Vacation Bible School Podcast

Vacation Bible School Podcast

Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk

Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 1h 11m
Activity Moderate
Since May 2020
Latest Episode Jul 2025

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Schedule
Quarterly
Format
Episodic
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anchor.fm

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About This Podcast

Jason Kirk, Emily Kirk, and friends are finding the Bible is so much better and weirder than we were taught as church kids. Story by story, we're having fun learning history, religion, literature, mythology, and the amazingly weird stuff. All are welcome! Perfect five-star rating on Apple Podcasts! Contact us at [email protected], if you like! (Sure, it's long! Copy and paste like Matthew did the Gospel of Mark!)

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Recent Episodes

BEARS: Pyromaniac vs. Hela (with Spencer Hall)

Jul 28, 2025 1h 42m

It's finally time for the story of two hungry bears versus 42 unruly youths!Hairy fire guy versus the Bible's alleged worst woman (who did nothing wrong) and her useless little emo husband, the…

KINGS: National divorce (feat Trey Ferguson)

Apr 28, 2025 1h 12m

The Book of (First) Kings, chapters 11-16, a part of the Bible that's gonna sound like we chose it specifically because it was recorded in April 2025. But first, did you know the names of comically…

SOLOMON, the fake-deep pharaoh (with Wes Howard-Brook)

Mar 12, 2024 1h 12m

We are so freaking back. We're joined by Seattle University professor emeritus Wes Howard-Brook, author of works like Come Out My People: God's Call Out of Empire in the Bible and Beyond, to…

DAVID & BATHSHEBA: The discourse (with April Ajoy)

Jul 13, 2023 1h 27m

Hello! Let's sprint through a big (but action-packed) portion of the Book of Samuel and then focus on the story of King David and Bathsheba. Almost everything you've ever heard about this story has…

DAVID & JONATHAN: Biased toward love (with Mason Mennenga)

Apr 10, 2023 1h 38m

We're back in the Book of Samuel, starting in chapter 18, where giant-killer David meets Israel's other war hero, Prince Jonathan. To quote Taylor Swift, sparks fly. Platonic sparks, your Sunday…

DAVID VS GOLIATH: Are we the baddies? (with Andrew Whitehead)

Dec 20, 2022 1h 37m

Samuel chapter 17! We've reached a Bible story everybody PRETTY MUCH knows, though there are still lots of fun details. It wasn't a slingshot, for one thing! Goliath is the Statue of Liberty of…

KING SAUL: Himbo Boss Baby vs. Dungeon Master Dick Cheney

Sep 12, 2022 56m

Samuel 7-16! The Bible contains a LOT of genres. Uh-oh, you're now in the middle of a Machiavellian historical novel about Derek Zoolander!  Time for our regular installment of Which Part Of This…

S4E3 SAMUEL: "The Messiah" and the golden hemorrhoid rats

May 30, 2022 48m

We're entering a whole new chunk of the Bible, and it might be a surprise chunk! Why we're now in Samuel instead of Ruth, the book that's up next according to Christian Bibles!  Yet another barren…

S4E2 JUDGES: Righteous invasion of Ehud (with Jon Bois)

Mar 01, 2022 2h 3m

It's time to bring on the internet's beloved Jon Bois to discuss: The Bible's best story book so far, if you have the non-exploding stomach for it: Judges. Meet Ehud, the left-handed…

S4E1 JOSHUA: Jericho was an inside job

Feb 03, 2022 57m

WAR DADS AND LADY WAR DADS ASSEMBLE. It's a new Bible section!  Joshua is the dude version of LIVE LAUGH LOVE, but also somehow the most feminist book yet.  Rahab, the Bible character whose job is…

S3E11 DEUUUTERONOMY: Actually super important and mostly really good??

Nov 30, 2021 1h 25m

The final book of the Torah, the one we NEVER talked about in church, actually ... kinda rules at times?  In the story, at the edge of Canaan, Moses reframes everything that's happened to this…

S3E10 NUMBERS: Maybe the Bible's worst book!

Sep 13, 2021 1h 2m

The fourth book of the Bible! As always, remember the Bible has been written, edited, and interpreted by LOTS of people, and we're under no obligation to treat its angriest voices as definitive of…

S2E2 Q&A: Heresy reviews, salvation fear, and animal souls

Jul 12, 2021 1h 26m

Hi pals! Taking a break from the main Bible storyline to hit some listener questions, such as: What's the Protestant holiday calendar like?  Which Bible verse most contradicts its own book?  …

S3E9 LEVITICUS: Fight fundie with fundie

May 17, 2021 59m

Our first attempt at doing an entire book in one episode, and it  happens to be one of the weirdest, grossest, narrative-lightest books. Yay! Spending as little time as possible on the chapters…

S3E8 TABERNACLE: I feel God in this Minecraft tailgate (with Rev. Chris Lee)

Mar 10, 2021 51m

Pretty much the whole last half of Exodus, except for the Ten Commandments-adjacent rules and the Golden Calf chapter Why yes, we DID have fun talking about quite arguably the most boring stretch of…

S3E7 GOLDEN CALF: God's marshmallow test (with Jane Coaston)

Jan 25, 2021 1h 4m

Exodus 24, Exodus 32, and so forth (there's a whole lot of laws and blueprints mixed within the storyline) ... Think the Bible itself is weird? Wait'll you get a load of church history!  …

S3E6 TEN COMMANDMENTS: Wife Guy Moses and God's TOS page

Nov 25, 2020 56m

Exodus 20! How many of these Ten do we agree to keep today? They all seem pretty simple, obvious, or outdated, right? Well!!  Tried something new: recorded a Zoom with a few of our Patreon Associate…

S3E5 SINAI: What's the Bible about? (with Richard Elliott Friedman)

Nov 02, 2020 1h 10m

Exodus 19-20ish, the part about Moses leading the Israelites to meet Huge Loud Scary Firestorm God Greatest pyro entrance of all time Is monotheism having a moment? We're joined by Dr. Friedman…

S2E1 Q&A: Our stories, Christian punk rock, and Baptist spaceships

Oct 01, 2020 1h 3m

Support for this program occurs at patreon.com/vbspodcast, where we have stickers, mugs, a Discord, hats (for now), early episode access, and so forth! - Taking a break from the main storyline, where…

S3E3 THE RED SEA: First of all, it wasn't the Red Sea

Sep 07, 2020 54m

Exodus 13-18, one of the most Google Maps portions Something similar to the story could've happened!  But there's no way to know! And that's ok!  Let's discuss the Indiana Jones of Bible scammers,…

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