{"podcast":{"title":"God Forbid","slug":"god-forbid-567088","podcast_index_feed_id":567088,"rss_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/feeds/8244154/podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/","image_url":"https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/9b022a1c24f404a4755241bb86365781.jpg?src","author":"ABC Australia","episode_count":248,"summary":"Religion: it’s at the centre of world affairs, but profound questions still remain. Why are you here? What happens when you die? Does God matter? God Forbid seeks the answers.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-18T12:23:41.914579+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088"},"episode":{"title":"The Orthodox surge","slug":"the-orthodox-surge","published_at":"2026-04-10T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088/the-orthodox-surge","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/godforbid/the-orthodox-surge/106488726","audio_url":"https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/je/Z/4l.mp3","summary":"It’s Eastern Orthodox Easter this weekend, where the faithful will announce to each other Christos Anesti. Christ is Risen. Also risen? The fortunes of Eastern Orthodoxy among men – though this is contested. Over the last 50 years, the numbers of people around the world identifying as religious have dropped. But the numbers of Christians seem to have stabilised, just in the last few years. Why?","meta_description":"It’s Eastern Orthodox Easter this weekend, where the faithful will announce to each other Christos Anesti. Christ is Risen. Also risen? The fortunes of Ea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3240,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/god-forbid-567088/episodes/the-orthodox-surge/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/god-forbid-567088/the-orthodox-surge.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}