Zealots at the Gate
Hosted by Shadi and Matt and Matthew · Comment
4.9from 79 ratings
- 51
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 79
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 453K
- YouTube views
About Zealots at the Gate
How do you disagree with substance, respect, and a spot of laughter? Is it possible for deep difference to be the uncanny glue of a free society, and not the spark for its conflagration? What does good-faith persuasion look like anymore? Zealots at the Gate from Comment explores these questions through the friendship of two men: Muslim political thinker Shadi Hamid and Christian theologian Matthew Kaemingk. Through frank, unapologetic dialogue interrogating the future of democracy and the role of religion in North American cultural life, this is a conversation bent on charting out a new paradigm for navigating philosophical and even tribal difference with openness, good humour, and convicted humility.
- Publisher
- Comment
- Category
- religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 11 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 51 episodes have a transcript.
11 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Holy Feminism? Muslim and Christian Feminists Discuss
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can Trump Bomb Iran Into Democracy?
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
9/11: Why We Remember That Day Differently
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Holy Feminism? Muslim and Christian Feminists Discuss
Published 11 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That it is through the priesthood. I mean, this might be just a little bit of a basic question, but, you know, what is the actual stated reason for why women can't be priests? There are a number of reasons. There are some historical appeals to when Christ instituted the priesthood among his apostles, even though he deeply valued the women who followed him too, that we have women who are talked about as equal to the apostles as evangelists. He did not make any women part of the 12. They're not part of what he does at the Last Supper, where he teaches them what will become the mass. So there's a historical appeal of here's what he did. […]
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- William Wolfe
- David Brooks
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- YouTube views
- 453,268
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 45 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 34 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100
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- Quality
- 52
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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