Prodigal The Podcast

About Prodigal The Podcast

🎙️ Prodigal: The Podcast — Notice the Pattern Prodigal: The Podcast explores the patterns hiding underneath religion, politics, power, and culture — and asks what it actually costs us to keep looking away from them. Hosted by Don Jackson and Daysha Voss, the show pairs honest, sometimes uncomfortable conversation with real reporting — tracing the same institutional playbooks across faith, government, money, and technology, from ancient history to this week's headlines. Inspired in part by Don Jackson's upcoming book, Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God, the podcast grew out of questions about religious institutions and belief — and has widened into something bigger: a regular look at how power holds onto itself, whoever's holding it and whatever century it is. Prodigal: The Podcast is part of a larger ecosystem built around the same idea. Prodigal Breaking News covers the pattern as it happens, day to day. Prodigal AI companion guides turn each story into something to actually sit with. And the podcast is where it all gets talked through out loud, unscripted, between two people who don't always agree. What You'll Hear on Prodigal Religion, Deconstruction & Institutional Power What happens when people question inherited belief systems, and how religious structures shape politics and public life. Power, Money & the Machinery of Control From colonial history to national debt, surveillance, and who actually benefits when a system says it's protecting you. Healing From Religious and Institutional Trauma Conversations about recovering from toxic theology, broken systems, and reclaiming personal agency. Philosophy, Psychology & Consciousness Deeper questions about meaning, identity, and why people believe what they believe. Real Stories of Transformation Personal journeys through faith crisis, institutional betrayal, and coming out the other side clearer. Who This Podcast Is For Prodigal is for listeners who are: Questioning their faith or the institutions they were handed Trying to understand how religion, politics, and power actually connect Exploring spirituality outside traditional structures Paying attention to where AI, surveillance, and economic policy are heading Searching for a plainer, less performative way to talk about all of it Whether you're navigating a faith transition, trying to make sense of the news, or just tired of conversations that flatten everything into a side, Prodigal offers a place to actually think it through. About the Hosts Don Jackson is the founder of the Prodigal Movement, a platform examining spirituality, psychology, power, and cultural transformation. His work traces how belief systems — religious, political, and economic — shape identity, institutions, and collective consciousness. His upcoming book, Prodigal: Leaving Church and Finding God, explores his own journey out of institutional religion. Daysha Voss is the show's co-host — the second voice in the room, there to push back before an idea hardens into certainty. She doesn't always read a pattern the same way Don does, and that's on purpose: the show works because two people are actually working something out, not performing agreement for an audience. Join the Conversation Subscribe to Prodigal: The Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and your favorite podcast platform. For daily coverage and deeper essays on religion, politics, and power, visit prodigalthepodcast.substack.com — home to Prodigal Breaking News and the full written archive behind everything discussed on the show.

Publisher

Hosted by Don Jackson

Category

news · news · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Feb 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

44 episodes in the feed.

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   21 Oct 2026

   Episode 40: They’re Bracing For It. You Should Show Up For It.

   Send us Fan Mail When the people running the system start preparing for the system to break, that’s not paranoia. That’s information. Daysha Voss takes the lead chair today, with Latisha Sky as co-host, while Don’s away on a well-earned break. They connect the threads running through today’s Six Beats. The Supreme Court declined to open a door that would have let power move faster with less oversight. A voter list review is already knocking legitimate names off the rolls. And election officia...

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   13 Oct 2026

   Episode 39: Power Is Taken — What They Said, What They've Done, and What Comes Next

   Send us Fan Mail Less than three weeks to the midterms. Early voting is open. And the people closest to the president have said out loud what they're willing to consider if the vote goes the wrong way for them. Don Jackson and Daysha Voss sort every claim into three labels, every time: what we know (documented, with who said it), what they said they'd do (their own words), and what we think (our inference, and we say when it's ours). The Time interview where Trump won't rule out a national em...

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   10 Oct 2026

   Episode 38: What Are You? Before Religion Told You Who You Were

   Send us Fan Mail Somebody told Don this week that her husband could debate him because he's a pastor. Somebody else said some theology is not debatable. Underneath both sentences is a bigger question: when did knowing the Bible become the same thing as knowing Reality? Don Jackson and Daysha Voss start with a Facebook graphic that lit up the comments, give religion its best argument (churches feed people, and plenty of pastors protect children), keep the documented abuse record in the frame, ...

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