Paul VanderKlay's Podcast
1,429 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 149 ratingsI am a minister in the Christian Reformed Church. I have a YouTube channel where I do commentary on religion, theology, belief, and thought leaders like Jordan Peterson, Eric and Bret Weinstein, the IDW and anything else I find interesting. I also have conversations with many in my audience.
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Tucson Meetup Report March 2 2020
March 04, 2020 05:54 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBWe kicked off the meetup tour with our meetup in Tucson AZ. We met at the Village church. Rod Hugen who pastors there has been on the channel. We had 35 people show up including a number of curious members of the church. We also had a group from a Philosophy meetup group as well as some of the folks some of you will recognize from the channel. We did our usual introductions and discussions for the first two hours, took a picture and people were still talking late into the night. Poor Job was...
Rhett and Link's Post-Enlightenment Post-Evangelical Intuitive Spirituality Pt 1
March 02, 2020 12:58 - 1 hour - 123 MBRhett and Link make terrific illustrations of this movement. Nathan Jacobs in his presentation to the American Orthodox church note that the Nones don't relate directly to the New Atheist/ Christian Apologist conversation because they are not Modernist rationalists in this way. They are more intuitive. I do a bit of a church history survey through an Owen Barfield lens: Original Participation, Separation, Final Participation. Rhett and Link Lost Years https://youtu.be/hYCgz-MiNE4 Rhett and L...
Why doesn't Jesus use his power to fix the world right now?
February 28, 2020 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBWe go from Transfiguration to Temptations. Isn't the shining, transfiguration Jesus what we want? Why hold back the power to fix the world in all the ways we expect?
March 2020 Meetup Tour Links
February 28, 2020 02:52 - 4 minutes - 3.71 MBThe tour is upon us. Please sign up on Meetup so the hosts can have some idea how many people will attend. March 2 Tucson AZ: https://www.meetup.com/Tucson-ConverZations/events/268937092/ March 4 Bellflower CA: https://www.meetup.com/Jordan-Peterson-Appreciation-Society/events/268965849/ March 5 Chino CA:https://www.meetup.com/Jordan-Peterson-Inland-Empire-Meetup/events/268564977/ March 14 Fresno CA: https://www.meetup.com/Fresno-Jordan-Peterson-Meetup/events/267837868/ March 15 Sacramento C...
Jeremy Firth, LDS to Atheist to JBP, Feeling the Loss of Status looking at Christianity (Convo)
February 27, 2020 15:13 - 52 minutes - 20.5 MBJeremy tells his story. He's also started his own YouTube channel and has been on The Meaning Code channel Jeremy's Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/jeremyfirth Jeremy on Karen's channel https://youtu.be/0rX19eXPSRc Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't w...
Jordan Peterson Phase 3: the Books About Him. Ron Dart
February 26, 2020 15:11 - 1 hour - 27 MBRon Dart edited a book of essays about Jordan Peterson that is coming out in a couple of weeks. There have been a number out about him which we talk about as well as our hopes for what's coming up for him. Ron Dart's 3 Phases of the Jordan Peterson 1. Jordan Peterson before bill C-16 2. Jordan Peterson on the political stage 3. Books commenting about Jordan Peterson Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson edited by Ron Dart https://amzn.to/2Vn7MrZ Myth, Meaning and Anti-Fragile Individuali...
Transformations and Addiction: Rhett and Link, Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke, David Nasse
February 24, 2020 15:00 - 2 hours - 227 MBRhett and Link's "deconstruction" is just one example of a generation's defection from Christianity for familiar reasons, but what kind of thing are we actually talking about in terms anyone can understand? Transformations of many varieties happen in nature and in humanity. We seek positive examples of it. Addiction is a negative example. What can we learn about transformations even before we dig into the specific reasons Rhett and Link self-identify for their transformations? Let's begin th...
Transfiguration: Jesus Revealed as Son of Man and Son of God
February 22, 2020 15:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MBThis week is transfiguration Sunday when the church begins the transition from Epiphany towards Lent. What is the transfiguration story and how does it work in the larger story of who Jesus is? Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't work. If you want to schedule...
The Search for the Substance of God, Brett Salkeld on Transubstantiation
February 20, 2020 15:16 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBDr. Brett Salkeld is the Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina Saskatchewan and the author of "Transubstantiation: Theology, History and Christian Unity". You might assume that this is simply a book about a historical theological dispute, and it is, but I think this book is a clear presentation of the history of the conflict surrounding our understanding of the word "God". We use the word "God" as if we know what we're talking about, or that we all mean the sam...
Looking for God in The Good Place (Seasons 1-3 Spoilers)
February 19, 2020 15:08 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBThe Good Place both expresses and informs the spiritual and religious beliefs of Western culture. Even though up to 90 percent of Americans express some sort of belief in some sort of God the Christian God is quite absent from the popular TV sitcom. Why? What is the worldview beneath The Good Place? Pew Religious Landscape Survey https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/belief-in-god/ Soul Searching https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Searching-Religious-Spiritual-Teenagers/dp/019538477...
Rationality Rules Guilty of Unwittingly Smuggling Jesus Morality Plus Vaush Debate
February 17, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 141 MBRationality rules is still complaining about Jordan Peterson. Why? At least he's being fair, recognizing that Jordan is very careful about his speech. His crime? Not joining the religious/moral bandwagon. What he doesn't realize is that Jesus go smuggled long ago and he echos centuries of Christian preachers complaining about Christian insufficiency in living out Jesus' love ethic. This long version contains the majority of the good faith conversation I had with Vaush where we explore some a...
Jesus and the Righteousness Beyond Pietists and Politicos
February 16, 2020 02:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBJesus' Sermon on the Mount reviews the Law of Moses but in a strange way. He demands more. At the same time he was notoriously cozy with sinners. How does this work? Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't work. If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversatio...
You Interface the World Through Your Religion
February 13, 2020 15:32 - 2 hours - 176 MBWhat do you mean by the word "religion"? People think of "a religion" like Christianity or Judaism but religion is much deeper than that. The word has meant a lot of different things throughout history. Is religion a human authoring program? Is it a community creation device? Is it culture? Is it implicit? Andrew Doyle on Joe Rogan https://youtu.be/NIxhH85cQMY Alister McGrath and Bret Weinstein on Unbelievable https://youtu.be/kRx2uNMJFnU Jordan Peterson Self-authoring suite https://you...
A Jordan Peterson Jungian Boyo talks Satan and Progress with a JBP Pentecostal
February 12, 2020 14:42 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBKevin who I spoke with not long ago had a theological dispute with Steafon Fox over the devil. Steafon is part of the Boyos who talk Carl Jung, Jordan Peterson and Nietzsche over on their channel. We had little time and a confusion over scheduling but what came out was a sort of a while free-for-all conversation about Christian formation, notions of progress, Satan, antiquity, the Metadivine realm, God, predestination, you name it. It starts slow but be patient with it. My talk with Kevin h...
The Trouble with Wives, Christians, Randos and Fancy Vervaeke Words (Convo)
February 11, 2020 15:05Job, Jeff and Luke were some of my earliest listeners who reached out to me for conversation. You can many of their talks on my channel. About a year ago I limited the repetition of talks to 2. When I did that these guys started their own YouTube Channel "Randos United". Job also has become "the pastor of the discord server" where he conducts similar conversations with those who watch the channel. We got together for a 2 hour chat which will likely get us all in trouble. Previous conversat...
Joe Rogan, Andrew Doyle, Dru Johnson, Priestly Chimps Banging on Puzzle Boxes
February 10, 2020 15:10 - 1 hour - 124 MBJoe Rogan had Andrew Doyle on his channel for a very interesting conversation. Jordan Peterson clearly had an impact on Rogan's assumptions about the ubiquity of religion yet Rogan still looks at religion as a modernist. I want to bring Dru Johnson's work into the conversation. He too notes the ubiquity of religion but does so as a Christian His story is very interesting and I'll play it in an upcoming video. We see that what separates us from chimps is exactly our religious nature. We conti...
Salt and Light in a World Posing for Moral Performance Points
February 08, 2020 22:58 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBJesus' sermon on the Mount continues. His beatitudes were unexpected. He doesn't dislodge religion but undercuts the performative aspect that the world focuses on. His disciples are to be salt and light, ubiquitous, necessary, essential. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this...
Beyond The Good Place's Initial Moral Assumptions
February 07, 2020 14:59 - 55 minutes - 75.8 MBThe Good Place began with Michael Schur's wanting there to be a consequence for certain driver's bad behavior in LA traffic. Why might we want there to be an afterlife that is not just pleasant but also consequential? Americans often believe that "spirituality" is self-evident but the diversity of ideas alone reveals this to be a naive idea. Most Americans imagine that morality not only involves a sense of universal or objective morality but also relational morality. There is also the comple...
Guy Sengstock and I talk Marriage and Yearning for Home
February 06, 2020 15:11 - 1 hour - 44 MBGuy is the inventor of "circling" which he describes as conversational yoga. It's a way of practicing intimacy and authenticity in conversation which you will see him practice in this conversation. This is a guy with which you can really have a satisfying conversation. Our first conversation where he shares his story https://youtu.be/7dshAsIDP7I Guy's channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuhoymQ9glku30sG4qgW-iQ Notes Marriage It didn’t provide a relationship Secure attachment The wo...
A Pastor's Comments on "The Good Place"
February 05, 2020 15:26 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBThe Good Place may shape the religious assumptions of its demographic for a generation. Most of what it teaches, as with all television, it does not teach directly. Television shapes by shaping assumptions. I'm going to make a few videos looking at this series, what is beneath it, and what are some of the implications of what and how it teaches. Vox: The Moral Philosophy of the Good Place https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2019/12/10/21002589/the-good-place-mike-shur-moral-philosophy-the-ezra-kle...
Meaning Crisis Beyond Christendom with John Vervaeke, Tom Holland, the Nones
February 03, 2020 15:11 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBJohn and I have our fourth chat. We cover a lot of ground in this one. The Meaning Crisis isn't just post-Christian it's also post-Buddhist. We talk about implicit performative Christianity as explained by Jordan Peterson and Tom Holland. Notes and links below. John Vervaeke and Andrew Sweeny: https://youtu.be/C42TmeFHNmI John Vervaeke Jan 2020 Q/A https://youtu.be/7LH77EpSRNw John, Mary Kochan and JP Marceau https://youtu.be/KRDLCasZ4Ps John Vervaeke on Rebel Wisdom After the Meaning...
Jesus' Irreligious Beatitudes. #Blessed?
February 01, 2020 17:17 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThe Good Place worked to teach Philosophy in a sitcom, but couldn't help expose our deep assumptions about what a good life is and what a good person might be. Dallas Willard in his book The Divine Conspiracy made the should-be obvious point that Jesus entered into this debate about what is a good Person in his Sermon on the Mount. Jesus began with Beatitudes, a declaration of about fortune easily found in the Psalms. Beatitudes in the Psalms are exactly what standard religious dictates. Do ...
Enduring Moral Impact of Jesus Amidst the Recession of His Wisdom Institutions
January 30, 2020 14:57 - 1 hour - 141 MBChristopher Mastropietro so poignantly bore witness in his own life to what John Vervaeke calls "the Meaning Crisis". John sees the need for wisdom institution as religious dependent on a "two worlds mythology" recede and that withdrawal deeply impacts human well-being. In fact the future of humanity as we know it is at risk because of this recession. Tom Holland believes that despite the recession of the church, the wisdom institution of Christianity that has dominated Western history for t...
Using Jordan Peterson and Meaning Crisis Language to get beyond Christianese (Convo)
January 29, 2020 14:57 - 57 minutes - 22.3 MBJust had first daughter Mother homeschooled, Same town as Ron Dart Alliance church I always affirmed the propositions but I didn’t know why i affirmed any of those things Not comfortable using traditional Christian language Christian language Dallas Willard, NT Wright, Jordan Peterson Trialogue The Divine Conspiracy Corner of the Internet has breathed life into the Christian thought David Fuller Jordan Peterson Logos Esther OReilly’s TS Eliot quote to Douglas Murray Donating a Kidney What do...
"Jordan Peterson got me Reading Again, Uncorked my hunger for knowledge" (Convo)
January 28, 2020 15:06 - 55 minutes - 21.6 MBNotes Pastor’s kid, baptized around 8 years old Coasted through a lot of things, including the faith Through high school, could claim he was depressed, called it a funk The age of reason I’m talking on Paul’s channel, gotta put up books When I got into Peterson, I started reading again Gamergate and the meme war The Metaphysics of Pepe Jordan Peterson Jonathan Pageau Sargon of Akkad Sargon talked to Jordan Peterson Maps of Meaning Uncorked some hunger for knowledge that I apparently needed, ...
Inevitable Religiosity and My Pragmatic Darwinian Pascal's Wager
January 27, 2020 15:11 - 1 hour - 110 MBAtheists are waking up to the fact that religion is available. Coleman Hughes with John McWhorter notes Dr. King's reliance on religion. Bret Weinstein according to Alister McGrath thinks we almost need a new religion. Auguste Comte tried exactly this but if we compare it to what Joseph Smith did it was a failure. Why? How then must we define religion? How did Paul Tillich define it? We go back to Jordan Peterson at Lafayette College and questions about religion. It's inevitable. We'll look ...
How to Colonize History
January 25, 2020 18:17 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBJesus is the most influential man in human history. This alone should qualify him for the title "Son of (the creator) God", yet Jesus' methods of colonizing history are regularly spurned as impractical the data not withstanding. Jesus seems again and again to take the long view, the VERY long view. One that not only includes his death but transcends it with resurrection. We see this early on in his career by heading to the Galilee and NOT taking up the sword because the sword eats as well as...
Starting a Church in Davis California, Liturgy, Ministry, Tom Holland's Dominion (Convo)
January 24, 2020 15:01 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBMy friend Eric Dirksen planted a church in Davis California about 10 years ago. I wanted him to come on the channel to talk about his life, what he has learned, and to talk about Tom Holland's book Dominion. You can find Eric on Twitter here @EricJDirksen Christ Church Davis http://www.christchurchdavis.org/Welcome/Home Tom Holland Dominion https://amzn.to/2RHqqaI Notes Iowa, Dordt college https://www.dordt.edu/ Masters Historical theology in new England https://www.gordonconwell.e...
Can Atheism Save? Coleman Hughes, John McWhorter, John Gray, MLK Jr, Comte, Rand
January 23, 2020 15:31 - 1 hour - 124 MBWe've been exploring secular humanism's durability and staying power. In a conversation between Coleman Hughes and John McWhorter Hughes wonders whether their minority position on race can carry the day without the kind of religious power that Martin Luther King Jr.'s religious setting employed. People are acknowledged to be incurably religious. I pick up on this with an interesting lecture by John Gray on religious atheisms which focus on Auguste Comte and Ayn Rand. Coleman Hughes and John...
"In 2015 the World Felt Like it Turned Upside Down" (Convo)
January 22, 2020 14:57 - 55 minutes - 21.6 MBDale grew up Minnesota Lutheran. At university he joined a small charismatic campus church, got married, became a chemist, played music for the church. Agreed with Paul Anleitner about music being a sacrament in the charismatic church. In 2015 it felt like the world turned upside down. Discovered Jordan Peterson through Rod Dreher (like I did). Then Jonathan Pageau and then this channel. He like setting Psalms to music. He's still figuring out how to make Christianity work in this upside dow...
What I want FOR the IDW is what I want FROM the CHURCH
January 21, 2020 14:57 - 1 hour - 131 MBDavid Fuller had an amazing conversation with Andrea Lewis about his take on the current status of the IDW. David and I seem to agree that a dream was last that was first felt with the rise of Jordan Peterson that the IDW is still sort of floundering around. David, better than most, seems to be able to articulate that moment and get at some of what we need. David Fuller on Andrea Lewis' channel https://youtu.be/rgFpp8WzQCg Rebel Wisdom https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFQ6Gptuq-sLflbJ4YY3...
Durability of Secular Humanism Pt. 2: America's Next Religion?
January 20, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBNew Atheists imagined that the recession of the church would lead to the triumph of Rationality. By Rationality they believed that people would be non-superstitious, they would deny supernatural belief and materialism would reign. Tom Holland noted that the morality of secular humanism is Christian morality. What do we really see as Christianity recedes? Many have noted the rise of old style paganism. Is paganism resurging or did it never leave? Is this simply Bret Weinstein's second track? ...
Behold the Lamb of God, Follow that Lamb Wherever He Goes
January 18, 2020 20:12 - 21 minutes - 20 MBJohn the Baptist in the Gospel of John announces Jesus as the "Lamb of God". If we didn't have 2000 years of familiarity plus Handel's Messiah to contend with we'd have no idea what he possibly means by that. How can a hoped for warrior-hero-rescuer be imaged as a lamb? Timothy Keller Making Sense of God https://amzn.to/2G1NN9t Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group me...
The Human Durability of Secular Humanism Pt. 1 Nazis
January 17, 2020 14:53 - 1 hour - 144 MBThe Unbelievable debate between Glen Scrivener and Matt Dillahunty really climaxed around secular humanism's durability. Dillahunty agreed that secular humanism is a product of Christian history (see Tom Holland's Dominion) but does it fray when it loses touch with it's religious roots? The Nazis (according to Tom Holland) stand in for evil and the demonic for receding Christianity. Why? Where the Nazis Christian? What did they really believe? What is the relationship between environmentalis...
Canadian Warrior turned Pastor, Jordan Peterson, Boyos and the Meaning Crisis (Convo)
January 16, 2020 14:57 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBNeil Whitman was introduced to be by Stef-the-Boyo of the Uberboyos who I spoke with a few weeks ago. He's a Reformed Baptist Pastor in New Brunswick Canada. He served in the Canadian armed forces in Haiti and Afghanistan in the Infantry recently retiring into the ministry in a Sovereign Grace congregation near the base. He's been following the rise of Jordan Peterson and now the conversations in the meaning crisis. He's seen plenty of crisis first hand and it has shaped his life and calling...
Agnostic Karl DESTROYS Sam Harris :) Implicit vs Explicit Knowledge (Convo)
January 15, 2020 15:03 - 1 hour - 37 MBKarl is an enthusiastic viewer and comment writer on this channel and we finally get a chance to have a conversation. He's appeared regularly on Karen's channel "The Meaning Code". He's got an advanced degree in physics, had a career as a fighter pilot, and engineer and a contractor for the US Air Force. He's quite a guy as you will see. The Meaning Code Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgp_r6WlBwDSJrP43Mz07GQ Karl, Ira and Karen on Austrian School of Economics https://youtu.be/9OG...
God as Functional Ideal as the Necessary Source of Secular Humanism
January 14, 2020 15:24 - 1 hour - 115 MBJordan Peterson and Tom Holland have changed Christian/Atheist debates. This was clearly seen in the Unbelievable matchup between Matt Dillahunty and Glen Scrivener. The New Atheists have for a decade now scored points challenging the Bible as failing to live up to contemporary moral standards of partisan culture war positions dismissing God as a fictional character like Santa Clause or the Tooth Fairy but what Holland and Peterson have shown is that this character as acted out in Jesus Chri...
What is Religion? Bret Weinstein, Tom Holland, Sam Harris, Jim Rutt
January 13, 2020 15:16 - 2 hours - 187 MBIt is clear that there are competing understandings of the word "religion", not only today between competing groups but also throughout history. Bret Weinstein mentions his color as "metaphorical truth" to Sam Harris from the Jim Rutt show. Tom Holland in an older video (with poor sounds, sorry) walks through the development of the concept as of Christian history in the Middle ages. While the British failed to share confessional Christianity with its subjects it nevertheless created the conc...
Why would Jesus be baptized by John the Baptist?
January 11, 2020 17:24 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBIn the Gospel of Matthew Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist. This seems strange because John's was a baptism of repentance. Why would Jesus need to repent? Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service. This link updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't work. If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check he...
March 2020 West Coast Road Trip and Job's New Podcast (Convo)
January 10, 2020 15:12 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBIn March 2020 Job, Jon Van Donk and I will set out on a road trip to host meetups from Tucson AZ to Vancouver BC. Some of the plans in cities are set, others not so much. So leave ideas in the comment section. Here are the dates. March 2 and 3 Tucson AZ http://www.villagersonline.com/ March 4 Southern CA (TBD) March 5 Chino CA https://www.meetup.com/Jordan-Peterson-Inland-Empire-Meetup/ March 14 Fresno CA March 15 Sacramento CA https://www.meetup.com/Sacramento-Jordan-Peterson-Meetup/...
Father seeks the Consolation of Faith in a World of Danger for his kids (Convo)
January 09, 2020 14:47 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBVoth joined the Discord server not long ago. Came to this channel via Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau. He's a rancher, a writer and a really good father of 6. He doesn't believe in God but he has a sense of what this world may do to his kids. He shares his story well and we talk about faith in God, the gift of faith and developing faith. CS Lewis Til We Have Faces https://amzn.to/2FxWQyT Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The lin...
Jordan Peterson's Poly to Monotheism vs Kaufmann's Meta-Divine Realm
January 08, 2020 14:57 - 1 hour - 118 MBJordan Peterson in his Biblical Series offered the standard hypothesis of the gradual progression between polytheism and monotheism. Through a process of assimilation Ancient Near Eastern peoples accumulated the attributes of various gods into one God which appeared in the story of Israel. Christine Hayes, an Old Testament scholar from Yale introduces Yehezkel Kaufmann's idea of the radical discontinuity between Israel's monotheism and paganism. Besides the Biblical and historical questions ...
What is a Christian? Alister McGrath's Heresy, The Trinity, Propositional Truth, the Church, (Convo)
January 07, 2020 14:51 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBSam was raised a "Biblical Unitarian" and has tried live a Christian life amid evangelical churches. This is our second posted conversation surrounding these issues. He's been an active part of this community, helping to start the Chicago meetup group, being active on the Discord server, and appearing in numerous videos with the "Randos" and starting his own channel. We get into a host of issues surrounding doctrine, living as a Trinitarian heretic within the church, the role of propositiona...
Why I am still a Christian
January 01, 2020 17:14 - 1 hour - 146 MBFor over a hundred years there's been a rumor in the zeitgeist that Christianity's day has past. It is unscientific to believe in the miraculous so there is a duty to limit one's beliefs to the realm of the mundane and the common. While this is mostly true people trying to maintain status among others who hold this belief some Christians have continued to maintain their belief in the resurrection of Christ and this has led them to continue to embrace the historic forms of Christianity. At th...
Why Sam Harris and Bret Weinstein Kept Tripping Over Free Will
December 30, 2019 17:13 - 2 hours - 178 MBBret Weinstein and Sam Harris had a great conversation. It was nearly four hours where they touched on Sam's latest book, Bret's questions about Sam's take on Free Will and finally on the Bret's Metaphorical Truth and Sam's take on Religion. I'll get into this last topic in upcoming videos. Bret's attempt to work on Sam's free will analysis never really got anywhere sort of like how Jordan Peterson never got anywhere with Sam on Religion. Why? Wilfrid Sellars (here explained by Daniel Boneva...
The Suffering Son of God Made Man Brings Rebels into God's Family
December 28, 2019 17:15 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBThe twelve days of Christmas begins at Christmas. Here we look at an ancient sermon on Psalm 8 in the book of Hebrews where the preacher argues that Jesus was made, for a short time, a little lower than the heavenly beings, made to suffer so that rebellious humanity could join the family of God. Most recent conversation with John Vervaeke https://youtu.be/FdZlQYtIJ0Q Vervaeke and Pageau https://youtu.be/N1byG4RqoTg Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://d...
John Vervaeke, Charisma, Mythos, Provocation and Inevitable Religio
December 23, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBI wanted to get another conversation in with John before the holiday season and his new teaching semester. We talked about how Jordan Peterson opened up a space for these conversations where we address the meaning crisis. We talked about meetups and how churches can make space for helpful conversations for dialogos and processing. We talked some church and Western history. We played with a lot of Latin words to hopefully find ways to talk about some things without triggering less productive ...
Neil Shenvi, Understanding Critical Theory and Woke theology in the Evangelical Church
December 19, 2019 14:00 - 2 hours - 48.7 MBNeil Shenvi has a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry and is a homeschooling dad. He became a Christian at university and has taken up apologetics as a hobby. He's probably best known recently for reading everything he can get his hands on in the area of Critical Theory and blogging about it in terms of how this relates to Christianity. Neil's Blog https://shenviapologetics.com/ Christianity and Critical Theory https://shenviapologetics.com/critical-theory-and-christianity-part-1/ Diangelo is Ev...
Progressive Post-Evangelicals and their Struggle with the Bible
December 18, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBThis is the third/first of the hesitancy videos I made. Again, for me these videos are very much "on the way" in terms of figuring out how to talk about what is happening with post-evangelicalism. Post-evangelical progressivism is a collision between two worlds, the world many of these people were raised in with the assumptions about what the Bible is, and then the change in the culture. I don't think the Bible is quite what they think it is, nor are we. Here are a few disorganized thoughts ...
A Talk with the Boyos!
December 17, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 29.4 MBStefan and James are the Boyos with their own YouTube channel that makes videos about difficult books from Jung and Nietzsche. They're brash and a lot of fun. Here's our chat about the story of Christianity and a bunch of other things. Here's their channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrk8Y2fsR5i_5c1iTR9tZpg Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/WkkHMTt The link will prompt you to download the software for this free group messaging service....