Paul VanderKlay's Podcast
1,386 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 12 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 143 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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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....
The Rise of Progressive Post-Evangelicals, Jordan Peterson, the Meaning Crisis and Community
December 16, 2019 15:32 - 1 hour - 99.9 MBThis is the second of those videos I paused to post. I'm releasing them in reverse order. I very much see these videos as "on the way" in that my thinking is undeveloped. I'm trying to pull a narrative together. I begin with post-evangelical Trump obsession. Many evangelicals were defectors from the mainline. Now some of the children of fundamentalists are refugees in the Mainline but it won't be enough to save it. Julian Young writes about Nietzsche and Kierkegaard and has a fascinating int...
Advent's Contextual Affordance of Hope
December 14, 2019 17:04 - 20 minutes - 19 MBOur culture will tell you that "normal" life is easy, beautiful and most of all FUN! If you're not enjoying the kind of life you see on commercials you're obviously doing it wrong. This is a lie. Most life gurus will offer technical fixes, but all technical fixes have a short shelf life. James offers advice that leverages worldview assumptions. Patience, long-suffering borrows from future promise. Advent is when we learn to wait and suffer in hope. Click here to meetup with other channel vi...
With Andrea on Bret Weinstein's Tweets, Vervaeke's Meaning Crisis and Jordan Peterson (Convo)
December 13, 2019 16:14 - 1 hour - 106 MBAndrea has a YouTube channel where she does interviews with interesting people. We spoke a couple of weeks ago and I thought the conversation went well. We covered Bret Weinstein's tweets about Jesus, John Vervaeke's series on the Meaning Crisis, Jordan Peterson's work, and quite a bit. This video first appeared on her channel but I asked if I could share it on mine as well. Andrea's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWWxwzgLYUbfjWowXhVdYw This video on Andrea's Channel htt...
Theism vs. Non-Theism, Personal vs. Impersonal, Miraculous vs. Unconscious, Context vs. Technique
December 12, 2019 15:39 - 1 hour - 136 MBWhile I've experienced strange hesitation "our little corner of the Internet" has had a wealth of great conversations. JP Marceau, Mary Kochan, and John Vervaeke had an amazing 2 hour conversation where they not only modeled effective, loving, productive, explorative conversation but they really did some work on drawing out the lines of difference between the religious and the post-religious dynamics of moral life. What a triumph! This on top of an amazing conversation between John Vervaeke ...
The Story of Scotland Morrison, Urban Abbey and the Consciousness and Conscience Conference
December 11, 2019 15:03 - 2 hours - 47.5 MBIn September 2020 there will be a conference with myself, Jonathan Pageau, John Vervaeke, and Richard Maundrell on the subject of Consciousness and Conscience. I wanted to know what was Urban Abbey in Thunder Bay Ontario and what was its story. Scotland Morrison, the Abbot shared with me his incredible story and the story of the founding of the Abbey. You are going to love it. Conference Link https://www.facebook.com/events/1383713598477714 Website: http://www.urbanabbey.ca/ Scotland's em...
Canadian Carpenter with an MA in Philosophy: Faith, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche
December 10, 2019 14:54 - 57 minutes - 22.4 MBYou can find Robert vA on the Discord server. He grew up Canadian Reformed (offshoot of the CRC), now married with a couple of kids. He's a carpenter but just finished an MA in Philosophy doing a Master's Thesis on Kierkegaard and Faith (see link below). Robert's Master's Thesis Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VkaKH580OVvAWXq2NeL6YejHyTzJ2skEcCB022CByFY/edit?usp=sharing Notes from the talk Canadian Reformed Masters in Philosophy Discord server Jordan Peterson Some ontological pro...
Christianity and Non-Duality (Convo)
December 09, 2019 15:39 - 1 hour - 24.6 MBBob has been in the comments section and in the Discord server for while now. He grew up in the Christian Reformed Church but has embraced the concept of non-duality. 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. 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 ...
Chicago Meetup: Why in Churches? Should Still Call "Jordan Peterson" Meetup? (Convo)
December 05, 2019 14:33 - 54 minutes - 21.4 MBWe just launched a new Jordan Peterson Meetup in Chicago! If you have friends in Chicago invite them. We chatted with Sam and Hank from Chicago and Joey who grew up in Chicago and launched the discord server about why we think these meetups are so valuable and why we're continuing to try to start new ones. Why do we think churches should encourage and support these meetups? What value do they offer churches? What value can churches offer these meetups? We also talked about whether or not we ...
Dave Rubin, Civil Religion, New Atheism: the Godlessness that Failed
December 04, 2019 15:23 - 1 hour - 96.8 MBWhen I listened to Dave Rubin on Unbelievable I heard a redux of Cold War Civil Religion. What amazed me was that Dave Rubin should have been a trophy of New Atheism but instead exactly the opposite happened. Why? Recently Slate Star Codex had a piece "New Atheism: The Godlessness that Failed" which laid out how New Atheism is being consumed by the Church of Social Justice. Dave Rubin perfectly illustrates that as well as how Jordan Peterson marks the end of New Atheism's power and the IDW ...
New Haven Connecticut as New Jerusalem (Convo)
December 02, 2019 15:29 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBJonathan tells his story and the story of his town New Haven Connecticut. New Haven was settled to be the new heaven and the new earth. To be the embodiment of God's kingdom on earth. 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. 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-...
Secular Pessimism and the Coming of the Son of Man: Advent 1
November 30, 2019 17:21 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBMany millennials today are pessimistic about the future. A generation of young people in the affluent, secular west which is more secure, prosperous and opportunity laden is anxious, depressed and reluctant to commit to a lifelong relationships or bring children into the world. Their worldview only affords help from within humanity but they fear that political solutions that allow freedom don't afford the technical solutions they assert the world needs. Advent is the beginning of the Christ...
We are the Breath of Eternal God and the Stuff of Decaying Earth
November 27, 2019 14:41 - 1 hour - 69.7 MBBret Weinstein has been tweeting lately about God, Christianity and humanity's future. He offered his anthropology on an Unbelievable conversation with Alister McGrath saying that people are the products of Darwinian processes of genetic evolution and cultural evolution. I agree. He complains that Richard Dawkins didn't take his meme idea far enough. I don't think Bret takes his cultural evolutionary process far enough to fully appreciate the role of religion in bringing humanity where it is...
Islam to Atheism, Troubled by Canada's Woke New Religion (Convo)
November 26, 2019 16:07 - 2 hours - 165 MBObaid Omer emigrated from India to Canada in the 70s as a boy with his parents. He gave up the Islamic faith as a tween, got an education and eventually worked overseas for his early adult life working in a variety of war torn places. When he returned to Canada the country in his words he didn't recognize his country. It went from Martin Luther King Jr's standard of judging people on the content of their character to judging them on the color of their skin. He told a lot of his story to And...
Bret Weinstein and PVK Triggered, The "Magical" Claims of Jesus and the Kingdom of Satan
November 23, 2019 17:30 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MBOn Nov 21 Bret tweeted a response to the fact that #JesusistheSonofGod was "unironically" trending. He asked "Is there an competing hastag for heretics?" Andrea with Bangs pointed out these tweets to me on the Discord server and I saw that Esther and Eric had already engaged. Bret got triggered by the hashtag and Christians like me got triggered by the "Magical" word and the discussion was on. This lines up with my sermon this week. I'm not sure I'll do a Rough Draft or count this one as su...
PhD Student Challenges Theologian Father to Engage the Meaning Crisis
November 22, 2019 15:21 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBBas (the father) wrote a book to try to explain the Apostle's Creed to generation struggling with the Meaning Crisis but his son (Aron) thinks he needs a new approach and so wanted him to talk to me. They met Job (because they're all Dutch) and he came along for the conversation. We got into Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke, Jonathan Pageau, Job's recent decision to fully convert by taking the Eucharist at his church, both Aron's and Bas' faith stories. Click here to meetup with other channe...
Warren has questions how YouTube has changed me and the future of the church (Convo)
November 21, 2019 14:44 - 1 hour - 24.5 MBWarren Mills from Melbourne AU is back with questions for me this time. Here are the questions he sent. How has the JBP phenomenon changed you? What remains as the central message of Jesus? What is your legacy to your Internet audience? What are you looking forward to most? What advice do you have for your Christian and non Christian audience? What role should the church play in the next 50 years? We didn't get to them all. We talked about his book on the Golden Rule and other things too. ...
Dr. Preston Sprinkle's Story: The Bible, Sexuality, Joker, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West (Convo)
November 20, 2019 14:31 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBDr. Preston Sprinkle founded the Center for Faith, Sexuality and Gender. After a conversion experience he pursued his studies in the Bible from John MacArthur's Master's University and Seminary. It gave him a desire to study the Bible and hold true to its teachings rather than the doctrinal standards of that system. He got a PhD in New Testament from Aberdeen going on to teach first at Cedarville University then Francis Chan's Eternity Bible College. He has spent his career working to open u...
Working out Faith Growing up in the Korean-American Immigrant Church (Convo)
November 19, 2019 14:34 - 1 hour - 25.2 MBMany Korean-Americans born in this country if they grow up in the Korean-American church find they have to live in two very different cultures. As with many immigrant churches the dynamics of the immigrant church are to strongly preserve a conservative slice of the culture the immigrant left. The contrasts between conservative Korean culture and American culture are extreme. Hierarchical submissive conformity vs egalitarian expressive individualism. Many children of immigrants leave the Kore...
Is Secularism pre and post Christian Evangelism?
November 18, 2019 15:03 - 1 hour - 88.5 MBTom Holland's observation that Christianity colonizes less successful as confession and more successful as secularization continues to rumble around beneath my consciousness. What this does is radically relocate and undermine the Joe Rogan/Richard Dawkins conversation as naive revealing the fear that Timothy Snyder possesses in his warnings about the early 20th century in Eastern Europe. Tom Holland Delingpod 35 https://youtu.be/R8J2aChrf7Q Joe Rogan Richard Dawkins https://youtu.be/_bN4sp...
The Jesus Rope-a-Dope
November 16, 2019 21:35 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBIn the Gospel of Mark there's a strange miracle story where the miracle seems to only go half way the first time and then Jesus needs to finish the job. Ancient commentators see it as process. Modern commentators see it as limitation. Do we imagine God would dare to use process? 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. This link updates every 100 users ...
David wouldn't be David without a Saul, Eric Hamilton's Church Story (Conversation)
November 15, 2019 14:35 - 1 hour - 24.8 MBThis is Eric's second time on the channel. He's a fiction writer who like many found me through watching Jordan Peterson. He wanted to go into some of the detail of his story he didn't talk about in our first talk. Our First talk https://youtu.be/jugwCxdncp8 Notes Writing fiction Prison ministry Bible class on Judges and Ruth Early to mid 20s full time preacher Church of Christ Got a degree in political science and a minor in religion Grew up in the Church of Christ Both families in the ch...
Roman Catholic Youth Ministry in Wisconsin and the Meaning Crisis (Convo)
November 14, 2019 13:54 - 56 minutes - 21.9 MBRyan is a cradle Catholic and is serving the youth in his church in Wisconsin. He's trying to apply what he's learning about the Meaning crisis in his work with the youth. Raised RC, after divorce went to church with Mom Moved in with Grandparents. Started get serious about religion Books. Peace Pilgrim and Dialogues of Plato Wisconsin Started seeing benefits of going to church Got involved with a youth ministry Lesson plans for confirmation kids Vervaeke Rider and the Elephant Click here ...
Nathan Ormond wants to convert Joe Rogan to Christianity (Convo)
November 12, 2019 14:57 - 1 hour - 27.2 MBNathan is a young man in the UK who shared his story of Christian conversation through Jordan Peterson. He caught the attention of some in my audience and wanted us to have a conversation. It was a delight. Nathan's story. https://youtu.be/d7jgiXNR_fI Nathan's channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy63pdWnpupE8MfxpMNfRNg Notes 17 popped his first ACL Smoking a lot of week, suicidal, porn Anger Training added structure into his life Joe Rogan experience to Jordan Peterson University pro...
Introducing Warren Mills
November 11, 2019 14:44 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBWarren was the bloke who brought me to Australia and set up the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon conference in Melbourne in March of 2019. Warren is a wonderful example of a man who has lived his life as a thinking Christian layman. You'll find in this conversation a whole list of thinkers that he has learned from as he's worked out his salvation. We'll be doing some other conversations on his book and his thought as it develops. First of the baby boomers Father was a mechanic Brethren Movement, ...
Figuring out Church in Back Row British Columbia
November 07, 2019 14:46 - 50 minutes - 19.8 MBDaniel wanted to share his story. He grew up in church watching good people but trying to figure out what they're doing. He's got wonderful parents who always have his back. Notes Normal speed Parents grew up Mennonite, went to an EV Free church Lots of good people but I could never figure out what they were doing Homeschooled Pentecostal Christian high School Tiling Started isolating himself Got into drugs, destroyed his whole world Worked as a cook at a Christian summer camp Culture war ...
The Meaning of Kanye West's Sunday Service and Jordan Peterson's Rehab
November 06, 2019 15:29 - 59 minutes - 23.1 MBDr. James is back. He's got a PhD in NeuroPsychology, teaches at a local community college and is a core member of our Sacramento Jordan Peterson Meetup Group. He wanted to do a conversation on the meaning of Kanye's Sunday Services and the silence around Jordan Peterson's rehab. Great conversation. Kanye Sunday Service https://youtu.be/mnGDIL1Cj_k Jordan Peterson Family Update Video https://youtu.be/SPwaixIuTrU Interview with Kanye's Pastor https://youtu.be/YDUmbkdQksU Click here to meetu...
Suburban Sacramento California Orthodox and the Venerable Bede
November 05, 2019 01:31 - 52 minutes - 20.5 MBTim is a member of our Sacramento Jordan Peterson Meetup. He didn't grow up Orthodox but joined it because his parents started attending. Here he shares his story and we talk about church in the Sacramento area. 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 yo...
Awash in Miracles, Blind to the Sign
November 03, 2019 14:57 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBJesus has been doing miracles all over the Galilee and the Pharisees come and ask for a sign. He refuses. Why? Joe Rogan Richard Dawkins https://youtu.be/_bN4spt3744 Richard Dawkins Blind Watchmaker https://amzn.to/36w3fXy Slate Star Codex Godlessness that Failed https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/30/new-atheism-the-godlessness-that-failed/ Tom Holland Dominion https://amzn.to/2K0kPcH Tom Holland Delingpod 35 https://youtu.be/R8J2aChrf7Q Debate PVK Vaush https://youtu.be/LAUgExXyez4 ...
The Continued Power of Christianity's Embodied Sacrificial Love
November 01, 2019 13:58 - 1 hour - 148 MBJonathan Pageau and Kanye West believe in the vision of the Medieval Village. West has the money and power to pursue it in his errand into the wilderness. Both seek to address what Julian and Nick see as our contemporary rootlessness. Even a "gender abolitionist" like Vaush concedes the beauty of the commitment expressed in the tradition marriage. Tom Holland notes the astounding accomplishment of the Gospel authors who somehow flipped the script on humanity's self-centeredness to portray Je...
Identity Tribal Warfare and the Humiliation of Christian Conversion
October 30, 2019 14:21 - 1 hour - 97.5 MBCharles Taylor notes that the egalitarian demand for achieved identity requires us to also achieve public validation and affirmation of those identities. This intensifies identity tribal warfare creating a game of tribal Othello where the goal is to always outframe and flip the adversary. Christians play this game too and it doesn't go well because Christian conversion is ultimately a humiliation. In Christ we receive an identity, it is not achieved. Walter Wangarin Jr. Ragman https://amzn....
Byrne Power on The JOKER and the Divinization of Fun
October 29, 2019 13:57 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBIf you're not taking advantage of Byrne Power's voluminous knowledge of culture you're missing out. Here we dive into The JOKER and compare notes on our histories with NYC, the ubiquification of fun and the Disnification of culture. JOKER: King of the Dark Clowns https://youtu.be/-4rvQWhVvbA Time and Evil https://youtu.be/LQvZYQqbUsI Georgian Crossroads Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jCwnd5w76Q&feature=youtu.be Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation h...
Western Secularism is Christianity Lite, JBP, Steven Pinker, Tom Holland
October 28, 2019 04:40 - 2 hours - 203 MBTelos is the Achilles Heal of all modernistic systems. Can we navigate without guiding stars outside the iron box of secularism? Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker begin talking how nations can resist ethno-nationalism but Peterson quickly brings in Ben Shapiro and his claims about a Judeo-Christian tradition as essential for understanding the Enlightenment project. Tom Holland's new book Dominion is about to be published and his research brought him to some new realizations about the root o...
Jesus sighed
October 26, 2019 16:56 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBEach of us has two worlds to manage. The big world that we imagine, and the little world that is us. We are little centers of the world. We've seen Jesus do big things, stilling the storm, walking on water, etc. But what about individuals? What about our little worlds? 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 fo...
Dealing with Doubt from Things Below the Water Line
October 25, 2019 13:51 - 55 minutes - 21.5 MBAndrew grew up in a Christian home in the Bible belt and is off to a good start in his career already as a young man. He's currently going to a Reformed, non-denominational church but struggles with doubting his faith sometimes. He of course found me because he was watching Jordan Peterson. This is our conversation about faith, knowledge and doubt. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discord.gg/2uUhZBK The link will prompt you to download the software fo...
What if killing is a feature not a bug?
October 24, 2019 14:22 - 2 hours - 178 MBWhat if the killing is a feature and not a bug of our fallen human nature? What if the Romanticism of our goodness is just an attempt to justify the pervasive violence of human history? The movie Ad Astra is the standard mythos of American religion. The movie Joker deconstructs it. If this is true of us, do we have hope for a future? Has the hope offered by the movie laden American religion always simply been a denial of death? Peter Thiel Eric Weinstein Portal 1 https://youtu.be/nM9f0W2...
Arul: "Emergence" is the Biggest Get Out of Jail Free Card
October 23, 2019 14:09 - 58 minutes - 22.6 MBYou'll find Arul in the comments section very regularly. He was able to snag a slot. We talked about Calvinism, Christianity, all sorts of topics. Notes below. Enjoy. ESL teacher Regina Saskatchewan 4 years Jordan Peterson Philosophy Metaphysics Science and mathematics Grew up Methodist Calvinism and determinism At the fall, the gap between humans and God creates Causation and emergence Emergence is the biggest get out of jail free card Vervaeke Jordan Peterson, Tower of Babel Click here t...
Getting Un-Stuck Through Narrative and Pastoral Care with Khemit Bailey
October 22, 2019 14:14 - 59 minutes - 23.2 MBThis is my second talk with Khemit. We share notes and wisdom on walking with people as they try to work through what is holding them back in their lives. The Character Arc Resources Page: https://thecharacterarc.com/resources Self Authoring Collaboration Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1807580879352690 5 Day "Do It Badly" Challenge signup page: http://bit.ly/DoItBadly Start by doing it badly (YouTube) 20 minutes a day, for 5 days, and do it badly Jordan Peterson’s advice Hero’s Jou...
Is Personhood Detection Merely the Perceptual Limit of our Pattern Recognition?
October 21, 2019 14:19 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBKarl has been enjoying the necessity of religion from below, but doesn't buy the idea of a personal God who willfully acts in time. Karen is an artist who sees that there always needs to be an element of the random so that order doesn't get tyrannical. They with Ari had a very interesting conversation about Austrian economics. Ari and Karen are Christians who believe in a personal God, Karl is now. Where do the lines fall around their belief systems? I also bring in a fascinating conversati...
Was Jesus Racist?
October 18, 2019 22:36 - 18 minutes - 17 MBIn this story Jesus likens a woman from another ethnic to a dog. This has stirred discussion for a very long time. John Suk, who pastors a United Church in Toronto preached on the Matthew version of this in 2014. http://faithisntwhatyouthink.blogspot.com/2014/01/jesus-racial-slur-and-bible.html Here's my take. 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. T...
The Oatmeal of Christian Practice
October 18, 2019 14:11 - 1 hour - 23.4 MBJoseph grew up very Catholic. He's of Italian and Mexican heritage. Went to a Jesuit HS and then into the California UC system. He was a history major but built up student debt so had to go into manufacturing like his father. The faith wasn't his young and he went full materialist atheist in college. Via Jordan Peterson he began to reconsider. He's a very thoughtful, reflective man and so we talk. UCLA and UCSC History major Student debt Italian sycilian mexican Raised very Catholic Loyola ...
Disenchantment, Rationality, Modernity and the Church
October 17, 2019 15:12 - 1 hour - 24 MBSarah is a homeschooling mom who lives on the farm. She's been a regular on the Rando's channel and the Discord server and we sit down for our second conversation about being Christian and working in and with the church. A Grief Observed 2 (Randos) https://youtu.be/t0P6vb6p-eA Sarah and Jeff (Randos) https://youtu.be/4Iiq5RihnAQ Grief Observed 3 (Randos) https://youtu.be/WrsJInvreWs Grief Observed 5 (Randos) https://youtu.be/NYQBj6c6W2E Sarah and Julian (Randos) https://youtu.be/NQkDGOU...
JOKER Movie, Peter Thiel as Bruce Wayne and Eric Weinstein as Robin.
October 16, 2019 15:05 - 41 minutes - 60.3 MBThis is a video I abandoned because I messed up the sound and only shared it on the Discord server. Byrne Power repaired it. I had decided to abandon it for another attempt at treating the JOKER but since I didn't have a video to post today and Byrne gracious fixed it why not share it. So Eric Weinstein's portal is sort of the Batcave and Peter Thiel is sort of a Bruce Wayne. They want to save decaying Gotham (now on the West Coast) The problem is that what they (and Rationality Rules) are ...
Dr. Jim brings Wilfred Sellers, the Manifest Image and the Scientific Image into the conversation
October 15, 2019 14:33 - 1 hour - 25.1 MBDr. Jim is back with some very helpful stuff for the conversation. I'll include the notes below. Links first. Richard Rorty: Is Religion Compatible with Science? https://youtu.be/fn2F2BWLZ0Q Clem Snide https://youtu.be/uND1ydB2gXE The Slow (Kevin's band) Song- Black Friday https://youtu.be/ojjWB5cTCg4 Wilford Sellars https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sellars/ David Bonavac on Wiford Sellars https://youtu.be/aVoWTnpF5ew House show Group A and group B Kicking a soccer ball, the bal...