Malcolm Guite is a poet, author, academic, musician and more. We had a transcendent conversation rooted around the biblical story of the Transfiguration.

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Paul VanderKlay is a pastor in California as well as a YouTube Content creator and the focal point of a diverse online community. We talked about how it is possible to believe in impossible things such as the physical resurrection of Jesus.  

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Liam Kavanagh is the Director and Co-Founder of the Life Itself Institute, pragmatic utopians working on collaborative solutions to the cognitive and practical problems of the western mind. His book, Liams book, Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the Enlightenment is available through Perspectiva Press.  

Life itself's website:

Liams book, Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the Enlightenment

Esther Lightcap Meek is an author, philosopher, and professor emeritus at Geneva College. She is known for her writing on Epistemology; Books such as A Little Manual for Knowing, Longing to Know, and Loving to know. We talked about her model of knowledge known as Covenant Epistemology and the seemingly countercultural idea that knowledge itself could point to God. This unusual take on knowledge rings true and is gaining ground.  

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This episode was films quite a while ago and, due to flakiness issues on my part, was not released until now. It consists of 2 separate interviews with the creators of viral auto-tuned videos. Details for both artists and their most well-known hits is listed below:  

Evan Gregory is one of the masterminds behind the successful Shmoyoho YouTube Channel with auto-tuned hits such as Bed Intruder and Double Rainbow.    

Schmoyoho:  

Double Rainbow:

Brock Tyler is the creator of Anonymotif, a newer autotuned channel. Brock had viral success with the song Speaking Moistly which auto-tuned an unfortunate wording gaff by Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau during a speech on the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Anonymotif:  

Speaking Moistly:  

Smokey is a visual artist and musician. He and I have been friends and collaborators for years. We decided to commit one of our wide-ranging conversations to video. This episode focusses on art, music taste, and modern culture.  

Smokey's website: https://smokeydraws.com/ 

Smokey's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smokeydrawss/

Howard Bloom is a thinker, author, scientist, music publicist and much more. He has written on atheism, cultural history, and anthropology. He is very hard to pin down! In this, our second conversation, I wanted to begin to get a feel for his style of transcendent atheism and see how it has informed his life's path. I enjoyed this conversation as we each represented different perspectives on religion and God. This is not a debate!  

Howards website:

The God Problem:

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, literary scholar and philosopher. His new book, The Matter with Things takes over from his previous book The Master and His Emissary, examining some of the most fundamental questions of human existence. We discuss The Matter with Things as well as the topic of longing as an entry point for personal growth.  

Dr. McGilchrist's website:

Preorder the Matter with Things:

Order the Master and His Emissary:

Donna Thomas is a writer, researcher and Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research is around consciousness and the self, especially as experienced by young children. Her website "A Children's Guide to the Unknown" examines what children can teach us about self and reality.  

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Donna's Essentia Foundation article: