TYB - The Bridge

Dr Katie Haldane
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What if the biblical scholars usually only heard at academic conferences sat down for a real conversation — with you? TYB The Bridge is a new Bible podcast from Trash Your Bible, hosted by Dr Katie Haldane, bringing biblical scholarship out of the lecture hall and into an honest, accessible conversation. Every episode takes a real question — submitted by a real listener — straight to the academic who has actually spent their career studying it. No jargon. No gatekeeping. Just answers. Dr Katie Haldane recently completed a PhD on the book of Revelation and Greco-Roman history and culture. After years spent inside the world of biblical academia, sitting in rooms with historians and theologians most people will never meet, she kept coming back to the same thought: the average Joe needs to hear this. TYB The Bridge is her answer — a bridge between rigorous biblical scholarship and everyday Bible reading. Each episode pairs one listener question with one leading biblical scholar for one real conversation — covering biblical history, the book of Revelation, ancient Greco-Roman culture, church history, biblical interpretation, and the questions your Bible study group has never quite been able to answer. Got a Bible question nobody could answer? Send it in. It might become an episode. New episodes every Monday. TYB The Bridge is part of Trash Your Bible (TYB), a free, book-by-book Bible study resource helping people of all backgrounds fall in love with God's Word — one worn-out, highlighted, dog-eared page at a time. Explore the full library of studies, reading plans and resources at trashyourbible.com. If you love Bible study, biblical history, theology, church history or Christian podcasts that go deeper than the surface — without the jargon of a seminary classroom — this one's for you. Full video episodes on YouTube. Follow @tyb_thebridge on Instagram for updates, and send your questions to thebridge@trashyourbible.com. Immersed today. Equipped for tomorrow.

  1. 3d ago

    The Biblical World, Episode 01: Archaeology and the Bible, with Dr Kyle Keimer

    Three centimetres under the surface at Khirbet El Rai, and you're already back around 3,000 years. What happens when you read the Bible next to the dirt? Katie Haldane opens our new series, The Biblical World, with archaeologist Dr Kyle Keimer, who specialises in the archaeology of ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. Kyle shares how a childhood love of Indiana Jones led him to Caesarea Maritima, and takes us through his work at Khirbet El Rai, which he and his colleagues have proposed as biblical Ziklag, David's base while he served the Philistines. Along the way: what an excavation actually looks like, how a burn layer and three nearly complete houses help tell the story of a site, whether Moses could have written given his Egyptian upbringing, how historical geography sheds light on Amos 6, and where things stand with the Jericho debate. Kyle's big idea: the Bible is a historical document, so we need to learn to think like an ancient Israelite, and ask questions with the text and the archaeology before we ask them to talk to each other. Takeaway: ask questions. The Bible isn't going anywhere. Dig deeper. In this episode •     00:00 Bridging the gap •     00:27 Welcome Dr Kyle Keimer •     01:29 From Indiana Jones to Caesarea Maritima •     03:19 Why archaeology matters for reading the Bible •     05:09 Learning to think like an ancient Israelite •     06:27 Digging Ziklag at Khirbet El Rai •     10:10 What an excavation really looks like •     13:35 What the site tells us •     16:46 Who burned it? Ziklag and the Amalekites •     19:07 The Ancient Israelite World •     20:55 Could Moses write? •     25:19 Historical geography and Amos 6 •     28:41 The biggest geographical shock •     31:12 Go to Israel (or get a good map) •     32:24 The Jericho debate •     36:34 The Biblical World podcast Guest: Dr Kyle Keimer, Pillar Seminary Host: Katie Haldane Resources mentioned: The Ancient Israelite World; New Studies in the Historical Geography of the Ancient Near East; The Biblical World podcast; Biblical Backgrounds maps. More episodes, show notes and the archive: trashyourbible.com/thebridge Follow on Instagram: @tyb_thebridge TYB — The Bridge. Academics for the average Joe.

  2. Oct 25

    Trust God, Not a Timeline: Why Revelation Is a Book of Hope

    Revelation isn’t a timeline to crack. It’s an invitation to trust the God who sees everything. In episode 8 of our Revelation series, Katie Haldane goes solo to pull the threads together. If you’ve felt anxious about the rapture, the tribulation or “getting the order right,” this episode is for you. Katie explains why trusting a timeline reverses what Revelation is for. Over and over, Jesus says “I know” to the churches, and the angels keep taking us back to the throne room. Her message: don’t freak out, because he is in charge. In this episode: Why the Pentecostal teaching on the rapture is held as opinion, not dogma, and why we’re not putting anyone downThe risk of “escapist theology” and what it does to endurance and how we care for the earthWhy Revelation says “I know” and “I see,” and what that means for the churches then and nowWhy you can’t count seven years to the second coming when Scripture says he comes like a thief in the nightThree things to hold onto: Christ’s return, the assessment of our works (not our salvation), and the eternal stateThe new heaven and new earth as a restored creation, with Father God returning tooWhy creation is groaning, and what Tom Wright’s Surprise by Hope added to Katie’s viewWait, witness and worship: what to do while you waitChapters 0:32 Welcome and series recap1:21 Escapist theology1:49 Trusting God, not a timeline2:17 “I know”: Jesus speaks to the churches3:05 Why there’s no counting down to the second coming3:32 The second coming is guaranteed4:01 Judgment: the assessment of our works4:29 The eternal state and the new heaven and new earth5:20 Creation groaning for restoration5:47 Revelation takes the pressure off6:39 “I know your deeds”: Revelation 2 and 37:05 Hope, and putting it in God’s hands7:32 “One day we’re coming home”8:00 Good news and closingScriptures: Revelation 2:1, 2:9, 3:1 · Romans 8 (creation groaning) Mentioned: Surprise by Hope by Tom Wright About TYB The Bridge: Academics for the average Joe. Deep truth, plain language. 🌐 trashyourbible.com/thebridge

  3. Oct 18

    Women in the Bible Ep. 02: Women Prophets with Rev. Prof. Jacqueline Grey

    Were there women prophets in the Bible? In this second episode of the Women in the Bible series, Katie talks with Rev. Professor Jacqueline Grey, Professor of Biblical Studies at Alphacrucis, about her forthcoming book She Speaks for God. They look at Miriam, Deborah, Huldah, Isaiah’s wife and Noadiah in the Old Testament, then Mary and Anna in the New. Along the way they ask what the Bible says about women in ministry today, how to read 1 Timothy 2 in its Ephesian context, and how to read the Old Testament like a thoughtful traveller in a different culture. Prof. Grey’s one takeaway: be attentive to the women in the Bible. God uses them, speaks through them, and their words are recorded for a reason. Books mentioned: She Speaks for God (Grey, 2027), Them, Us and Me, Three’s a Crowd, Tell Her Story (Nijay Gupta), Discovering Biblical Equality. Event: Cartledge Lectures, Alphacrucis, Parramatta, 29 July 2027, open to everyone.

  4. Oct 11

    Revelation 19 Is Not the End | The Real Goal of the End Times

    Revelation 19 is not the end of the book, and the second coming is not the end of the story. In episode 7 of our Revelation series, Katie Haldane goes solo to share something that frustrates her about some end times teaching in Pentecostal circles: we get so excited about Jesus returning that we stop reading. Revelation 19–22 shows that the real goal is the restoration of Father God to a new heaven and a new earth, with Eden restored. Katie did her PhD on Revelation 6 and 19. Here she walks through the white horse, the trumpet and the new Jerusalem in plain language, with hope rather than fear. In this episode: Why Revelation is a book of hope and power, not fearRevelation 19: Jesus on the white horse, “Faithful and True”Why witnessing matters before the trumpet soundsWhy “Jesus comes back and we all go to heaven” isn’t the full pictureRevelation 20–22: Eden restored, and why you needn’t get stuck on the millenniumWhy Pentecostals can forget the Father, and what “Father God follows” meansThe new heaven, the new earth and the new JerusalemGod “tabernacling” with his people againThe river of life, the tree of life, and seeing God’s faceWhy there’s no temple in the new creationScriptures: Revelation 1, 4, 19, 20, 21, 22 · Hebrews (Christ interceding) About TYB The Bridge: Academics for the average Joe. Deep truth, plain language. 🌐 trashyourbible.com/thebridge

  5. Oct 5

    Women in the New Testament, with Dr Rosemary Canavan

    Matthew gives us two women at the tomb, sitting opposite it. What if that one detail is doing more work than we've noticed? Katie Haldane is joined by her former PhD supervisor, Dr Rosemary Canavan, senior lecturer in biblical studies at the Catholic Theological College. Rosemary combines exegesis, history, archaeology and numismatics (the study of coins), and she brings all of it to Matthew 28. Together they unpack why sitting is a posture of mourning, how a Jewish burial text called Samahoth 8:1 helps us read the scene, and why the women are witnesses, disciples and then sent out on mission. They then widen the lens to women in Luke, in Paul and in Asia Minor: Phoebe the deacon and benefactor, Nympha and the church in her house, and what women's benefaction and even coinage tell us about the world they lived in. Takeaway: don't read these women through the lens of what we've been told. Take each woman as a character, and ask what the narrative, the context and the wider world are telling us. In this episode 00:00 Meet Dr Rosemary Canavan02:03 Why women in the New Testament?03:55 The women at the tomb in Matthew 2807:04 Why they sat opposite the tomb09:33 Samahoth 8:1 and Jewish mourning practice11:39 The guards and Matthew's community12:44 Witnesses, disciples and apostles15:00 Women as disciples in Matthew and Luke17:48 Women in Paul18:32 Phoebe and Nympha20:59 What is a benefactor?22:32 Women, coins and Asia Minor25:22 Why one patriarchal brushstroke is too broad26:42 The one misconception to leave behindGuest: Dr Rosemary Canavan, Catholic Theological College Host: Katie Haldane More episodes, show notes and the archive: trashyourbible.com/thebridge Follow on Instagram: @tyb_thebridge

  6. Sep 27

    Redeeming Revelation: A Panel on the Bible's Most Misread Book

    For our first ever panel episode, we sat down with two Revelation scholars, Rev. Assoc. Prof. Robyn Whitaker and Asst. Prof. U-Wen Low, to do what this show does best: take years of academic study and hand it back to you in plain language. Nothing was off the table. We talk about the Antichrist (spoiler: it's not actually in Revelation), where the obsession with 666 and "the mark of the beast" really comes from, the Whore of Babylon and why John's language is deliberately offensive, the violence in the text and how to read it without letting it justify violence today, and, in a genuine curveball, what a persecuted, powerless first-century church might have to say about AI, surveillance and the modern "monopoly of power." If you've ever felt like Revelation was either too weird to touch or too dangerous to question, this conversation is for you. In this episode: - Why Revelation was written for a minority church trying to survive, not to hand us a decoder ring for the news - The real meaning of 666 (it's Gematria, and it points to Nero, not your least favourite public figure) - What the "mark of the beast" is actually thought to reference, and why it isn't vaccines, barcodes or credit cards - Why "Antichrist" isn't a Revelation word at all, and where it actually comes from - Eugene Boring's idea of a "false trinity of evil," and what it's parodying - How to sit with Revelation's violence without using it to justify violence, including the idea of the text as performance and catharsis - Robyn's research connecting Revelation's critique of empire to AI, surveillance and concentrated power today - Why Revelation refuses to give you a clean hero to imitate, right down to John himself getting told off - The one question Robyn says the whole book is really asking: "Am I looking more like the lamb, or the kings of the earth?" Guests: Rev. Assoc. Prof. Robyn Whitaker teaches and researches the Book of Revelation, and has written on Revelation's imagery, its politics, and, most recently, its relevance to AI and the concentration of power. Asst. Prof. U-Wen Low lectures on Revelation with a particular interest in reading it as a performed text, and on the patterns of behaviour (wait, witness, worship) the book models for its readers. Host: Katie Haldane Go deeper: - Blog: "666, the Antichrist & the Mark of the Beast: What Revelation Actually Says" at trashyourbible.com/thebridge - Blog: "The Violence in Revelation: Catharsis, Not a Call to Arms" at trashyourbible.com/thebridge - Follow along: @tyb_thebridge Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube (@TYB_TheBridge) so next week's episode finds you.

  7. Sep 21

    Armageddon Explained: What Revelation 16:16 Really Says

    Is Armageddon a human holy war? Katie Haldane reads Revelation 16:16 in context and explains why the stronghold city of Megiddo matters. What does Armageddon actually mean in the Bible? The word appears in Revelation 16:16, and it has been used to justify some heavy ideas, including the belief that Christians will join a final human holy war. In this episode of TYB The Bridge, Katie Haldane, who has studied the book of Revelation and stood at Megiddo herself, offers a different reading. She walks through the seven bowls of God's wrath, explains why Megiddo was a stronghold city, and looks at what Revelation 19 says about the beast, the kings of the earth and the sword that comes from the rider's mouth. Along the way: the Crusades, the heroes of Revelation (hint: they are the martyrs), and a Roman detail about dishonour that makes the imagery of Revelation 19 land differently. If you have believed for a holy war, or feared one, this is an invitation to read the text again and rewrite your end times with hope. This is the start of a conversation. Read the passages for yourself and test what you hear. Passages mentioned: Revelation 16:15-21, Revelation 19:17-21, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Ephesians 6:12. TYB The Bridge is the podcast of Trash Your Bible: academics for the average Joe. Deep truth. Plain language. Show notes and transcript: trashyourbible.com/thebridge CHAPTERS 0:00 The question: are you believing for a holy war? 0:21 Welcome to The Bridge: what is Armageddon? 0:51 Why a "holy war" reading is risky (the Crusades) 1:23 The heroes of Revelation are martyrs, not fighters 2:44 The seven bowls of God's wrath: where 16:16 sits 3:28 Revelation 16:15-21 read aloud: "It is done" 4:48 What dispensational teaching does with Armageddon 5:33 Megiddo: the stronghold city between two mountains 6:00 No human war when Jesus returns (2 Thessalonians 2:8) 6:29 Revelation 19: heaven opens and the sword comes from his mouth 7:22 Gladiator, Rome and the dishonour of the unburied 8:13 "Wait, what?" The beast is captured (Revelation 19:19-21) 9:04 Humans do not fight in Revelation 10:00 If you fear Armageddon: what to hold onto 10:54 Rewriting your end times with hope

  8. Sep 13

    How Do I Read This Thing? Reading Revelation with Dr U-Wen Low

    Most of us picture Revelation through 500-year-old woodcuts, not the Bible itself. Dr U-Wen Low joins Katie to explain how a Reformation-era artist shaped the way we read the most avoided book in Scripture — and why it was actually written as a declaration of hope. Full show notes: Revelation has a reputation problem. Ask most Christians and they'll admit they avoid it — too scary, too confusing, too tangled up with end-times predictions. On this episode, Katie is joined by her former Master's supervisor, Dr U-Wen Low, Assistant Professor of Public Religion at the University of Birmingham, to ask why — and to make the case that Revelation was never meant to terrify us in the first place. U-Wen traces the imagery most of us associate with Revelation back to Albert Dürer's 1490s woodcuts and Martin Luther's illustrated German Bible — 500-year-old pictures that still shape our imagination today. From there, the conversation moves into performance criticism (Revelation as something meant to be experienced, not silently read and picked apart) and postcolonial criticism (Revelation as resistance literature that history later twisted into a colonising tool). Along the way: the real "special effects" available in the first-century Roman world, why Revelation only asks three things of ordinary believers, and the chapter U-Wen calls the most overlooked — and most important — in the whole book. Guest: Dr U-Wen Low, Assistant Professor of Public Religion, University of Birmingham. Scholar of Revelation, the New Testament, postcolonial and performance criticism. Links: Show notes, transcript and links: trashyourbible.com/thebridgeFollow along on Instagram: @tyb_thebridge The Bridge is the podcast ministry of Trash Your Bible — academics for the average Joe.

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What if the biblical scholars usually only heard at academic conferences sat down for a real conversation — with you? TYB The Bridge is a new Bible podcast from Trash Your Bible, hosted by Dr Katie Haldane, bringing biblical scholarship out of the lecture hall and into an honest, accessible conversation. Every episode takes a real question — submitted by a real listener — straight to the academic who has actually spent their career studying it. No jargon. No gatekeeping. Just answers. Dr Katie Haldane recently completed a PhD on the book of Revelation and Greco-Roman history and culture. After years spent inside the world of biblical academia, sitting in rooms with historians and theologians most people will never meet, she kept coming back to the same thought: the average Joe needs to hear this. TYB The Bridge is her answer — a bridge between rigorous biblical scholarship and everyday Bible reading. Each episode pairs one listener question with one leading biblical scholar for one real conversation — covering biblical history, the book of Revelation, ancient Greco-Roman culture, church history, biblical interpretation, and the questions your Bible study group has never quite been able to answer. Got a Bible question nobody could answer? Send it in. It might become an episode. New episodes every Monday. TYB The Bridge is part of Trash Your Bible (TYB), a free, book-by-book Bible study resource helping people of all backgrounds fall in love with God's Word — one worn-out, highlighted, dog-eared page at a time. Explore the full library of studies, reading plans and resources at trashyourbible.com. If you love Bible study, biblical history, theology, church history or Christian podcasts that go deeper than the surface — without the jargon of a seminary classroom — this one's for you. Full video episodes on YouTube. Follow @tyb_thebridge on Instagram for updates, and send your questions to thebridge@trashyourbible.com. Immersed today. Equipped for tomorrow.

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  • Creator
    Dr Katie Haldane
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Dr Katie Haldane
  • Show Website
    TYB - The Bridge

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