The Shroud

Compel Studio
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  • CHRISTIANITY

A mysterious image. A centuries-old debate. A piece of linen that may, or may not, hold the face of Christ. Join us on a gripping journalistic journey as we unravel the history, legends, and scientific intrigue surrounding the Shroud of Turin. Through interviews with experts, skeptics, and true believers, we chase down clues, challenge assumptions, and seek answers to one compelling question: Could this cloth be tangible evidence of history’s greatest miracle, or its most enduring hoax?

Episodes

  1. 11/06/2025

    Episode 5: The Burden of Proof

    The Burden of Proof   At some point in this investigation, the question changed.  It stopped being, is it real? and started becoming, why do we see what we see? Because when you talk to scientists, theologians, and historians — everyone studying this cloth — they all swear they’re looking at the same data.  But they’re not.  They’re looking through different lenses. Bias is a strange thing.  It never feels like bias when it’s yours.  You think you’re following the facts, being objective, reasonable, open.  But it’s quieter than that.  It hides in what you choose to question, and what you don’t. And when it comes to the Shroud of Turin, the biases aren’t subtle.  For some, it’s proof of the resurrection.  For others, it’s a medieval forgery; a reminder that faith can be fooled.  Both sides think they’re following the evidence.  Both can’t be right. So in this episode, we’re not just testing the cloth.  We’re testing ourselves.  Because the truth isn’t just in the data... it’s in how we interpret it. SPONSOR This series is made possible by our sponsor, GTI Tours. Learn more about experiencing the land of the Bible at gtitours.org/shroud. For listeners of The Shroud, your trip comes with two exclusive gifts: Journey through Jerusalem, a nine-session teaching series exploring the city through history, archaeology, and Scripture; AND a private evening during your trip set aside just for The Shroud listeners - gathering with local guides over coffee or tea for conversations that bring the Bible to life. Go to gtitours.org/shroud and select “shroud” in the registration dropdown HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a review and rating. It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow. And, take a moment today to share this podcast on your social channels. FEATURED GUESTS Reverend Dr. Cris Rogers - Anglican PriestDr. Giulio Fanti - Mechanical Engineer & Shroud Researcher specializing in forensic and scientific analysis of the Shroud of TurinBrian Mincher - Texas Trial Attorney & Legal AnalystThe Shroud is a production of Compel Studio. ​​Hosted by Lee Shelton. Produced by Lee Shelton and Kathleen Terrill. FOLLOW Follow Compel Studio for more updates and Behind the Scenes content. Check out our Instagram @compel.studio Visit our website Compel.Studio Special thanks also to Magic Mind. You can support the show and boost your focus by visiting magicmind.com/SFW976BV. Want even more? Join our Discord group for behind-the-scenes content, Q&As, and a lot more. discord.gg/Xh8xYMCKQv

    30 min

  2. 10/30/2025

    Episode 4: The Age of Almost Certainty

    The Age of Almost Certainty  In 1988, three of the world’s most respected laboratories tested the Shroud of Turin, and the results shocked the world. “Medieval,” the scientists declared. Case closed. But what if the story wasn’t that simple? This episode revisits the most famous scientific test ever performed on a religious relic: the carbon dating of the Shroud of Turin. Through newly released data, hidden correspondence, and firsthand accounts, we uncover the human story behind the science. The pressure. The politics. The possibility that a single sample, cut from the wrong corner, changed history. Featuring physicists, historians, and nuclear engineers, The Age of Almost Certainty examines how truth, belief, and human confidence collide inside a laboratory, and how a few centimeters of ancient linen still divide science and faith thirty-five years later. SPONSOR This series is made possible by our sponsor, GTI Tours. Learn more about experiencing the land of the Bible at gtitours.org/shroud. For listeners of The Shroud, your trip comes with two exclusive gifts: Journey through Jerusalem, a nine-session teaching series exploring the city through history, archaeology, and Scripture; AND a private evening during your trip set aside just for The Shroud listeners - gathering with local guides over coffee or tea for conversations that bring the Bible to life. Go to gtitours.org/shroud and select “shroud” in the registration dropdown HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a review and rating. It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow. And, take a moment today to share this podcast on your social channels. FEATURED GUESTS Andrea Nicolotti - Professor of Christian history and relic studiesJoe Marino – Sindonologist and authorRussell Mozingo - Nuclear EngineerTristan Casabianca - Historian & Shroud research scholarThe Shroud is a production of Compel Studio. ​​Hosted by Lee Shelton. Produced by Lee Shelton and Kathleen Terrill. FOLLOW Follow Compel Studio for more updates and Behind the Scenes content. Check out our Instagram @compel.studio Visit our website Compel.Studio Special thanks also to Magic Mind. You can support the show and boost your focus by visiting magicmind.com/SFW976BV. Want even more? Join our Discord group for behind-the-scenes content, Q&As, and a lot more. discord.gg/Xh8xYMCKQv

    32 min

  3. 10/23/2025 · BONUS

    Bonus: The Hunt for God’s Relics

    BONUS: The Hunt for God’s Relics In 1938, Adolf Hitler seized the legendary Spear of Destiny, a relic said to hold the power of Christ himself. But it was not the only sacred object he wanted. As Nazi forces swept across Europe, Vatican officials launched a secret mission to protect the Shroud of Turin from the Third Reich. In this bonus episode, Lee unravels the little-known story of how a handful of monks in a mountain monastery risked everything to keep one of Christianity’s most sacred relics out of Hitler’s grasp. SPONSOR This series is made possible by our sponsor, GTI Tours. Learn more about experiencing the land of the Bible at gtitours.org/shroud. For listeners of The Shroud, your trip comes with two exclusive gifts: Journey through Jerusalem, a nine-session teaching series exploring the city through history, archaeology, and Scripture; AND a private evening during your trip set aside just for The Shroud listeners - gathering with local guides over coffee or tea for conversations that bring the Bible to life. Go to gtitours.org/shroud and select “shroud” in the registration dropdown HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a review and rating. It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow. And, take a moment today to share this podcast on your social channels. The Shroud is a production of Compel Studio. ​​Hosted by Lee Shelton. Produced by Lee Shelton and Kathleen Terrill. FOLLOW Follow Compel Studio for more updates and Behind the Scenes content. Check out our Instagram @compel.studio Visit our website Compel.Studio Special thanks also to Magic Mind. You can support the show and boost your focus by visiting magicmind.com/SFW976BV. Want even more? Join our Discord group for behind-the-scenes content, Q&As, and a lot more. discord.gg/Xh8xYMCKQv

    13 min

  4. 10/16/2025

    Episode 3: Science Meets the Sacred

    Science Meets the Sacred In 1898, an amateur photographer named Secondo Pia developed the first photograph of the Shroud of Turin and saw something that shouldn’t have been possible. What followed was a century-long struggle between faith and science. This episode traces that journey: from the silence that followed Pia’s discovery, to the surgeons and scientists who tried to decode the image, to the five nights in 1978 when modern technology met one of history’s most mysterious relics. Decades later, physicist Eric Jumper would stand before an audience and state the truth: science had uncovered data, but not answers. And the question of what lies on that linen was still very much alive. SPONSOR This series is made possible by our sponsor, GTI Tours. Learn more about experiencing the land of the Bible at gtitours.org/shroud. For listeners of The Shroud, your trip comes with two exclusive gifts: Journey through Jerusalem, a nine-session teaching series exploring the city through history, archaeology, and Scripture; AND a private evening during your trip set aside just for The Shroud listeners - gathering with local guides over coffee or tea for conversations that bring the Bible to life. Go to gtitours.org/shroud and select “shroud” in the registration dropdown HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a review and rating. It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow. And, take a moment today to share this podcast on your social channels. FEATURED GUESTS Emanuela Marinelli – Shroud researcher and authorGilbert Lavoie – Physician and Shroud researcherJoe Marino – Sindonologist and authorAndrea Nicolotti - Professor of Christian history and relic studiesDaniel Shelton - my dadArchival Audio: Dr. Eric Jumper, Elizabethtown College, 1986 (used with attribution under fair use)The Shroud is a production of Compel Studio. ​​Hosted by Lee Shelton. Produced by Lee Shelton and Kathleen Terrill. FOLLOW Follow Compel Studio for more updates and Behind the Scenes content. Check out our Instagram @compel.studio Visit our website Compel.Studio Special thanks also to Magic Mind. You can support the show and boost your focus by visiting magicmind.com/SFW976BV. Want even more? Join our Discord group for behind-the-scenes content, Q&As, and a lot more. discord.gg/Xh8xYMCKQv Archival Audio: Dr. Eric Jumper, Elizabethtown College Lecture (1986). Used for educational and historical commentary under fair-use principles (17 U.S.C. §107). Source: publicly available YouTube recording. All rights remain with the original copyright holder.

    25 min

  5. 10/09/2025

    Episode 2: The Lost Years

    The Lost Years History goes quiet. A cloth that might have wrapped a dead body disappears from the record for centuries. When it reappears it is wrapped in new names, new miracles, and new politics. How did a single piece of linen gather so many stories and so much power between the first century and medieval Europe? In episode two of The Shroud, host Lee Shelton follows the trail through silence and legend. We examine the gap historians call the missing years, weighing early Syriac traditions, Byzantine chronicles, medieval inventories, and the narratives that grew around the Image of Edessa. With scholars, archivists, and liturgical experts on the record, this episode asks whether history, devotion, or invention explains how a cloth becomes a relic. With insights from Andrea Nicolotti, Reverend Dr. Cris Rogers, David Perry, and Emanuela Marinelli, we ask hard questions: What do the earliest noncanonical and Syriac texts say about a cloth or image tied to Jesus?Could the Mandylion and the Shroud be two names for the same object folded and retold across centuries?How did politics, liturgy, and pilgrimage shape what people believed about a cloth they never saw?This is where the trail goes cold, and where the work of piecing together story, record, and motive becomes detective work. The questions we raise here will shape everything that follows. SPONSOR This series is made possible by our sponsor, GTI Tours. Learn more about experiencing the land of the Bible at gtitours.org/shroud. For listeners of The Shroud, your trip comes with two exclusive gifts: Journey through Jerusalem, a nine-session teaching series exploring the city through history, archaeology, and Scripture; AND a private evening during your trip set aside just for The Shroud listeners - gathering with local guides over coffee or tea for conversations that bring the Bible to life. Go to gtitours.org/shroud and select “shroud” in the registration dropdown. HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a review and rating. It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow. And, take a moment today to share this podcast on your social channels. FEATURED GUESTS Andrea Nicolotti - Professor of Christian history and relic studiesReverend Dr. Cris Rogers - Anglican PriestDavid Perry - Journalist, Historian and archival researcherEmanuela Marinelli - Shroud researcher and authorThe Shroud is a production of Compel Studio. ​​Hosted by Lee Shelton. Produced by Lee Shelton and Kathleen Terrill. FOLLOW Follow Compel Studio for more updates and Behind the Scenes content. Check out our Instagram @compel.studio Visit our website Compel.Studio Special thanks also to Magic Mind. You can support the show and boost your focus by visiting magicmind.com/SFW976BV. Want even more? Join our Discord group for behind-the-scenes content, Q&As, and a lot more. discord.gg/Xh8xYMCKQv

    31 min

  6. 10/02/2025

    Episode 1: A Burial Like No Other

    A Burial Like No Other Darkness falls. A crucified body is rushed to the tomb before sunset. Friends and followers gather linen, spices, and courage. But how exactly was Jesus buried, and what does that tell us about the cloth that would later ignite centuries of debate? In the opening episode of The Shroud, host Lee Shelton begins the investigation at the very start: the burial. Drawing from Gospel accounts, first-century Jewish customs, and the testimony of early Christian writings, this episode explores what happened in those hurried hours after the crucifixion. With insights from Dr. Craig Evans, Emanuela Marinelli, Andrea Nicolotti, Jerrell Jobe, and David Johnson, we ask hard questions: What do the Gospels really say about the burial cloths of Jesus?How did Jewish law and Roman rule shape the burial practices of the time?Could the Shroud of Turin fit the historical and cultural context of the first century?This is where the story begins, with a body, a burial, and a cloth that still stirs fierce controversy two thousand years later. SPONSOR This series is made possible by our sponsor, GTI Tours. Learn more about experiencing the land of the Bible at gtitours.org/shroud. For listeners of The Shroud, your trip comes with two exclusive gifts: Journey through Jerusalem, a nine-session teaching series exploring the city through history, archaeology, and Scripture; AND a private evening during your trip set aside just for The Shroud listeners - gathering with local guides over coffee or tea for conversations that bring the Bible to life. Go to gtitours.org/shroud and select “shroud” in the registration dropdown HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a review and rating. It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow. And, take a moment today to share this podcast on your social channels. FEATURED GUESTS Dr. Craig Evans – New Testament scholarEmanuela Marinelli – Shroud researcher and authorAndrea Nicolotti – Professor of Christian History and ChurchesJerrell Jobe – Archaeology & Biblical History/Biblical Lands Guide David Johnson – Biblical scholar and commentatorThe Shroud is a production of Compel Studio. ​​Hosted by Lee Shelton. Produced by Lee Shelton and Kathleen Terrill. FOLLOW Follow Compel Studio for more updates and Behind the Scenes content. Check out our Instagram @compel.studio Visit our website Compel.Studio Special thanks also to Magic Mind. You can support the show and boost your focus by visiting magicmind.com/SFW976BV. Want even more? Join our discord group for behind the scenes content, Q&As , and a lot more. https://discord.gg/Xh8xYMCKQv

    30 min

  7. 04/19/2025

    The Shroud Trailer

    A mysterious image. A centuries-old debate. A piece of linen that may—or may not—hold the face of Christ. Join us on a gripping journalistic journey as we unravel the history, legends, and scientific intrigue surrounding the Shroud of Turin. Through interviews with experts, skeptics, and true believers, we chase down clues, challenge assumptions, and seek answers to one compelling question: Could this cloth be tangible evidence of history’s greatest miracle—or its most enduring hoax? Coming soon.

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A mysterious image. A centuries-old debate. A piece of linen that may, or may not, hold the face of Christ. Join us on a gripping journalistic journey as we unravel the history, legends, and scientific intrigue surrounding the Shroud of Turin. Through interviews with experts, skeptics, and true believers, we chase down clues, challenge assumptions, and seek answers to one compelling question: Could this cloth be tangible evidence of history’s greatest miracle, or its most enduring hoax?

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