{"podcast":{"title":"Recovering Evangelicals","slug":"recovering-evangelicals-947295","podcast_index_feed_id":947295,"rss_url":"https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/category/recovering-evangelicals/feed/","website_url":"https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com","image_url":"https://i0.wp.com/lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/podcast1b.jpg?fit=3000%2C3000&ssl=1","author":"Luke Jeffrey Janssen","episode_count":200,"summary":"A podcast for people who were once very comfortable in their Christian faith … until the 21st century intruded and made it very hard to keep on believing. And for those who are intrigued by science, philosophy, world history, and even world religions …. and want to rationalize that with their Christian theology. And for those who found that’s just not possible … and yet there’s still a small part of them that … … won’t let it go.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295"},"episode":{"title":"#206 – Ancient Christianities","slug":"206-ancient-christianities","published_at":"2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295/206-ancient-christianities","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295","url":"https://lukejjanssen.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/206-ancient-christianities/","audio_url":"https://public-api.wordpress.com/wpcom/v2/sites/74252917/podcast-play/10929.mp3","summary":"Five centuries of vicious, in-house conflicts over the control of emergent Christian orthodoxy. This week’s guest — Dr. Paula Fredriksen — discusses her latest book: Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years. Yes, that’s “Christianities” … plural! The focus of this retrospective is the multiple strands of Christian thinking which were vying for control during […]","meta_description":"Five centuries of vicious, in-house conflicts over the control of emergent Christian orthodoxy. This week’s guest — Dr. Paula Fredriksen — discusses her l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3551,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recovering-evangelicals-947295/episodes/206-ancient-christianities/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recovering-evangelicals-947295/206-ancient-christianities.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}