{"id":84911,"date":"2026-07-28T10:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84911"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:25:12","slug":"5-highlights-from-shawn-ryans-interview-with-exorcist-about-spiritual-warfare-be-willing-to-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/5-highlights-from-shawn-ryans-interview-with-exorcist-about-spiritual-warfare-be-willing-to-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Highlights From Shawn Ryan&#8217;s Interview With Exorcist About Spiritual Warfare: &#8216;Be Willing To Suffer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Christian Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Prominent podcast host and former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan dropped his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XKNMThu3jQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second interview<\/a>\u00a0last week with Father Chad Ripperger, a Roman Catholic exorcist with the Archdiocese of Denver, during which the two engaged in a wide-ranging, three-hour conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The interview focused heavily on spiritual warfare, diabolical influence, Thomistic angelology, UFO disclosure, the corruption of society and the nature of sacrifice in resisting evil. Ryan, whose podcast is the third-most popular on Spotify, opened by noting his ongoing shift in perspective. He explained that while he originally intended a political critique of politicians who overstate their Catholic allegiance, he abandoned it upon concluding the real conflict is spiritual and transcends politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Christian Post: Prominent podcast host and former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan dropped his\u00a0second interview\u00a0last week with Father Chad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84912,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84911\/revisions\/84912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}