Episodes 119
Avg. Duration 57m
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Since Oct 2020
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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About This Podcast

Welcome to the Holy Watermelon podcast, where a Christian and an atheist talk about the weird and wonderful things that people do because of what they believe. It's a show about religious studies. Join us, Katie and Preston, as we dive into the world of comparative religion. We use humor and research to have real, challenging, and uproarious conversations about the world's religious traditions and behaviors. If you're interested in religious studies, learning about other people and cultures, or fun facts for your dinner conversation, tune in to our monthly episodes.

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Escaping Christadelphianism - an Interview with Zinnia

Aug 12, 2025 1h 15m

Totalitarian control is popular in religious groups. Zinnia escaped the Christadelphian church a few years back, and now she hosts a podcast (Life After Leaving) all about supporting…

Torah! Torah! Torah!

Jun 28, 2025 43m

Previously a Patreon Exclusive episode: We're opening the vault to showcase some of our older subscriber content.For the first time, Katie reads the Torah (The Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses),…

Reviewing Belief

May 26, 2025 1h 23m

Is belief a choice, or are our beliefs inherent to us? How do we decide whether something is true or not? With more than 8 billion people on the planet, there are about 10,000 different types of…

Can't Buy Me Love

Apr 21, 2025 1h 3m

Martin Luther is a hero to countless Christians around the world. The birth of European Protestantism and the Lutheran Church cannot be expressed without citing the 95 theses that Martin Luther…

Sufi-Caliph-Rajah-Mystic-expialidocious

Mar 28, 2025 1h 3m

Tasawwuf is the old word for dressing in wool, the typical identifier for a monk, ascetic, and mystic. Today, we pronounce it Sufi.The Sufi tradition dates back to the foundation of Islam, though…

Roses, Crosses, and Confessions

Feb 24, 2025 50m

Christian mysticism is widely spread through this relatively common but fairly new tradition derived almost exclusively from what might have been parody pamphlets that told the story of Christian…

Receiving Red Rope

Jan 27, 2025 59m

Kabbalah isn't just another branch of Judaism--it's more mystical and personal. The idea is hat you really connect with the creator of the universe--but if you fail at that, there's always another…

Heart and Stomach

Dec 30, 2024 1h 5m

Over millennia, countless dietary traditions have formed around the world; many are tied strictly to religious traditions, and have thereby been empowered to stand the test of time (with some…

Nativity Narratives - an Interview with Mina Angotti

Dec 16, 2024 1h 2m

Mina Angotti has a Master's degree in theology, focusing her studies on Mary, the Mother of Christ. Mina is a longtime friend of the show, and a devout Catholic. She's here to tell us about the…

Papal Papers Please

Dec 02, 2024 53m

Vatileaks (or Vatican Document Leaks) caused a lot of trouble in Rome in 2012, leading directly (allegedly) to the Pope abdicating his office for the first time in centuries.Paolo Gabriele (papal…

Let's Get Dao to Business

Nov 18, 2024 58m

Daoism (formerly called Taosim) is the more prominent indigenous religion of China.Daoism incorporates philosophical writings from ancient scholars, and mystic divination based on a variety of…

AUM-mageddon

Nov 04, 2024 47m

Shoko Asahara (born Chizuo Matsumoto) led a modest cultus that grew rapidly beyond the borders of its native Japan. A blind acupuncturist,  Asahara was convicted of selling pharmaceuticals illegally…

Cthulhu and the First Sneeze

Oct 23, 2024 1h

Literature is full of doomsday cults, but the real world is much more chilling.This week we explore the Great Green Arkleseizure, the Cthulhu mythos, and the many gods described in the works of Neil…

Root Awakening

Oct 07, 2024 52m

Hoodoo is a terribly syncretic religion, developed as a sibling to Voodoo (and there are other siblings in this family, too). Magickcrafts have been traded for as long as people have been trading…

Branded Self-Help

Sep 23, 2024 1h 17m

Keith Raniere is the object of worship in the NXIVM cult, a god in the plainest sense of the word. The founder of a few MLMs, this guy knew how to make a fortune from people who turned out to be easy…

Written in the Stars

Sep 09, 2024 47m

New Age religion is a lot more than a scheme to sell books and crystals, it's a belief that a new age of enlightenment is dawning--or did so centuries ago--or is centuries away. It might be something…

Mayan'd Your Business

Aug 26, 2024 46m

Latin  America has managed to preserve some of its pre-Columbian religious heritage, so we're going to explore the traditions of the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and Inca nations. We explore cocaine,…

Cult Classics

Aug 12, 2024 51m

It's time to take another look at religion in popular culture, in particular, cults in film, and why we love telling these stories.The Wicker Man (Either Christopher Lee's 1973 classic, or Nicolas…

An August Assembly - an Interview with Dr. Sean Hannan

Jul 29, 2024 1h 10m

Dr. Sean Hannan did his post-graduate studies at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of MacEwan University in Edmonton Alberta. His studies revolve around St. Augustine of Hippo, and…

Don't Skip the Good Ones

Jul 15, 2024 36m

After ragging on people who surely don't deserve the veneration they receive from faithful Christians around the world, for their questionable morality, or even dubious historicity, it's time for us…

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