Halting Toward Zion

In this episode, we look at different instances of the sin of racism, inside and outside the church, and at the best remedy for racism: the Bible. The history presented in the Bible speaks of one humanity, divided into many nations--and “nation” is a covenantal concept.

This Episode Features: Theological Creativity Is Not a Good Thing; C.S. Lewis Jokes; We Offend Old-School Presbyterians; America At Its Hypothetical Best; French Typesetting; Because of The Reason; Music We Don’t Like Can Still Be Good; and Speaking of Segues...

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3aAgjvB-htz-16

Recos

A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park: https://amzn.to/34NHF0j

Living Life Backward - David Gibson: https://amzn.to/3eAK2b1

One Race One Blood - Ken Ham, A. Charles Ware: https://amzn.to/2xugtYd

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2xY9bvW-htz-15

Throughout the ancient world, we see pagans building artificial mountains--pyramids and ziggurats--for magic rituals and demonstrations of power. Genesis tells us about one such attempt, in the plain of Shinar. At Babel, sinful man attempted to build his own city and his own mountain, as an assertion of his own godhood. How did Yahweh, the true God, respond? He thought it was hilarious. In this episode, we discuss the impulses behind Babel, trace them through history, and compare their ends and means to the City of God.

This Episode Features: My Heart Is Melting like Glowy Butter; A Concise Diplomatic History of the United Nations; God Is Not Your Dungeon Master; Faeries and Photons; Pentecost Spoilers; Raccoons Were a Big Deal™; and War Is a Touchy Thing.

Links

Wikipedia: Robert Koldewey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koldewey

On the Incarnation - St. Athanasius: https://amzn.to/3eghTpy

Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3efqBo8

Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who: https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q

The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2VmZgHP

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3cbAX6w

Romans 1: https://www.esv.org/Romans+1/

Relatable: The Dangers of the New Age - Allie Beth Stuckey: https://youtu.be/PMnGe2WixXQ

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: https://amzn.to/2VmxTOb

Disney’s Aladdin: “Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty Bitty Living Space”: https://youtu.be/SfTfXLLJlzM

Recos

The Creedal Imperative - Carl Trueman: https://amzn.to/3c8kpwj

Foundations of Social Order - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/2JWMZ7Z

Witness - Whittaker Chambers: https://amzn.to/2Vmzaor

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/3bPaQ5T-htz-14

If you were a modern-day Noah, what books would you bring on the ark with you? We spend this episode exploring our answers to that question, but send us an email and let us know your choices!

This Episode Features: Leveling Up in Animal Handling; Just So Many Books; and Elect-o-goggles, New from Whamco!

Links

Genesis 6: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+6/

The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn and Hal Iggulden: https://amzn.to/39zm24k

A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle: https://amzn.to/2UUrvxD

Star Trek: A Piece of the Action: https://amzn.to/2R23TG1

Inferno - Dante Alighieri (tr. Anthony Esolen): https://amzn.to/39kSN5h

Romans 1-2: https://www.esv.org/Romans+1;Romans+2/

City of God - Augustine: https://amzn.to/2xzXZ8e

Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin (tr. Henry Beveridge): https://amzn.to/3ayzw1M

The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey: https://amzn.to/2xyM3Ud

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3bDwNUO

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2JvnslO

Taliesin - Stephen R. Lawhead: https://amzn.to/2QZ71m8

12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/39w5oCL

The Great Tradition - ed. Richard Gamble: https://amzn.to/3bzIbku

A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander: https://amzn.to/2xCgPf2

The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2xA0szw

The Aeneid - Virgil (tr. Robert Fagles): https://amzn.to/2R1jVjn

The Comedy - Dante Alighieri: https://amzn.to/340afuN

Complete Works - William Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3azHqYv

The Conquest of Gaul - Julius Caesar: https://amzn.to/3azsdH9

The Essential Writings of Machiavelli: https://amzn.to/2w2038w

The Book of the Courtier - Baldesar Castiglione: https://amzn.to/3ayl89J

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: https://amzn.to/3aJwiZv

The Westminster Confession of Faith: https://amzn.to/3dFtFto

The Book of Common Prayer: https://amzn.to/2R3mbXA

Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan: https://amzn.to/2R0pT4i

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant: https://amzn.to/2xBEigf

Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith: https://amzn.to/2vZydtw

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2xHnCnq

The God Who is There - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3bGVbVK

How Should We Then Live? - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3dJ5ASm

Recos

Jojo Rabbit: https://amzn.to/2UxBXMo

The Houseplant Song - Audio Adrenaline: https://youtu.be/6z37stZQ-8k

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/3azI0Vr-htz-13

After supplementing our previous discussions of ooparts and self-atonement, in this episode we begin analyzing something so horrible and devastating that we draw it in cartoons and use it to decorate children’s nurseries: Noah’s Flood.

This Episode Features: The Only Trustworthy News Source; Time Travel; Bread Is Malicious (And Sneaky); Corn Flakes, Graham Crackers, and Grape Juice; the Giraffes are Here to View the Tapestries; Papa Kent’s Moral Compass; Emily Becomes Agitated; and a Phenomenal Little Tome.

Links

The Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/

The Antikythera Mechanism - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Romans Mastered Nanotechnology and Used it for Eye Catching Decoration - Ancient Origins: https://bit.ly/3cOjr8U-htz-13-1

The Lycurgus Cup - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_Cup

Wally Wallington’s Backyard Stonehenge: https://youtu.be/-K7q20VzwVs

Eating to Be Clean - Verily Magazine: https://verilymag.com/2020/03/orthorexia-diet-eating-health-food-anxiety-2020

Doorbells - Bill Bailey: https://youtu.be/SFQ_s87acFg?t=72

West Side Story: “Maria”: https://youtu.be/Jy2VGRDxSvU

American Pie - Don McLean: https://youtu.be/iX_TFkut1PM

Genesis 7: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+7/

2 Peter 3: https://www.esv.org/2+Peter+3/

Principles of Geology - Charles Lyell: https://amzn.to/3ay8Xdb

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): “Here to view the tapestries”: https://youtu.be/z14uhNXcx-s

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2R3LQ2r

Inferno - Dante Alighieri (tr. Anthony Esolen): https://amzn.to/39kSN5h

Recos

The Doctrine of God - Herman Bavinck: https://amzn.to/2xnyOWl

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the 1960’s - Jonathan Leaf: https://amzn.to/2JhvsH1

The Art of Manliness Website and Podcast

The Pendragon Cycle (Kindle Edition) - Stephen Lawhead: https://amzn.to/2wF8d7c

The Masculine Mandate - Richard D. Phillips: https://amzn.to/2QNKatD

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/3541DUw-htz-12

What does your faith do to your understanding of society? Is progress possible? In this episode we begin to scratch the surface of these questions, and discuss how Christian, apostate, and outright pagan cultures have approached sociology in general and dominion in particular.

This Episode Features: Blame it on the Angels; Quote Rescue Unquote; Satanic Fanfiction; the Age of Aquarius; Chicken Sandwich Heresy; Anglican Pets are Better than Yours; Welcome to Buddhism in Central Asia.

Links

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell: https://amzn.to/38CEmtb

Genesis 4: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+4/

Peace Child - Don Richardson: https://amzn.to/3atxgZc

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Carl L. Becker: https://amzn.to/2RRfAk4

Communist Eschatology - Francis Nigel Lee: https://amzn.to/2PVleQs

Marx's Religion of Revolution - Gary North: https://amzn.to/3cD3SS5

The Road to Shambala - Three Dog Night: https://amzn.to/2TSlGAi

Recos

Millennialism and Social Theory - Gary North: https://amzn.to/39ycFmu

Nashville Hot Chicken

Counting Stars - Andrew Peterson: https://amzn.to/2PQsVr9

Red Shambala - Andrei Znamenski: https://amzn.to/2VVxrbt

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2xcmKYm-htz-11

Good and evil are inescapable categories for human thought and action, yet Christianity alone deals in these categories in its underlying philosophies. Everywhere we turn, we see this question: how can we be clean? If we don’t have Jesus’ life and death in our place, we try to figure out some way on our own… yet in our sins we continue to defy God and harm our neighbors and even ourselves, and we know something’s still wrong. In this episode we discuss some of the popular ways to mitigate the feelings that stem from the legal reality of our guilt--and why they all fail.

This Episode Features: Emily Learns New Words; Ancient Greek Playground Bullies; Money Doesn’t Matter (Especially If Your Friends Give You Lots of It); Just Following Orders; Sin Is Abusive; Soap Commercials; Japanese Storage Units; Cain and Abel’s Family Values; Great Book, but Boring; and Moralistic Nonsense.

Links

Ghostbusters (1984): “Don’t Cross the Streams”: https://youtu.be/wyKQe_i9yyo

The Oresteia - Aeschylus: https://amzn.to/2I6TrZ1

Shooter (2007): https://amzn.to/32Bf1hE

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946): https://amzn.to/2Vwuf5Z

Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://amzn.to/2vj1ejP

Genesis 3: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/

The Quest for Holiness - Adolf Koeberle: https://amzn.to/3agUYYt

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: https://amzn.to/3adEdNR

Man of La Mancha (1972): https://amzn.to/39cacxU

Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes: https://amzn.to/2T9iQaE

Wikipedia: Francis Bellamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy

Recos

The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2T9ZySv

Postwar - Tony Judt: https://amzn.to/396PSOl

Little Women (2019): https://amzn.to/385SXwM

The Ancient City - Fustel de Coulanges: https://amzn.to/2IaMuWE

The Secular City - Harvey Cox: https://amzn.to/2wiuBT8

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2yLVIHO-htz-10

Today we’re talking about the nature of knowledge: what do we know, and how can we know that we know it? When people talk about this question, it’s impossible to leave our religious--or anti-religious--convictions at the door. Because God personally defines reality, our attitude toward Him colors our relationship to absolutely everything else, including evidence and rationality. But trusting God makes a lot of the world make a lot more sense, and we don’t have to know everything in order to understand what God says to us, and to communicate with one another.

This Episode Features: Emily’s Favorite Nobel-Prize-Winning Poet; My New Friend Satan; Everything is Dangerous; Corporate Needs You to Find the Difference between Paganism and Phariseeism; Matrix! Rainbows! Dreams!; Little Wooden Shoes; So What You’re Saying Is…; Hindus Don’t Count (ba-dm-tsh); Pour-Over Coffee; and Everyone Grew Up On British Sitcoms.

Links

Genesis 3: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/

Slow Train Coming - Bob Dylan: https://amzn.to/2HxmLHL

The Matrix (1999): https://amzn.to/2vCXr0u

The God Who Is There - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/320RPcg

Christian Apologetics - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/321eaXr

The Defense of the Faith - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/38znF2k

Why I Believe In God - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/2Ht910R

God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2UZ1dM1

Reco's

The Arcadian Wild: https://amzn.to/3bNJ1ee

Before Philosophy - Henri Frankfort, et al.: https://amzn.to/322MpgT

Cooper and Cary Have Words: https://www.cooperandcary.com/

A Whole New World: The Gospel According to Revelation - Greg Uttinger: https://amzn.to/38BtzQF

The Problem with Christian Music: https://youtu.be/AE4_dHW0nWk

Why Christian Movies are Bad: https://youtu.be/50_3J6Go5Ng

Halting Toward Zion on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haltingtowardzion

Emily Maxson on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/emilymaxson

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2VBnmzT-htz-9

When God first made Adam and Eve, He told them to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” After accomplishing our redemption, Jesus told the church to “make disciples of all nations.” In this episode, we discuss the relationship--in fact, the continuity--between these two commands. God’s purposes were not thwarted when the serpent persuaded Eve to eat the fruit. Rather, His desire for us to spread His image throughout the earth is fulfilled the more when we make disciples, whom He conforms to the image of His Son.

This Episode Features: Two Kingdoms Or Something; Why Don’t Detectives Turn On the Lights?; the Most Reformed Thing Emily Has Ever Said; Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him and Smaller; Bryan Disagrees With Greg; Greg Completely Agrees With Bryan; Thinking Nice Thoughts At One Another; I Just Ate Yesterday; Title Drop; Tradesies!

Links

Jane Austen’s Love and Friendship: Twelve Commandments: https://twitter.com/landfmovie/status/775475853761187842?lang=en

Perelandra - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2RTV3uL

Let There Be Light - Andrew Peterson: https://youtu.be/aj3fsM5Am0Y

The Princess Bride: the Cliffs of Insanity: https://youtu.be/ClzaP8HN2wc

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3b93aLQ

Psalm 67: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+67/

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2zvEGOp-htz-8

As it turns out, the Bible talks about people who lived in caves. Today Greg and Emily talk about who some of those people were, how cool their art was, and why evidence always comes with interpretation. Whether we’re ancients considering the world’s origin, or we’re modern scientists and archaeologists, our reading of the facts can vary widely based on what we’ve already assumed to be true. One site of cave paintings, La Marche, provides a particularly good example of archaeological evidence that was initially dismissed by the archaeological establishment on account of their preconceptions about what cave people of a certain age did and didn’t do. Cave art displays marvelous creativity that testifies to the artists’ humanity--and also encourages us also to imitate God in imagination, in humor, and in art.

This Episode Features: Greg Doesn’t Say Dinosaur; Our Favorite Movies; You Don’t Know Something Until You Can Teach It; Long-Range Pudding; Alien Intrusion; The Old Yorker; Always Look Down When You Enter a New Chamber; and Post-Impressionist Race-Horses.

Links

Faith For All Of Life / The Chalcedon Foundation: https://chalcedon.edu/

The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/2GNbUcr

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn: https://amzn.to/2RP4Zpm

Faces From the Ice Age - David Whitehouse (BBC News, 2002): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2012385.stm

On the Attribution of Palaeolithic Artworks: The Case of La Marche (Lussac-les-Châteaux, Vienne) - Simone Chisena, Christophe Delage (Open Archaeology, 2018): https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0015

Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2VDSA9L-htz-7

In this episode, we talk about how God structures His relationship to us. Generally, there are five aspects of how God relates to us: He establishes His lordship over us, appoints a way of communication and representation between us and Him, gives promises and guidance as to what we are to do and how, ordains an external sign of the covenant to seal the deal, and provides a way for this arrangement to continue into the future. All of these aspects serve to bind us, legally and personally, to Yahweh in Jesus Christ.

This Episode Features: Archaeology Becomes a Thing; In Sickness and In Health and All That; Greg’s First Job; Our Odds of Being Faithful to God (Spoiler Alert: Zero); Puppet Shows and Flannelgraphs; Revival Isn’t Like Selling Vacuum Cleaners; Kibitzing Over Food; Level Up!

Links

Psalm 105: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+105/

The Westminster Shorter Catechism: https://opc.org/sc.html

The Prisoner: Opening Sequence: https://youtu.be/ygLg-7G0Xp0

How to Promote a Revival - Charles Finney: https://www.gospeltruth.net/finney-101/how2revtxt/how2promrev.htm

That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3b93aLQ

The Prestige (2006): https://amzn.to/31glQog