Decoding Sacred Texts for a Wider Audience: How David DeCordova Is Building a Voice in Religious Journalism

In a media landscape crowded with hot takes, David DeCordova is choosing a slower lane: careful reading of sacred texts, and conversations that invite both religious and nonreligious people into the same room.

David DeCordova is an author and the founder of DeCordova Enterprises, a research and religious studies company based in Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Erindale Campus. Through the firm he books speaking engagements, and through his writing and video work he pursues what he calls religious journalism—an approach meant to encourage thought, spark debate, and help evolve the spiritual condition of humanity without shutting anyone out.

A Channel Built for Dialogue

That commitment shows up most clearly in Today’s Religious Talk, the YouTube channel David launched to put religious ideas into public conversation. The channel is the on-camera home for his interest in symbolism across traditions, and a place where viewers can meet big questions without needing a seminary degree first.

You can find the channel at youtube.com/@todaysreligioustalk. David also shares work and updates on Instagram.

He is deeply interested in the three major monotheistic traditions. His studies have included Egyptian texts, Kabbalah, Judaism, and Christianity, with a particular passion for the symbolic nature of sacred writing. The goal, he says, is to appeal to people of faith and people of none—an audience many religious publishers still struggle to hold at once.

David also wants to add something new to religious discourse. In his view, that conversation has become far too argumentative and hostile. He wants to bring meaningful ideas that unite people rather than encourage divisiveness—and he has dreams of turning Today’s Religious Talk into a media outlet that covers religious news globally.

Books That Open the Text

David is the author of DeCoded: The Bible explained, which addresses biblical symbolism, and DeCoded 2: The secrets of The Lord, a motivational book that draws success-based principles from the Bible. Together the two titles map the twin sides of his work: close reading of scripture’s symbols, and practical encouragement drawn from the same tradition.

He frames the problem he is trying to solve in plain terms: encourage healthy interfaith dialogue among different religious traditions. In New York and beyond, that kind of dialogue is often shouted down or reduced to slogans. David’s bet is that careful explanation—and a journalist’s instinct to ask better questions—can do more than another argument.

From Page to Public Conversation

His media footprint already reaches past his own channel. He has made multiple appearances on The Star Report Podcast hosted by Troi Torain, discussing mainstream topics and popular culture. Those conversations sit alongside his more explicitly religious work, a reminder that he wants sacred ideas to meet everyday life rather than stay locked in academic silos.

A line he returns to captures the posture: “Write the vision and make it plain and let your feet run thereby.” For David, clarity is not the end of the work. It is the starting gun.

What Comes Next

David is currently running for The Top Host Competition sponsored by Ryan Seacrest and iHeartRadio—an ambition that would put his voice in front of an even larger audience and sit alongside his plan to grow Today’s Religious Talk into a global religious-news media outlet. Whether on YouTube, in print, or on a bigger stage, the through-line stays the same: make the vision plain, keep the dialogue healthy, and keep working.

His advice to others chasing a long vision is short and consistent with how he works: keep working on your visions.

Readers who want to follow the work can subscribe to Today’s Religious Talk on YouTube, connect with him on Instagram, or inquire about speaking through DeCordova Enterprises. Based in Toronto, Canada, and grounded by a University of Toronto Erindale Campus education, David is trying to write a different narrative—one where sacred texts are decoded carefully enough that more people can enter the conversation.

Why Symbolism Matters in Public Media

For David, symbolism is not decoration. It is how older texts carry meaning across centuries, and how a modern reader can meet scripture without needing every verse explained as a flat instruction. By studying Egyptian texts alongside Kabbalah, Judaism, and Christianity, he trains himself to notice patterns that show up across traditions—an approach that supports interfaith dialogue because it looks for shared structures instead of only listing disagreements.

That is also why he insists the work should welcome nonreligious readers. If a symbol can be explained clearly, someone without a faith background can still follow the argument, ask a better question, and decide what they think. Religious journalism, in his framing, is less about converting an audience and more about making the material legible—and less about winning an argument than about offering ideas that can unite.

Speaking bookings through DeCordova Enterprises extend the same idea offline. A talk can open a text the way a video can, with room for questions that a comment section cannot hold.