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The Revelation Project

The Revelation Project

Monica Rodgers | Revelation Media LLC

The Revelation Project is an individual and holistic movement that disrupts the trance of unworthiness and lifts the veils of personal illusion and cultural deception that keep us from remembering our divinity and inherent wholeness. The Revelation Project Podcast explores alternative narratives to traditional patriarchal influences that awaken, liberate and activate awareness. Join us to investigate vulnerable and courageous topics that reveal more magic, wonder, and beauty than we ever thought possible. Life is a revelation, and what gets revealed gets healed.
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The Revelation Project - Episode 186: Libby Bunten - Our Pilgrimage Home
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10/18/23 • 84 min

In this episode, Monica and Libby kick off a new season with a playful conversation about their journeys of unbecoming and the transformative power of pilgrimage.

They discuss the importance of pleasure, rest, and play, and by embracing these aspects, we can redefine success and create space in our lives to express new values and reach new states of illumination, peace, and wholeness. They delve into the challenges of pursuing desires despite societal expectations, family responsibilities, and internalized patriarchal voices that hinder self-approval.

Monica shares a bit about her pilgrimage to Crete, a 16-day goddess pilgrimage filled with rich cultural experiences. They explore the significance of taking “unreasonable” amounts of time off, breaking free from societal expectations, and reorienting themselves to new realities upon return.

The podcast also delves into the power of sisterhood, the power of witness, and the longings to be in supportive and courageous practices with other women. These are the most beneficial for befriending the nervous system, embracing all parts of the Self, and creating new life possibilities.

If you resonate with UNBECOMING then follow this invitation to self-discovery and transformation; visit jointherevelation.com/unbecoming to schedule a free call and embark on your untangling of patriarchal patterns that keep you stuck in the “box” of conformity.

Topics discussed:

  • The transformative power of pilgrimages
  • Redefining success through pleasure, rest, and play
  • Overcoming societal expectations and internalized patriarchal voices
  • Embracing rest and taking time off as a birthright
  • The power of humor and desire
  • Creating sisterhood spaces for self-discovery and growth

Special Guest: Libby Bunten.

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This past year I completed my 8-month rites of passage teacher training with Sarah Durham Wilson. It’s by far one of the most provocative and potent trainings I’ve ever done. It helped me truly understand the core wounds of women conditioned by patriarchy and how to assist women in healing those wounds.

In this episode, I have the honor of introducing you to my teacher and her work and celebrating with her the publication of her first book with Sounds True: Maiden To Mother, Unlocking our Archetypical Journey into The Mature Feminine.

When the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so were women’s rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity.

With Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother. This powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force exists within all of us.

Becoming the Mother is every woman’s birthright—regardless of whether or not she raises children. The Mother is who we needed as children, who we were meant to be in this life, and who the world needs us to be now.

Sarah teaches that while pre-patriarchal cultures honored women’s natural cycles, today’s society infantilizes women, idolizing youthful traits such as “pretty, pleasing, and polite” to keep us distracted and dependent. While a healthy version of the Maiden will always remain part of us, there comes a time when we must no longer let her wounds and immaturity guide our lives. We must step into our mature, feminine fullness.

Through personal stories, rituals, teachings, and practices, Sarah helps women heal the Mother Wound and dismantle our internalized patriarchy with its false, constricting standards for the feminine so that we may live with authenticity and feast on the richness of life. “Midlife is not, as our culture proposes, where a woman’s power ends,” writes Wilson, “but where it really begins.”

In this episode, Sarah and I talk about:

  • Sarah’s diagnosis and her more recent understanding of how being undiagnosed has impacted her in her work.
  • Sarah losing her Mother to Cancer when she was still a teen and how her Mother’s life and death shaped her work and healing.
  • Activism as a potent medicine for what the world needs now, how she’s helping to dismantle racism through her work, and being a faithful ally to black, brown, and indigenous women, and the connection to the colonization and capitalistic trance of patriarchy.
  • White feminism and white fragility and how they are related to “The Wounded Maiden” archetype.
  • Why Climate Justice and Racial Justice are Married.
  • Inner misogyny, its impact, and how it becomes internalized in both men and women.
  • Making the rites of passage journey to the mature and why this is the work for all of us at this time.

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Elena is a spark of energy, a ray of sunshine and a cultivator of embodied JOY- living what she teaches. I enjoyed our conversation so much, and loved diving into some impromptu “parts work” as our interview created space for my inner perfectionist to reveal herself, and how this inner part was created from a memory of embarrassment and shame (so interesting!)

  • What does it mean to re-inhabit ourselves?
  • How feeling our feelings helps us to make space for joy.
  • How can we learn to give ourselves what we most need - by getting out of our head and into our bodies?
  • Why nudges are important when it comes to making bite sized changes in our lives.
  • Why we should not FIX ourselves or each other.
  • How does the body become a conduit for healing?
  • Why does joy feel elusive for so many women?
  • How the inner parts of ourselves can often unintentionally keep us from our joy!
  • Why our my bodies are the ultimate teachers
  • How we can get out of survival mode and Enjoy and Embody our lives!

Elena Sonnino is a yin yoga teacher, author and Life Coach who is on a mission to help you transform the walls of survival mode into doors of possibility so that you can step into the spotlight of your life as your most rooted and nourished self. Her work helps you get out of your head and into your body as your source of wisdom, and moves you from beyond shoulds and into curiosity and delight, one day at a time. At home, Elena enjoys watching the sunrise, tending to her many plants, riding her Peloton bike, and impromptu kitchen dance parties.

Learn more about Elena at [www.elenasonnino.com](https://www.elenasonnio.com) or by reading her new book, Inhabit Your Joy: A Book of Nudges.

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The Revelation Project - Episode 152: Dr. Christena Cleveland - God is a Black Woman
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11/30/22 • 70 min

An act of desperation often leads us to revelation, which was also the case for Dr. Christena Cleveland as she set out for a solo 400-mile track across rural France in search of The Black Madonna.

This conversation was so rich and powerful. I absolutely loved unpacking Dr. Cleveland's story and her future vision for what is possible in the world where women permit themselves to find their divinity within their own female bodies.

Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal and its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people's spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. An award-winning researcher and former professor at Duke University's Divinity School, Christena lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

  • What made Christina walk 400 miles across rural and deep France in search of Black Madonna Statues?
  • The world events that became the catalyst for Christena's activism
  • The kinship and devotion Christena encountered in her search for the Black Madonna through the various townspeople and the activation of "the village phone tree."
  • How the Black Madonna has become a center of french village culture and what she offers for those who have reached a state of desperation.
  • How the Black Madonna has helped Christena to unburden herself and why she is symbolic of helping others to lay their burdens down.
  • How Christena's emotions took a role in leading her to pursue the Black Madonna.
  • How Christena unraveled her trauma of white male God and how it impacted her relationship with her family and community
  • We are taught that if there is a problem- it's us vs. the system that conditioned us.
  • How much spiritual and social homelessness we have to go through as we "unbecome" from our cultural and religious conditioning.
  • The process of letting go of patriarchal influences of certainty and perfection and how "she who cherishes the hot mess" became one of her chapter titles.
  • The trap of patriarchal security and how it dampens our creativity and our sense of adventure
  • What happened when Christena began to reclaim her spiritual autonomy and her theological imagination

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Sometimes I stumble upon a human who is a quiet earth quake that shakes my world and cracks opens my heart. This is my experience of Asia Suler who writes with the soul of a sage and the words of a thousand wise women on the subject of self-compassion and empathy including how mother-Earth mirrors everything we need- if we could attune ourselves to experiencing her unconditional love.

When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the groves and meadows, rivers and tree's, but to the homes within ourselves.

Listen in as Asia illuminates the healing power of our living Earth—giving us permission to know ourselves deeply and intimately on our way to personal and ecological healing.
As she encourages us to know our own goodness, empathy, intuitive connections, we expand our capacity for healing and tap into a new awareness that can become our own potent vehicle for planetary transformation.

In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth.

As we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth which then mirror back to us our beauty and our magnificence.

Not only will you love listening to Asia, you will absolutely cherish her revelations and her writing that includes reflection prompts at the end of each of her essays.

Mirrors in the Earth encourages us to embrace our inherent brilliance and the medicine that lives within each of us!

In this episode:

  • Hear how Asia’s own trauma led to her own deep inquiry into healing.
  • Hear why we are far more cared for than we ever might have believed
  • Experience the beauty of mother earth through Asia’s writing and allow yourself to be carried into a deeper understanding of where to look for the earths mirrors in your own life.
  • Why we need to believe in our own goodness and how we can begin to embrace our shortcomings with compassion by experiencing the symbols, signs and cycles of nature
  • Why being in our own world is so important and how our conditioning taught us to pay attention to things that discourage us from using our imagination.
  • Why our imagination is the key to creating a new world.

Music by: Alex Weinstein Music - Heading Home

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The Revelation Project - Episode 155: Isabel Friend -  The Science & Spirit of Water
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12/21/22 • 86 min

Most of us are desperately dehydrated despite drinking the recommended daily allowance of water because most of the water we drink is no longer “alive”.

In our modern world, we have stripped water of its nourishing and hydrating properties through the purification process. Through our industrial treatment of water, we’ve stripped water of it’s minerals and made most of the water highly unstable, chaotic, and incompatible with human life. This results in disease, dehydration, premature aging, and death, but the good news is that awareness can literally change everything!

Learn about proper hydration and the critical information you need to help your body properly detoxify, repair, and regenerate so that you can recover your energy, vitality, and joy!

In this episode:

  • The far-reaching intelligence of water and its role in our health and in our lives.
  • What water has to do with the cosmos and planet earth.
  • Why most of the water we drink is considered “starving water”
  • Why wild water is important for health and vitality.
  • Why water is the key to climate change and energy.
  • Why 99% of us are dehydrated
  • How water has the ability to channel information, vibration, and frequency.
  • How we can create wise, intelligent, and mature water.
  • Why we are water beings as much as we are human beings.
  • What is structured water and why should you drink it?
  • Why Water is the foundation of a unified approach to ecology, politics, medicine, and more
  • Why wild water is the fountain of youth and how you can tap in.
  • The significance of transitioning from the age of Pisces (water immersion) to the age of Aquarius (water bearers)?

Isabel Friend is an international ambassador of Water, public speaker, and educator. She seamlessly blends science and spirit into a comprehensive cosmology of Water wisdom. Spanning the practical insights of health, hydration and biology, to empowering tactics for Watershed guardianship and ecological activism, to the esoteric and subtle insights of ancient indigenous Water wisdom, to the heady scientific discoveries of cutting edge Water research, Isabel’s offerings are as multifaceted as Water itself. For the past 6 years, she has taught about Water throughout the US, Canada, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Bali, Mexico and Thailand.

Water is Life. And as such, water holds the solutions to life’s toughest questions. By shifting our relationship to Liquid Life - from resource to THE source - we tap into the vast untapped potential of free energy and boundless wisdom within us and within nature.

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The Revelation Project - Episode 128: Charles Eisenstein - The Space Between Stories
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05/25/22 • 70 min

"I’m not the guy who has got it all figured out. During the Covid pandemic, I had the opportunity once again to face an inner and outer unraveling. For months at a time, I experienced a paralyzing despondency borne of the calamity I saw overtaking society: the very Age of Separation I had been proclaiming, for years, to be nearing an end. Instead, it was reaching new extremes. At the same time, my critiques of the social response to the pandemic brought intense criticism, denunciation, and canceling, including from people whom I’d considered to be deep, trusted allies. Maybe, I thought, it is I who has gone mad, not the world. This is the question, the doubt that paralyzed me. I tell the story of these years in my most recent book, The Coronation.

I know that my books and other work come from a deep, inspired source, but that source is not me! It is more like I’m connecting to a field of knowledge or to a story that wants to be told. This knowledge is as much my teacher as it is anyone else’s. I’m kind of ordinary, compared to some of the amazing people I keep meeting. I’m just as much in the learning as anyone else, wandering as best I can toward “the more beautiful world my heart knows is possible,” encumbered by the programming and the wounds of our civilization."

I always say that the Universe has a wonderful sense of humor, and if it’s true that we create our own reality, then I’m so glad my reality includes neighbors like Charles Eisenstein and his wife, Stella.

I had been following Charles's work for a couple of years and more intensely when the pandemic happened because so much of what he was speaking about made so much sense to me. Then I saw him publicly denounced and canceled by the same community that once embraced and celebrated him, and I thought, surely I must be losing my mind.

At the height of my despondency, I also suffered detox symptoms from recently having mercury removed from my mouth. A dear friend suggested I see a woman named Stella, who had recently moved to the area. I began seeing Stella at her home office, and we seemed to develop an effortless friendship in just a few sessions. While I knew she lived there with her husband and child, I was unaware for several more weeks that I was actually in the home of the very person whose work I was immersed in and sharing with as many people as I thought might listen. Amazing, right?

I had sent my same friend who had referred me to Stella a recent essay from a series by Charles called The Coronation , knowing she would appreciate his mind and heart. It wasn’t until I saw this friend a few days later that she alerted me to the synchronicity, revealing that I had been treated for the mercury detox by his wife!

Flabbergasted, I returned to Stellas for an appointment and told her the story, only to have Charles walk through the door and extend his hand in a warm greeting.

Mind. Blown. Well-played, Universe. Well-played.

“We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.” -David Richo

In this episode, you’ll get a glimpse of why I am such a fan of Charles and his work. In addition to being incredibly accessible, his revelations are filled with humanity, humility, and love.

You’ll hear about this time in human civilization from another perspective as we shift and transform toward creating a new story. At this time, we are in what Charles calls “the space between stories,” and humanity has an opportunity to reimagine the world - the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.

  • Why our definition of progress has changed and where we are now.
  • Gain deeper insight into the cultural stories we have been living in and why these are not sustainable.
  • Listen as Charles explores the potential of “the unknowing” and invites us to embrace its opportunities for creating something new.
  • What would it be to dare to imagine a new story based on beauty and serving life?
  • Why we need to look closely at our money culture and remember what is sacred.
  • The utility of masculine and feminine energies for what we are creating now.
  • The emerging story of Interbeing.
  • Cancel culture, mob mentality, and the curse of binary thinking and us vs. them.
  • What it was like to be canceled by culture and how Charles processed it.
  • Bringing back the gift economy and healing our relationship with money.
  • Community over morality and morality as a tool of separation- how can we do better?
  • How we disrupt the old story by revealing our truest and most vulnerable selves as we create the new story.

*Charles Eisenstein is an American public speaker,

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Welcome to the Revelation Project podcast, where we disrupt the trance of unworthiness to guide women to remember and reveal the truth of who we are.

In this episode, my guest, Elise Loehnen, joins me to discuss her New York Times Best-Selling Book, *On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins And The Price Women Pay To Be Good. * She is also a successful writer, editor, and host of the wildly popular _*Pulling the Thread *_podcast.

Elise begins by sharing what led her to write this book- and her experience with chronic hyperventilation disorder, an anxiety disorder, and her challenge to get to the root of it.

Elise discusses the symptoms, treatments and dissonance between her interior struggle and her outward demeanor of success. She reflects on the pressures she began to identify, which led her to the revelation that the underpinnings of her stress and striving were rooted in her unconscious allegiance to “good girl” programming.

By revealing the systems of patriarchy and its complex impact on women, Elise delves into early Christianity and the subjugation of women throughout history. We touch on the origins and transformation of the Seven Deadly Sins, the elevation and vilification of Mary Magdalene, and how this impacts us even today.

Throughout the episode, we weave in behaviors that hold us back as women such as jealousy and envy, and the role they play in women's lives. We also discuss the societal expectations placed on women and the need to free ourselves from external validation

The conversation ends with a powerful message about embracing the feminine and reclaiming feminine values to create change in ourselves and in society.

Topics Discussed:

  • The Origin of the Seven Deadly Sins
  • The “Boogyman of patriarchy”
  • Elise's experience with chronic hyperventilation disorder and getting to the root of it.
  • Exploring the pressures to be enough and the internal voices of self-doubt
  • Understanding the concept of patriarchy and its roots in early Christianity
  • The elevation and vilification of Mary Magdalene
  • Embracing the feminine and reclaiming feminine values
  • The importance of embracing curiosity and personal exploration

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  • Pulling the Thread podcast
  • Seven Deadly Sins
  • Mary Magdalene
  • Pope Gregory I
  • Lynn Twist

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Elise Loehnen Fissmer is a writer, editor, and the host of the podcast, Pulling the Thread, living in Los Angeles with her husband, Rob, and their sons, Max and Sam. While she’s co-written 12 books, including five New York Times Best Sellers, she’s currently writing the first book under her own name for Dial Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Previously, she was the chief content officer of goop. While there, Elise co-hosted The goop Podcast and The goop Lab on Netflix, and led the brand’s content strategy and programming, including the launch of a magazine with Condé Nast and a book imprint. For the podcast, she interviewed 100s of thought leaders, doctors, and experts, including Ibram X Kendi, Bryan Stevenson, Nicholas Kristof, Ambassador Samantha Power, Rebecca Traister, John & Julie Gottman, among others.

Prior to goop, she was the editorial projects director of Conde Nast Traveler. Before Traveler, she was the editor at large and deputy editor of Lucky Magazine, where she also served as the on-air spokesperson, appearing regularly on shows like Today, E!, Good Morning America, and The Early Show. She has a B.A. from Yale and majored in English and Fine Arts; she also went to St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Before that, she attended a school where lunchtimes were spent jumping an irrigation ditch. Originally from Missoula, Montana, it's important to her that people know that she went to the National Mathletes Championship when she was in 8th grade and that she’s a horse whisperer. These days, she serves on two boards (Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Skinfix), advises a beauty bio-tech start-up (Arcaea), and spends her time writing, reading, and fundraising for causes and politicians focused on environmental action, social justice, women and children’s health, and a more equitable world.

Special Guest: Elise Loehnen.

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Embark on an empowering journey into the heart of sisterhood and self-liberation in this compelling episode of the Revelation Project Podcast.

Monica Rodgers is joined by guest Megan Joe Wilson, renowned trainer, coach, and author who's been empowering women entrepreneurs for over 19 years. Let Megan's insights inspire you as she delves into her work with esteemed feminist icons Mama Gina and Marianne Williamson, and the transformative power of her mentorship programs and Rockstar Camp for Women- a somatic adventure that will rock your world!

This episode is not just a conversation; it's a circle of sisterhood, with surprise guests joining in, sharing their profound experiences and triumphs that led to their personal transformation. Tune in to know why embracing sisterhood, collaboration, and adaptability is feminine leadership at its best; learn the power of bragging, and immerse yourself in the divine essence of feminine power that breaks the chains of patriarchal restraints.

Topics Discussed:

  • Sisterhood and the power of raising our voices
  • The Impact of singing and stage performance on a woman’s psyche
  • Why some women don’t see their own oppression
  • Re-contextualizing Sisterhood and why we need it now more than ever
  • Breaking patriarchal rules and structures that keep us in the trance of unworthiness
  • Personal stories and experiences from women who graduated from Rockstar Camp
  • The power of somatic healing and pleasure
  • Embracing vulnerability and overcoming challenges
  • The celebratory power of bragging and why women need to own their own accomplishments and dare to shine

For the last 19 years, Megan Jo has been training Women Entrepreneurs to embrace visibility and lead profitable, impactful Coaching Businesses.

Her experiential courses, “Rockstar Camp” and “No More Playing Small” for Women Entrepreneurs are based on her unshakable belief that confidence can be learned and mastered. In 2020, she worked for two years as a Master Coach with Spiritual Teacher and Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson, and is a regular Co-Conspirator with Feminist Icon and Author, Regena Thomashauer aka “Mama Gena”.

She is a faculty trainer at the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and author of the best-selling business books for Women, “Who the F*ck Am I To Be a Coach” and “No More Playing Small.”

Special Guest: Megan Jo Wilson.

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The Revelation Project - Episode 129: Sophie Strand - Where the World Gets In
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06/01/22 • 59 min

I’m back with another dose of the enchanting Sophie Strand. Listen in as we dance in the magic of storytelling, ecology, revelation, and contemplation.

Sophie is someone who understands the power of myth-making and storytelling. She honed her abilities when she learned she had a life-threatening disease and began to write as if her life depended on it. What she came to realize is that all of our lives depend on it. Unless we generate new myths to live into, we will surely stay fast asleep in the culture of make-believe, where we consume everything without implication or consequence.

In this episode, Sophie and I continue where we left off. We meander into the wilderness where we make new connections, access revelations, and enchantment abounds- Join us! You won’t be bored!

  • Why should we compost old stories?
  • How can we understand disability, illness, and PTSD as a portal into greater ecological sensitivity?
  • What is ecological storytelling, and how can we begin to weave more awareness into our stories and our lives?
  • How does the story of Rabbi Yeshua teach us about ecological storytelling?
  • How can we become more ecologically embodied?
  • What does myth have to teach us about our specific locales?

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine, will be published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2022 and is available for pre-order. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter at sophiestrand.substack.com. And follow her work on Instagram: @cosmogyny and at www.sophiestrand.com.
Ecological Storytelling. Healing beyond hope and the human.

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How many episodes does The Revelation Project have?

The Revelation Project currently has 196 episodes available.

What topics does The Revelation Project cover?

The podcast is about Healing, Spirituality, Awakening, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.

What is the most popular episode on The Revelation Project?

The episode title 'Episode 186: Libby Bunten - Our Pilgrimage Home' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Revelation Project?

The average episode length on The Revelation Project is 62 minutes.

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Episodes of The Revelation Project are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of The Revelation Project was released on Nov 21, 2019.

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