Welcome back! We’ve been pretty quiet around here lately, but we’re really excited to launch our NEW SERIES. For the next month-or-so, we’ll be focusing solely on topics that relate to the “Cult of Wellness”. Jump into this episode to find out exactly what that is, and get a small teaser of what’s to come...

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Join Steph & Rachel after a looooong hiatus to go in-depth on religion in NBC (& Netflix’s) Manifest. We get into religious representation in the media, including the portrayal of cults and New Religious Movements, and the lifeboat and if it’s everyone’s responsibility to look out for each other’s redemption. P.S. A lot of spoilers...

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Do you love reality TV, or do you love to hate it? This week, Rachel is joined by two friends, Grace and Fiona, to gossip about the relationship between reality TV, ritual and religion. Using examples from The Bachelor, Love Island, and Drag Race, the trio discusses the various rituals and ceremonies that are so...

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This week we dive head-first into different types of religious experience when it comes to consciousness. We chat ASCs, Trance, and Mysticism, while trying to understand the difference between the three types of experience. We also talk a lot about how religious experience is often branded as “crazy”, and is therefore used as an excuse...

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We’re back with another monthly installment of our “In The News” episode. This week, we chat about a wide range of topics including; the psychology of religion and how religion is studied in the brain, the ethics of AI, and Islamophobia in Canada.   Want to read the articles we talk about? “Religion on the...

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Join Rachel and Jacqueline for a special interview with Faezeh Izadi about Muslims in Canada. Faezeh is an International Ph.D. student of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, originally from Iran. She got her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, but after two years of engineering works, Faezeh changed her path to humanities and joined...

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Welcome to the 2nd episode in our series on CW’s hit show, The 100! If you haven’t listened to the first episode yet, check it out here! And if you haven’t seen Season 1 of The 100, then we recommend watching it before you dive into this episode (otherwise you’ll get a lot of spoilers)....

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Join your hosts, Steph and Rachel, for an interview with yoga teacher and practitioner Laura Chaignon. We get deep into gender binary language in yoga (and elsewhere) and chat about the effect of the western lens on yoga, gendered language, and the importance of making yoga a safe and comfortable space for everyone.   Resources...

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