This Fire

What do Jesus, internet censorship, an Israeli cyber security firm, AI slop for kids, and a reality show exploiting unhoused people have in common?
 
Today on This Fire we take a look at the wild world of faith based telecoms, and discuss whether these “accountability” focused services are simply helping Christian customers walk their walk, or…if they have more nefarious goals in mind…

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This Fire is taking an in depth look at Fire By Nite - a Christian teen variety show produced at the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic.

NINETEEN-EIGHTY NINE a number, another summer. (Get down) Batman is dominating the box office, the dulcet tones of Kim Boyce are blasting from every car stereo, as the Satanic Panic and fear over the “jungle rhythms” of modern pop and rock music weigh heavy on the parents of America.
 
Today on This Fire we ask the tough questions, and investigate whether the Christian Contemporary Music of the late 1980s POISONED a generation of young minds, as we look back at the June 1989 episode of Fire By Nite - “Let’s Face The Music”.

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This Fire is taking an in depth look at Fire By Nite - a Christian teen variety show produced at the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic.

Today on This Fire we’re a direct democracy, as we let YOU choose what we tackle for the next installment of our Profiles in Christian Nationalism series…and you chose…the 2026 propaganda documentary MELANIA (all caps)…

Join us as we spend an afternoon in hell, re-tracing the First Lady’s 20 days leading up to the 2025 inauguration. Visiting her dress designer…making former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral all about herself…and then visiting her dress designer again. Truly a whirlwind!
 
Its the documentary that makes Fire By Nite look like an academy award worthy production - Amazon MGM’s bribe….er, I mean film: MELANIA.
 
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This Fire is (usually) taking an in depth look at Fire By Nite - a Christian teen variety show produced at the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic, occasionally taking a break to look at the modern Christian Nationalist movement that era gave birth to.

This month on This Fire, we’re looking at the May 1989 episode of Fire By Nite: “Why Good People Go To Hell”. A primer on the fear, uncertainty, and doubt instilled in a generation of young Christians who accepted Jesus as their personal lord and savior, but still couldn’t help but wonder “Am I REALLY going to heaven?…You sure about that Clark?”

PLUS, terrifying mimes (and pirates) as Christian ballet fantasia Toymaker’s Dream takes Soviet Russia by storm! Think a low budget evangelical version of ‘Shen Yun’, and you’re about 80% of the way there.

All this and MORE, on this brand new episode of This Fire!

This month on This Fire, we’re looking at the April 1989 episode of Fire By Nite: “Idols in Your Life”, as we explore just how Evangelical Christians warned themselves about the pitfalls of worshipping false idols…and then promptly fell into a decades long pattern of electing them into office.

PLUS, the return of Christianity’s own American Idol: The man, the myth, the MAGA entertainer in the making - CARMAN! 

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This Fire is taking an in depth look at Fire By Nite - a Christian teen variety show produced at the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic. 

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