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In the world of Self Help, a genre to which Americans are peculiarly addicted, Rachel Hollis is suddenly ascendant her diminutive figure bolstered in 6 inch heels, her flawlessly high lighted hair extensions framing her bright, inviting smile. She is the with it cream at the very top of an already fulsome pitcher. Her enthusiastic Girl, You Can Do It inspires millions of women to reach deep into their pockets and plunk down their money with a restless hope. Whether they wash their faces and take their lives unapologetically into their own hands or not, her message of self actualization and self improvement is hitting the discontented, anxious, middle class suburban woman like a tuning fork just the right note and just the right moment. Unhappily though in a gospel of radical independence Hollis casts a this worldly vision, a utopia contingent upon the actions and motivations of the individual.

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Anne Kennedy about her exclusive online article Have You Considered Trying Harder: The Theology of Rachel Hollis. https://www.equip.org/article/have-you-considered-trying-harder-the-theology-of-rachel-hollis/

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Episode 125 The Theological Legacy of Rachel Held Evans https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/episode-125-the-theological-legacy-of-rachel-held-evans/

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Are humans alone in the cosmos, or does some Divine Being watch over our lives? Is there a God who loves us, or are we left to ourselves? And how might human evil affect our ability to give an answer? Such questions arise from Cormac McCarthys 2006 Pulizter Prize winning, postapocalyptic novel The Road, a story in which the evil that has ruined the world is entirely the fault of humans. By juxtaposing moments of faith and despair, McCarthy reveals just how potent is the human capacity to affect human faith. A world in which humans have mostly wiped each other out, a world so dead that we can hardly imagine it will ever regenerate, makes belief in God very difficult. Why should Christians read McCarthys work? What is the apologetic value of The Road? This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Stephen Mitchell about his online exclusive Christian Research Journal feature article Questing for Divine Love: Cormac McCarthys The Road.https://www.equip.org/article/questing-for-divine-love-cormac-mccarthys-the-road/ We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast. Another way you can support keeping our resources free is by leaving us a tip. A tip is just a small amount, like 3 dollars or 5 dollars, which is the cost of a latte or coffee drink. To leave a tip, click here.https://www.equip.org/product/pmr-jnl-tip/ Other articles by this author: Rejoicing over Owls Thoreau and the Gift of Being Humanity Crucified Hemingway and the Human Condition The Sting of Death Albert Camus and the Fight for Life Alexander Solzhenitsyn Confronts the Grand Inquisitor Reading My Favorite Atheists Ivan, Raskolnikov, and Kirilov Other podcasts with this author Episode 111 Humanity Crucified Hemingway and the Human Condition Episode 092 Literary Apologetics Flannery OConnor Episode 045: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Confronts the Grand Inquisitor Do not miss an episode; please subscribe to the Postmodern Realities podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Please help spread the word about Postmodern Realities by giving us a rating and review when you subscribe to the podcast. The more ratings and reviews we have, the more new listeners can discover our content. Itunes Spreaker Google Podcasts Player FM Podbean Also available on the following Smart Speakers. Ask them to play Postmodern Realities podcast. Alexa (Amazon) Google Assistant Siri (Apple)

Are humans alone in the cosmos, or does some Divine Being watch over our lives? Is there a God who loves us, or are we left to ourselves? And how might human evil affect our ability to give an answer? Such questions arise from Cormac McCarthys 2006 Pulizter Prize winning, postapocalyptic novel The Road, a story in which the evil that has ruined the world is entirely the fault of humans.

By juxtaposing moments of faith and despair, McCarthy reveals just how potent is the human capacity to affect human faith. A world in which humans have mostly wiped each other out, a world so dead that we can hardly imagine it will ever regenerate, makes belief in God very difficult. Why should Christians read McCarthys work? What is the apologetic value of The Road?

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Stephen Mitchell about his online exclusive Christian Research Journal feature article Questing for Divine Love: Cormac McCarthys The Road.https://www.equip.org/article/questing-for-divine-love-cormac-mccarthys-the-road/

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Other articles by this author:

Rejoicing over Owls Thoreau and the Gift of Being

Humanity Crucified Hemingway and the Human Condition

The Sting of Death Albert Camus and the Fight for Life

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Confronts the Grand Inquisitor

Reading My Favorite Atheists Ivan, Raskolnikov, and Kirilov

Other podcasts with this author

Episode 111 Humanity Crucified Hemingway and the Human Condition

Episode 092 Literary Apologetics Flannery OConnor

Episode 045: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Confronts the Grand Inquisitor

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David Boonins new book Beyond Roe Why Abortion Should Be Legal Even if the Fetus Is a Person hits the shelves as the world ramps up the political wars over abortion. The Supreme Courts ideological make up may have shifted for the first time in decades as a result of President Trumps appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Abortion rights supporters fear that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision responsible for protecting the right to an abortion in all fifty states, may be in jeopardy. New York, Illinois, and other state legislatures rushed to amend their laws to protect abortion in the event Roe falls. States such as Georgia, Ohio, and Alabama sought to push the boundaries of the current climate to test if they can restrict access to abortion. Celebrities, business leaders, and cultural influencers threaten boycotts while the Senate calls in social media executives to answer charges of discriminating against pro lifers. This book and its arguments could not be more timely or relevant, given the current climate. This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Jay Watts about his online exclusive review Are Laws Restricting Abortion Forced Organ Donation? A Review of Beyond Roe https://www.equip.org/article/are-laws-restricting-abortion-forced-organ-donation-a-review-of-beyond-roe/ We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast. To partner with us and help us to continue to create free online exclusive content, we are offering a special promotion for your gift for The Case for Life Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture click here to find our more. https://www.equip.org/product/the-case-for-life-equipping-christians-to-engage-the-culture/ Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring and topic: Annihilating Arguments For Abortion The Shifting Focus in the Abortion Debate: Does The Humanity of the Unborn Matter Anymore? Abortion Rights: Part One Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights? Part Two : Arguments from Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights Part Three: Is the Unborn Human Less Than Human? Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights Part Four: When Does a Human Become a Person Suffer the Violinist: Why the Pro abortion Argument from Bodily Autonomy Fails A Case Not Made A review of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt Dead Silence: Must The Bible Say Abortion Is Wrong Before We Can Know It is Wrong? The Vanishing Pro Life Apologist: Putting The Life Back Into The Abortion Debate Unplanned: An Imperfect but Brave Film Episode 117 Unplanned: An Imperfect but Brave Film Reversing Reason Review of Netflix documentary, Reversing Roe Episode 096 Reversing Roe Documentary Film Review Episode 094 The Pro Choice Argument against Aborting Children with Down Syndrome Abortion and Rape: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights Do not miss an episode; please subscribe to the Postmodern Realities podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Please help spread the word about Postmodern Realities by giving us a rating and review when you subscribe to the podcast. The more ratings and reviews we have, the more new listeners can discover our content.

David Boonins new book Beyond Roe Why Abortion Should Be Legal Even if the Fetus Is a Person hits the shelves as the world ramps up the political wars over abortion. The Supreme Courts ideological make up may have shifted for the first time in decades as a result of President Trumps appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Abortion rights supporters fear that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision responsible for protecting the right to an abortion in all fifty states, may be in jeopardy. New York, Illinois, and other state legislatures rushed to amend their laws to protect abortion in the event Roe falls. States such as Georgia, Ohio, and Alabama sought to push the boundaries of the current climate to test if they can restrict access to abortion. Celebrities, business leaders, and cultural influencers threaten boycotts while the Senate calls in social media executives to answer charges of discriminating against pro lifers. This book and its arguments could not be more timely or relevant, given the current climate.

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Jay Watts about his online exclusive review Are Laws Restricting Abortion Forced Organ Donation? A Review of Beyond Roe https://www.equip.org/article/are-laws-restricting-abortion-forced-organ-donation-a-review-of-beyond-roe/

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Other articles and Postmodern Realities podcasts featuring and topic:

Annihilating Arguments For Abortion

The Shifting Focus in the Abortion Debate: Does The Humanity of the Unborn Matter Anymore?

Abortion Rights: Part One Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights? Part Two : Arguments from Pity, Tolerance, and Ad Hominem

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights Part Three: Is the Unborn Human Less Than Human?

Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights Part Four: When Does a Human Become a Person

Suffer the Violinist: Why the Pro abortion Argument from Bodily Autonomy Fails

A Case Not Made A review of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt

Dead Silence: Must The Bible Say Abortion Is Wrong Before We Can Know It is Wrong?

The Vanishing Pro Life Apologist: Putting The Life Back Into The Abortion Debate

Unplanned: An Imperfect but Brave Film

Episode 117 Unplanned: An Imperfect but Brave Film

Reversing Reason Review of Netflix documentary, Reversing Roe

Episode 096 Reversing Roe Documentary Film Review

Episode 094 The Pro Choice Argument against Aborting Children with Down Syndrome

Abortion and Rape: Answering the Arguments for Abortion Rights

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Watching a respected Christian walk away from his or her Christian faith the theological term is apostatize can be deeply disorienting. It leads us to ask all sorts of questions What argument against Christianity did they find so persuasive, and would I be persuaded by that same argument? What happened to them to make them exchange the Christian worldview for one so radically different? If they were formerly a well known Christian writer, musician, pastor, or leader, what does their deconversion mean for the things we have learned from them? Was he or she even a Christian to begin with? This disorientation and the subsequent questions that arise are natural expressions of the sense of loss that we feel when a Christian who we respect and have learned from has seemingly failed us. This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Kyle Keating about his Christian Research Journal online-exclusive feature article Am I Just Not Chosen? The Disorientation of Deconversion.https://www.equip.org/article/am-i-just-not-chosen-the-disorientation-of-deconversion/ We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast. To partner with us and help us to continue to create free online exclusive content, we are offering a book discussed in the podcast. Click here to find out more about Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton with a forward by Charles Colson. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-orthodoxy-by-g-k-chesterton-forward-by-charles-colson/ Another podcast episode with this author: Authentic Community in the Age of Social Media Do not miss an episode please subscribe to the Postmodern Realities podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Please help spread the word about Postmodern Realities by giving us a rating and review when you subscribe to the podcast. The more ratings and reviews we have, the more new listeners can discover our content

Watching a respected Christian walk away from his or her Christian faith the theological term is apostatize can be deeply disorienting. It leads us to ask all sorts of questions What argument against Christianity did they find so persuasive, and would I be persuaded by that same argument? What happened to them to make them exchange the Christian worldview for one so radically different? If they were formerly a well known Christian writer, musician, pastor, or leader, what does their deconversion mean for the things we have learned from them? Was he or she even a Christian to begin with? This disorientation and the subsequent questions that arise are natural expressions of the sense of loss that we feel when a Christian who we respect and have learned from has seemingly failed us.

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Kyle Keating about his Christian Research Journal online-exclusive feature article Am I Just Not Chosen? The Disorientation of Deconversion.https://www.equip.org/article/am-i-just-not-chosen-the-disorientation-of-deconversion/

We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

To partner with us and help us to continue to create free online exclusive content, we are offering a book discussed in the podcast. Click here to find out more about Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton with a forward by Charles Colson. https://www.equip.org/product/cri-resource-orthodoxy-by-g-k-chesterton-forward-by-charles-colson/

Another podcast episode with this author:

Authentic Community in the Age of Social Media

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A film review of I Am Mother Directed by Grant Sputore Streaming on Netflix, TV 14, 2019 Editors Note: Warning! This article contains plot spoilers for the film I Am Mother. Connoisseurs of science fiction cinema may not all agree on the core list of great making properties of a film or television series, but many would acknowledge that strong philosophical themes are a key element of a compelling storyline. Usually, such themes involve the ethics that come into play with hypothetical technologies such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and time travel. The characters of the piece typically find themselves facing moral dilemmas that result from the intersection of advanced technologies and human life. A recent Netflix exclusive, I Am Mother, a sci fi thriller directed by Grant Sputore and written by Michael Lloyd Green, employs cinematography and scripting that raise crucial philosophical questions about humanity. Intentionally or not, the theme of the sanctity of unborn and born human life pervades I Am Mother. This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Melissa Cain Travis about her Christian Research Journal film review The Artistic Pro Life Theme in Netflixs I Am Mother.https://www.equip.org/article/the-artistic-pro-life-theme-in-netflixs-i-am-mother/ We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast. Other podcasts featuring this author: Episode 062 How the Structure and Comprehensibility of the Universe Reveal a Mindful Maker Women in Apologetics with Melissa Cain-Travis Do not miss an episode please subscribe to the Postmodern Realities podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Please help spread the word about Postmodern Realities by giving us a rating and review when you subscribe to the podcast. The more ratings and reviews we have, the more new listeners can discover our content.

A film review of I Am Mother Directed by Grant Sputore Streaming on Netflix, TV 14, 2019

Editors Note: Warning! This article contains plot spoilers for the film I Am Mother.

Connoisseurs of science fiction cinema may not all agree on the core list of great making properties of a film or television series, but many would acknowledge that strong philosophical themes are a key element of a compelling storyline. Usually, such themes involve the ethics that come into play with hypothetical technologies such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and time travel. The characters of the piece typically find themselves facing moral dilemmas that result from the intersection of advanced technologies and human life. A recent Netflix exclusive, I Am Mother, a sci fi thriller directed by Grant Sputore and written by Michael Lloyd Green, employs cinematography and scripting that raise crucial philosophical questions about humanity. Intentionally or not, the theme of the sanctity of unborn and born human life pervades I Am Mother.

This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author Melissa Cain Travis about her Christian Research Journal film review The Artistic Pro Life Theme in Netflixs I Am Mother.https://www.equip.org/article/the-artistic-pro-life-theme-in-netflixs-i-am-mother/

We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.

Other podcasts featuring this author:

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

Women in Apologetics with Melissa Cain-Travis

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Move over, Harry Potter there is a new icon in magical fantasy entertainment, and her name is Sabrina. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina CAOS, a Netflix series now in its second season April 2019, has fast become one of the most popular shows on TV, ranked second behind the recently ended HBO series Game of Thrones. Based on the Archie comics of the same name by Roberto Aguierre Sacasa, this companion series to Riverdale TV show is set in the nearby town of Greendale. These Chilling Adventures are a macabre satanic horror story subjecting audiences to a glut of most everything occultism has to offer. CAOS is loosely tied to Sabrina the Teenage Witch 1996 2003, but whereas the older series was a campy situation comedy, this show is dark. CAOS centers around the lives of explicitly Satan worshipping witches and warlocks gathering as the Church of Night, learning satanic law, casting spells, performing unholy rituals, offering animal sacrifices, and chanting blasphemies such as Hail Satan in hopes of summoning Satan himself. Are all horror films and television shows off limits for Christians? How do we exercise discernment in what we watch? Why does pop culture have a fascination with the occult? This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with Journal author John D. Ferrer about his Christian Research Journal online exclusive television series review Sabrina, the Teenage Anti Christ.https://www.equip.org/article/sabrina-the-teenage-anti-christ/ We would 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 free online exclusive articles, such as this review, as well as our free Postmodern Realities podcast.https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ Articles related to this episode: An Apologetic of Horror Satanism: A Taste for the Dark Side Modern Witchcraft: It May Not Be What You Think Good Fantasy and Bad Fantasy Once upon a Time: The Enduring Appeal of Fairy Tales Television as the New Literature: Understanding and Evaluating the Medium Do not miss an episode; please subscribe to the Postmodern Realities podcast wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Please can help spread the word about Postmodern Realities by giving us a rating and review when you subscribe to the podcast. The more ratings and reviews we have, the more new listeners can discover our content.