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PZ's Podcast episodes

August 13, 2012 Episode 114 - A Slight Shiver
Sequel to "Return to Form",
with a push from Serling and a lift from Dylan.
31 min
August 11, 2012 Episode 113 - Return to Form
This is podcast one in a new "story arc" --
a study in defeatedness, and a new hope
I strangely feel.
You could call it cross-notes of a
theological psychologist.
28 min
June 28, 2012 Episode 113 - The Two Geralds
Gerald Fried (b. 1928) and Gerald Heard (d. 1971): both were communicators of the non-rational, both were exponents of the subterranean echo. Fried did it through B-movie (and other) musical scores; Heard, through mystery novels and fantastic short stories. Jesus did it, too, through similes and parables. (If the second Gerald chose for his "nom-de-plume" 'H.F. Heard', I wonder what name Christ would have chosen, had His stories been published.)
34 min
June 21, 2012 Episode 112 - Kipling's Lightworks
Kipling shed light!
From "Recessional" to "Children's Song",
this podcast sings his praise.
Kipling was also a 'both-and' thinker,
a rare eirenic gift, and
a Gift for Today.
Episode 112 is dedicated to Stuart Gerson.
41 min
June 04, 2012 Episode 110 - Color Him Father
John Betjeman listed five masters of the English ghost story, or supernatural tale. All five of them were the sons of Protestant ministers.
What was going on with these sons, and their fathers.
'The Winstons' can tell us the answer,
in their 1969 45 that we loved so,
we sons of our fathers.
33 min
May 25, 2012 Episode 108 - J.C. Ryle Considered
Bishop Ryle made at least three big mistakes during his long ministry.
If he were able to speak now -- he died in 1900 -- I believe he would admit them. To me they are revealing mistakes, from which there is something to learn.
J.C. Ryle also had a core strength:
He had been saved in his youth, when his world fell apart.
He was a Christian, in other words, for the right reason.
Yet like many spiritual people, there were still
"unevangelized dark continents" inside him.
Had these been "colonized" by the great Word that saved the young man, Ryle might have avoided the mistakes he made as an older man.
28 min
May 25, 2012 Episode 107 - Bishop Ryle
John Charles Ryle, who lived from l816 to 1900,
was "a giant of a man with the heart of a child".
He was a Christian warrior in the Church of England,
who contended against High Churchmen and Liberals
for 60 years, concluding his ministry as the first Bishop of Liverpool.
J.C. Ryle is a fascinating character, a hero-type with some
interesting weaknesses.
This podcast tells the story of his life.
It is dedicated to my friend Fred Rogers.
36 min
May 21, 2012 Episode 106 - Requiem
Alternate Title:
I Feel Like I Lose When I Win.
Also, there's a correction:
It was 'Fraulein Doktor', not the actress who played her (Suzy Kendall),
who died young, at age 52, in 1940.
28 min
May 16, 2012 Episode 104 - What does it take (to win your love)?
A meditation on defense:
that's what this is.
Someone wrote that the inner being of a human being
is "covered by thirty or forty skins or hides, like an ox's or a bear's,
so thick and hard".
Too true!
What's to get through?
Is there an antipode, a blessed antipode,
to such a coverage from hope?
I honestly think there is.
(Even if you've only got a toe on the Road.)
30 min
April 24, 2012 Episode 103 - Flowers for Algernon I
How does the ego actually die?
Or rather, what does a person look like when their ego has died,
or is dying?
Can we see this -- the "seed falling into the ground"?
Algernon Blackwood wrote about the dying.
He wrote about it vividly and concretely, not just symbolically.
This podcast quotes from two of Blackwood's "Eternity" stories:
"The Centaur" (1911) and "A Descent into Egypt" (1914).
The theme is healing, at the end of the day;
and even,
priesthood.
36 min

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