Paul VanderKlay's Podcast
1,366 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 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 do so many Artists what this Pastor's YouTube Channel?
September 18, 2019 13:39 - 53 minutes - 20.8 MBI've always wondered why there seemed to be so many artists that watch my channel? Garry taught and works in arts and design and shares with me what he thinks. Conversation notes Jordan Peterson Meaning Making Graphic Symbolism Pageau is talking about subject matter There are a lot of artists that follow and there’s a reason for that There’s a formal aspect for that. Interesting content, All these stories are a way to get into the non-physical way of getting at meaning We don’t know how to...
Can Christianity be a Spiritual Solution to Death by Industry?
September 16, 2019 14:59 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBJeff Q in a previous video raises a number of challenges that humanity faces in the world today and he's challenged me to offer ways in which Christianity addresses those challenges. I very much want to take up this project because I think it is where the rubber hits the road for many people. This is the first of these videos. Vancouver 1 https://youtu.be/d-Z9EZE8kpo Bret Weinstein on Unbelievable https://youtu.be/kRx2uNMJFnU My commentary on Weinstein on Unbelievable https://youtu.be/ymK...
Jeff Q Doubts that Christianity (or any ancient religion) can address the challenges of today.
September 16, 2019 14:34 - 1 hour - 26.2 MBJeff and I have been corresponding for a while now. He's from Grand Rapids MI but didn't grow up Dutch Calvinist. He has followed the Jordan Peterson developments but is skeptical that Christianity, or any ancient religion, can address the challenges we face today. This is, in many ways, the same objection that Bret Weinstein and others have raised. I of course disagree. I think Christianity is uniquely suited to address the challenges we face today. Now many might disagree even with how Jef...
The Secret of Jesus' Success
September 15, 2019 14:15 - 14 minutes - 12.8 MBNapoleon and Alexander were leaders who changed the world in a very short amount of time but they can't hold a candle to Jesus. Jesus had 3 years of public ministry and was the most influential person in all of human history. Billions of people call him God. How did one man who lived in an obscure backwater of a vassal nation accomplish such a thing? Look what he did with people. The Secret of Our Success https://amzn.to/2LYB0aC Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversa...
Even Bret Weinstein"s World Saving Requires a New Religion
September 14, 2019 16:46 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBI must confess I get snarky in this video so I'll ask some forgiveness and give this warning. I really like a lot of Bret's work. I enjoy podcasts and videos where he's talking about theories of evolutionary sources of behavior. I find these ideas fascinating and I actually agree with a number of the ideas he expresses in this conversation with Alistair McGrath. I'm also a fan of McGrath's work and I've read a number of his books. What triggers me about Bret on Religion is how Bret can't see...
JP's Christian Panpsychism and my Age-of-Empires Bloodguilt
September 13, 2019 15:26 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBJP and I first spoke a few months ago. He had some challenges to John Vervaeke's physicalism. John picked up the challenge and JP started his own YouTube channel. I've been skeptical about both sides so I got to ask JP to explain his panpsychism in terms I could understand and to see if I needed to feel guilty about all the little computer generated men I've slaughtered for decades. JP's Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZzlvx0HHYiPOJTEOU399WA Click here to meetup with other chann...
Jordan Peterson Biblical Series Commentary 2019 1a Bible and Dreams
September 12, 2019 13:49 - 1 hour - 110 MBThe first videos I made on Jordan Peterson were commentaries on his Biblical Series. These sort of got the channel going. My videos were very much a learning process for me and as the JBP movement kept developing and followed that path of my learning. People regularly mention these videos and I've felt badly that I didn't keep up with them. I thought of picking it up where I left off but I've learned a lot since then so I figured I'd start over. Let me know what you think in the comments. B...
Tripping on Jordan Peterson, Mark Driscoll, Thomas Aquinas, Anger, Grief
September 11, 2019 13:38 - 1 hour - 35 MBTripp is in to tell his story. He grew up PCA, went to Duke, moved to Seattle to work in the tech industry. He went to Mars Hill church with Mark Driscoll, found me through Jordan Peterson and loves Thomas Aquinas. Here's our converZation. Seattle Mars Hill Mark Driscoll Summit Church JD Greear https://summitchurch.com/ Calvinism Jordan Peterson Biblical Series Since C-16 Taking the story seriously. Presbyterian Church in America PCA Mark Driscoll’s popularity and Jordan Peterson Nones and...
The Numinous and the Moral, CS Lewis, Otto and Vervaeke 34a
September 10, 2019 13:54 - 1 hour - 105 MBThere was some anticipation for Vervaeke's Episode 34 after Ep 33. Can science talk about the Holy? 34a covered exactly what CS Lewis did in the first chapter of the Problem of Pain. People have a non-rational sense of the Holy and the Moral but they don't necessarily come together in religion. The Jews put them together and they come together in Jesus. In the Problem of Pain you get Lewis' rough draft of his famous trilemma. Vervaeke 34 https://youtu.be/KoqibFwvQJ4 Vervaeke on Quality Exi...
The Naked and Unashamed CRC Pastor Rob Toornstra
September 09, 2019 15:10 - 1 hour - 31.2 MBRob's been willing to be on some of my round table discussions but he recently launched a YouTube channel with a conversation with a friendly skeptic so I asked him to come on for a larger conversation. His upbringing might be strange to many of you but it is oliebollen plain for a CRC kid. He has written a book about sex, which is interesting (both sex itself and the book) and towards the end we talk a bit about how the Jordan Peterson moment changed some of my life. Here is our conversatio...
The Target of your Faith is what you Become
September 07, 2019 15:59 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThe Gospel of Mark challenges many easy theological assumptions we accumulate. In this story Jesus returns to his home town and is unable to do any great works of power because of the unfaith of his old friends and family. What is going on? What is faith? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+6%3A1-6&version=NIV 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 mes...
Church Essense, Propositional Truth and Doubting or Atheist Leaders
September 05, 2019 14:17 - 1 hour - 42 MBWe've been watching the transformation of Job from depressed atheist through Jordan Peterson phenom to church membership as an atheist to leadership in the Discord server to possibilities of leadership in his local church. Job's been very transparent about this whole process. I thought it would be fun to sit down with Rod Hugen from The Village in Tuscon, John Van Donk from Crosspoint in Southern CA, and myself just for a fun chat. Job wanted to use the time to reflect on how the strange ev...
My Review of A Secret History of Christianity by Mark Vernon, Owen Barfield
September 04, 2019 13:34 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBThe time for Owen Barfield's idea of the evolution of consciousness as participation may have come. Mark Vernon has written a book on Barfield's idea applying it to the history of Greek, Hebrew and Christian history. The publisher was kind enough to give me an advanced copy. I was not paid for this review. Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1789041945 CS Lewis Miracles https://www.amazon.com/Miracles-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060653019 Groups A & B Videos https://youtu.be/GJ9njeaS-iE and ht...
Brains Bodies Mind Groups A&B Matter Darwin Relevance Realization
September 02, 2019 00:50 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBIs Mind dependent upon Brains? This is one of those worldview watershed items. I won't solve this here but it is one of those big issues we are wrestling with in the meaning crisis. If Johnny spends all of his time playing video games and pleasuring himself to porn and finds that meaningful is there a problem? Most think so. Why? Vervaeke's last series of videos have been challenging and mind-expanding. We still don't know where consciousness comes from but it seems important when we tell a...
Privilege Chaos Faith Restoration
August 31, 2019 16:37 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBJesus returns to the other side of the sea and is confronted by a man of privilege desperate because his daughter is dying. On the way Jesus' miracle pocket is picked by a desperate woman whose been suffering as long as the dying girl has been alive. 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 v...
Paul Anleitner, From Charismania to a Better Integrated Participation
August 30, 2019 16:06 - 2 hours - 48.6 MBPaul is a pastor, teacher, podcaster who's been working the same beat as I have on Jordan Peterson, the Meaning Crisis, etc. I was on his show once and in this he returns the favor. We do a deep dive into his story from how the Roman Catholic charismatic movement changed his parents to his own journey through some of the wilder spaces in the Pentecostal scene. In many ways Paul and I are working towards similar goals and so in this long conversation we not only delve into his story but we c...
Rural Family Doctor, Raised CRC, Jordan Peterson, Vervaeke, Christianity, Life
August 29, 2019 14:04 - 52 minutes - 20.5 MBMany of you are going to LOVE John. I was the son of a home missionary. He was the son of a radio missionary. I did Calvin College. He did Trinity. He became a family doctor in a small town, able to work with his hands. He was into Jordan Peterson before he was big. He does podcasts and audiobooks as he bikes to work. Grew up in South Holland, IL Doctor in rural montana Stop talking start doing Jordan Peterson John Vervaeke Opt in, opt out Are you in, can you forgive? Small town, you do mo...
Are you a Fully Knowable Object or Colonizing Agent (or both)? Pinker and CS Lewis
August 28, 2019 15:54 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBPageau illustrates Pinker's reduction of human complexity, but the problems go deep with Naturalism. We can imagine two groups. Group A of things that "go on their own" and Group B of Colonizing Agents who move objects in group A. How are these two groups related? Are they one group or two? Does Group B exist? We all act like there are two groups and we are in the second. Pageau on Pinker https://youtu.be/eqgfgBH0ICw Peterson and Pinker https://youtu.be/pBylbB7s5Nw Random Numbers https://yo...
Finding and Losing Meaning through Military Community
August 26, 2019 14:09 - 1 hour - 24.7 MBThe armed forces can provide a bonding experience that has become increasingly rare in Western society. As individuals we voluntarily give up for the sake of national defense much of what we jealously guard as private citizens. This makes an interesting case study for the Meaning Crisis. San Diego, evangelical, legalistic, Calvary chapel, homeschooled Non-denominational churches EV Free church Non-denom is like a box of chocolates How we absorb things in church Not many Christian professors...
Exorcising Demons, Mental Illness, Dietary Laws, Becoming a Real Person
August 24, 2019 14:29 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBJesus gets to the other side of the sea and encounters someone described as having an "unclean" spirit. Right away many contemporary readers feel like they are forced to choose between two worldviews: scientific therapeutic or Christian mythological. Many contemporary translations don't help. Why describe the spirit as "unclean"? Is this just a made up story? Mark 5:1-20 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+5%3A1-20&version=NET Click here to meetup with other channel viewers...
Barfield Participation and the Cleansing of the Temple in the Gospel of John
August 23, 2019 15:21 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MBMy church work is on another channel for a variety of reasons but often in my Sunday School class you can see the fruit of my labors in Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke, and the Meaning Crisis. In this August 11 lesson in order to figure out what is happening in the version of the cleansing of the temple in the Gospel of John I give a lay treatment of the explanation of between original participation and non-participation. I thought this might be of interest to some of you. Whole lesson https...
Why Relate to a Personal God critiqued by John Vervaeke
August 22, 2019 15:19 - 2 hours - 53.9 MBThe rise of secularity and the penetration of the meaning crisis have been directly related to the recession of a personal God. John Vervaeke has been working on the meaning crisis in his series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" and he has been a willing collaborator in engaging these questions. Over my last 2 years of pondering the work of Jordan Peterson I've been working through many issues in psychology and the Biblical Story. I've learned from Pascal, CS Lewis and Jonathan Pageau as ...
12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, by Jordan Peterson Part 2 of 2 Presentation and Discussion
August 21, 2019 15:09 - 1 hour - 107 MBThis is the second of the presentations I gave at the CS Lewis society of California. It was previously posted here. https://youtu.be/IacyMNhKdUc Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discordapp.com/invite/pmQuHSW 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 her...
Are you interested in a retreat or conference for JBP or Meaning Crisis Conversation?
August 20, 2019 15:30 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBThis all started with Job's quip about "when are we going to do Lobstercon?" to Jeff and off it went. I see the value for extended conversations along the lines to what we are doing at our local meetups. The Discord server has now taken off and we are hosting more conversations in that space too but we are wondering about taking the show on the road and bringing it closer to the community that has developed around this channel. Please take this survey to let me know your level of interest, ...
The Navy, the Church, The Marines and Jung
August 19, 2019 15:45 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBSkip runs the Carl Jung Depth Psychology Channel which puts out more hours of content a week than I do. Almost from the beginning of starting my YouTube channel Skip has been talking about Jordan Peterson, my channel, Peterson's approach and my approach to many of the questions he's interested in. He's devoted a great deal of time studying the work of Carl Jung and has worked very hard at making the work of Jung available and accessible to others. I wanted to get a chance to hear his story b...
Should you Fear the Storm or the One who can Still It with a Word?
August 17, 2019 17:00 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBThe difference between those who say God exists and those who don't usually boils down to whether or not this world is the product of intent. If it is the product of intent we suddenly realize that we are vulnerable to the intender. This is a sermon on Mark 4 when Jesus stills the storm. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discordapp.com/invite/pmQuHSW (Discord Server) (this updates every 100 users so look for the most recent videos if this link doesn't...
How Universities Disrupt the Nascent Faith of Students Leading to a Meaning Crisis
August 16, 2019 14:57 - 1 hour - 35 MBKyle is a very impressive man. Studied at Oxford, top tier athlete, third world development experience, but also survived a near fatal illness that completely disrupted his plans. Now as a researcher in communication and bioethics. We touch on the Jordan Peterson/Harris debates, Vervaeke's work and much more. He wanted me to apologize for depending on wifi for his Internet connection. In our next talk he'll use Ethernet. :) Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation h...
A Non-Trinitarian Amidst Evangelicals, The Value of Propositional Belief
August 15, 2019 15:17 - 1 hour - 31.6 MBSam reached out to me with his interesting case study. In the meaning conversations I've been pondering the place and value of propositional belief over and against lived out belief. The Trinity is deeply foundational to orthodox Christianity but do even conservative churches today have a felt sense of how it functions in the life of the church? Sam's case illustrates that question. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discordapp.com/invite/pmQuHSW (Disco...
God and the Metaphysics of Quality, Bias against our Agency Detector
August 14, 2019 17:11 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBIs our resistance to "believe in God" a bias against agency detection? The real line between theists and those abandoning materialism seems increasingly to be intentional agency in the cosmos. In this terrific conversation that I butt in to (unrequested) I think we can see where the lines fall fairly clearly. Original Conversation https://youtu.be/nBl9P2ByMrQ (uninterrupted by me obviously) A quality existence channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6vg0HkKKlgsWk-3HfV-vnw Click here to...
Working Through the Legacy of Divorce in Sorting Yourself Out
August 13, 2019 14:41 - 58 minutes - 22.9 MBLee shares his story. All the usual characters for this channel. Jordan Peterson, John Vervaeke and the meaning crisis. Like many in his generation the breakdown of his parent's marriage and its consequences weighs heavy if sometimes seemingly invisible. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discordapp.com/invite/aBhYP9w (Discord Server) If you want to schedule a one-on-one conversation check here. https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-p...
Why Jesus Preaches to Low-Yield People. Remember the Plow
August 11, 2019 14:50 - 27 minutes - 25 MBIn the Gospel of Mark Jesus now turns from super-hero mode to teaching mode and he's an offensive teacher. Imagine a teacher that keeps telling his class they won't and can't achieve, but then the results will eventually be stupendous but surprising. This is what happens in the parable of the Sower and the other "seed" parables that follow in Mark 4. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discordapp.com/invite/aBhYP9w (Discord Server) If you want to schedu...
Understanding the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon in the Light of Meaning Crisis
August 10, 2019 15:57 - 1 hour - 99.3 MBWhat in the culture created the JBP moment? Why did it explode so fast? What did he offer that so many men needed just at that moment? Meaning. First Australia Lecture https://youtu.be/H_prMglq2Xg Alistair Roberts Interview https://youtu.be/sYbEowcANUk Buddhism and Cognitive Science Series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz-xSgYNrI2r2VgkCZLn_1w ThinkBig Animation https://www.youtube.com/user/zekedeg Vervaeke Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke Symptoms of the Meaning Cri...
You can't believe in God because of suffering you see on TV? Hogwash!
August 09, 2019 15:48 - 19 minutes - 18 MBIn what has become a political liturgy an Emory philosopher talks about his struggles to believe in God because his political expectations of what God should be doing are unfulfilled. In other words, because of Trump there is no God. If the politics of the world were more to his liking his it likely wouldn't change his ability to "believe in God". There are other things at play in this dynamic. Click here to meetup with other channel viewers for conversation https://discordapp.com/invite/aB...
Why You Treat the God (#2) of the Void at the Foot of your Bed as a Person
August 08, 2019 15:26 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBJordan Peterson tells a story of prayer that "works" to Sam Harris and they both agree they don't know where the answer comes from. This is God #2 (after he explained God #1). The "spirit" we must use in times like that is Pascal's "spirit of finesse". This is why psychologically speaking the God who is "holy holy holy" is not treated as impersonal but as a person and we are best to do so. Lots of material here from John Vervaeke on Kant and Jung, https://youtu.be/Noc1OH0CUBc Greg Sadler o...
Why I Take Viewer Conversations and New Guidelines for Signing Up
August 07, 2019 16:20 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBLink to new guidelines https://paulvanderklay.me/2019/08/06/converzations-with-pvk/ I love having conversations (or converZations as people tease me) with people you watch my YouTube channel. I’ve had so many requests I need to establish some structure to it. Here is the structure. 1. If you’ve had two conversations with me then be gracious and let some first timers have a chance at the queue. Think about finding one to three others who you’ve seen on the channel to do a group with. When y...
Sylvan Bear tells his story, dreams, Kant, Hegel and Jung
August 06, 2019 16:21 - 53 minutes - 20.8 MBYou know him as Sylvan Bear in the comments. We had a lovely conversation where he shares his story and we get into some of his favorite philosophers and ideas. There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333 If you need the RSS feed for your podcast player https://paulvanderklay.podbean.com/feed/ To support this channel/podcast on Paypal: htt...
Jonathan Pageau, God #1 & God #2 and the Protestant Crisis
August 05, 2019 16:42 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBSame conversation as on Jonathan's Channel https://youtu.be/8or_MOFXwF0 We catch up with each other on his flood, the strangeness of our lives since Jordan Peterson and YouTube. The Meaning Crisis and John Vervaeke's work and Jonathan's observation on my God #1 and God #2 observation. There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333 If you need...
Lutheran to TULIP to Atheist to Doomer to Jung to Orthodoxy and Kierkegaard
August 03, 2019 14:30 - 27 minutes - 10.7 MBMatt Allison shares his story and his thoughts of his journey of faith Raised Lutheran TULIP in College Then atheist. Became a Doomer WoJack: tabula rosa Disenchanted, darkness and giving up of hope Bloomer: other side of the coin Resurrected into a Jungian archetype Internet folklore Paradox in Christian apologetics Psychologizing fidelity Orthodoxy Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling Christianity wasn’t ornate metaphysics There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtu...
Can Woke Religion Stabilize or is it merely unstable idolatry? Conversation with Benjamin Boyce
August 02, 2019 16:22 - 1 hour - 126 MBBenjamin Boyce grew his YouTube channel revealing the Evergreen College mayhem that led to the departure of Bret Weinstein. He sits down with me to explore some of the dynamics of critical theory turned religion (Woke Religion or as I call it Progressive Liberationism). At various points I'll refer to his conversation with James Lindsay https://youtu.be/TFBWyCcwZK4 This is the same conversation recorded on a different camera angle on Benjamin's channel. https://youtu.be/lN3u2B769nI There i...
Consciousness, Physical pain, emotional pain, transcendental Gratitude
August 01, 2019 14:59 - 23 minutes - 9.07 MBThis was just a half hour conversation but it was packed with a bunch of good observations from Anthonio. Physical pain and emotional pain Evidences for God, consciousness Transcendental Gratitude Is it more psychologically advantageous to thank someone else for the good things in your life There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333 If yo...
12 Rules for Life is to Jordan Peterson as Screwtape Letters is to CS Lewis.
July 30, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBI gave 2 lectures to the CS Lewis Society of California about JBP's 12 Rules for Life. In this first one I do some comparisons with Lewis' Screwtape Letters. This is the same video that is on the Lewis Society Channel. https://youtu.be/yL-j1Tnn67Y Order the book: "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos," by Jordan B. Peterson https://amzn.to/2FIjswT C.S. Lewis Society of California https://www.lewissociety.org/ Become a Member of the C.S. Lewis Society of California and receive a FREE gi...
Julian asks "Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?"
July 29, 2019 13:00 - 52 minutes - 20.4 MBJulian has read James KA Smith has a book by this title and wants to discuss it. He gives some brief chapter summaries and off we go! Notes James KA Smith Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism What is a metanarrative? “Not just a grand story but legitimate the story by an appeal to universal reason” Through faith you live into the story. The role of faith in knowing Derrida: there is nothing outside of the text There is no seeing that isn’t interpretation Always seeing the text through your lenses...
The Persian Prosperity Gospel meets the Culture War
July 27, 2019 18:01 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBThe book of Ezra ends with Ezra invested with imperial power to apply the God of Heaven's rules to the exile community. Front and center are the wives taken from the non-remnant community. What to do? You have issues of church and state and marriage between different communities. There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333 If you need the R...
Nathan Jacobs, Nones, LIfe Itself, Stranger than Fiction, Karma, Life after Death, the Trinity
July 26, 2019 16:03 - 2 hours - 50.6 MBIn my second talk with Nathan we start to get into the shape of unbelief of post-Christian Nones. The movies "Life Itself" and "Stranger than Fiction" illustrate two aspects the conflict between the impersonality of their weakened Karma, their desire for justice and meaning. I want to know what a "person" is which leads to a very long explanation of the difference between Augustine, Boethius, and the Eastern Fathers on the Trinity and why it matters. Lots of analysis of contemporary post-Chr...
Jordan Peterson Convention? Being a Christian without knowing?
July 25, 2019 15:41 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBJob asks (through Jeff) when are we going to have Lobstercon? (There already is one apparently but not involving JBP). Can you be a Christian and not know Christ? Lots more CS Lewis. My first talk with Jeff https://youtu.be/JoAHv6_LG_w Jeff in the 4 Way Conversation https://youtu.be/mHBVLEthbgk Lobstercom Job’s challenge God and evil When can someone call themself a christian Secretly influenced Christian Can someone be a Christian without knowing it Can Christ flow through non-Christ...
Jem Works to Sort Himself Out
July 24, 2019 15:55 - 41 minutes - 16.2 MBMy second conversation with Jem. Here was the first. https://youtu.be/M9Pt255ngTg Notes Something in common with Zizek Failed that course by default Ended up going to a dark place, 39 and unskilled Struggling a lot now Quite a long time to get over the disappointment It did get him studying the knowledge his parents would never had wanted him to read Self-medicate, isolated, friendships weakened Trying to self-isolate because friends self-medicate Arriving at a point when he’s not sure he s...
Men without Chests, Women without Breasts, Too Many Boobs, not enough Breasts
July 22, 2019 16:11 - 52 minutes - 20.3 MBMary is back to riff on CS Lewis, John Vervaeke, A Quality Existence, Byrne Powers and others. Stanley Hauerwas The Content of Character Practical Theology by Peter Kreeft Men and women JBP GQ Interview. Encouraging his daughter to be a mother Breasts as organs of perception Hooters: eyes of an owl with breasts Owl is a sacred bird for the goddess Athena, purity and domestic arts Men without chests, women without breasts Too many boobs, not enough breasts Sevilla, A Quality Existence Joh...
Bring your Jesus Voice
July 20, 2019 18:08 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBZerubbabel won't let the others participate in the rebuilding of the Hebrew temple. Weren't the nations supposed to stream to the temple? The rivalry and enmity between the Jews and the Samaritans would last for hundreds of years, maybe longer. What should we think of all this. There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-vanderklays-podcast/id1394314333 If you need the RSS...
Can Jordan Peterson's Church Goal be the same as Bishop Barron's Right Praise?
July 19, 2019 15:51 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBSecond dive into the Peterson/Barron conversation. JBP criticizes the church for failing to hold forth a noble goal for people to follow. Bishop Barron jumps in with "right praise". At first I didn't see the connection but later I did. Can this work to address the church's decline? What's getting in the way? JBP and Bishop Barron on YT now https://youtu.be/cXllaoNQmZY There is a video version of this podcast on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/paulvanderklay To listen to this on ITunes ...
Who is John Vervaeke and What is "The Meaning Crisis"?
July 18, 2019 16:32 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBJohn Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto. He has a YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis which I've been following. This is the first of hopefully more conversations on his work. John's Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/johnvervaeke Awakening from the Meaning Crisis https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ Zombies https://www.amazon.com/Zombies-Western-Culture-Twenty-First-Century-ebook/dp/B072KS2PGB There is a video versio...