Episodes of theologian John Piper’s podcast “Ask Pastor John” have been played 100 million times over the last five-and-a-half years, and just one episode, on whether oral sex is okay, has been played more than 1.5 million times.
Since the podcast began on Jan. 7, 2013, 16 of the roughly 1,300 episodes have reached the 300,000-play benchmark, according to the desiringGod.org blog, which hosts the podcast.
Piper said while the numbers are “encouraging,” he believes “the emotional impact of one personal testimony face to face is greater than the numbers.”
He added, “APJ is just part of a constellation of influences people receive from Desiring God, but it is one that people mention to me as much as any other.”
With 1,570,100 plays, episode 400, titled “Is Oral Sex Okay?” published in August 2014, became the most popular.
“I think it is wrong outside marriage. … Oral sex is even more intimate and delicate, it seems, than copulation. And we know this because even married couples are wondering if they should go there. It is as if it is a stage of intimacy that may not even be proper for married people,” explained Piper at the time. “To think it can be an innocent substitute for copulation so people can obey the letter of the law outside marriage…
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