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/
056 THE BUFFALO (Capitol riot, Jake Angeli, QAnon, apocalypse, epiphany, and iconography of the insurrection)
055 THE SOUND (The Sound of Music is a Christmas movie fight us)
054 THE HEX (witches hex trump, Paula White-Cain summons African angels)
053 THE UPLOAD (crossover with Bioethics for the People on the Amazon show Upload)
052 THE RETREAT (the Kitsch Corner is back, with two personal accounts of a men's retreat)
051 THE GRANDPA (Grandpa Kitchen, food memories, death ritual, Orientalism)
050 THE FIANCÉ (90 Day Fiance, Biblical marriage patterns, "hot ladies" and "dumpy dudes")
049 THE MILITIAS (Rick Joyner's call for new militia-based wars based on a dream)
048 THE DICTATOR (BRIAN AND LEAH DISCUSS HOT NEW CAREER FIELDS IN THE 2020S)
047 THE COUNTERPART (LEAH SHARES A NEW FAV SHOW)
046 THE CARPET (A DREAM INVOLVING HERACLITUS)
045 THE CHARACTERS (BRIAN REVEALS THAT HE HATES MOST BATTLESTAR CHARACTERS SO FAR)
044 THE EXCITEMENT (THINGS ARE HAPPENING FILL YOUR LAMP WITH OIL)
043 THE GROCERIES (RUSH THE STORE SCRATCH YOUR EYE)
042 THE TEACHOUT (WE'RE WORKING FROM HOME NOW)
041 THE COMFORTS (WHAT WE WATCH IN TROUBLED TIMES)
040 THE DREAM (LIVIN IN THE LAND OF NOD)
TRAILER: WEIRD RELIGION IN THE AGE OF THE VIRUS (PASS THE MIC)
039 THE PREMIUM (class war; bigfoot; Jordache jeans; expensive shirts; sneakers; mean girls)
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