The Esau McCaulley Podcast
Esau McCaulley
Show overview
The Esau McCaulley Podcast has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 102 episodes. That works out to roughly 80 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 44 min and 51 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 35 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 53 episodes published. Published by Esau McCaulley.
From the publisher
The Esau McCaulley Podcast unpacks the cultural stories that shape our lives. Pop culture always reveals something about what it means to be human: both our glory and our brokenness. Rather than retreating from the culture, Esau and his friends dive in head-on, bringing theological depth, humor, and a perspective you won't find anywhere else. From movies and music to news and politics, we find what is true, good, and beautiful about the complex world we live in.
Latest Episodes
View all 102 episodesCharlie Dates on Justice, Righteousness, and Why the Church Needs Both
Spider-Man, Loneliness & the Search for Meaning
Multi-Ethnic Churches and a Theology That Heals
Is Trump Keeping Gen Z Out of Church?
The Odyssey, A.I. Death bots, and the Cost of Victory
Making Sense of the Deaths of Lindsey Graham and Nolan Wells
America's Weird Birthday and Trump's Bad Vibes
Texas Wants More Bible, America Wants Fewer Kids
Is America Better Than We Think?
Fight Club at the White House
Bonus Episode: Comforting the Grieving and Explaining Esther and Job
Pope Leo's AI Warning & America's Happiness Crisis
How to Stay Christian When Everything Seems Awful
Why the Church Needs Rituals Again
Trump's golden statue and Alien Invasions
Gutting the Voting Rights Act and Why Results Matter as Much as Intent
Another Assassination Attempt & What We're Missing About DEI
The Death of Monoculture and What Comes After
Trump as the Good Physician and Bieber's Coachella Performance
Trump's Crazy Holy Week
A government official claims God teleported him to a Waffle House, and somehow that is not the strangest part of this conversation. Esau is joined by producer Mike and Stephen Harris to discuss Holy Week at the White House, where the language of resurrection, sacrifice, and salvation was tangled up with politics, power, and some very questionable comparisons. They also wrestle with how Christians can believe in the miraculous without losing their grip on wisdom, and why performative faith keeps missing the point of the gospel. Finally, Esau and Stephen disagree about the casting of Paapa Essiedu as Snape in the new Harry Potter series, raising questions about storytelling, representation, and when creative changes actually make a story worse. 0:00 - Theme Song 1:55 - Teleporting to Waffle House! 11:38 - Comparing Trump to Christ 15:23 - Trump's Easter Tweet 20:21 - God and the State 28:42 - Sponsor - Tyndale - On The BEMA Podcast, Marty Solomon dives deep into the Bible. Learn more at https://navpress.com 30:05 - Saul and Performative Christianity 38:42 - HBO Cast a Black Actor as Snape? 55:55 - End Credits