Deep Talks with Paul Anleitner
Deep Talks is a podcast dedicated to exploring the integral relationship between religion, culture, philosophy, and science. Featuring long-form discussions and lectures about culture, theology, philosophy, science , and the pursuit of meaning in life.
Paul Anleitner is a cultural theologian whose work focuses on the role of culture and story in our quest for meaning. His unique interdisciplinary approach integrates theology, philosophy, and science to help individuals and institutions navigate cultural shifts and address perennial religious longings.

About the Host
Paul Anleitner is a theologian of culture, author, and pastor. He has degrees in history from the University of Michigan and a Master of Christian Thought from Bethel Seminary where he graduated with highest honors.
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Episodes

Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
John Mark McMillan & Stephen Roach | Discussing the Symbolism of Frankenstein
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Tuesday Dec 02, 2025
Paul Anleitner, John Mark McMillan, and Stephen Roach discuss the deeper meaning embedded in Netflix's new Frankenstein.https://www.makersandmystics.com/
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Monday Oct 27, 2025
Important Podcast Update!
Monday Oct 27, 2025
Monday Oct 27, 2025
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Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Jordan Hall & Rafe Kelley | Neo-Gnostic Escape or Living in The Way?
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
For prior context to this conversation with Jordan Hall and Rafe Kelley, see these previous episodes with them both: Rafe Kelley: https://youtu.be/6xCfIvVqRMY Jordan Hall: https://youtu.be/5eXC0g6yfsk Subscribe to my FREE weekly newsletter: https://paulanleitner.substack.com/ Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/deeptalkstheologypodcast
Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Leland Vittert | Bestselling Author "Born Lucky" & His Journey with Autism
Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Sunday Oct 12, 2025
Leland Vittert is a journalist known for his work as a foreign correspondent for Fox News and as the current Chief Washington Anchor for NewsNation. He is the author of the New York Times Bestselling book Born Lucky: A Dedicated Father, a Grateful Son, and My Journey with Autism
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Monday Oct 06, 2025
Monday Oct 06, 2025
Allan Peters is a creative director, designer, and branding specialist. Largely considered to be one of the best in the U.S., he has worked with Nike, Target, Disney, and many more.
Peters is the author of Logos That Last: How to Create Iconic Visual Branding.
https://www.instagram.com/allanpeters
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Wednesday Oct 01, 2025
Clay Routledge | Religion, Story, & Saving Civilization
Wednesday Oct 01, 2025
Wednesday Oct 01, 2025
Dr. Clay Routledge and I joined Kitty Bogle-Sherman and Coco Harmon on their podcast to discuss religion, culture, symbolism, and how to save civilization.
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Monday Sep 22, 2025
Joshua Bodkin | Cowboys, Conservation, and Playing the Long Game in Creation
Monday Sep 22, 2025
Monday Sep 22, 2025
Joshua Bodkin is the Owner/Director of Solar Wave Media, a content production company focused on telling inspiring stories. He is also the editor-in-chief of Chasing Passion magazine.
Find out more at:
https://www.instagram.com/joshbodkin/
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Monday Sep 15, 2025
Paul Vander Klay | New Sincerity and the Rise of the "Metagelical"
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Paul Vander Klay is a minister in the Christian Reformed Church of North America in Sacramento, California. His YouTube Channel has more than 30,000 subscribers: with videos on Christianity, the meaning crisis, and popular intellectual discourse.
https://www.youtube.com/user/paulvanderklay
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Monday Sep 08, 2025
Rafe Kelley's Conversion Changed Everything
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Monday Sep 08, 2025
Rafe Kelley is the founder of Evolve, Move, Play, which incorporates practices from parkour, martial arts, gymnastics, and dance, as well as the study of human evolution and anthropology, to strengthen people in mind and body.
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Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Kaz Hayashi | The Spread of Anime in American Culture
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Kaz Hayashi is a biblical scholar, archeologist, and theologian from Japan. He is currently an associate professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary and has written on the theology and anime. Check out his work in:
Anime Philosophy and Religion https://a.co/d/auLDmUN
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Monday Aug 25, 2025
John Mark McMillan & Stephen Roach | Social Media Destroying Meaningful Art?
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
John Mark McMillan is a Platinum-selling American singer-songwriter, born in Charlotte, NC.
Stephen Roach is an author, musician, and founder of The Breath & the Clay, a creative community at the intersection of art, faith, and culture. As host of the Makers & Mystics podcast, he curates conversations that help artists recover wonder and live with deeper spiritual attention.
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Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Sam Tideman | Can Artificial Intelligence Make Moral Decisions
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Wednesday Aug 20, 2025
Sam Tideman is a Harvard-trained biostatistical data scientist.
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Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
Jeremy Wayne Tate | Why Modern Education is Broken
Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
Tuesday Aug 05, 2025
Jeremy Wayne Tate is the founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test and a national leader in the revival of classical education.
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Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Parker Settecase | A Metamodern Superman?
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
Parker Settecase and Paul Anleitner discuss the philosophical themes in James Gunn's new Superman movie starring David Corenswet.
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Monday Apr 14, 2025
Why Culture is Going Post-Cynical (Also a BIG Announcement)
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Monday Apr 14, 2025
Special thanks to PostEverything Podcast for having me on. Check them out at:
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Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Jordan Hall Set Out to Save Civilization & Found a Small Country Church Instead
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Wednesday Apr 02, 2025
Jordan Hall, is a futurist, philosopher, and public speaker renowned for his insights into the interplay between technology and culture. Hall played a significant role in the digital media landscape at MP3.com and later as the founder and CEO of DivX, a company instrumental in the online digital video revolution. After this, Hall turned his attention to halting the collapse of civilization.Hall is a prominent thinker in the Game B movement, which seeks alternative societal structures to address systemic challenges. He has engaged in numerous discussions and interviews on topics such as the "metacrisis," the future of civilization, and the relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence.
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Monday Mar 24, 2025
The Inevitable Emptiness of Deconstruction | Ian Harber
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Monday Mar 24, 2025
Ian Harber is the author of Walking Through Deconstruction: How to be a Companion in a Crisis of Faith.
https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Through-Deconstruction-Companion-Crisis/dp/1514008564
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Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
The Meaning Crisis & Our Post-Cynical Vibe Shift
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
I recently joined Christian Baxter and the Yours Truly Podcast to discuss how the meaning crisis is leading to our post-cynical vibe shift.
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Monday Feb 10, 2025
John Vervaeke & Clay Routledge | Nostalgia & the Loss of Our Guiding Stories
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
John Vervaeke, PhD is a philosopher and cognitive scientist. He is an associate professor and award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto, teaching in the Department of Psychology. His work and research is far-ranging, including topics such as human intelligence, rationality, wisdom, and AI.
Clay Routledge, PhD is an existential psychologist, a writer, and a consultant. Clay is Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab at Archbridge Institute and coeditor of Profectus, a magazine on human progress and flourishing. As a leading expert in existential psychology, Clay’s work focuses on helping people reach their full potential and build meaningful lives.
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Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Is C.S. Lewis' "Space Trilogy" the most important Lewis book for our current cultural moment?
Annie Crawford is the co-founder of Vine Classical Community & the Senior Fellow for The Society of Women of Letters. She writes for publications such as Salvo, The Symbolic World, and others on the works of C.S. Lewis.
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Monday Jan 13, 2025
How Postmodernism Killed Superman | Parker Settecase
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Parker Settecase is the host of @ParkersPensees and @ParkerNotes
In this episode, we discuss the rise of cynicism and deconstruction in pop culture, the philosophical roots of these postmodern shifts, and what may be coming next in the hero's stories of our culture.
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Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Fallen Angels Backstory? "Gabriel and the Guardians" creator Jason Moody
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Jason Moody is the creator of Angel Studios brand-new fantasy anime series Gabriel and the Guardians, which tells an incredible fantasy story inspired by the book of Genesis, the book of Enoch, and the mythological context of the Ancient Near East.
It's part Chronicles of Narnia, part Similrillion, part Dragon Ball Z, and it's deeply informed by the biblical scholarship you'd find in from Michael Heiser, John Walton, and the Bible Project.
Jason Moody is the Founder and Creative Director of Colossul Studios and the visionary creator behind the highly anticipated animated series, Gabriel and the Guardians.
In this episode, Paul Anleitner discusses with Jason Moody the strange contextual world of the Bible and how he was inspired to create a fantasy series that could explore some of that world and some of the deepest ideas of the Bible.
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