Cantus Firmus

Some time back I had started a Patreon and part of the benefits that subscribers got was a Patreon-exclusive podcast. That Patreon has been closed for some time now but there was some really cool content left over that only a few people got to hear. Here is a collection of film analyses I did organized around the theme “Space is the Place,” including discussion of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, The Thing from Another World, Mars Attacks, Star Wars Episode 7: The Last Jedi, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Audio:
http://www.cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20191107-CFATM-Ep17-FilmFest1.mp3

Music:
“Octagon Pt 2” by Polyrhythmics. Licensed under CC BY 3.0
http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/polyrhythmics/

“Kitchen Suite” by Spiedkiks.

Adam Graham was my guest to discuss the 2010 Christopher Nolan film Inception, a movie about a mission to implant an idea in the brain of a leader of industry by infiltrating his dreams.

Our discussion led us to think about how a simple idea can spread, whether reality is objective or subjective, and how guilt can begin to feel larger than life.

Adam Graham is behind the website
http://www.nokingbutchrist.org/ as well as the Youtube page No King But Christ. The mission of No King But Christ is to better unite the Christian worldview with libertarian principles.

Audio:
http://cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20190914-CFATM-Ep16-Inception(wAdamGraham).mp3

Music:
“Octagon Pt 2” by Polyrhythmics. Licensed under CC BY 3.0
http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/polyrhythmics/

John A. Dangelo III was a marine deployed in Afghanistan. Now he’s the man behind AntiWarWarVet.com.

In this episode he shares his journey–both political and spiritual–from a believer in state violence to an anti-war advocate.

Audio:
http://www.cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20190822-TheAntiWarWarVet.mp3

Music:
“The Itis” by Polyrhythmics. Licensed under CC BY 3.0
http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/polyrhythmics/

In Exodus 34:5-8, God revealed His character to Moses in words which would play a central role in directing Jewish discourse about the divine being for millennia to come. This portrayal of God is one of many ideas and themes which unify the two Testaments.

Audio download:
http://cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20190705-UTOTEp2-Exodus34.mp3

Music:
“The Itis” by Polyrhythmics. Licensed under CC BY 3.0
http://www.needledrop.co/wp/artists/polyrhythmics/

The first episode in a new podcast series, my interview with Dr. Michael Heiser covers the trend of “unhitching” the Old Testament from our Christian faith. Dr. Heiser argues for the incoherence of a Christianity without the Old Testament and gives his own view of the rationale for the violence described in the Old Testament regarding the Canaanite conquest.

Dr. Michael Heiser is a Bible scholar who received his Ph.D. in Hebrew and Semitic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the scholar-in-residence at Logos Bible Software. He’s also the host of The Naked Bible podcast and the author of books including The Unseen Realm and Reversing Hermon. He does an amazing job bringing the cookies down to a lower shelf, so to speak, by helping lay people to understand scholarly level discussion of the Bible. You can find out more about him at
http://drmsh.com

Audio download:
http://cantus-firmus.com/Audio/20190410-UTOTEp1-Heiser.mp3

Music:
Denso by Macchiato Funky