{"podcast":{"title":"Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations","slug":"hank-unplugged-essential-christian-conversations-223974","podcast_index_feed_id":223974,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2495041/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.equip.org","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6b0a8e420a7cff510fd7ebffee8827ad.jpg","author":"The Christian Research Institute","episode_count":388,"summary":"Dig Deeper with Hank Unplugged — Hank Unplugged is a podcast brought to you by the Christian Research Institute, where Hank Hanegraaff takes you beyond the sound bites and into thoughtful, in-depth explorations of the critical issues confronting Christians today. Drawing on Scripture, history, theology, and culture, Hank equips listeners to think Christianly about the questions that matter most and to contend for the faith with knowledge and wisdom. For more information, visit www.equip.org . To support CRI and our global outreaches, visit www.equip.org/donate/ .","last_synced_at":"2026-09-17T14:19:14.794711+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hank-unplugged-essential-christian-conversations-223974"},"episode":{"title":"Has Christ Returned as a Female? The Dangerous Cult Making This Claim with Hank Hanegraaff","slug":"has-christ-returned-as-a-female-the-dangerous-cult-making-this-claim-with-hank-hanegraaff","published_at":"2025-12-03T15:15:07+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hank-unplugged-essential-christian-conversations-223974/has-christ-returned-as-a-female-the-dangerous-cult-making-this-claim-with-hank-hanegraaff","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hank-unplugged-essential-christian-conversations-223974","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/has-christ-returned-as-a-female-the-dangerous-cult-making-this-claim-with-hank-hanegraaff--68818853","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68818853/hup_episode_217.mp3","summary":"Has Christ returned as a female in China? Believe it or not, this is the shameless assertion of the Church of the Almighty God, also known as Eastern Lightning. Unfortunately, this is not a fringe group of fanatics, but a cult that is growing globally with millions of devotees and deep pockets. This edition of Hank Unplugged is dedicated to discussing the dangers of Eastern Lightning, what CRI is doing to combat the cults and how you can help make a difference.For further study: CRI Resource: The Eastern Lighting Cult: Christ Returns to Earth as a Female? https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-special-print-issue-48-02-03-the-eastern-lighting-cult-christ-returns-to-earth-as-a-female-hup1225/ As a preview of the extensive and new primary research done on this topic, please see Hank’s From the President column from this issue, “ Christ Returns to Earth as a Female — An Exposé of the Eastern Lightning Cult “ https://www.equip.org/articles/christ-returns-to-earth-as-a-female-an-expose-of-the-eastern-lightning-cult/ and also one of the feature articles by Hank, “ Contrasting Eastern Lightning Deception and Essential Christian D-O-C-T-R-I-N-E ”.https://www.equip.org/articles/contrasting-eastern-lightning-deception-and-essential-christian-d-o-c-t-r-i-n-e/","meta_description":"Has Christ returned as a female in China? Believe it or not, this is the shameless assertion of the Church of the Almighty God, also known as Eastern Ligh…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1571,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hank-unplugged-essential-christian-conversations-223974/episodes/has-christ-returned-as-a-female-the-dangerous-cult-making-this-claim-with-hank-hanegraaff/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hank-unplugged-essential-christian-conversations-223974/has-christ-returned-as-a-female-the-dangerous-cult-making-this-claim-with-hank-hanegraaff.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}