Latest Egalitarian Podcast Episodes
Light in the Darkness: The Power of Advent Hope
First Love Church - December 04, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsUncover how the practice of Advent helps us confront the darkness in our world, confident that love and transformation will ultimately prevail. We journey together through the grandeur of the Jerusalem temple, Jesus' profound response to it, and the crucial reminder that God's presence is not co...
God Says Their Names: What Four Unlikely Women Mean for Us All
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - November 29, 2023 22:11 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWith quaint creche Christmas scenes depicting Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus alongside shepherds, wisemen, and various farm animals, the raw and shocking hope of Advent is often reduced to sentimentality. We may quickly glance at the nativity scene on the church’s front lawn while narrowly mak...
Christ the King Sunday
First Love Church - November 29, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThrough the lens of Ephesians 1:15, we are guided to explore the importance of trust and love in our relationships with others and God. We are encouraged to adopt prayers from Paul's writings for our own lives and to delve deeper into our intimacy with God. The sermon concludes with a discussio...
The Biological Singularity Is Near pt. 1
Fight Like An Animal - November 22, 2023 20:00 - 2 hoursWe are clearly reaching the end of this phase of human civilization. Does that mean that evolution's broad trend towards increasing complexity, scale, and self-awareness is also dying? Many futures are possible, and in this episode, we speculate about one that continues the evolution of ever-gre...
Gladness or Gratitude?
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - November 20, 2023 12:30 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWhen we experience disappointment and fail to listen to what it’s speaking to us, we have a hard time getting to gratitude because we have often been equating gratitude with appreciation. Disappointment makes appreciation and gladness, or propositional gratitude, difficult to come by. However, w...
Gratitude or Sunny Spin?
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - November 14, 2023 17:36 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings'Tis the season for gratitude lists and happy smiles, but perhaps this year it all just feels forced. Genuine gratitude is hard to come by when we're struggling through disappointment. But what if our disenchantments are an integral part of experiencing the kind of gratitude that transforms us? ...
Cultivating Gratitude As A Spiritual Practice
First Love Church - November 14, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHave you ever paused and deeply considered the power of a single moment, a single act of gratitude? We're reminded of the potency of living in the now; join us as we journey through the Psalms of Thanksgiving, embracing the opportunity to show gratitude and celebrating the beauty of ordinary mom...
DTTNM - Ep 39 What's Going on in New Mexico?
Dare to Think | Mere Liberty Podcast - November 10, 2023 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsTIP JAR: https://donate.stripe.com/aEUdUE5YodhZgkUeUV New Mexico is facing challenges in terms of violent crime, property crime, education, healthcare access, and economic stability. Despite being a "blue state," historically, Democrats in New Mexico have been pro-Second Amendment and have ha...
Welcome to Season 12!
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - November 10, 2023 09:19 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWelcome to Season 12, Gold Digger! This holiday season, we will be exploring the connection between disappointment and gratitude, between light and shadow, and between pain and joy. Our world is experiencing tremendous upheaval and we're left wondering how to tend to our souls, and the souls of ...
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First Love Church - October 09, 2023 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat if you could navigate life's unexpected turns with the support of a divine guide, anchoring you amidst the turbulence? This episode illuminates the powerful scriptural teachings from Philippians 4:1-9, pointing us towards a new way of living. We unravel the intentional mention of women in P...
Social Complexity after the Machines: Interview with Dr. Shane Simonsen
Fight Like An Animal - October 03, 2023 06:00 - 1 hourRejecting both the empty promise of a future of magically sustainable resource extraction and a return to what has already been, Dr. Shane Simonsen examines possibilities for social and ecological complexity based only on biology and the human imagination. In his Zero Input Agriculture blog, Goi...
Metanoia: How Worldviews Change
Fight Like An Animal - October 03, 2023 04:00 - 7 minutesFight Like An Animal has engendered a group, and that group has in turn engendered a new podcast called Metanoia: How Worldviews Change. Metanoia, which means "a transformative change of heart," examines why most people are so utterly unresponsive to witnessing the world die, while a few of us ...
Finding Divine Love While Embracing Death and Living In The Present
First Love Church - October 02, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWould you believe that embracing the inevitability of death can lead to a deeper sense of peace? What if the path to ultimate contentment is through living wholly in the present? This conversation, centered around the powerful themes of World Communion Sunday, will guide you through these though...
A Deeper Understanding of Divine Favor and Love
First Love Church - September 25, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCan you envision your heart expanding with love? Would you believe that a shift in perspective could unlock a richer understanding of God’s divine favor? As local church pastors we’re prepared to guide you on a transformative journey through an exploration of God's abundance, and the power of lo...
Vivimancer pt. 1: The Water Carrier (excerpt)
Fight Like An Animal - September 21, 2023 01:00 - 5 minutesPerpetually replenishing his organs by inducing his cells to behave like those of an early embryo, Arnold continues the 100th year of his podcast. In Fight Like An Animal 2120: Vivimancer, we examine the end of the Machine Age and the subsequent Biological Revolution, providing both an introduct...
The Unchanging Power of Love
First Love Church - August 29, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHave you ever stopped to consider the strength of love against the backdrop of the early church? Imagine a world rich in fellowship, joy, unity, and selfless giving - a world where the actions of Jesus illustrate the transformative power of love. This is the journey we embark on in this episode,...
Seeds of the World Tree: Programs of Revolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Politics
Fight Like An Animal - August 22, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutesFight Like An Animal has generated an incredible audience consisting of rigorous thinkers who possess deep empathy. These traits, which are too rarely combined in political movements and institutions, mean that we have the potential to collaborate on truly novel, worthwhile projects. Thus is bor...
A Journey into Self-Emptying Love
First Love Church - August 21, 2023 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPicture yourself standing in the center of love's vast expanse – the love of God, love for self, and love for others. What does it look like? What does it feel like? We journey into these questions and more, showing you how to make self-emptying love an everyday practice and a gift of extraordin...
Social Cohesion vs. the Internet vs. the Establishment vs. the Earth
Fight Like An Animal - August 19, 2023 21:00 - 1 hourA wide-ranging conversation between Arnold and Daniel of What Is Politics? concerning the prospects for social transformation in this dreamlike age of epistemic fracture. We talk about the impact of declining social cohesion on traditional modes of political organizing; whether the internet can ...
The Transformative Power Of Divine Love
First Love Church - August 18, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOpen your hearts and embark on a journey of enlightenment as we delve into the power of sacred spaces, rituals, and divine love. As we venture into the ancient faith and contemplate God's intention for unity and oneness, we invite you to consider how we can embody divine love for ourselves and e...
Exploring the Power of Unity, Holy Spirit, and God's Love
First Love Church - August 18, 2023 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhat if the power of unity and the sacredness of community could alter the very lens through which we view our lives? This episode brings us together, across vast physical distances, yet intimately connected, as we explore our collective ability to transform the world through love. Our gathering...
The Golden Goodness of Friendship
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - July 31, 2023 09:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSeason 11 has been filled with golden goodness, as we've considered the topic of friendship deeply and from various angles. From opposite-gender friendship to soul friendship to lifelong friendship to life-saving friendship to friendship in marriage -- we covered the gamut! Join me for the...
#66: A Saboteur's Moon Sheds No Light (excerpt)
Fight Like An Animal - July 29, 2023 01:00 - 2 minutesBefore this podcast began, a nascent version of Fight Like An Animal 2050 was called A Saboteur's Moon Sheds No Light, broadly following the same narrative trajectory of revolutionary transformation amidst ecological collapse. A variety of video, text, and music was produced for the project. As ...
Friendship in Marriage
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - July 24, 2023 16:50 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsWe hear a lot about keeping the romantic fires burning in marriage, or how to resolve conflict with your spouse, or how to speak the love language of the one you love. Rarely, though, do we hear conversations surrounding cultivating and maintaining friendship in marriage. Many people find the...
Building Friendships That Stand the Test of Time
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - July 11, 2023 14:37 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSeasonal friendships are important. They provide mutual strength and encouragement for particular times and spaces of our lives. We rely on them for variety, fun, and networking. But lifelong friendships that stand the test of time are harder to come by and take a lot more work. Building these k...
The Ashes of the World Tree: On Grieving and Fighting
Fight Like An Animal - July 07, 2023 08:00 - 3 hoursOur worldviews emerge from our psychologies, from embodied states of being. In an effort to describe my framework for understanding social possibility beyond ecological tipping points, I have decided to tell a story. The story is of my life over the course of seven years, of the integration of p...
Pain Points in Companionship
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - July 05, 2023 13:37 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTrue, soul-level friendship isn't all fun, joy, and fulfillment. Every relationship is tested at some point. When our friendships run into pain points, we arrive at a cross-roads of sorts. We can resolve to fight for the beauty and love we've experienced together, or we can avoid the pain by aba...
Playful, Loving & Loyal: The Power of Community to Save Our Lives
Gold Digger Show: Finding God's Gold in Every Story - June 27, 2023 15:36 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn our ultra digitally-connected society, it's nevertheless common to be "ghosted" by fair-weather friends when the going gets tough. While we are constantly scrolling, clicking, and liking ourselves into believing we have rich communities, the truth is that many of us don't have a stable place ...
Metamorphosis pt. 3.1: The Rupture in the Fabric of Reality Model of Human Cognition
Fight Like An Animal - June 21, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourWe continue to assess our future evolutionary prospects, this time picking up the story of the human journey where Homo sapiens emerges. Anatomically modern humans have existed for ~300 thousand years, but modern behavior is only evident starting ~100 thousand years ago. We examine this evolutio...
Metamorphosis pt. 3.2: Integration across Landscapes and Brain Regions
Fight Like An Animal - June 21, 2023 11:00 - 1 hourWe continue the story of humanity's journey to modern thought and behavior, examining how a mosaic of both cultural and anatomical traits existed throughout Africa for ~200 thousand years. Then, this patchwork of cultures and anatomies fused, a process of integration that is also reflected in in...
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