It’s Pancake Day, Shrove Tuesday or perhaps even Fat Tuesday-the eve of Lent, the beginning of forty days of self-reflection, and for some, forty days of no chocolate or sugar! So we are talking about why feasting is as important as fasting and also how it feels to be shriven!

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This week it’s a post-Valentine conversation about the most elusive and consuming of all human emotions: love. What is it? Why can we never find the words? Why does Maria keep saying death when she means love?! All this and other prognostications about l-o-v-e.

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This week we are discussing Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death," zeroing in on a particular chapter entitled, "Human Character as a Vital Lie." OUCH! Join us as we probe further into the illusionary nature of life and what it might mean to live fully human vs. part.

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We are back!  Back from our slumber or back from our sabbatical or...back from our death sleep?  Perhaps that is more appropriate given the subject matter of this week's podcast, which inaugurates Sacred Anarchies, Season 2!  It's good to be back!

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The emergence of ‘man-tenance’? Conscious bars? All that and how men’s skincare might herald new theological horizons and why the hyper-personalization of our lives is a pointer to changing understanding of the self, the world, and maybe even the gods!

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In this week's conversation we cover everything from a comment left on an Instagram feed about narrative versus empirical realities, and why binary conversations about the ‘real world’ are seldom satisfying and then how design might offer new ways of thinking through theology and other issues, ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ said Maria, but then we talked about sinks so…we cover it all this time around!

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Religion has been in the news a fair bit this past week. The usual uproar and indignation over this or that. It really does seem to echo the same theme over and over again, that religious leaders are out of touch and insensitive and too quick to uphold the institution at the expense of human dignity. So we have a moan about that, but we also talk about 16th century clockwork automaton monks that can kiss their rosaries and self-flagellate because we are committed to bringing the most important religious news items to you from the past as well as the present.

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This week we are delighted to welcome a special guest Brien Aadland.  Brien is a Minneapolis based theologian and practitioner with a great story to tell about finding faith, losing faith and finding a very different version of it again. In some ways it mirrors many of the conversations we hear over and over about the struggle with dogmatic and institutional forms of faith that seem to stifle and snuff out individual quests but Brien’s story takes some unique turns. Enjoy the conversation!

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This week's conversation is all about the power of words. Not the power of words in the hyper-religious ‘name it and claim it’ sense nor in the new age ‘manifesting’ sense of things, but the real power of words and the ways in which new understanding of the relationship between the brain and the body are reframing the way people think about words-the energy they do or don’t exact from our bodies-it’s a fascinating idea that caught our attention and we thought it would be a good thing to share with you.

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This week we chat about Jacques Derrida, the father, or perhaps, Godfather of deconstruction. Maria has been reading a wonderful new biography of the man that has opened her understanding of Derrida's work and she wanted to talk about it. This is not a theory heavy conversation as much as an enthusiastic cheer for ideas whose time has come and keeps on coming…perhaps. ;)

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