Postmodern Realities Podcast

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  • Postmodern Realities Episode 239 No Us Without Him: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Zack Snyder’s Justice League
    Zack Snyder’s approach to the DC material is to skin the heroes as modern mythological figures. And he does so by using blatantly obvious parallels. Superman? That’s Jesus. He literally dies sacrificially, he literally resurrects. Batman? That’s Hades. He’s grim and glum and sulks around in an underworld called Gotham. His is a Divisive approach but he has something to say. Because Zack Snyder’s Justice League pays off on all that deconstructionism. It actually takes all the little broken pieces of classic characters and rearranges them to build them anew.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Cole Burgett about the modern superhero myths and how they can point seekers to the truth of the gospel and his online-exclusive article, “No Us Without Him: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Zack Snyder’s Justice League“. **Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for Zack Snyder’s Justice League.**https://www.equip.org/article/no-us-without-him-the-life-death-and-resurrection-of-zack-snyders-justice-league/

    Please note this article will be fully accessible by the public in the future, to get early access to read it now, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Online-Exclusive Articles by clicking here.https://www.equip.org/early-access-to-online-exclusive-articles-faqs/

    We’d also like to invite you to subscribe to the Journal. To subscribe to the Journal, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

    Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10 which is the cost for some of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here https://www.equip.org/product/pmr-jnl-tip/

    Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author:

    Episode 234: Star Wars Happy and Glorious in The High Republic

    Happy and Glorious in The High Republic: A Review of The High Republic Era beginning with Star Wars: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule

    Episode 227 Catharsis and the Power of Release in WandaVison

    Catharsis and the Power of Release in Wandavison

    Episode 222 Deconstructionism and the Gospel of Hope in Logan

    Deconstructionism and the Gospel of Hope in Logan

    Episode 218: Wonder Woman 1984: The Truth Is Enough.

    Wonder Woman 1984: The Truth Is Enough.

    Episode 214 Star Trek’s Christopher Pike: An Old Fashioned Hero For Our Cynical Times

    Star Trek’s Christopher Pike: An Old- Fashioned Hero for Our Cynical Time

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    45 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 238 Scientific Materialist Manifesto: The Pursuit of Meaning in a Godless Universe
    Since Albert Einstein rose to international fame during the first half of the 20th century, the natural sciences have only risen in prestige and cultural influence and the scientific community is now widely regarded as the ultimate authority on truth about the world. Some of its members have produced bestsellers that popularize cutting-edge scientific thought. The issue, though, is that they often step well beyond the domain of their respective specialties to make pronouncements on questions traditionally reserved for theology and philosophy, such as the existence of God, morality, free will, and life’s ultimate purpose. In an effort to champion a philosophical naturalist perspective, they imply that advancements in the natural sciences have somehow undermined the case for God and other theological doctrines, such as the existence of the human soul. According to these writers, science is well on its way to providing a comprehensive explanation of all of reality: how the universe began, how everything developed, and the eventual dissolution of it all. Thus, to be a scientifically literate person, this modern narrative suggests, is to be a materialist — to believe that the only objective reality consists of matter and energy behaving according to the laws of physics and chemistry. This podcast is a conversation with Dr. Melissa Cain Travis about how the Christian apologist counters this world view.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Melissa Cain Travis about her article, “Scientific Materialist Manifesto: The Pursuit of Meaning in a Godless Universe” https://www.equip.org/article/scientific-materialist-manifesto-the-pursuit-of-meaning-in-a-godless-universe/
    from the 42:2 issue of the Christian Research Journal. https://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/out-of-the-ashes-at-ground-zero/

    This print article is being released early as part of our early access feature. It will be fully accessible by the public in the future, to get early access to read it now, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Articles by clicking here. https://www.equip.org/early-access-to-online-exclusive-articles-faqs/

    We’d also like to invite you to subscribe to the Journal. To subscribe to the Journal, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

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    Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author

    Episode 062: How the Structure and Comprehensibility of the Universe Reveal a Mindful Maker

    A Grand Cosmic Resonance: How the Structure and Comprehensibility of the Universe Reveal a Mindful Maker

    Episode 138-Using NBC’s The Good Place in Conversational Apologetics

    Using NBC’s The Good Place in Conversational Apologetics

    Episode 132: The Artistic Pro-Life Theme in Netflix’s I Am Mother

    The Artistic Pro-Life Theme in Netflix’s I Am Mother

    Episode 095 Virtue, Human Nature, and the Quest for Happiness

    Virtue, Human Nature and the Quest for Happiness

    Episode 002: Motherhood and the Life of the Mind

    Motherhood and the Life of the Mind

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    41 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 237 Faith, Fact, and Reason: Ingredients for Knowledge
    Most of the time in conversations with skeptics, they want to pit faith against fact and throw it to the vicious onslaught of reason to be torn apart and devoured by the likes of science, truth, evidence, and reality. Faith against fact — these words not only find their way into book titles and chapter headings, but they also serve as common rebuttals to Christian beliefs in ordinary conversations with skeptics. No atheistic litany would be complete without some expression of woe over Christianity’s blatant offenses to reason. Religious skeptics typically fail to define and distinguish properly between belief and truth, both of which are essential elements of knowledge. This episode offers some reflections on how Christians can respond to the faith–reason (faith–fact) dichotomy.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Jonah Haddad about his effective evangelism article, “Faith, Fact, and Reason: Ingredients for Knowledge” in the current issue of the Christian Research Journal.
    You can subscribe and receive this as your first issue (Spring 2021) by clicking here. https://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/the-genius-of-job-contents/

    We’d also like to invite you to subscribe to the Journal. To subscribe to the Journal, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

    Another way you can support our online articles is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like $3, $5, or $10 which is the cost for some of a latte, lunch out, or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here https://www.equip.org/product/pmr-jnl-tip/

    Other articles featuring this author:

    Evaluating Extremism: Are Extreme Beliefs Always Dangerous?

    Reanimating Apologetics with the Undead

    Allah, The Trinity, and Divine Love

    Other related articles:

    Jerry’s Game-a book review of Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne

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    45 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 236 “Restoring” the Divine Name in the New World Translation? A Strategy for Dialoging with Jehovah’s Witnesses
    Debates with Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs) often prove frustrating, an endless ping-pong of futile talk, especially when the topic is the Holy Trinity. While essential Christian doctrine asserts that God subsists in three eternally distinct persons — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — JWs craft their New World Translation (NWT) to mask the New Testament’s otherwise clear teaching that Christ is true deity equal to the Father. JWs deny the deity of the Christ and subordinate Him to the Father (e.g., Christ is the Father’s first creation).

    It is not uncommon that believers leave conversations with JWs perplexed, given that JWs are often trained in challenging biblical support for the Trinity. The process often involves believers presenting JWs with a biblical passage that supports the doctrine of the Trinity, which is then followed by the JWs presenting a biblical passage that appears to question the doctrine of the Trinity. This process may be repeated over and over until one or both persons end the conversation in frustration after experiencing hitting a ’brick wall’ with no hope of making any impact. However, there is another way to present the deity of Christ to JWs, one that bypasses the typical method of interaction, and instead confronts them with a number of powerful examples of how the NWT applies a specific rule inconsistently to “restore” God’s divine name in the New Testament. The purpose of this article is to provide believers with a practical two-step approach to showing JWs how the NWT is a highly unreliable translation of biblical texts.

    According to the WBTS, the divine name should be “restored” in the New Testament when a verse contains “either direct quotations from or indirect references to scriptures that use the Tetragrammaton [the four Hebrew letters signifying the divine name YHWH] in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament.” For the sake of discussion with a JW, we accept the practice of “restoring” the divine name in the NT, but in doing so, we clarify that one must carefully apply this “restoration” rule consistently. The two-step approach is to show sets of NT verses with corresponding OT quotations — one in which the NWT applies the “restoration” rule and one in which it breaks it. The reason for this is simple — the WBTS’s theology does not allow for the rule to be applied consistently. If it were to be applied consistently, the deity of Christ would become clear. Your task is to show the inconsistency of the NWT’s application of the “restoration” rule to the JWs, as well as the implications that this has for the interpretation of the verses.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Ziggi Ivan Santini about his online-exclusive article, Restoring” the Divine Name in the New World Translation? A Strategy for Dialoging with Jehovah’s Witnesses https://www.equip.org/article/restoring-the-divine-name-in-the-new-world-translation-a-strategy-for-dialoging-with-jehovahs-witnesses/
    Please note this article will be fully accessible by the public in the future, to get early access to read it now, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Online-Exclusive Articles by clicking here. Coming soon! Check back here and at our article archive page.

    We’d also like to invite you to subscribe to the Journal. To subscribe to the Journal, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

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    Related articles:

    A Holy Spirit Encounter with a Jehovah’s Witness

    Jehovah’s Witnesses and John 1:1: New Evidence Advances the Discussion

    Discussing Deity with Jehovah’s Witnesses

    And many more on various Jehovah’s Witnesses topics we published over the years. Please click here for more information.
    47 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 235 Does the Bible Dictate Clothing Style by Gender? Cross Dressing and the Gender Binary
    In Deuteronomy 22:5, perhaps the key text regarding clothing, God tells us that, “a woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.” Some Christians hold to the conviction that pants are garments for men. If a woman wears pants, therefore, she violates God’s law by wearing men’s clothing. She has sinned. It is important to note, however, that the text, though written in a specific time and from within a particular cultural context, does not specify which garments belong to a man and which garments belong to a woman. The command is principal in nature and transcendent in scope, not culture-bound and specific. That is, there is a universal good to which the command appeals that is not bound to the historical community and context of the people of Israel during the Exodus. However, God does not want men setting out to dress as women or women as men. Any attempt to purposefully blur the binary distinction between male and female does violence to the Gospel, the image of God, and God’s created order. This explains why Deuteronomy 22:5 cannot be more specific than it is. The male/female binary distinction is essential to our humanity and is thus foundational to every civilization, culture, and nation but the expressions of this binary will differ from people to people, place to place, and time to time. What might be seen as masculine attire in one time and place might be considered feminine in another. This is an in-depth conversation with JOURNAL author Mathew M. Kennedy about what the Bible teaches about cross-dressing and the gender binary.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Matthew M. Kennedy about his online exclusive article, “Does the Bible Dictate Clothing Style by Gender? Cross Dressing and the Gender Binary”. https://www.equip.org/article/does-the-bible-dictate-clothing-style-by-gender-cross-dressing-and-the-gender-binary/

    Starting in February 2021, all online-exclusive articles, have had a early access window for Journal subscribers only before being made public. Given the prevalence of the subject matter in the daily news and our lives , our editorial board decided to make this available to the public as soon as possible. Also consider this a free preview of the quality and in-depth research that goes into our online-exclusives. To learn more about subscribing and gaining early access to future online-exclusive articles, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Online-Exclusive Articles by clicking here and subscribing by clicking here.

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    41 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 234 Star Wars Happy and Glorious in The High Republic
    Perhaps the most interesting storytelling initiative undertaken by Disney since its acquisition of the Star Wars franchise comes in the form of The High Republic, a multi-platform publishing enterprise begun in January of 2021. Set 200 years before Lucas’s The Phantom Menace, this interconnected series of books, comic books, and future television series, looks to chart a course for the future of Star Wars by taking audiences into uncharted territory—the golden age of the Jedi. The Jedis’ connection to the Force, the pseudo-magical energy that flows through every living being in the Star Wars universe, is more pronounced here as well. The Jedi are far more open to different approaches and methods of using the Force than in the prequel films. It would be safe to say that the High Republic era is meant to channel the kind of chivalric adventures of yore; only, instead of knights-errant, the heroes are Jedi. Everything is happy and glorious in the High Republic—and the Jedi have the most progressive ideologies of the day. Why should Christians care about and interact with one of the most popular mythic series of our modern time? Christian author C.S. Lewis once wrote, “The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by ‘the veil of familiarity.’ The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story…by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it.” The story of Christianity is the great, true story.

    This episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Cole Burgett about the Star Wars universe and how the Christian can use other myth tales to point to the truth of the gospel and his online-exclusive article, “Happy and Glorious in The High Republic: A Review of The High Republic Era beginning with Star Wars: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule https://www.equip.org/article/happy-and-glorious-in-the-high-republic-a-review-of-the-high-republic-era-beginning-with-star-wars-light-of-the-jedi-by-charles-soule/

    Please note this article will be fully accessible by the public in the future, to get early access to read it now, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Online-Exclusive Articles by clicking here. https://www.equip.org/early-access-to-online-exclusive-articles-faqs/

    We’d also like to invite you to subscribe to the Journal. To subscribe to the Journal, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

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    Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring Star Wars.

    Episode 154: The Dead Won’t Stop Talking: A Review of The Rise of Skywalker

    The Dead Won’t Stop Talking: A Review of The Rise of Skywalker

    Episode 054: The Last Jedi: A Star Wars Movie for the Era of “the Nones”

    The Last Jedi: A Star Wars Movie for the Era of “the Nones”

    Episode 027: “Evaluating the Star Wars Worldview”

    May the Force Bewitch You: Evaluating the Star Wars Worldview

    Christian Wisdom of the Jedi Masters

    Family, Faith and Father

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    55 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 233 You Probably Aren’t Saved If…(This Is about Sex)
    Some people proclaim that they are Christians, that “my faith is very important to me,” and talk openly about Jesus, but they say these things while they are living in overt, unrepentant sexual sin. Hopefully, that’s not you. But if it is, then you probably aren’t saved, and, unless you repent, you will be lost forever. The idea that someone is probably not saved if they are living in overt, unrepentant sexual sin — is one that will baffle and/or upset many people. But the Bible is clear about this. Consider Ephesians 5:3, 5–6: “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints….For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.” But I’ve Prayed “the Sinner’s Prayer”! Some will protest that they believe in Jesus and that they have prayed the sinner’s prayer, so that means they are saved. No, it does not. Without repentance, those are what Paul called, “empty words.” The sinner’s prayer never saved anyone, and faith that doesn’t result in a change of behavior isn’t a saving faith.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Clay Jones about his 44:1 Viewpoint article, “You Probably Aren’t Saved If…(This Is about Sex)” which you receive as your first issue for new subscribers (Spring 2021). https://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/the-genius-of-job-contents/
    To subscribe to the Journal, please click here.https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

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    Other articles and podcasts featuring this author

    Postmodern Realities: Episode 030: Evangelizing the Cultural Christian

    Evangelizing the Cultural Christian

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    45 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 232 Who Made God?
    “Yeah, but who created God?” The question can feel like an attempted gotcha moment in apologetic encounters, even to seasoned apologists. In a culture increasingly conditioned to “win” arguments with soundbite retorts, Christian apologists must not react dismissively to this common question.
    This episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author R. Keith Loftin about how to seriously answer the question, “Who Made God?”, from his 41:5 article which was just released online.
    https://www.equip.org/article/but-who-made-god/

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    40 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 231 G. K. Chesterton and The Genius Of Job
    An irrepressible note of joy rings throughout the literary corpus of the magnificent English writer G. K. Chesterton. It is surprising, then, that Job, the book that plunges headlong into the problem of unjust suffering, was Chesterton’s favorite book of the Bible. He found “the riddles of God…more comforting than the solutions of man.”

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Rebekah Valerius about her 44:1 article, “G. K. Chesterton on the Book of Job“, https://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/the-genius-of-job-contents/ which you receive as your first issue for new subscribers (April 2021). To subscribe to the Journal, please click here. https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

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    Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring this author

    Episode 210: Bespoke Religiosity and the Rise of the Nones: a review of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton

    Bespoke Religiosity and the Rise of the Nones: a review of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton

    Episode 073: Hell and Kids

    Is It Abusive to Teach Children about Hell

    Journey to the Bottom of the Glass: A Review of The Works of His Hands: A Scientist’s Journey from Atheism to Faith by Sy Garte

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    44 min
  • Postmodern Realities Episode 230: Is it Ethical for Pro-Life Christians to Receive Covid-19 Vaccines?
    To date, nearly 2.9 million people have died worldwide in the Covid-19 pandemic. The global economy struggled while nations enacted stay-at-home orders, and our politics fractured under the weight of heated disagreements. Illness, travel restrictions, and protective hospital protocols separated loved ones in the time we needed each other the most. Reports of depression and suicide dramatically increased among the younger members of the population, and no one’s life remained untouched. This collective loss drove a massive effort by the United States government to create a program called Operation Warp Speed for the speedy development and manufacturing of vaccines for COVID-19. Within a year, Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson all developed vaccines capable of providing protection from the most severe symptoms of Covid-19, welcome news for members of communities disproportionately impacted including the elderly, those living with underlying medical conditions, and certain minority communities. As the promise of vaccines generated new hope, a concern arose. All four approved vaccines used human fetal cells acquired through induced abortion somewhere in the development process.

    Can we trust the vaccines are safe given the rush to produce them? Are these vaccines safe? Did the production of the four Covid-19 vaccines include human fetal cells derived from elective abortions? Does taking the vaccine cooperate with evil? Does taking COVID vaccines appropriation rather than cooperation, enjoying the benefits from an act of moral evil while being negatively transformed through the omission of protests? This is a deep dive conversation about bioethics issues and the COIVD vaccine with writer Jay Watts.

    This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Jay Watts about his online-exclusive viewpoint article, “Is it Ethical for Pro-Life Christians to Receive Covid-19 Vaccines?”. https://www.equip.org/article/is-it-ethical-for-pro-life-christians-to-receive-covid-19-vaccines/

    Starting in February 2021, all online-exclusive articles, have had a early access window for Journal subscribers only before being made public. Given the time sensitive nature and global importance of this subject, our editorial board decided to make this available to the public as soon as possible. Also consider this a free preview of the quality and in depth research that goes into our online-exclusives. To learn more about subscribing and gaining early access to future online-exclusive articles, please see our FAQ section on Early Access to Online-Exclusive Articles by clicking here and subscribing by clicking here. https://www.equip.org/early-access-to-online-exclusive-articles-faqs/ and https://www.equip.org/product/crj-subscription/

    Viewpoint articles address relevant contemporary issues in discernment and apologetics from a particular perspective that is usually not shared by all Christians, with the intended result that Christians’ thinking on that issue will be stimulated and enhanced (whether or not people end up agreeing with the author’s opinion).

    When you to subscribe to the Journal, you join the team of print subscribers whose paid subscriptions help provide the resources at equip.org that minister to people worldwide. These resources include our ever growing database of over 1,500 articles, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

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    Other articles and podcasts related to Covid-19:

    Postmodern Realities: Episode 174 Loving Your Neighbor

    Postmodern Realities: Episode 167 Faithful Living Through the Coronavirus

    Faithful Living Through the Coronavirus

    Postmodern Realities: Episode 172 Covid-19 Do Pro-life Principles Require A Sustained Shut Down of the Economy? Who Decides?

    Covid-19 Do Pro-life Principles Require A Sustained Shut Down of the Economy? Who Decides?

    Postmodern Realities:Episode 187 Five Ways to Disciple Your Family During the Pandemic

    Five Ways to Disciple Your Family During the Quarantine



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