Everyone likes to hate on modern art. Recently Dimes wrote an interesting piece pushing back on this impulse. Since I have decided to retire the “Christian Ghetto Podcast” and integrate all my audio content under the “Seeking the Hidden Thing” banner, why not mark the occasion by having my 100th audio recording under the “Seeking” name also be my first podcast discussion under the actual name of this Substack. I have invited Dimes and Gio's Content Corner. on to both celebrate the moment and have a discussion on modern art in our present political moment. Maybe it will help you to re-think knee jerk reactions to it and appreciate it in a new light. Maybe it will help you see something you couldn’t otherwise see. Maybe the being of our age will be revealed to you. Here is the piece under discussion:

We also discuss a number of specific pieces. I have included images in the video for those that want to follow along that way. For those that want to listen, here are all the images in order:

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I came across a tweet from John Vervaeke on the need to disrupt your normal patterns of thought lest you become locked into a particular way of thinking. I disagree.

I was planning that the next podcast would bring about the unification of my podcasts and readings under a single banner with recording 100. In the meantime, there has been so much happening in South Africa that it seemed prudent to get this conversation out to you sooner rather than later. So that means one last episode of the Christian Ghetto Podcast before that moniker is retired. Not to worry, members of the Ghetto will certainly show up in the future, but this will both clean up the branding and hopefully allow a wider group of guests and thus a more diverse collection of conversations. But with my recent hard drive crash, it also meant re-doing all the visuals and the intros and outros as well. Enjoy. This was an informative discussion for me. Hopefully it will be for you as well.

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Much of our current politics appears to be shaped by ideology when it is in reality shaped by the demands of the technological system. In this system, there can be no "conservatism."

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Written Version: https://www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/the-destructive-effects-of-propaganda

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I managed to secure the audio for the sermon I posted and gave on Sunday. It ended up being 42 minutes. I think I need to work on shaving my sermon lengths down a little, although the feedback was positive. I think I am going to post it here as an audio only video here and let Substack convert the video into an audio podcast on their app and to send out to place like Apple and Spotify. I am thinking, why should only the meagre YouTube audience get to see the nice video and intros and outros? Since there is no loss in terms of podcast availability and functionality, and some of you said you prefer the video, even if it is only a static pic, so I will just have to get over my fixation on the consistency of my numbers — a “managerial” fixation if there ever was one.

This is the reading of my recent piece appearing in American Reformer. It was a long article and many of you prefer to listen rather than read the lengthier ones.

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Rather than try to record my recent Lenten sermon, the text of which I recently shared, I instead managed to procure the audio from when I preached it live. So, this is what I sound like from the pulpit. Enjoy.

Here is the written version: https://www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/p/seek-the-lord-while-he-might-be-found

I am joined by my friend The Black Horse to discuss this very timely topic for Holy Week as we make our final preparations for Good Friday and Easter, that of "forgiveness."

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Dimes and I have a meandering and wide ranging conversation about his notion of “first principles.” The idea is, in any community, if you were to boil things down to the one or two things that bind you together, what would they be? These are your “first principles.” I first came across the idea reading his recent piece over at his own Substack, The Vanguardist Journal.

Note: I am trying something new, uploading the podcast directly as a video in the hopes that it simplifies the uploading process overall. Because I had to split the video and audio to properly process the audio, I don’t think the StreamYard bubbles are perfectly lined up this time. If you like this format, let me know. I should still be available as a downloadable podcast on this app as well as other platforms. If everything goes right, I should go straight to YouTube.

Note: Dimes can be a little earthy with his language. You have been warned.

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