The Final Service

By Mateo Schimpf

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 Aug 15, 2023

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Church membership in the U.S. has fallen off a cliff and pastors across the country are trying to save their congregations from shrinking to zero. Why have so many people left Christianity and can pastors do anything to save their churches from dying?

Episode Date
EP4. Stigma
May 01, 2025
EP3. Chicago
Apr 24, 2025
EP2. Little Lithuania
Apr 17, 2025
EP1. The Mayordomos
Apr 10, 2025
Trailer
Apr 03, 2025
Jonathan Rauch on the Limits of MAGA and Trump
Jan 02, 2025
Ambassador Michael McFaul: Ukrainians May Fight On, Even with a Trump/Putin Deal
Dec 30, 2024
Why You’re Probably Not Going to Church this Christmas
Dec 23, 2024
Overuse of Antibiotics and the Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance
Dec 19, 2024
Denier-in-Chief: The Threat of Trump and RFK, Jr’s Health Policy
Dec 16, 2024
Millions of Deportations? Just How Tough Trump Might Get on Immigration
Dec 09, 2024
Ian Bremmer on What to Expect from Trump 2.0
Dec 02, 2024
Yascha Mounk on How To Save Diverse Democracies
Nov 25, 2024
Mike Madrid: Latino Voters and the Working Class ‘Tectonic Shift’
Nov 18, 2024
Steve Schmidt: Trump’s Victory is a Disaster for the Democratic Party
Nov 11, 2024
What the Hell Just Happened?
Nov 08, 2024
Last Look: Can We Trust the Polls?
Nov 04, 2024
Kara Swisher’s on Whether We Can Trust Tech Billionaires
Oct 31, 2024
Musk is all in on Trump. What About the Rest of Silicon Valley?
Oct 28, 2024
Will an “October Surprise” Decide the 2024 Election?
Oct 21, 2024
Living in Two Worlds
Oct 17, 2024
Which Candidate Does Mexico Favor in November?
Oct 14, 2024
SPECIAL LIVE EVENT: Will an “October Surprise” Shake-Up the Race?
Oct 10, 2024
A Year After October 7th, Is the Middle East Headed for War?
Oct 04, 2024
Is America Exporting Political Violence?
Oct 03, 2024
Tom Nichols: Attacking the President Attacks the Nation
Sep 30, 2024
Can We Trust the Presidential Polls? A 2024 Election Special
Sep 23, 2024
Anne Applebaum on Autocracy in America, and What’s at Stake in November
Sep 19, 2024
Can Ukraine Hang On Until November?
Sep 16, 2024
If it's ‘America First’, Who is American Enough?
Sep 09, 2024
In AI We Trust? A 2024 Election Special
Sep 02, 2024
The Healthy Amount of Hooch
Aug 29, 2024
New Habits in Our Old Age
Aug 26, 2024
Stuart Stevens: The Lincoln Project is Taunting Trump… And So is Kamala Harris
Aug 19, 2024
How Cocaine Blew Through the Island of Peace
Aug 15, 2024
Can Ecuador Keep its Oil in the Ground?
Aug 12, 2024
Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy
Aug 08, 2024
Netanyahu's Gambling on Trump
Aug 05, 2024
The Elites vs… the Elites?
Jul 31, 2024
Biden is Out, Harris is In: How DNC Donors Reset the Race
Jul 29, 2024
The IOC and the Authoritarian Elite
Jul 25, 2024
The Olympics are Back, But Does Anyone Care?
Jul 22, 2024
Why We're Losing Faith in Democracy
Jul 15, 2024
Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear Doomsday Scenario
Jul 08, 2024
Putin Meets Kim pt. 2: The Pariahs
Jul 03, 2024
Putin Meets Kim pt. 1: A Handshake Worth A Thousand Guns?
Jul 01, 2024
Is Extremism Going Mainstream in Europe?
Jun 24, 2024
Abraham Leno on the Congolese Leading the Way to Economic Security
Jun 20, 2024
Congo and the Coup Contagion
Jun 17, 2024
Could AI Swing the November Election?
Jun 10, 2024
David Brooks on Solving Social Isolation and Fixing Democracy
Jun 03, 2024
Secretary Robert Gates on Israel’s Retaliation, and What Biden Does Next
May 31, 2024
The Death of the “Butcher of Tehran”: What’s Next for Iran and Israel?
May 27, 2024
2024 Election Special: Isn't There a Better Option?
May 23, 2024
2024 Election Special: The Place Beyond Two Parties
May 20, 2024
Can Xi Jinping Stop a Trade War with Europe?
May 13, 2024
Special Live Event: Ray Suarez on Being American in the 21st Century
May 08, 2024
On Borrowed Time: A Tech Reporter’s Precarious Race to Stay in the US
May 06, 2024
Should We Be Afraid of Gene-Editing?
Apr 29, 2024
Water Security, and Why Israelis and Gazans Must Work Together
Apr 22, 2024
The Silver Wave: Challenges and Opportunities of Global Aging
Apr 18, 2024
Boozing Boomers
Apr 15, 2024
Hong Kong, A History of Defiance and the Fight for Free Speech
Apr 11, 2024
Jimmy Lai’s Fate and the Future of Democracy in Hong Kong
Apr 08, 2024
Dobbs’ Domino Effect: The Future of Choice in America – A 2024 Election Special
Apr 01, 2024
For Palestine, Biden’s Uncommitted Voters Won’t Be Trump Shamed
Mar 28, 2024
Bear Hugs with Israel and Ballot Box Blues
Mar 25, 2024
Why is America Always in Cuba’s Business?
Mar 21, 2024
From Crisis to Normalization – and Back Again: A Conversation with the Cuban Ambassador
Mar 18, 2024
How Europe Paid to Lock Up Migrants… and Threw Away The Key
Mar 14, 2024
Ukraine Diaries: The Ones Who Stayed
Mar 11, 2024
How Kenya Took the Fight for Gender Equality… to Reality TV
Mar 07, 2024
Kara Swisher’s Tech Love Story: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Silicon Valley
Mar 04, 2024
Foreign Policy is on the Ballot… But Do We Care? A 2024 Election Special
Feb 26, 2024
Will War Bring the End of Ukraine’s Democracy?
Feb 22, 2024
Ukraine’s David and Goliath Fight for the Security of Europe
Feb 19, 2024
Remembering Alexei Navalny
Feb 16, 2024
Where Does Biden’s Middle East Strategy Go From Here?
Feb 15, 2024
Why Israel Wants to Get Rid of UNRWA
Feb 12, 2024
Stranded: Immigration Policy and the Price of Entry
Feb 08, 2024
Between Two Worlds
Feb 05, 2024
What’s Wrong, America? A 2024 Election Special
Jan 29, 2024
Scott Galloway: Dislike by Design, How Big Tech Drives ‘American Enragement’
Jan 25, 2024
For America’s Democracy… and Your Well-Being, Check the Facts
Jan 22, 2024
Dodging Bullets For Bylines: Sean Carberry on War Reporting
Jan 18, 2024
WSJ Moscow Bureau Chief on the Fate of Evan Gershkovich
Jan 15, 2024
David Brooks on ‘How to Know A Person’… And Why It Matters to Democracy
Jan 08, 2024
Bye Bye Boomers, Hello Perennials
Jan 01, 2024
From Bethlehem to Kyiv: A Prayer for Peace at Christmas
Dec 22, 2023
2023 Wrapped: A Year of Survival, Sovereignty, and Supremacy
Dec 18, 2023
The Day After Tomorrow in Palestine-Israel: A Tale of Two Peace Activists
Dec 11, 2023
In the People, Planet, Profit Equation, Who Leads the Energy Transition?
Dec 07, 2023
Decolonizing Energy: Indigenous Led Climate Action
Dec 04, 2023
US State Department’s Mallory Stewart on Controlling Nuclear Escalation
Nov 27, 2023
I'll See Your Deterrence, And Raise You... Nuclear Annihilation
Nov 23, 2023
Kofi Annan’s Masterclass on Peace and Power Sharing
Nov 20, 2023
Biden and Xi Walk into a Room… Will They Continue to Play Nice?
Nov 18, 2023
The Covert War on LGBT+ Rights
Nov 15, 2023
How American Radicalism Inspired the Most Homophobic Law on Earth
Nov 13, 2023
Beyond Oil and Uncle Sam: MBS's Decade of Bold Reforms
Nov 09, 2023
Are Saudi-Israel Talks Dead in the Water?
Nov 06, 2023
Poverty? Climate Disaster? Are World Bank Bonds the Solution?
Nov 02, 2023
Is US Wealth Inequality Undermining Democracy?
Oct 30, 2023
Secretary Robert Gates on Israel’s Retaliation, and What Biden Does Next
Oct 23, 2023
How the Palestinian Question Could Unravel Netanyahu’s “New Middle East”
Oct 20, 2023
Bye Bye Boomers, Hello Perennials
Oct 16, 2023
Putin’s Victory in the South Caucasus
Oct 12, 2023
Whose Sovereignty Is It Anyway? Armenia's ICC Bid For Justice with Sheila Paylan
Oct 09, 2023
Troubled Times: Brexit’s Toll on Northern Ireland
Oct 05, 2023
Inside the Good Friday Agreement, with Tony Blair’s Chief Negotiator
Oct 02, 2023
The Kremlin's Kim-ouflage
Sep 28, 2023
Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar: What We Learned From the Putin-Kim Summit
Sep 25, 2023
Why Detroit’s Auto Workers Are On Strike
Sep 21, 2023
Regulating Big Tech: Is TikTok Still on the Clock?
Sep 18, 2023
Molière Out, Mercenaries In: Powers and Politics in Françafrique
Sep 14, 2023
Blood and Butter: Why Russia’s Economy is Falling Faster Than Prigozhin’s Plane
Sep 11, 2023
Putin’s Prigozhin Trap, with Anne Applebaum
Sep 02, 2023
China’s Dream of Global Dominance
Aug 28, 2023
QAnon’s German Blitz
Aug 24, 2023
Trump-ing Tradition: American Democracy at the Crossroads
Aug 21, 2023
Asia’s EV Surge: Coming To An Outlet Near You
Aug 17, 2023
Why Detroit’s Auto Workers Are Pumping the Breaks on EVs
Aug 14, 2023
Scott Galloway: Dislike by Design, How Big Tech Drives ‘American Enragement’
Aug 10, 2023
Blue-Check Blues and Trauma X-Posure: Coping with Viral Violence
Aug 07, 2023
General Petraeus’ Guide to Diplomacy… and Deterrence with China
Aug 03, 2023
Is The Middle East Swiping Left on America?
Jul 31, 2023
Tricks of the Trade: Kiwi Exports and Malaysia’s Balancing Act
Jul 27, 2023
Ambassador Katherine Tai: Buy Local, Trade Global? (Even With China…)
Jul 24, 2023
Fact-Checking a Crisis: Scientists vs. Science Deniers
Jul 20, 2023
How to Talk To Your Child About the End of the World
Jul 17, 2023
Falling (Communist) Blocs and the Rise of Tetris
Jul 13, 2023
A Twitter Coup? Pics or Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Mutiny Didn’t Happen
Jul 10, 2023
Yemen’s Long Road to Peace: What a Saudi-Iran Deal Means
Jul 06, 2023
Money Talks, Kingdom Walks: Global Finance and Saudi Politics
Jul 03, 2023
PlateGate: The Conspiracies About What We Eat
Jun 29, 2023
French Identity and the Battle for the Baguette
Jun 26, 2023
Is Kosovo on the Verge of Renewed Conflict?
Jun 22, 2023
How Erdoğan Plans to “Make Turkey Great Again”
Jun 19, 2023
Georgia’s Dilemma: Wait on the West, or Succumb to Putin?
Jun 15, 2023
Marie Yovanovitch: The Ambassador Who Testified Against Trump
Jun 12, 2023
CityNerd Debunks the “15-Minute City” Conspiracy
Jun 08, 2023
Secretary Pete Buttigieg: Leading the EV Charge at APEC
Jun 05, 2023
When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You
Jun 01, 2023
Two Asian-Americans On How an Election Changed Their Lives
May 29, 2023
Why We Need a New Immigration Narrative
May 25, 2023
Reformer to Enforcer? Biden’s Immigration Policy
May 22, 2023
The Masculinity Crisis, What’s a Man to Do?
May 18, 2023
Is It a Man’s World?
May 15, 2023
Nigeria’s Fight to Protect Democracy from Fake News
May 11, 2023
Tom Nichols on the Dangerous Politics of Narcissism
May 08, 2023
What’s Newsworthy? A Behind the Scenes Look at "Global Dispatches"
May 04, 2023
The Free Press, Held Hostage
May 01, 2023
Why is America So Afraid of China?
Apr 27, 2023
Why China and the US are Saber-Rattling Over Taiwan
Apr 24, 2023
Saudi Arabia’s Thirst for Arizona’s Water
Apr 20, 2023