{"podcast":{"title":"Saved by the City","slug":"saved-by-the-city-3629845","podcast_index_feed_id":3629845,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CCELI8494848067","website_url":"https://religionnews.com/saved-by-the-city/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/4095453c-5c7f-11ee-bfbb-2f8cf5cc488f/image/2aff5a5e5510982a578673eb76d02d40083c0e19dfe23badda874c38a1dbdbd60d04d319fcd281b311a9ac7bec885597cbea8181f74c275c7c9935f023c4ad53.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Jonathan Woodward","episode_count":168,"summary":"Roxy and Katelyn grew up in the white evangelical American heartland. Both were warned moving to a supposed bastion of secular culture would be dangerous to their faith. While navigating a city where people sleep in on Sunday mornings and the chaste motto “true love waits” isn’t a thing, the two have found a renewed, vibrant faith that has been both strengthened and stretched in the metropolis.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/saved-by-the-city-3629845"},"episode":{"title":"Best of SBTC: A Ross Douthat Guide to Fairies, UFOs ... and Church","slug":"best-of-sbtc-a-ross-douthat-guide-to-fairies-ufos-and-church","published_at":"2025-11-28T03:42:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/saved-by-the-city-3629845/best-of-sbtc-a-ross-douthat-guide-to-fairies-ufos-and-church","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/saved-by-the-city-3629845","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/op3.dev/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CCELI4199031418.mp3?updated=1764302215","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/op3.dev/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CCELI4199031418.mp3?updated=1764302215","summary":"Exploring the mystical, the skeptical, and the spiritually surprising with Ross Douthat. What’s your woo level? In this episode, Katelyn and Roxy run through their most mystical instincts—angels, ghosts, manifesting, energies, astrology—and ask whether modern Christians have grown a little too allergic to spiritual experience. Then New York Times columnist and UFO enthusiast Ross Douthat joins to talk about the persistence of the supernatural, why he thinks religion is still the most rational bet, and the dangers of patchwork spirituality. A funny, curious, and unexpectedly grounding conversation about what might be lurking just beyond the empirical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Exploring the mystical, the skeptical, and the spiritually surprising with Ross Douthat. What’s your woo level? In this episode, Katelyn and Roxy run thro…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3166,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/saved-by-the-city-3629845/episodes/best-of-sbtc-a-ross-douthat-guide-to-fairies-ufos-and-church/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/saved-by-the-city-3629845/best-of-sbtc-a-ross-douthat-guide-to-fairies-ufos-and-church.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}