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Doubletake is a narrative podcast. We tell stories creatively about interesting people encountering big ideas. It’s journalism plus storytelling, informed by a biblical worldview.
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Just a bad idea
Everybody knows you’re not supposed to bargain with God–but what if you do?
Fighting for Sabbath rest
A mailman tries to keep his job and his convictions
Intended for Evil: Part III
After Radha Manickam loses almost his entire family under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, hope arrives in a most unlikely way
Intended for Evil: Part II
Radha Manickam and his family struggle to survive in the Khmer Rouge’s brutal work camps
Intended for Evil: Part I
Radha Manickam watched as the most totalitarian government in modern history marched into Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975
The last safe place
The Assad government is gone, but Christians in northeast Syria are still stuck in a simmering conflict
Doubletake: Hawler's story
An ISIS refugee returns to Syria to share Christ with the Muslim uncle who’d nearly killed her
Singletake: Dear Dad
Last year Doubletake host Les Sillars wrote a series of letters to his father. He never sent them. Now he can't.
Singletake: Free stuff
Two game show contestants realize that everything we have is a gift
A Digital Revolt
Parents at a small Christian school who pledged to get rid of social media discover that’s easier said than done
In Glass, Part II
A story about a woman who wishes she’d asked a few more questions before making some life and death decisions
In Glass, Part I
The story of a woman who faced a really loaded question: how far should you go to get pregnant?
The Rise and Fall of Purity Culture
Through the eyes of a couple who lived through some of its best features–and some of its worst
Navigating the Wilderness of Grief
World Radio’s Jenny Rough explores the connections between dementia, the ability to navigate, and her own mom’s passing
The Feminine Mystake
Mallory Millett blames her own feminist icon sister Kate for the most destructive ideas about women the world has ever seen
In the running
A father and his son push through challenges God has set before them
Three Questions
Could you testify to Christ if your life was on the line?
The Death Doula
A Christian woman learns what it means to patrol the line between life and death
Dreamland
A young man teaches himself to “lucid dream” and stumbles into one of life’s great mysteries
Breaking a blood oath
An Albanian family struggles desperately to avoid getting caught up in “blood feud”