What Are You Working on Now?

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I'm actually about to return to Ethiopia. I spent a bit of time there last year. They've got a Pentecostal Prime Minister, and they've just had a ceasefire in the war up north. There's a good Netflix series you should especially you should watch called Miracle Darren Brown. He's a magician and an illusionist. And he does some just amazing stuff with just kind of selective hypnosis on his audience. It's pretty impressive.

Shermer and Hardy discuss: Hardy’s religious journey (raised Catholic, now agnostic) • origin of Pentecostalism and its biblical basis Pentecostalism in Korea North and South, and Israel • the structure of the Pentecostal church and how it differs from other churches • Seven Mountain Mandate • how religions grow • pentecostalism and politics • the psychology of the believer • dispensationalism and the Rapture • prophecy • glossolalia • snake handling • eschatology and end-times theology • sin and redemption • prostitution • Jordan Peterson and secular religion.

Elle Hardy is a journalist and foreign correspondent who has reported from the United States, the former USSR and North Korea, among a long list of places. Her work has appeared in GQ, Lonely Planet, Foreign Policy and Business Insider, and on ABC Australia. Her new book is Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World.