Trump's Crazy Holy Week

About this episode

Esau McCaulley discusses the intersection of faith and politics during Holy Week, alongside producer Mike and guest Stephen Harris.

A government official claims God teleported him to a Waffle House, and somehow that is not the strangest part of this conversation. Esau is joined by producer Mike and Stephen Harris to discuss Holy Week at the White House, where the language of resurrection, sacrifice, and salvation was tangled up with politics, power, and some very questionable comparisons. They also wrestle with how Christians can believe in the miraculous without losing their grip on wisdom, and why performative faith keeps missing the point of the gospel. Finally, Esau and Stephen disagree about the casting of Paapa Essiedu as Snape in the new Harry Potter series, raising questions about storytelling, representation, and when creative changes actually make a story worse. 0:00 - Theme Song 1:55 - Teleporting to Waffle House! 11:38 - Comparing Trump to Christ 15:23 - Trump's Easter Tweet 20:21 - God and the State 28:42 - Sponsor - Tyndale - On The BEMA Podcast, Marty Solomon dives deep into the Bible. Learn more at https://navpress.com 30:05 - Saul and Performative Christianity 38:42 - HBO Cast a Black Actor as Snape? 55:55 - End Credits

People in this episode

Host: Esau McCaulley

Guests: Mike, Stephen Harris

Topics covered

• politics and religion
• Christian faith
• performative Christianity
• storytelling
• representation
• Holy Week

Keywords

• Trump
• Waffle House
• resurrection
• sacrifice
• salvation
• performative faith
• Snape
• casting
• representation

Sponsors

Tyndale

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HBO

Books & works: Harry Potter

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