As longtime Weirdo Listeners know, we don’t always have guests—but when we do, they win awards. Or they should. New York Times contributor Sam Kestenbaum won a 2023 Wilbur Award this past spring for a captivating article on Kathryn Krick—a Christian social media celebrity and charismatic preacher who frequents parks in the Los Angeles area to perform healings and exorcisms. The article is called “Demontime: How a former actress-turned-Christian EDM singer from small-town New York became a Pentecostal faith healer for the TikTok era”: https://thelandmag.com/krick-ministry-faith-healer/.
In honor of the award, we’re rebroadcasting this, one of our most popular eps from 2022! In which we talk with Sam about the article and the person behind it.
Updated Notes: Kathryn is still going strong…
Kathryn Krick on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ApostleKathrynKrick [[where the majority of her activity seems to be now]]
Kathryn Krick on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@_apostlekathrynkrick [[she seems to have stopped posting new material here??]]
Sam Kestenbaum on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skestenbaum
Kathryn Krick’s church webpage: https://5fchurch.org/leadership
Interview with Sam Kestenbaum: https://therevealer.org/insights-from-a-religion-reporter/
Sam’s website: https://samkestenbaum.com/
106 THE HIGHLIGHTER (on reading and erasing the Bible)
105 THE PAPERCLIPALYPSE (pre-existent AI spirituality and doom scenarios)
057 THE QISAPPOINTMENT (failed QAnon prophecies, prediction disappointment) [January 2021]
104 THE CALLMEMAYBE (Third Eagle of the Apocalypse rises with Carly Rae Jepson analysis)
032 THE CREATOR (Elizabeth Holmes gender smackdown) [August 2019]
103 THE INDIANA (...Jones, that is!!)
102 THE CONSULTANT (does Jesus look at you with compassion...or anger!)
101 THE DECAPITATED (the Wind tells me I'm a ghost; Tucker says Trump is “demonic”)
100 THE NATIONALISTS (Deuteronomy ch. 32, Moses sings, and Republicans want a Christian nation)
099 THE DOMINION (a new Christian dating site, and the Gospel Coalition sex article scandal)
098 THE BREAKFAST (Brian scores an exclusive and mysterious invitation)
097 THE REVIVAL (examining debate about the "revival" at Asbury University)
096 THE SUPERBOWL (wealthy people selling Jesus to Americans during a football game)
095 THE NEPHILIM (who are they, and why did they create the Federal Reserve?)
094 THE GIANT (conspiracies about long-dead giants on YouTube)
093 THE MIDTERMS (on voting as a religious act and who loves Israel most)
092 THE SKULLS (creepy but maybe comforting neolithic plastered skulls from Jericho)
PROGRAMMING NOTE (summer break)
091 THE MARDEVIL (reviving a soap opera’s weirdly religious moment)
090 THE PROFESSOR (the sage, the mentor, the crush, the villain)
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