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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Everyone’s Exhausted
36 min
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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
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Ashley Hales: Trading Hurry for Delight
The wisdom and beauty of living within God’s limits.
39 min
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The Faith of Black Women with Truth’s Table
Ekemini Uwan and Michelle Higgins on navigating life, love, and truth.
50 min
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Danté Stewart: Making Space for Growth
Change is a part of the journey.
42 min
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Tara Beth Leach: Learning to Be Undone
Why humility and surrender are essential to restoring the credibility of the American church’s witness.
35 min
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Rich Villodas: We Were Made to Belong
The author of “The Deeply Formed Life” on giving up his parking space, the failure of Christian celebrity-ism, and how to make online community real.
46 min
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Tish Harrison Warren: Slow Answers to Hard Prayers
The bestselling author of “Prayer in the Night” on practicing silence amid the noise of social media and why God sometimes travels at three miles per hour.
50 min
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Felicia Wu Song: The Perils of Digital Disciple...
Digital devices impair our ability to be fully present. Sociologist Felicia Wu Song on how to reprioritize our connections with God, people, and ourselves.
45 min
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Justin Giboney: Love and Truth in the Public Sq...
If our politics are always “conservative” or “progressive,” then we might be outsourcing our beliefs to someone else.
40 min
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Bob Roberts Jr.: Their Religious Freedom Is Our...
As an evangelical trailblazer in peacemaking and cross-cultural bridge-building, Bob Roberts Jr. is challenging Christians to think bigger.
46 min