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218a: Dreher - The Totalitarian State Seeks to Control Your Actions, Thoughts, and Emotions
September 12, 2021 |
Christians Rush in Where Fools Fear to Tread. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher’s “Christian Dissidents.” What is totalitarianism? What are the consequences of soft totalitarianism? What is the Christian response to tyranny?
217: Dreher - The Unready Christians of Slovakia
August 30, 2021 |
Christians Get Ready, There’s a’Change That’s Coming. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher’s book, "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents." We discuss what happens when society and the churches turn away from God’s Word and the Church, and defect, choosing instead to worship and obey people and things that are not Christ.
216: Mullet - Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect
August 21, 2021 |
Run, Rabbit, Run! In this episode, we read and discuss Spiritualizing Cowardice, by Garrett Mullet. When we read and consider the life of David, how has the popularity of psycho-therapeutic language and post-modern cultural norms in the past century influenced the way we read and teach on Scripture at present?
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215: Pastoral Debrief on Christian Dissention
August 17, 2021 |
In this episode, we discuss pastoral topics, congregational life, the challenges Christians face today, and how things have changed for clergy and the churches since 2020.
214: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance
August 14, 2021 |
Enemy at The Gates. In this episode, we read and discuss David Mark Whitford’s book, "Tyranny and Resistance." What are Christians to do when state and church unite to enforce laws that are in opposition to God’s Word and Christian freedom?
213b: Paulson - You must refuse the claims of the church to rule marriage and the government
August 8, 2021 |
Breaking Your Rules — In this episode, we continue our reading and conversation about Dr. Steven Paulson’s breakdown of Martin Luther’s explanation of the two kingdoms. Marriage, children, preaching, serving our neighbor, and standing up to evil.
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213a: Paulson - Becoming a servant of all and a saint in this world
August 4, 2021 |
I’ve Got a Gun aka The Whole Armor of God. In this episode, we read and discuss Dr. Steven Paulson’s breakdown of Martin Luther’s explanation of the two kingdoms doctrine. Faith, family, and false idols form the backbone of our talk.
212: Tocqueville - Religion Considered as a Political Institution
July 23, 2021 |
In this episode, we read and discuss Alexis de Tocqueville’s apology for religion’s relevance to politics in Democracy in America. What happens when the two kingdoms are divided or collapsed into each other?
211: Tocqueville - Life is neither a pleasure nor a sorrow
July 12, 2021 |
Faith in What? Faith in Who? In this episode, we read Robert J. Delahunty’s article about Alex de Tocqueville’s faith. Tocqueville is a remarkable study in Enlightenment faith because he straddles the line between Christianity and the Enlightenment: Law and religion, belief and despair that concerns the relationships between Church and State in the United States and France.
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210b: Hitchens - Eschatology is inseparable from religious faith
June 30, 2021 |
“Religion is predicated on the idea that our time here is short and should be shorter, that our job is to bring on the end of days. This is just a veil of tears and guilt and shame. This, the only life we have—the only life we have that contains music and art and literature and solidarity and sex and love—all of this should be swept away. We can’t wait for the end times to come. That’s what they all have to believe.”
210a: Hitchens - Religion is the first chance to explain human nature and the natural order
June 23, 2021 |
“We were baffled by climatic and cataclysmic events: earthquakes, tidal waves, storms, lightning. All of this was to us terrifying. Religion works as an attempt, then, to make sense of things. We are pattern-seeking mammals, after all. It’s a good thing that we are, because if we weren’t pattern-seeking mammals, our curiosity would have no outlet and we wouldn’t be capable of the great innovations that have liberated us from so many things, including religion.”
209b: Hitchens - Religion abolishes obligation to live in truth
June 18, 2021 |
Christians Aren’t Good, or Moral. In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Christopher Hitchens’ speech on religion and morality. Does religion delete our need to confront reality?
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Donavon Riley
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1517 Podcasts
1517 Podcasts
2015 - 2023
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371
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