Doctor John Patrick

By John Patrick

With a history that spans three continents, and over 50 years experience in the medical community John speaks to Christian and secular groups around the world, communicating effectively on medical eth... more

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The podcast currently has 208 episodes available.

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April 08, 2026 Why The Bible Was Removed from Schools
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In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the cultural, educational, and moral foundations that once sustained Western civilization and what happens when those foundations are forgotten.
Beginning with the importance of serious reading and shared intellectual life, Dr. Patrick explores the enduring relevance of C. S. Lewis and his book The Abolition of Man, arguing that modern education has abandoned the moral formation that once shaped character, judgment, and social cohesion.

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
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40min
April 01, 2026 The Stories That Hold a Civilization Together
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In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the collapse of shared meaning in modern culture and asks what is lost when societies abandon objective moral truth, historical memory, and transcendent ideals. Dr. Patrick reflects on his years in academia, the fading of a unifying cultural narrative, and the role universities once played in forming character rather than merely transmitting information.

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
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35min
March 25, 2026 Why We All Have Repining Restlessness
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In this deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the diverse ways individuals come to faith, drawing from conversations with his men's group about their personal journeys to Christianity. He reflects on George Herbert's poem 'The Pulley' and its concept of 'repining restlessness' as evidence of humanity's inherent need for God. Dr. Patrick examines how suffering paradoxically becomes an argument for rather than against divine existence, and discusses the testimonies of thinkers like C.S. Lewis, Anthony Flew, and Tom Holland. He warns against the narcissistic effects of screen technology while celebrating how authentic faith manifests in transformed lives and the growing return to Christianity among young people globally.
00:00 - Introduction
03:01 - The Emptiness Without God
06:06 - Different Paths to Faith
09:07 - Christianity's Unique Conquest Through Love
12:08 - The Trap of Scientism
15:14 - C.S. Lewis and Surprised by Joy
18:15 - Global Revival Among Youth
21:19 - The Need for Honest Self-Examination
24:21 - Christ's Model of Discipleship
27:22 - Nicodemus and Spiritual Rebirth
30:23 - The Destructive Nature of Screens
33:29 - Witnessing Conversions and Grace
36:33 - Science Pointing Back to God
39:36 - Beauty as Argument for Faith
43:06 - Closing Reflections
// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literacy Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
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41min
March 25, 2026 Transcendence and the Human Hunger for More
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In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick looks back on a life shaped by medicine, family, literature, and faith, asking a timeless question: what gives life meaning?
Drawing on personal memories, historical change, and the writings of Walker Percy, Dr. Patrick explores how modern life often reduces human beings to consumers and functionaries leaving many affluent, educated people profoundly dissatisfied. He reflects on work made obsolete by technology, the loss of vocational purpose, and why the most meaningful moments in life are rarely the most comfortable or efficient.

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
...more
35min
March 18, 2026 Why Earlier Physicians Knew What To Do Without Ethics Committees
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In this wide-ranging and deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the disappearance of wisdom from modern ethical discourse particularly in medicine, public policy, and crisis response. Drawing on personal experience, medical history, and wartime stories, he contrasts today’s legalistic, self-protective ethics with an earlier moral framework rooted in responsibility, courage, and historical memory.

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
...more
49min
March 11, 2026 The West’s Forgotten Resource
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In this deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick examines what the modern West has forgotten about its greatest resource, not minerals, markets, or military power, but spiritual, moral, and cultural capital. Drawing on global events, personal medical experience, and powerful conversion stories emerging from Iran and Africa, Dr. Patrick reflects on the disappearance of wisdom from public life, the limits of scientific and technological thinking, and the consequences of abandoning moral truth for tribal loyalty.

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
...more
34min
March 04, 2026 Why Reductionism Can’t Explain a Meaningful Life
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In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick explores what modern reductionist and instrumentalist worldviews fail to understand about human life, meaning, and transformation. Drawing on David Wootton’s Power, Pleasure, and Profit, classical medicine, and the biblical wisdom of Ecclesiastes, Dr. Patrick contrasts cost-benefit thinking with a richer moral and spiritual vision of reality.
// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
...more
42min
February 25, 2026 What Comes After Wisdom Is Gone
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In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick weaves together theology, literature, history, and cultural analysis to explore what happens when wisdom disappears from public life. Drawing on John 15, Isaiah 11, and a powerful sermon by Charles Spurgeon, he reflects on awe, reverence, and the fear of the Lord as foundations for spiritual maturity.

The conversation moves through classic works like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Abolition of Man, examining moral authority, suffering, and the consequences of a world that lives as if God does not exist.

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
...more
42min
February 18, 2026 Wisdom of the Old and the Technique of the Present
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🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick
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In this short but thought-provoking episode, Dr. John Patrick invites listeners into a deeper way of reading, thinking, and understanding the modern world. He introduces a new online reading group and reflects on C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, a book he believes is more relevant today than when it was written.
Dr. Patrick explores Lewis’s critique of modern education, contrasting the wisdom of the medieval world—where the soul was shaped to conform to objective reality—with the modern impulse to reshape reality according to our own ideas. He warns that when technique replaces wisdom, societies lose moral clarity, humility, and truth

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick
...more
4min
February 11, 2026 Doctor John Patrick on Suicide of the Liberals and Minnesota’s Daycare Fraud Controversy
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Dr. John Patrick reflects on two contemporary articles that illuminate a central moral crisis of our time: the replacement of truth with loyalty. Drawing on First Things’ essay “Suicide of the Liberals” and recent reporting on alleged daycare fraud in Minnesota, Dr. Patrick explores how intellectual elites, political institutions, and communities unravel when allegiance to ideology, group identity, or narrative outweighs commitment to objective truth.
The discussion highlights how liberalism historically collapsed when it refused to confront evil in the name of tolerance, and how modern societies repeat this mistake through tribal thinking, moral relativism, and fear of honest judgment.

https://firstthings.com/suicide-of-the-liberals/
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/us/minnesota-daycare-fraud-allegations-somali

// LINKS //
Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/
Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/
Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/
Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/
Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/
...more
44min

FAQs about Doctor John Patrick:

How many episodes does Doctor John Patrick have?

The podcast currently has 208 episodes available.

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