Religion on the Mind
by Dan Koch
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Estimated from 28 chart positions in 28 markets.
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- 🇨🇦CA · Religion#12300K to 1M
- 🇦🇺AU · Religion#16300K to 1M
- 🇺🇸US · Religion#23100K to 300K
- 🇬🇧GB · Religion#38100K to 300K
- 🇩🇪DE · Religion#1125K to 30K
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393K to 1.3M🎙 Daily cadence·417 episodes·Last published 3d ago - Monthly Reach
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1.3M to 4.2M🇨🇦24%🇦🇺24%🇺🇸7%+25 more - Active Followers
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From 23 epsHost
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Recent episodes
Peak Youth Group Era with Tyler Huckabee (RELEVANT, Sojourners) (#415)
Aug 31, 2026
1h 18m 32s
Dan in the Hot Seat with Tripp Fuller (#414)
Aug 24, 2026
46m 59s
Is "Spirituality" the Best We Can Do? (#413)
Aug 17, 2026
1h 27m 11s
GGCH: Nolan’s Odyssey & Tony’s New Novel (#412)
Aug 10, 2026
38m 25s
Dan Passed the Exam! & a Timely Rebroadcast
Aug 3, 2026
1h 41m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 8/31/26 | Peak Youth Group Era with Tyler Huckabee (RELEVANT, Sojourners) (#415) | Guest: Tyler Huckabee | Sojourners, RELEVANT Megazine Tyler's Article | Reckoning With the Youth Group That Raised Us Topics: • Adolescent development (8:36) • Columbine and martyrdom culture (14:45) • Braveheart (25:00) • Youth group as third space (31:44) • Summer camp autonomy (37:45) • Deficit-based views of teenagers (56:55) • Doubt and the exvangelical wilderness (1:02:48) • Trump and belief (1:09:10) __________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: [email protected] YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by Nickryanluevano.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 18m 32s | ||||||
| 8/24/26 | Dan in the Hot Seat with Tripp Fuller (#414) | Guest: Tripp Fuller (Homebrewed Christianity) Topics: • Cognitive-existential therapy (11:56) • Self-deception & “ultimate concern” (27:06) • ADHD & embodiment (31:09) Patron Half • “The Hell of the Same” (43:00) • Wasting your life in every era (1:00:45) • Christian bookstore CDs & punk rock (1:20:14) • College Counseling & Young Adults (1:44:31) • The dark magic of rock and roll (1:47:02) __________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: [email protected] YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by Nickryanluevano.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 59s | ||||||
| 8/17/26 | Is "Spirituality" the Best We Can Do? (#413) | **Participate in my next Spiritual Abuse Research Study** Guest: Jay Michaelson (Both/And) Topics: Why "spirituality" makes a bad communicator (3:07) Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and inventing God in our own image (5:04) Psychedelics, myth-making, and religion as "proto peer review" (16:56) The case for spirituality's broadness (32:04) Crystals, gurus, and spotting spiritual abuse (38:07) Peak experiences, Kierkegaard's leap of faith, and the trouble with certainty (59:07) Previous Episode with Jay: Rabbi and Journalist Jay Michaelson (#366) ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: [email protected] YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by Nickryanluevano.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 27m 11s | ||||||
| 8/10/26 | GGCH: Nolan’s Odyssey & Tony’s New Novel (#412) | Guests: Tony Jones & Josh Gilbert (Generation Gap Culture Hour returns!) Topics: Culture roundup: alliteration bios, Son of Helena, dude lit & Lonesome Dove (1:58) The Odyssey: theater reactions, IMAX chaos & the OCD popcorn guy (14:33) Nolan's rewrite: war, Xenia & the Christianization of the Odyssey (23:11) Patron Half Begins (35:44) Casting choices: Helen, Elliot Page & the "DEI" debate (36:19) Oral tradition, the Emily Wilson controversy & Nolan/Bond rumors (44:27) Agamemnon's sacrifice, Isaac & OCD scrupulosity (54:54) Writing historical fiction: polenta, plums & Constantine's conversion (1:03:22) AI as research assistant: therapy, health & the future of work (1:16:12) ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: [email protected] YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by Nickryanluevano.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 38m 25s | ||||||
| 8/3/26 | Dan Passed the Exam! & a Timely Rebroadcast | Episode #370 | Trusting Yourself After Religious Change *Original Description * To Trust Your Experience (Dustin Kensrue) (#38) Is experience potentially a direct pathway to the God of the universe? Or is it simply “the heart [being] deceitful above all things”? Can we trust our spiritual experience, and if so, which experiences are trustworthy? This topic was recommended by my guest Dustin Kensrue (singer/songwriter of the band Thrice, former worship director at Mars Hill Church in Seattle), and I jumped at it. In today’s episode, we go through Dustin’s own story, from young Christian punk rocker, to prominent Neo-Calvinist, to church scandal whistleblower (sort of), to reconstructed liberal Christian, all the while considering the role of experience in that journey. ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: [email protected] YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by Nickryanluevano.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 41m 41s | ||||||
| 7/27/26 | A Jewish Sex Educator Reads the Gospel of Matthew (#411) | **Participate in my next Spiritual Abuse Research Study** Guest: Jenn Mason (WinkWink Boutique) Topics: Growing up Jewish in a small rural town and rediscovering Judaism as an adult (1:43) National media attention, antisemitic harassment, and finding a spiritual framework (6:26) Why read the Gospels: side-eye toward Christianity and swimming in a Christian culture (10:57) Softness, disability, and getting "off template" (24:53) First impressions of Matthew: the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus at the center (34:23) Anti-Pharisee texts, the Great Commission, and the religion of Jesus vs. Christianity (43:32) Jenn on Instagram | @jenniferidamason ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: [email protected] YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by Nickryanluevano.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 21m 39s | ||||||
| 7/20/26 | new age spiritualitywellness culture+4 | Valerie Martin | Gaia CenterBut For Real Podcast+1 | — | Tarotastrology+6 | — | 40m 12s | ||
| 7/13/26 | existentialismexistential psychology+4 | Daryl Van Tongeren | Hope College | — | existentialismfaith+5 | — | 1h 07m 06s | ||
| 7/6/26 | ReligionSport+5 | Victoria JacksonTerry Shoemaker | FIFA | Bournemouth | World CupReligion+5 | — | 1h 07m 00s | ||
| 6/29/26 | Culture roundupStreaming piracy+5 | Tony JonesJosh Gilbert | The StrokesAll the Pretty Horses+1 | — | World CupDown Syndrome+5 | — | 50m 36s | ||
| 6/22/26 | Christianityexistentialism+5 | Daryl Van Tongeren | Hope College | — | Christianityexistentialism+5 | — | 1h 06m 54s | ||
| 6/15/26 | existentialismexistential psychology+4 | Daryl Van Tongeren | Hope CollegeDone | — | existentialismfaith+5 | — | 1h 07m 28s | ||
| 6/8/26 | Religion after religionIn-group Religion+6 | BarrabasTim Burnette | PatreonInstagram+4 | — | tribalismreligion+6 | — | 1h 25m 03s | ||
| 6/1/26 | sex drivepurity culture+5 | — | InstagramTwitter+5 | — | sex drivepurity culture+5 | — | 40m 06s | ||
| 5/25/26 | fundamentalismnew age spirituality+4 | Ryan Kuja | InstagramTwitter+6 | — | fundamentalismnew age+4 | — | 1h 19m 44s | ||
| 5/21/26 | youth groupgraphic novel+4 | Jordan Morris | Good Mythical MorningYouth Group | — | youth groupJordan Morris+5 | — | 47m 08s | ||
| 5/18/26 | purposecalling+4 | Dr. Pamela Epstein King | Trusting Yourself After Religious ChangeThe Six Facets of Spiritual Health | — | religionpsychology+5 | — | 1h 29m 10s | ||
| 5/11/26 | Jewish Renewal Movementspiritual journey+4 | Rabbi Dr. Simcha Raphael | Jewish Renewal Movement | MontrealIndia+1 | Jewish Renewalspiritual journey+5 | — | 42m 30s | ||
| 5/4/26 | nature vs. nurturereligious identity+5 | — | God ConceptChristian Heavy Music: Theology, Attachment, Power+1 | — | religionspirituality+5 | — | 34m 29s | ||
| 4/27/26 | parentingfaith deconstruction+4 | Meredith Miller | InstagramTwitter+6 | — | faithdeconstruction+6 | — | 1h 25m 44s | ||
| 4/20/26 | therapyWesleyan theology+5 | Brad Strawn | Fuller SeminaryWesleyan theology+3 | — | therapyWesleyan theology+5 | — | 1h 43m 06s | ||
| 4/15/26 | Trump AI Jesus memespsychology+4 | Mason Mennenga | A People's Theology | — | TrumpAI Jesus+5 | — | 34m 57s | ||
| 4/13/26 | ministryidentity+4 | Lillian Daniel | UCCDefrocked: Good News from a Bad Pastor for a Better Church+1 | — | ministryLillian Daniel+6 | — | 1h 22m 12s | ||
| 4/9/26 | existential psychologycommunity+4 | Kristen TidemanBrian Adoff | Join PhillyJoin or Die Film | — | anxietycommunity+6 | — | 44m 34s | ||
| 4/6/26 | Supreme Court rulingconversion therapy+5 | Mason Mennenga | Supreme CourtColorado+8 | — | conversion therapySupreme Court+8 | — | 1h 26m 34s | ||
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Chart history for Religion on the Mind
Peaked at #3 in Ireland, top 10 in 3 of 29 tracked markets, currently #3 in Ireland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| IL | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| Norway | — | #7 | #7 | — |
| Netherlands | — | #11 | #11 | — |
| Canada | — | #12 | #12 | — |
| Australia | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| Spain | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| Finland | — | #21 | #21 | — |
| United States | — | #23 | #23 | — |
| CZ | — | #24 | #24 | — |
| TH | — | #26 | #26 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #30 | #30 | — |
| South Africa | — | #34 | #34 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #38 | #38 | — |
| South Korea | — | #38 | #38 | — |
| Denmark | — | #39 | #39 | — |
| ID | — | #39 | #39 | — |
| Sweden | — | #63 | #63 | — |
| CH | — | #65 | #65 | — |
| NG | — | #65 | #65 | — |
Chart Positions
29 placements across 28 markets.
Chart Positions
29 placements across 28 markets.