{"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":"The Stranger Gospel + Bart D. Ehrman","slug":"the-stranger-gospel-bart-d-ehrman","published_at":"2026-04-09T09:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/saved-by-the-city-3629845/the-stranger-gospel-bart-d-ehrman","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/CCELI7425295178.mp3?updated=1775700468","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/op3.dev/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/CCELI7425295178.mp3?updated=1775700468","summary":"What if Jesus really meant what he said? Like, including all that love your enemy stuff. The better question maybe is what would happen if Jesus's followers believed he really meant what he said — and acted on it? It could change society and, according to Bart Ehrman, it already has. On this episode, Katelyn and Roxy talk with Ehrman — a New Testament scholar, agnostic atheist and somewhat unlikely defender of Jesus' most radical teachings — about how Jesus' command to care for people on the periphery shaped the moral \"common sense\" of the Western world. From public hospitals to disaster relief to orphanages, much of our social safety net can be traced back to Christian invention, he argues. It's a particularly urgent conversation at a time when Christianity is claimed in the name of everything from war to mass deportations to repealing women's right to vote. GUEST: Bart D. Ehrman is a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of numerous books on the New Testament and early Christianity, including his latest \"Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West.\" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"What if Jesus really meant what he said? Like, including all that love your enemy stuff. The better question maybe is what would happen if Jesus's followe…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3255,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/saved-by-the-city-3629845/episodes/the-stranger-gospel-bart-d-ehrman/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/the-stranger-gospel-bart-d-ehrman.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}