On Shifting Ground

About On Shifting Ground

Church membership in the U.S. has fallen off a cliff and pastors across the country are trying to save their congregations from shrinking to zero. Why have so many people left Christianity and can pastors do anything to save their churches from dying?

Publisher

Mateo Schimpf

Category

religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Apr 2023

Latest episode

1 May 2025

Latest episodes

1 of 152 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 May 2025

   EP4. Stigma

   This episode explores a declining church's reinvention efforts and its young members' challenges in discussing Christianity, revealing the complexities of faith in modern society.

2. 

   24 Apr 2025

   EP3. Chicago

   Rapper and pastor Julian Deshazier discusses the challenges of engaging youth from his South Side Chicago neighborhood in church services, highlighting the difficulties of connecting with them.

3. 

   17 Apr 2025

   EP2. Little Lithuania

   Christian Allyn fights to save his beloved Lithuanian church, St. Joseph’s Church, in Waterbury, Connecticut, after the archbishop plans to close it.

Inside a recent episode

Scott Galloway: Dislike by Design, How Big Tech Drives ‘American Enragement’

Published 25 Jan 2024 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Boy Scout, Girl Scout attendance, we're not going out as much. The number of teens who see their friends every day has been cut in half. So we don't like each other. We're more worried about people in the other party than we are Russians pouring over the border of Ukraine. And the way you defeat an enemy is you atomize it. You get them fighting each other and then you come in and clean it up. And you could argue that's what's being done to us. So we talk about great threats to society, carbon, climate change, income inequality. But I would argue the biggest threat to society is polarization and rage, largely fomented by a group of incredibly talented, well-resourced companies who who have a profit incentive in dividing us. […]

Who has been a guest on On Shifting Ground

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Julian Deshazier
• Christian Allyn
• Jennifer Cohn

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

46,055,904

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

225 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

37 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

66

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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