katelyn Beaty: Resisting Christian Idols
Unhealthy obsessions with personalities and platforms are hurting the church. Author Katelyn Beaty wants to help us heal from the sickness of celebrity Christianity.
63 min
89
Everyone’s Exhausted
36 min
90
Christina Edmondson: How to Stop Feeling ‘Othered’
Effective intercultural ministry means coming to terms with your own cultural identity.
46 min
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Maryanne J. George: Still Talking to Jesus
The Maverick City Music singer on her family’s legacy of faith, living with anxiety, and how the pandemic helped make “Old Church Basement” go viral.
36 min
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Joe Jensen: Discipleship by Screen
43 min
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York Moore: From Angry Atheist to TikTok Evange...
40 min
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DeVon Franklin: It Takes a Village
34 min
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Karen Swallow Prior: The Work is the Platform -...
How a platform is different from a calling.
42 min
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Khristi Lauren Adams: Platforms, Publishing, an...
How the author of "Unbossed" and "Parable of the Brown Girl" is inspiring a new generation of Black Christian women.
43 min
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Brandon J. O'Brien: Scripture as a cross-cultur...
How to bring a deeper, cultural context to our scripture reading.
49 min
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Katie Schnack: Standing in the Gap Decade
Faithfully navigating adulthood’s necessary detours and delays.
36 min
99
Ashley Hales: Trading Hurry for Delight
The wisdom and beauty of living within God’s limits.
39 min
100
The Faith of Black Women with Truth’s Table
Ekemini Uwan and Michelle Higgins on navigating life, love, and truth.
50 min