My Seminary Life

Welcome back to My Seminary Life. Over the past few episodes we've been discussing the Satanic Panic, conspiracy theory mentality, and how we need to remember to love our neighbors, value ethical leadership, and not weaponize discernment. Today, I am joined by Joe Dea and Christian Ashley of Friday Night Frights for our now annual very, very long episode. In this episode, we talk about what are the characteristics of a conspiracy theory, the different pipelines people fall into to get sucked into this way of thinking, and how the church in America is often a place where this way of thinking is encouraged and perpetuated. From 9/11 to Ancient Aliens, UFO-ology and dinosuars building the pyramids, dragons, fairiers, and underwater sea monsters, from the superniche to the granddaddy of them all, the JFK assassination we cover a wide spread of conspiracies. Was the moon landing faked? Who really killed John Lennon? What's going on at Denver Airport? Is there already a cure for cancer? All this and more in this supersized edition of MSL!

Friday Night Frights: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/friday-night-frights/id1767040417

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. Today, we are looking again at the Satanic Panic this time through the Tubi documentary Satan Wants You. This documentary covers the famous book Michelle Remembers, the questionable counseling techniques that were used to access repressed memories, and the aftermath of this publication. This episode looks at not just the importance of this event in the history of the Satanic Panic, but also brings to light the importance of motive and making ethical decisions for those of us who hold positions of power.

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. Today, now that we are thoroughly in spooky season, I sit down to discuss the Christianity Today podcast series Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. In this series and this episode, I recap the Satanic Panic, how it created a fear of your neighbor, and how it weaponized discernment. It's a look at conspiracy mindset, power being valued more than accountability, and the importance of loving our neighbors vs villainizing them.

Listen to Devil and the Deep Blue Sea here: https://www.christianitytoday.com/podcasts/devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea/

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. In today's episode, I bring back OneMoreThing! This was a monthly bonus episode that came out back during the Masters era of the show. I brough it back in part to help recon the number of the show episodes, but also so that way I could once again discuss the categories I would group Christian Nationalism into. After listening to shows like Extremely American and Bundyville, my thoughts on Christian Nationalism have shifted again.

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. In today's episode, I sit down to give my current views on AI. A while back, I discussed the positive uses for AI and why we should be open minded towards its intergration into ministry. I am here today, three years later, to recant all of that. Ethically, I cannot support the use of Generative AI and in this episode I explain why.

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This episode was originally ran as part of the Lead Them to Worship series. Joe Dea of Buddywalk with Jesus joins the show to discuss using AI for ministry.

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. Today, I take a look at psychic healer and medium John of God. Inspried by my recent watch of John of God on Netflix, I briefly summarize his work doing both visible and invisible healing and the accusations of sexual abuse from hundreds of women that ultimately resulted in him currently serving mutiple life sentences. This also leads me to dive into the question, "how can someone get caught up in a cult?" seeing how even I was worked by something he was able to do to "heal" people.

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. In this episode, we go on our final stop to Bundyville where I address the Biblical Basis for War. Not to be confused with Just War Theory, The Biblical Basis for War was a leaked document by former Washington Republican Rep Matt Shea on how to conduct warfare biblically once America fell into disarray. It's unsettling and I almost have to cut the episode off short because of how heavy the topic gets.

Listen to all of Bundyville here: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville

The Biblical Basis for War: https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/5026577-Biblical-Basis-for-War/

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Welcome back to My Seminary Life. In today's episode, we continue our trip to Bundyville with a look at season two, The Remnant. In this review, I cover the topic of Christian Identity; a "theological" movement rooted in racism. Here I explain some of the justifications for a race driven Christianity that ultimately amounts to glorifying a non-Jewish Jesus through being White.

Listen to all of Bundyville here: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville

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This episode is a rebroadcast from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from the Summer School Cults series.

Make sure you check out the entire series Bundyville: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/606441988/bundyville

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