{"podcast":{"title":"A View from the Bunker","slug":"a-view-from-the-bunker-1393015","podcast_index_feed_id":1393015,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2764873/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.vftb.net/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d97a79cfdae651c40d58d00da6f24b5d.jpg","author":"Derek & Sharon Gilbert","episode_count":820,"summary":"Derek P. Gilbert hosts A View From the Bunker. He also hosts Five in Ten, a daily news analysis for SkyWatchTV, and co-hosts the weekly video programs SciFriday and Unraveling Revelation with his wife, author and analyst Sharon K. Gilbert. Together, they also produce the Gilbert House Fellowship, a weekly study that explores the Bible verse by verse in chronological order. Derek is a Christian, a husband and father, and the author of the groundbreaking books 'Bad Moon Rising,' 'Last Clash of the Titans,' and 'The Great Inception.' He’s also the co-author with Josh Peck of a book that exposes the occult origins of the modern UFO phenomenon, 'The Day the Earth Stands Still,' and studies of the supernatural realm 'Veneration' and 'Giants, Gods & Dragons' with Sharon K. Gilbert. Derek's latest book is 'The Second Coming of Saturn.'","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T06:18:16.151895+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-view-from-the-bunker-1393015"},"episode":{"title":"Wayback Wednesday: The Family","slug":"wayback-wednesday-the-family","published_at":"2026-05-27T16:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-view-from-the-bunker-1393015/wayback-wednesday-the-family","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-view-from-the-bunker-1393015","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wayback-wednesday-the-family--72020493","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72020493/vftb014.mp3","summary":"It’s Wayback Wednesday, with another interview drawn from our archive of programs dating back to June, 2009. This week, it’s a discussion from 2009 about an ostensibly Christian group that wields an inordinate amount of power behind the scenes in Washington, D. C., The Family. Originally released September 20, 2009 A SECRETIVE religious group that wields power in Washington, D.C. and other world capitals — sounds like the basis for Dan Brown’s next novel, but it’s real. Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power , has been following this group for years, even living at The Family’s headquarters for a time. What he found is a group that justifies its pursuit of political power by claiming that it’s for the kingdom of God. Read Jeff’s original expose of The Family, “Jesus Plus Nothing,” at Harper’s Magazine online. Christians are taking heat for The Family from the likes of The Huffington Post and MSNBC. The irony is that The Family isn’t promoting a Christian agenda, but a New Age agenda. See Constance Cumbey’s five-part series The Family and its Hijacking of Evangelicalism . As Jeff Sharlet asked, where is the outrage from influential evangelicals?","meta_description":"It’s Wayback Wednesday, with another interview drawn from our archive of programs dating back to June, 2009. This week, it’s a discussion from 2009 about…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3356,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-view-from-the-bunker-1393015/episodes/wayback-wednesday-the-family/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-view-from-the-bunker-1393015/wayback-wednesday-the-family.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}