• "Cabrini"Interview with Eustace Wolfington

    Eustace Wolfington, Executive Producer of the new "Cabrini" film talks about what inspired him to make a movie about the Catholic Saint Mother Cabrini, why she's not as famous as Mother Teresa, and what his hopes are for the film.

    "Cabrini" is in theaters March 8th. 

    25m | Mar 11, 2024
  • Interview with Yasmin Al-Bustami (Ramah of The Chosen)

    Culture critic Joseph Holmes interviews Yasmin Al-Bustami, who plays Ramah in the hit Christian series "The Chosen", about her role in the series and the status-quo altering events for her character in The Chosen's latest season.


    "The Chosen" is in theaters now and on streaming soon.

    11m | Mar 6, 2024
  • Why Are Interfaith Relationships On The Rise? - Interview with Naomi Riley.

    Why are people today so much more willing to date outside their religion, but so much less willing to date someone with different politics? How does one navigate an interfaith relationship? Joseph Holmes asks Naomi Riley, author of the book "Til Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Relationships Are Transforming America" for her insights. 

    33m | Feb 15, 2024
  • Aaron Renn Interview - Life In The Negative World

    In this episode, Joseph Holmes interviews culture critic Aaron Renn on his new book Life In The Negative World, which explores how Christians can and should respond to the challenges that come with living in an increasingly non-Christian America.

    1h 10m | Jan 23, 2024
  • The Big Religion Stories of 2024

    In this episode Melissa Harrison interviews Bobby Ross Jr. about what he predicts will be the biggest religion news stories in the year ahead.

    16m | Jan 17, 2024
  • Art, Faith and an Extraordinary Pilgrimage

    Roberta Ahmanson interviews Ben Quash, chair of Christianity and the Arts at King's College London and director of the Visual Commentary on Scripture, about art, faith and a four-thousand-mile pilgrimage that covered more than 2000 years of church art and architecture. 

    15m | Dec 30, 2023
  • The Heartbreak of Identifying Israel's Hamas Victims

    Melissa Harrison interviews Stephen Daniel Arnoff, CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center, about his organization's three-day solidarity mission to tour the remains of Kibbutz Be’eri, where Hamas terrorists went house to house slaughtering residents on October 7, 2023.

    21m | Nov 7, 2023
  • Interview with executive editor Clemente Lisi about the Future of Religion Unplugged

    In this episode, Melissa Harrison, interim executive director of The Media Project, interviews Clemente Lisi, executive editor of Religion Unplugged, about the site's religion coverage, his new role, what he looks for in story pitches and his vision for RUP's coverage in the year ahead.

    30m | Oct 30, 2023
  • Interview with Nancy Pearcey on The Toxic War On Masculinity

    Joseph Holmes interviews Professor Nancy Pearcey on her new book The Toxic War On Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles The Sexes in a wide-ranging discussion that explores the origin of the concept of toxic masculinity, where our culture has gone wrong on masculinity, and how Christianity can provide a better script to men on how to be a man.

    1h 23m | Oct 11, 2023
  • Is This The Year Of Faith-Based Films?

    Culture editor Jillan Cheney and film critic Joseph Holmes discuss this year's huge crop of faith-based films and what they say about the state of religion in the country and the state of the faith-based film industry. 

    1h 24m | Oct 3, 2023
  • Surprised By Oxford's

    Joseph Holmes interviews author Dr. Carolyn Weber about her memoir "Surprised By Oxford" about how she came to faith, and the upcoming movie adaptation about her memoir of the same name.

    13m | Sep 25, 2023
  • Talking About Reformed Judaism With Rachael Alexandra

    Joseph Holmes interviews YouTube personality and animator Rachael Alenxanda (ILoveKimPossibleAlot) about her Reformed Jewish upbringing and how Adam Sandler's new film "You're So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah" holds up. 

    1h 4m | Sep 18, 2023
  • Demise of the Crown

    Colby McCaskill and Julia Jensen embark on a journalistic journey through the initial two weeks of the Spring 2023 semester at The King's College. As  Empire State Tribune reporters, they unravel the narrative of their institution's ongoing financial crisis, tracing it from the earliest murmurs of uncertainty voiced from the City Room podium to the announcement of a significant deficit.. What led The King's College into this situation? Who bears responsibility for it? Keep listening to find out that, and more. 

    58m | Sep 12, 2023
  • A Conversation with Actor Stacey Harkey

    Joseph Holmes sits down with Stacey Harkey of Studio C and JK Studios to discuss his new movie "Go West", his LDS faith, coming out, and why we need comedy that brings people together.

    23m | Sep 5, 2023
  • A Conversation with Actor Colin Ford

    Colin Ford sits down with Religion Unplugged to talk about his new film "The Hill", acting alongside Dennis Quaid, and how to discern your dreams from God's call on your life. The film is based on a true story.

    7m | Aug 22, 2023
  • Donnie Emerson about his film DREAMIN' WILD


    In a conversation with Joseph Holmes, Donnie and Nancy Emerson discuss the intricacies of the recently released film chronicling their life journey, titled "Dreamin' Wild." Their discussion encompasses the experience of achieving success later in life, as well as navigating the path of an artist while steadfastly upholding their faith. 

    17m | Aug 16, 2023
  • A Conversation about Sabbath in a Restless World

    Filmmaker Martin Doblmeier talks with Religion Unplugged about the ins and outs of his new documentary, “Sabbath,” where he explores this ancient practice and concept across the Abrahamic faiths. Doblmeier talks with Rafa Oliveira about the importance of rest in an overworked, overstressed, and consumerist culture, and how the concept of Sabbath is about much more than a nap on Sunday afternoons, and rest much more than binging Netflix.

    58m | Aug 14, 2023
  • The dramatization of Latvian war criminal Viktors Arajs's trial confronts Latvians with their complicity in the Holocaust

    Religion Unplugged senior contributor Robert Carle speaks with Dr. Karlis Verdins, who teaches literature at the Art Academy of Latvia. Verdins hopes to confront Latvians with an honest reckoning of their complicity in the Holocaust. Verdins obtained a record of the Viktors Arajs’s two year trial in Hamburg, which took place in Hamburg in 1977-79. Verdins turned the story of the trial into a drama, which opened in a small theater in Riga, Latvia in March 2023. The title of the play, “Wasn’t There. Don’t Know. Don’t Remember,” refers to Arajs’s defense at his trial. Holocaust survivors who saw Arajs murder Jews contradicted Arajs’s testimony, and the court sentenced Arajs to life imprisonment. Latvians have been loath to acknowledge their complicity in the Holocaust. “They wanted to protect their old, loving fathers and grandfathers who had committed such crimes,” Verdins said. “Latvians cannot whitewash Nazi crimes just because we think that Soviet crimes were even worse,” Verdins said.

    36m | Jul 31, 2023
  • Israeli Ambassador teams up with Latvian Ministry of Education to offer Holocaust education

    Religion Unplugged Senior Contributor Robert Carle speaks with Latvia's Israeli Ambassador Sharon Palgi about Latvia's painful history of Nazi and Soviet occupation. Following Germany's invasion of Latvia in June 1941, 85,000 of Latvia's Jews were brutally murdered. Some Latvians participated in Nazi crimes against their Jewish countrymen. Today, fewer than 10,000 Jews live in Latvia. Ambassador Palgi says that she has not experienced overt Anti Semitism during the two years that she and her four children have lived in Latvia, but Palgi wishes there were more education about the Holocaust in Latvian society. In October 2020, the Israeli Embassy in Riga teamed up with the Latvian Ministry of Education to organise a two-day conference on Holocaust education for 100 Latvian school teachers. Palgi said that she hoped Holocaust education would become a standard part of the Latvian school curriculum.

    41m | Jul 17, 2023
  • Riga's Peitav Shul Survives History of Violent anti-Semitic Attacks

    Religion Unplugged Senior Contributor Robert Carle interviews Rabbi Eliyohu Krumers, who leads the Peitav Shul congregation in Riga, Latvia. The Peitav Shul is the only synagogue that survived the Nazi and Soviet occupations of Latvia because it's located in the center of Riga's Old Town, making it too risky to set it on fire without endangering the Old Town. Instead, the Nazis used the synagogue as a stable for animals. In the 1990s, the Peitav Shul was bombed twice, causing $60,000 in damages. The renovation of the synagogue was funded by the European Union and completed in 2008. According to Rabbi Krumers, Jews are currently safe in Latvia. After the second bombing, the Latvian government stationed police permanently at the synagogue. Krumers mentioned that Christians are gradually acknowledging the unfortunate history of anti-Semitism within the church. Latvian Lutherans, he said, have rejected the parts of Luther's later writings that attack Jews and Judaism.

    50m | Jul 10, 2023
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