The Religious Treehouse

Welcome to the Religious Treehouse! Remember when you were a kid and would have deep conversations in a treehouse-like setting? That’s what we’re trying to recreate here! Hosts, Jodie Alderette and Matthew Day, attempt to discuss the important topics surrounding religion in a fun, exciting, and academic fashion. With Matthew’s specialty in Hebrew Bible, expect lots of Hebrew Bible episodes, but we hope to present a wide variety of Religions and Religious Practices, too. This isn’t your average Bible Study!

The Religious Treehouse is a religion podcast hosted by Matthew Day and Jodie Alderette, with 96 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Matthew Day and Jodie Alderette hosts The Religious Treehouse, a religion show with 96 episodes published.

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  Episode #97

  #97 Adam and Eve (1983): A TRT Movie Review

  Sep 13, 202642 min

  Jodie and Matthew watch Adam and Eve (1983), originally titled “Adamo ed Eva: la prima storia d'amore,” which is an Italian film that takes influence from the biblical Adam and Eve story. In short, this movie confounded Jodie and Matthew. It was low budget, and perhaps made claims about a lot of things ranging from evolution to the patriarchy, but Jodie and Matthew could not tell where it stood on such concepts. In sum, Adam and Eve is a wild film that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but we can all agree at the very least that the movie exists… I guess. Anyways, send us more movie recommendations, critiques, or send us comments about what this movie is actually about because we need help figuring it out. Matthew Rating: 2/5 Jodie Rating: 3/5 Follow our socials and reach out to us with thoughts or questions! Bluesky: @TheRELTreehouse Instagram: @TheReligiousTreehouse TikTok: @thereligioustreehouse Facebook: TRT Email: TheReligiousTreehouse@gmail.com

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  Episode #96

  #96 [RE-RELEASE] Leviathan and Monsters in the Bible

  Sep 5, 202657 min

  In this re-release, originally posted on May 3, 2025, Jodie and Matthew briefly introduce what a monster is, where they show up in the Bible, and how modern discussions tend to tame them. Then, they get into it with the leviathan and how it’s the biggest and baddest of monsters, but also maybe God’s BFF? Take a listen and let us know what you think!! Works Referenced and Recommended Readings: God’s Monsters:Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible - by Esther J. Hamori Grafius, B. R. (2017). Text and Terror: Monster Theory and the Hebrew Bible. Currents in Biblical Research, 16(1), 34-49. (Original work published 2017) Follow our socials and reach out to us with thoughts or questions! Twitter/X: @TheRELTreehouse Bluesky: @TheRELTreehouse Instagram: @TheReligiousTreehouse TikTok: @thereligioustreehouse Facebook: TRT Email: TheReligiousTreehouse@gmail.com

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  Episode #95

  #95 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): A TRT Movie Review

  Aug 29, 202642 min

  Jodie and Matthew watch Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1996), one of Disney’s most explicitly religious movies. Tackling themes of genocide, otherness, lust, and other heavy ideas, this is also one of Disney’s most hard-hitting movies, but it did so in a very tasteful and subtle way. Jodie and Matthew discuss how it portrays religion at its best and as its worst - as a prison and as a sanctuary - and how the religious themes impacted the message The Hunchback of Notre Dame was pushing. Let us know your thoughts, opinions, and disagreements! Matthew Rating: 4.5/5 Jodie Rating: 5/5 Follow our socials and reach out to us with thoughts or questions! Bluesky: @TheRELTreehouse Instagram: @TheReligiousTreehouse TikTok: @thereligioustreehouse Facebook: TRT Email: TheReligiousTreehouse@gmail.com

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  Episode #94

  #94 Questions and Response Episode PART 2!

  Aug 23, 20261 hour

  Jodie and Matthew had such a great time with their first Q&R Episode, that they decided to do it again, addressing the questions below: If you had to recommend one translation for someone who wants to get as close as possible to the original meaning, knowing no translation is perfect, which would it be and why? What’s a widely-assumed “biblical idea” that’s actually a later theological or cultural addition/contribution, rather than something in the text itself? If you could spend time with any religious community (past or present), to study them in a totally ethical way, which would you choose and why? Is there a working scholarly definition of “religion” at all, or has the field mostly given up on drawing up a boundary? What’s a scholarly finding you think a general audience would find genuinely destabilizing if it were more widely known? If you could excavate one lost document (like something we know exists but haven't found), what would you choose to dig up? How do you, or do you at all, find your own biases influencing your interpretations of religious content/the selection of content discussed on the podcast, and how do you plan on navigating this/recommending others navigate it as well? Send us more questions so we can do another episode like this in the future! Follow our socials and reach out to us with thoughts or questions! Bluesky: @TheRELTreehouse Instagram: @TheReligiousTreehouse TikTok: @thereligioustreehouse Facebook: TRT Email: TheReligiousTreehouse@gmail.com

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  Episode #93

  #93 Hadestown: The Musical (2026): A TRT Movie Review

  Aug 16, 202652 min

  Jodie and Matthew watch Hadestown: The Musical (2026). Recently released in theaters (and at the time of this episode coming out, no longer in theaters), Hadestown is a proshot of the original broadway cast in London’s West End and it is AMAZING. If you haven’t seen Hadestown, go to New York or London, or see it on tour, or see it when it gets released. Jodie, but mainly Matthew, decide to take a break from a religious discussion just so they can nerd out over Hadestown in this episode, highlighting their favorite and least favorite performances and themes presented in the musical. If you have never seen Hadestown, Matthew describes Hadestown as an ecological and existential critique of unfettered capitalism hidden behind the guise of a romantic tragedy. Listen along to and share your thoughts, agreements, disagreements, and comments! Matthew Rating: 5/5 Jodie Rating: 4/5 Follow our socials and reach out to us with thoughts or questions! Bluesky: @TheRELTreehouse Instagram: @TheReligiousTreehouse TikTok: @thereligioustreehouse Facebook: TRT Email: TheReligiousTreehouse@gmail.com

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