[2] The project originated at Harvard Divinity School, where both founders studied and shared an interest in religion without God - with Vanessa Zoltan describing herself as "an atheist and a Jew and a humanist"[3] and Casper Ter Kuile training as a minister for non-religious people.

[9] Harvard Divinity student Ariana Nedelman, an experienced digital producer, was enlisted to help make the transition from book club to podcast production.

[13] With this announcement came the news that after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was finished on the podcast, the host Casper Ter Kuile would be leaving, and the podcast would instead be hosted by Vanessa Zoltan and Matt Potts, an Episcopal Priest and an associate professor of Religion and Literature and of Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, who has visited the show as a guest on numerous occasions.

[14] On November 28, 2024, it was announced on Instagram that Potts would be stepping back from his role as co-host, and that Ter Kuile would be returning for the second series' reading of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Host Casper ter Kuile has also released special readings of poems for Christmas and the band Harry and the Potters recorded a song called "Don't Be a Dursley" as a part of the show's fundraiser for RAICES.

[25][26] While the original book club started by Zoltan and Ter Kuile continues to this day, local reading groups for Harry Potter and the Sacred Text have sprung up all around the US as well as in the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia.

Conservative journal LifeZette posits: "Fans of the podcast are using terminology previously used by or about Christian believers to describe their trust in Jesus Christ as Savior, yet now they're talking about … a wizard."

'"[31] Religious journal First Things gives a mixed review, criticising the lack of solid basis for its definition of 'sacred' and noting: "It seems that the hosts of this show are great on quips, but not so good on metaphysics".