{"podcast":{"title":"The Arise Podcast","slug":"the-arise-podcast-1194909","podcast_index_feed_id":1194909,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/4D0hmYFj","website_url":"https://the-arise-podcast.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4e8e606e-6daf-4ede-991a-f627e50c5556/172682ad-87ee-4e01-9f02-2efe52a613f1/3000x3000/screen-shot-2022-10-18-at-7-34-29-pm.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"thearisepodcast@gmail.com","episode_count":135,"summary":"Conversations about faith, race, justice, gender and healing.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-arise-podcast-1194909"},"episode":{"title":"Season 6, Episode 27: Danielle, Rebecca and Jenny McGrath - Pope Leo and the President","slug":"season-6-episode-27-danielle-rebecca-and-jenny-mcgrath-pope-leo-and-the-president","published_at":"2026-04-17T16:33:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-arise-podcast-1194909/season-6-episode-27-danielle-rebecca-and-jenny-mcgrath-pope-leo-and-the-president","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-arise-podcast-1194909","url":"https://the-arise-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/season-6-episode-27-danielle-rebecca-and-jenny-mcgrath-pope-leo-and-the-president-j2kj_a93","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/bd06898f-69ef-483a-a593-0296d7cd0895/9d0c3dd3-fb62-4e3f-8a3a-d0fa1004c79b/episodes/audio/group/d308340a-b8ee-476a-9731-a4f1ca674f59/group-item/140cf841-ef06-41a3-aca0-35ff96d8935a/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=4D0hmYFj","summary":"This episode is a sharp, passionate, and often humorous conversation about religion, power, and political corruption in the current American moment. Using recent controversies involving Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and Pope Leo as a starting point, the three of us explore how Christianity is being manipulated for political gain and how sacred language is used to justify cruelty, nationalism, and violence. A central thread of the episode is grief and disbelief: How did so many faith communities get here? Rebecca especially wrestles with the collapse of theological integrity inside modern evangelicalism, while Jenny situates these distortions within a much longer historical pattern—empire repeatedly co-opting religion for domination. Danielle brings in race, imagery, and whiteness, asking how white depictions of Jesus shape public consciousness and who gets recognized as holy in the first place.","meta_description":"This episode is a sharp, passionate, and often humorous conversation about religion, power, and political corruption in the current American moment. Using…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3311,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-arise-podcast-1194909/episodes/season-6-episode-27-danielle-rebecca-and-jenny-mcgrath-pope-leo-and-the-president/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-arise-podcast-1194909/season-6-episode-27-danielle-rebecca-and-jenny-mcgrath-pope-leo-and-the-president.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}