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PZ's Podcast episodes

August 22, 2014 Episode 174 - Federal Theology in the Letters of Samuel Rutherford
"So, here's the thing." :
Wanna know what faith is?
Listen to ABBA.
Wanna arrest the decline of,
oh, let's say,
mainstream Protestantism?
Listen to ABBA.
Wanna understand yourself?
Listen to ABBA.
30 min
August 21, 2014 Episode 173 - And the Winner Is
There is so much truth here.
So much emotional truth, I mean.
It could have been someone else.
It could have been something else.
It could have come from somewhere else.
But it came from
ABBA.
27 min
August 20, 2014 Episode 172 - Phony Wars
The subject is reality vs. ideology. 'Pet' Clark wanted to be Superwoman.
I wanted to be a totally focussed pastor, great dad, and good husband.
'Helen' wanted to be "a woman of today". We all failed! "Sorry, it's not possible" (Petula says). And yet, a little child has led me. Lower case.
But upper case, too.
32 min
August 07, 2014 Episode 171 - If You Can't Stand the Heat
Here is made a principled decision to opt out, of all manner of causes and notions. With the injunction, however, that in order to heal, you have to feel.
Eric Clapton starts us out. The House Band brings it on home.
37 min
June 10, 2014 Episode 170 - Farewell to the First Golden Era
This is a podcast to celebrate: my 170th, in which are offered
some Summer reading, a Concluding Un-Scientific Postscript,
and the best track ever recorded by a certain Wonder.
Hope you like it!
26 min
May 23, 2014 Episode 169 - Wooden Ships
This is about Meister Eckhart and Rudolf Otto, and CS & N.
But it's really about whether and how to engage the world,
given what we now know about it. Guess I'm skeptical, more than ever;
and was surprised to have to dissent from the Master.
First time!
42 min
May 18, 2014 Episode 168 - "Generation Zahl"
A penetrating and courageous televison program from Germany opened me up recently. It was an instance of what Stefan Kolditz, the writer of the program, called a "non-ideological access" to a tragedy.
But not just their tragedy. My tragedy. Yours, too, maybe.
30 min
May 09, 2014 Episode 167 - Emotion
This is all about one thing.
It didn't take Melanchthon to teach me about it,
nor Thomas Cranmer.
No.
It took Burton Cummings to teach me about it.
And life!
So Stand Tall; and for God's sake, don't do something foolish.
31 min
April 30, 2014 Episode 166 - The House That Jack Built
Well, the glass ceiling is finally breaking.
It's happening right before our eyes.
But Aretha's going to help us see the "Kehrseite".
With a little help from Lesley Gore, too.
"Come and see." (John 1:46)
28 min
April 11, 2014 Episode 165 - Cosmic Recension
Meister Eckhart,
meet Burton Cummings.
And Randy Bachman.
And me.
24 min

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