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  1. PHI 201 Ethics – Audio 002: Two Kingdoms

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    04/25/21
    1 min
    By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston
    Mike and Wade discuss the two kingdoms (or spheres, realms, etc.) and the Christian life as part of both church and state in light of the fourth chapter of Althaus' The Ethics of Martin Luther for Wade's PHI 201 course.
    PHI 201 Ethics – Audio 002: Two Kingdoms

  2. 201b: Weil - The false god changes suffering into violence

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    04/25/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Turning Inward to Attack Evil. In this episode, we continue to discuss Simone Weil on Evil. The importance of Jesus’ sacrificial death as expiation and redemption and what happens when we try to make good apart from God.
    201b: Weil - The false god changes suffering into violence

  3. Sunday, April 25, 2021

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    04/25/21
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1502. Today we remember Georg Major, the man, and the controversies. The reading is from W.H. Auden.
    Sunday, April 25, 2021

  4. 201a: Weil - It is the innocent victim who can feel hell

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    04/24/21
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie | Donavon Riley
    Am I Evil? In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Simone Weil on Evil. Violence, suffering, and justice. What part does human evil play in Jesus’ sacrificial death?
    201a: Weil - It is the innocent victim who can feel hell

  5. Saturday, April 24, 2021

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    04/24/21
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1915. Today we remember aspects of the Armenian genocide. The reading is from Corrie Ten Boom.
    Saturday, April 24, 2021

  6. PHI 201 Ethics – Audio 001: Stations and Vocations

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    04/23/21
    1 min
    By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston
    Mike and Wade discuss stations and vocations in light of the third chapter of The Ethics of Martin Luther by Paul Althaus, an assigned text for Wade's PHI 201 course.
    PHI 201 Ethics – Audio 001: Stations and Vocations

  7. Early Modern Christian and Islamic Polemics

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    04/23/21
    4 mins
    By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston
    Wade and Mike welcome Dr. Andrew Schmiege making it a three Michigander episode. Dr. Schmiege teaches Spanish at Wisconsin Lutheran College. A true renaissance man, Dr. Schmiege, interests are wide as shown in his dissertation topic which dealt with Christian and Islamic polemics in early modern Spain.
    Early Modern Christian and Islamic Polemics

  8. The American Revolution

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    04/23/21
    10 mins
    By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston
    On episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX Mike and Wade are joined once again by Dr. Aaron Palmer from the history department at Wisconsin Lutheran College. Before getting to the American Revolution, which is Dr. Palmer's area of expertise, the guys ask and answer the question: In what age of history would you least/most like to have lived? in the Free-for-All.
    The American Revolution

  9. Friday, April 23, 2021

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    04/23/21
    10 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1960. Today we remember Toyohiko Kagawa. The reading is Anya Krugovoy Silver's "No, It's Not."
    Friday, April 23, 2021

  10. Episode 121: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault

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    04/22/21
    1 min
    By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston
    Mike and Wade sit down to discuss Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, two philosophers who will challenge you to ask questions that you didn't even know you had, as well as some that you will probably decide you still don't have.
    Episode 121: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault

  11. Wingin’ It 113.1: The Life of Luther (Part 25) – At the Wartburg

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    04/22/21
    3 mins
    By Michael Berg | Wade Johnston
    In the TWENTY-FIFTH episode in our Wingin' It series on the life of Martin Luther, Wade and Mike keep on with their discussion of the life of Luther. This time they are discussing Luther's time at the Wartburg castle, or should one say Junker Jörg's time at the Wartburg castle.
    Wingin’ It 113.1: The Life of Luther (Part 25) – At the Wartburg

  12. Thursday, April 22, 2021

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    04/22/21
    11 mins
    By Dan van Voorhis | Christopher Gillespie
    The year was 1775. Today we remember Georg Hermes and the Catholic Enlightenment in Germany. The reading is “The Empty Tomb” by Tania Runyon.
    Thursday, April 22, 2021