Paul VanderKlay's Podcast

Spiritual Agency, Divine Agency, Human Agency Bridges of Meaning Q/A. April 8th, 2022

Weekly Q/A on the Bridges of Meaning Discord Server, Fridays at 11am Pacific Time. Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/CgY3e2aB Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. 

Watch Jordan Peterson Exorcise a Secular Definition of Religion from John McWhorter

​ @Jordan B Peterson  Woke Racism https://youtu.be/u9quq9NGUcM   @Unbelievable?  Bart Ehrman and Glen Scrivener https://youtu.be/y9PQQNiirhI  Tom Holland Did Religion Exist https://youtu.be/ZeCTC_r4vMI  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/qdZuJHmd Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryh...

Religious Longing and the Electric Car Pre-order Problem

​ @Marques Brownlee  Electric Car Pre-order Problem https://youtu.be/a6zvvlrd-jw  Scott Adams Commentary with Livestream https://youtu.be/IK0MTQ7uqkk   Scott Adams Livestream https://youtu.be/wrkO5CxEbAo    Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/qdZuJHmd Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.est...

The Batman Deconstructs of Wokism into its a Non-sectarian Pessimistic Waspism

​ @The Critical Drinker  Ms Marvel https://youtu.be/Q_xC4bABAYg   @Ben Shapiro   Batman Review https://youtu.be/nfad1gZkHB8  Was the WASP Establishment Better? https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/02/was-the-wasp-establishment-better/341306/   @Alt Shift X  Watchmen Explained https://youtu.be/wJmg0uc3CjY   @Chris Stuckmann  Batman Spoiler Review https://youtu.be/Zx2yHkTlRhE   @Nerdwriter1  How Marvelman Changed Superheroes https://youtu.be/Z2yZwh_gCIU  Discord link. Good for ju...

Scott Adams on Jordan Peterson Religion, Simulation and Bridgers Convo Following

Chatting impromptu https://discord.gg/PH8W65tH Scott Adams Livestream https://youtu.be/wrkO5CxEbAo

The Religious and Well-Being Impact of the video game Elden Ring

Elden Ring Tweet that started this rolling https://twitter.com/Ryan73459181/status/1509719615156412418  @Daryl Talks Games  How Souls Games Save You https://youtu.be/keIWG6hSD7Q  Elden ring Male Fantasy https://youtu.be/0on-Q5t6ZFw   @PowerfulJRE  Michael Shellenberger on Joe Rogan https://youtu.be/TsTDA2DT72k  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/wn3DgJZp Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...

Arenic law and agentic law in romans 2

There were some technical glitches in this. Our apologies. 

Addiction, Levels of Being, Spirits of Animals and Fungi, BoM Q/A: April 1st, 2022

Weekly Q/A on the Bridges of Meaning Discord Server, Fridays at 11am Pacific Time. Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/MBghedCT Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link.  Vanderklips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/

Conversation on the Experience of Christianity and Religion

Starts as sort of a standard video but on a livestream and ends on the Bridges of Meaning Discord server.

Social Media Demanding and Exposing the Moral Clarity of the Stars that We Navigate By

The slap heard round the world is exposing the fact that even the temple of cinema has fallen as a moral authority for our culture.  ​ @The Critical Drinker  The End of the Movie Star https://youtu.be/l04RZVeJViI  ​ @The Glenn Show  What was Putin thinking with Matt Taibbi, John McWhorter, Glenn Loury https://youtu.be/162Wl-CT4Hs  ​ @Jordan B Peterson  with Andy Ngo Antifa https://youtu.be/FE_UjbQSf2w  Wesley Loury NYT Recogning of Objectivity https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/opinion/obj...

Navigating Transformation in a World of Shifting Authorities

The Struggle for Evangelical Leadership: Beta-Cools vs Naughty Boys  @Jonathan Pageau  How Authority Works https://youtu.be/YEbBrfrupgU  Damon Walker on Decoding the Gurus https://twitter.com/damiengwalter/status/1508848679070801921   @Rebel Wisdom  on Decoding the Gurus https://youtu.be/M_6cLQuBZlM   @ABC  Will Smith Acceptance Speech https://youtu.be/YVvgCMZSkyw   @JAMES KOURTIDES  Great Reset vs Great Awakening https://youtu.be/0rBOzDZTtRw  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check w...

Struggle for Evangelical Leadership between the Beta-Cools and the Naughty Boys

Fear the Offensive Rev. Wilson? https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/p/should-you-fear-the-offensive-rev?s=w  Garry North: the War Between Three Types of Religion https://www.garynorth.com/public/21705.cfm  The Galli Report https://markgalli.substack.com/p/the-galli-report-100821?s=r  The Firehose of Bullshit https://cactus.substack.com/p/all-hail-the-firehose-of-bullshit?s=w  Permanent Moral Panic https://cactus.substack.com/p/firehose-of-bullshit-2-the-permanent?s=r  Spirits, not People mov...

SPIRITS, Not People, Move the Overton Window: Doug Wilson, Skye Jethani, David French, Egregores

​ @Blog & Mablog  The Evangelical Naughty Boy Doug Wilson https://youtu.be/hdkD8XoKcTY  Vice on Doug Wilson https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7ezwx/inside-the-church-that-preaches-wives-need-to-be-led-with-a-firm-hand   Christopher Hitchens and Doug Wilson https://youtu.be/2NfGYUkUzoU   @Holy Post  David French and Skye Jethani https://youtu.be/IfiH6Q_6JIk   @The Stoa  Egregores Swarm Autocult https://youtu.be/sTxuLoI80Vg  Attack on Titan https://youtu.be/MGRm4IzK1SQ     Discord link. Good ...

Avoiding the God Who Contests Our Evil: Romans 1:28-32

We continue our study of Romans 1.

Jesus, Rome and Pilate: How many Legions Are Needed to Handle ”Truth”?

Jesus is taken to Pilate. The light shines in the darkness. John 18

Great Commission, Resurrection, Same Sex Marriage, etc. Bridges of Meaning Q/A! March 25, 2022

The West ReAwakening to the Spiritual only to Find its a Danger Zone

​ @The Stoa  Swarms, Egregores, and Autocults with John Robb, BJ Campbell, Patrick Ryan, and Jordan Hall https://youtu.be/sTxuLoI80Vg   @The Problem With Jon Stewart  on Ukraine and the Media https://youtu.be/oNVZ1fgqF58  Chris Petkau on the Eggregore https://youtu.be/oOwJDDWpQT0   @Jonathan Pageau  Angels in Scientific Terms Pt. 2 https://youtu.be/2BVjIOpV9KQ   @Jonathan Pageau  on Angels, Demons and the City of God https://youtu.be/fyFhzZDKyoM  The Altar to Set in the Home  @Grizwald Grim ...

Rousseau and the Origins of the Authentic Secret Sacred Self

Continuing my treatment of Carl Trueman's book "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self" https://amzn.to/3ume7UG  Manifesto against Sexual Positivity https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/opinion/manifesto-against-sex-positivity.html  Brian Houston Hillsong Founder steps down https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/hillsong-church-founder-brian-houston-resigns  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/wn3DgJZp Paul V...

Can the HSR be ”pastoral”? Demanding Recompense from Institutions that have Lost Their Authority.

Didn't have enough time to develop this line of thinking today. Maybe more on it tomorrow.  Links for the CRC SSM Conversation https://paulvanderklay.me/2022/03/19/links-for-the-crc-ssm-hsr-conversation/  CRCNA Human Sexuality Report https://www.crcna.org/sites/default/files/human_sexuality_report_2021.pdf   @Jeff Weima  https://youtu.be/ZZbcq8LjVZA   @Ready to Harvest  on the PCA https://youtu.be/SEOyrCQrCVI  Washington Post Rethinking Sexual Ethics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...

How the Iraq War Put Jon Stewart’s Tweener Generation onto the Sense-Making Hunt

​ @The Problem With Jon Stewart  https://youtu.be/w5Kneg9x9xg   @The Problem With Jon Stewart  https://youtu.be/4C79xxjdXsE    @Skip Intro  What Happened to Jon Stewart? https://youtu.be/9hCxHvogsTY   @The Problem With Jon Stewart  on Spotify and Joe Rogan https://youtu.be/WXvTPHF4hXc   @Ben Shapiro  with  @Real Time with Bill Maher  https://youtu.be/XflisXO5mIQ  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/4pCNqZTG Paul Vander K...

Jordan Peterson, Christianity and Masculinity. with Parker Settecase

This was on Parker's Channel a few weeks ago. . https://youtu.be/U2gv18TwcRg  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/qdZuJHmd Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-wit...

Back with Brad: Bachelor, Peterson and Buss on Men and Women, God 1 and 2,

Here's the link from our first Conversation https://youtu.be/y1qoGLQP3lY

The Nature of ”Natural” Human Sexuality in Romans 1: Pt. 2

Continuing from last week https://youtu.be/-qTRUSIXloU

Compressing a World Too Big for Us into Manipulables: Truth, Religion, Etc. B o M Q/A March 18 2022

Jesus Won’t Save the World by Hulking Out on Roman/Aliens

Jesus Won't Save the World by Hulking Out on Roman/Aliens

Which Religion Will Re-Flourish its Civilization and with it the World?

Lots of interesting around Putin, Ukraine, Alexandr Dugin and mysticism. Russia seems like they will lose this war and they are incentivizing the West to rise up and finish them off. It is actually at the religious level that all of this is being waged. Psychedelics, science, how can we find unity? How can we negotiate between the one and the many?   @Seekers of Unity  Making of Mysticism https://youtu.be/OBHsLOgXZNc  @The Agenda with Steve Paikin  Who is Alexander Dugin? https://youtu.be/J...

Vervaeke and Pageau on our Struggle to Talk About the Ontology of the Levels Up

​ @Jonathan Pageau  https://youtu.be/2BVjIOpV9KQ  We are Apes Behaving like Ants https://hwfo.substack.com/p/we-are-all-apes-behaving-like-ants  Carl Trueman the Rise of the Modern Self https://amzn.to/37suvel  The Gates of Kiev https://darkage.substack.com/p/the-gates-of-kiev    Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/4pCNqZTG Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Subst...

Spiritual Transmission through the Cultural Imaginary: Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self

Carl Trueman the Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self https://amzn.to/3ibQJmZ   Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/4pCNqZTG Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-w...

Jordan Peterson, David Buss, Patriarchy, Female Choosiness, The Bachelor and Steve Garvey.

​ @Jordan B Peterson  with David Buss https://youtu.be/n9wzSpz7gKE   @FamilyFeud  What 100 Married Men Would Do for Sex https://youtu.be/n9wzSpz7gKE  https://abc.com/shows/the-bachelor    Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/4pCNqZTG Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If yo...

Movies are our Religion and We Demand Transformation

​ @The Critical Drinker   Why Modern Movies Suck - They Teach us Aweful Lessons https://youtu.be/Dnuqp4_K7ik  @Film Courage   Why 99% of Movies Today are Garbage - Chris Gore https://youtu.be/12f0ligwS5s Nostalgia, Preaching and Membership https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/p/nostalgia-preaching-church-membership South Park: All the Member Berries Scenes https://youtu.be/OJoQJKTc3nM  @Jordan B Peterson   and Clay Routledge https://youtu.be/3yV0b-NhKTY CS Lewis: An Experiment in Criticism ht...

Judas Fails to Initiate his Great Reset: John 13

In John 13 Jesus is concluding this phase of his work. How he does so doesn't make a lot of sense to us.

The Stuff that Legends Are Made Of: PVK Q/A March 11, 2022

Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/4pCNqZTG Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/ There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtu...

Becoming Apocalyptically Natural: Fr. John Behr, CS Lewis, Romans 1:24-28

​ @Transfigured  with Fr. John Behr https://youtu.be/G4S4BZJcqF0    Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/4pCNqZTG Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/ T...

The Perfect Storm to End the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) as we know it

My friend David Snapper wrote a paper for the Abide website. It isn't published yet but I wanted to touch on it in the context of the upcoming Synod of the CRCNA.  My Conversation with David Snapper https://youtu.be/0quImUMqBtA  Christian Reformed Church Synod https://www.crcna.org/synodresources  All One Body https://www.allonebody.org/  Abide Project https://www.abideproject.org/  Abide Project with Dave Beelen https://youtu.be/X1MG4xHEfUw  CRCNA Human Sexuality Report https://www.crcna.o...

Establishment Protestantism Won the Culture and Lost Its Christian Identity

​ @The Aaron Renn Show  https://youtu.be/pl_UfrdO20Q After Cloven Tongues of Fire https://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/2011_cloven_tongues_hollinger.pdf  @Ready To Harvest  Church Denominations with McDonald's level Dominance https://youtu.be/X_I8oXjmvAI Juicy Ecumenicity: FDR Christian Democrat https://juicyecumenism.com/2020/05/14/fdr-christian-democrat/ James Bratt on FDR https://youtu.be/87nr7DXODtE I got out of church because it was too depressing https://youtu.be/R-4zwcZrR9...

Cold War as 2 Visions of Kingdom Come: Security vs Meaningful Opportunity

I was listening to the Rest is History treating the Soviet Era of the 1970s and had thoughts about two different visions of kingdom come. The Rest is History Young Putin https://pca.st/5bnr7l5p    Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.co...

The God of the Bible is not Creatures Projected into the Sky (Fixed)

The previous posting of this had an editing error that resulted in a 3 second podcast. Some of you wanted shorter, so there it was. This is the correct study. This is on Romans 1:20-23

Liberal Hegemony is the Foreign Policy of Progressive Liberationism

There was an editing error in the first edition of this entitled Benevolent Hegemony. It happens in the first 7 minutes so if you're already beyond that point everything else is fine. This is a re-release of that video. All the other content after 7 minutes is identical.    The Rest is History with Andrew Preston https://pca.st/beojaj4g  The Crucible of Empire from PBS https://youtu.be/8g8NpQsmxj4  Sword of the Spirit and the Shield of Faith https://amzn.to/34mfjyk Discord link. Good for ...

American Protestant Wars of Benevolent Hegemony

The Rest is History with Andrew Preston https://pca.st/beojaj4g  The Crucible of Empire from PBS https://youtu.be/8g8NpQsmxj4  Sword of the Spirit and the Shield of Faith https://amzn.to/34mfjyk Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ ...

The God of the Bible is not Creatures Projected into the Sky

We continue our Romans study. This is Romans 1:20-23

Are there Wins in this Dark World? Grim Griz has questions.

​ @Grizwald Grim  https://www.youtube.com/c/GrizwaldGrim  You can find my first conversation with him here. You can hear his story here. https://youtu.be/uhn2ibaMTMI  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a o...

Jesus Lets His Friends Suffer

In John 11 Jesus lets his friend Lazarus die and his friends Mary and Martha suffer the grief. All to reveal his glory.

Religion Still Matters in Culture: Jordan Peterson and Frederick Kagan on Ukraine

From  @Jordan B Peterson  https://youtu.be/Ys2zTL-b3eE  @Ready To Harvest  Orthodox Church Cold War over Ukraine https://youtu.be/WxOgnERhs-c    Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversati...

Ukraine, Mearsheimer, and the Invisible Protestantism beneath Liberal Hegemony

Shortcomings are not so much exposed by failures as by successes. In many ways the liberal hegemony assumed by both American political parties is failing and people are dying because of it. Evangelical Christians are not well-served by their pundits and none of us are quite sure where we go beyond the liberalism that has build the modern Protestant, Western world.    @YaleUniversity  John J. Mearsheimer "The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony" https://youtu.be/ESwIVY2oimI  Why is Ukraine the...

Re-Enchanting the West with Rod Dreher and Kale Zelden

Rod Dreher is a writer at the American Conservative https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/   Kale Zelden has been on the channel before. You can find the General Eclectic podcast here. https://www.youtube.com/user/amconmag  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary...

The Bible, the U-Shaped Story, the Book of Job and the Hero’s Journey: with Jess

Jess P is back. You can find our other conversations in the playlist. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSXopxC8Z9vxoSXlLYP1bTq5Sf0zt6nJ  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation ...

The Visible Knowledge of the Invisible God: Romans 1: 19

Romans 1

Bridges of Meaning: Matchmaking Edition

Nate and Shelly update their status and stories. Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/VZpsyC9h Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ Estuary Hub Link https://www.estuaryhub.com/ If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/ There is a video vers...

Putin, Power, Ukraine, Truth and the True Believers

​ @Triggernometry  https://youtu.be/dNnq8gMAE-8   @PowerfulJRE  Maajid Nawaz https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ugbn7cuab3mNgKbo81ajM   @Jordan B Peterson  https://youtu.be/LbZ9OxrLTVM  The True Believer Eric Hoffer https://amzn.to/3JYHnXy  Discord link. Good for just a few days. Check with more recent videos for a fresh link. https://discord.gg/Yre7QxQR Paul Vander Klay clips channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX0jIcadtoxELSwehCh5QTg My Substack https://paulvanderklay.substack.com/ ...

See to Trust and Trust to See

John 9, the Man born blind