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Apocrypals
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The podcast where Chris Sims and Benito Cereno read Bible and Bible-adjacent literature and try not to be ding-dangs about it

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That’s awesome — I’d love to be out there for a Saint Martin procession someday. Or in Prague, where he rides across the Charles Bridge on a white horse
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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The life and undeath of Christina the Astonishing, the zombie saint

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Apocrypals: 115: Hell Is The Big Show (The Life of St. Christina the Astonishing)
CONTENT WARNING: Our discussion of St. Christina includes mention of self-harm and mental illness.  It's Halloween, TheoKILLoi, and that means it's time once again for our annual tradition of Hai...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For this episode we watched one of the worst things we've ever seen: The Lock-In (2014), a Christian movie about a haunted porno mag

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Apocrypals: 110: The Beastie Boys' Worst Nightmare (The Lock-In (2014))
Happy Halloween, The-AHHH!-philoi! As is our tradition here on the show, we're spending the spookiest day of the year looking at texts involving haints and saints! Sort of! We're pushing the definitio...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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More stories of the Baal Shem Tov: this one has dinosaurs and bone monsters and a swamp monster

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Apocrypals: 107: Hellmensch (Stories of the Baal Shem Tov, vol. 2)
You there, Theophiloi, what day is to-day? What? It's mid-November? Well, we keep the spirit of Halloween in our hearts year round on this podcast, so we're going ahead with our annual tradition of Ha...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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This episode features traditional stories of the Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, aka the Baal Shem Tov aka the BeShT, using the holy power of the true name of God to fight werewolves and ghosts

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Apocrypals: 96: The Goku of Judaism (Stories of the Baal Shem Tov)
Happy Halloween, FIENDS and NeighBOOs! It’s the spookiest time of year, and to get in the SPIRIT, we’re reading about how the Master of The Good Name and founder of Hassidic Judaism fought a werewolf ...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We've talked in several episodes about how the modern conception of Hell doesn't exist in the Bible, but there are several texts that are important evolutions of the idea.

The Apocalypse of Peter shows a Hell full of the most disgusting stuff you can imagine

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Apocrypals: 75: Lazer Babies (The Apocalypse of Peter)
Happy Halloween, DRACULA-philoi, and pre-SCARE to have your sins counted as we descend once more into HELL! Specifically the Hell described in the Apocalypse of Simon "The Rock" Peter, in which everyo...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Depending on where you grew up, you might be familiar with the horrible little religious tracts that use comics to try to tell you that Star Wars will damn your soul to Hell

Either way, here's an overview of some Halloween-themed Chick tracts

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Apocrypals: 51: Jesus, Buffy (Halloween Chick Tracts)
It's the spookiest day of the year, TheAWFULoi, and your humble Sons of ThUNDEAD are back at it with a deep dive into our least canonical selection: the evangelizing comic book tracts of Jack T. Chick...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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No, definitely not. I didn’t know any Catholics as a kid
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Happy Michael Festival
September 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM