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PZ's Podcast episodes

October 02, 2013 Episode 154 - Kramer
Kramer is my word for transmitted family dis-function and disease.
Kramer in this sense requires acute attention.
With help from The Contraption, Kramer actually can be reduced.
In this podcast, Richard Egan steps up to help us,
with a little help from Faith.
Percy, I mean.
31 min
September 30, 2013 Episode 153 - Love in the 40s
When you're 'mature', you're sometimes not.
I learned this in my 40s.
I first learned it in a parish, in 'Cheever country'.
But it was also in 'Miami Vice', every Friday night.
Valerie and Tubbs taught me,
as did 'Sonny' and Theresa.
And Jan Hammer.
There was all this dread, too.
Was it a dream?
31 min
September 29, 2013 Episode 152 - Groovy Kind of Love
The text is Isherwood's journal entry for August 3, 1967.
The topic:
How to grow in love for the people who are right around you.
Lesley Gore is going to help us, plus, naturally, William Hale White;
plus Gerald Heard; plus Wayne Fontana.
32 min
September 27, 2013 Episode 151 - Girl Talk
I've just written a book.
It is called "PZ's Panopticon:
An Off-the-Wall Guide to World Religiion".
It's not about gender differences nor does it concern ideology.
It looks at the religions of the world in terms of one question:
What does this or that religion have to offer a dying person?
My book concerns religion for a person in extremis.
Dying seems to "concentrate the mind wonderfully" (Samuel Johnson).
I think it serves a most concentrating purpose in helping a person
sift through the wisdom of religion.
Oh, and by religion, I also mean religions that are not called religions,
such as celebrity, sex, things, one's children, one's life-partner,
one's ideology, and the power that you have and exercise in your life.
Power is a big religion.
Religion covers almost anything that habitually or functionally is
worshipped.
This podcast is dedicated to Ray Ortlund.
35 min
August 28, 2013 Episode 150 - Early Roman Kings
This is about the Ancient Romans:
their psychic position, their spirit-world of augury,
and the effect of the birth of Christ.
With help from Bob Dylan.
Two corrections, too:
The Thornton Wilder book is "The Woman of Andros",
and 'Camulodunum' was the Roman name for Colchester.
51 min
August 25, 2013 Episode 149 - A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime
This is a reflection on 45 years of New Testament scholarship.
That's 45 years in 45 minutes -- one minute for every year.
And Dave Mason puts it all in perspective.
48 min
August 04, 2013 Episode 148 - INGSOC
"A little trick with Dick" (The Name Game):
This is about language, control, and Purr-FEC
tion. With thanks to Eric Blair, too.
29 min
August 03, 2013 Episode 147 - Transcendence
What can you do when you're face to face with The Antagonist?
I'll tell you this much: no one gets out of here alive.
Unless there are Martians.
This podcast is about suffering, and it's also about transcendence.
23 min
June 28, 2013 Episode 146 - Sermon for the Feast Day of Hey Jude
It's about nervous breakdowns -- maybe your 19th.
It's about George's Way with us.
And it's about the music.
25 min
June 24, 2013 Episode 145 - Soul Coaxing
What's really important?
"Soul Coaxing" is really important.
But not the practice.
The song!
By Raymond Lefevre and his Orchestra.
THAT's really important.
Gosh, I hope you like this.
22 min

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