{"podcast":{"title":"Tribulation Farce: A Left Behind Podcast","slug":"tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast-6385731","podcast_index_feed_id":6385731,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/62793c183640ab0015f5d81d/1652118492033-7176158247b8d74f76bf52bc0d47ba87.jpeg","author":"Tim Lanning","episode_count":67,"summary":"Tribulation Farce is a comedy podcast about the Christian Fiction series: Left Behind. Join Harvard Divinity School Grad Jennifer Cheek and her Comedian/Gamer husband Tim Lanning for a chapter-by-chapter analysis of each and every Left Behind book. We'll discuss the Christian Right's obsession with conspiracy theories, the Apocalypse, and hopefully, the humor therein. New episodes every other Sunday until the Rapture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T22:21:19.630772+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast-6385731"},"episode":{"title":"The Fundamentalist Takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention","slug":"the-fundamentalist-takeover-of-the-southern-baptist-convention","published_at":"2026-03-04T23:43:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast-6385731/the-fundamentalist-takeover-of-the-southern-baptist-convention","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast-6385731","url":"https://shows.acast.com/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast/episodes/the-fundamentalist-takeover-of-the-southern-baptist-conventi","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/62793c183640ab0015f5d81d/e/69a8c38a618d0d8bf7e3c9fb/media.mp3","summary":"On this very special episode we dig into the takeover of the Southern Baptist convention and analyze how it is a preview our current right wing take over of the country as well as its juicy Left Behind connections. This should be a niche topic that folks hear about, are aghast by and move on from but unfortunately taking over a branch of a Baptist denomination was only the beginning and, even more unfortunately, was only trial run of their tactics. Fascinating stuff. Here are the main sources that Jennifer used for her research: The Fundamentalist Takeover in the Southern Baptist Convention: A Brief History by Rob James and Gary Leazer with James Shoopman Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right by Anne Nelson, 2019 (new Afterword in 2021) The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism by Katherine Stewart, 2019 (updated in 2022) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"On this very special episode we dig into the takeover of the Southern Baptist convention and analyze how it is a preview our current right wing take over…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5776,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast-6385731/episodes/the-fundamentalist-takeover-of-the-southern-baptist-convention/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tribulation-farce-a-left-behind-podcast-6385731/the-fundamentalist-takeover-of-the-southern-baptist-convention.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}