On today’s episode, the pugs engage the question: have contemporary Christian forms of spirituality made Christians more or less susceptible to secular, technological formation and manipulation? Tom introduces the topic by discussing Lori Branch’s significant work: Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. From that introduction, the pugs then delve into a wide range of topics around this theme.
 
 
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On today’s episode, the pugs engage the question: have contemporary Christian forms of spirituality made Christians more or less susceptible to secular, technological formation and manipulation? Tom introduces the topic by discussing Lori Branch’s significant work: Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. From that introduction, the pugs then delve into a wide range of topics around this theme. Learn more about the Theology Pugcast and contact us: https://www.theologypugcast.com/ Support the Theology Pugcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetheologypugcast?fbclid=IwAR17UHhfzjphO52C_kkZfursA_C784t0ldFix0wyB4fd-YOJpmOQ3dyqGf8 Learn more about First Pres. Battle Ground: https://www.solochristo.org/ Connect with WileyCraft Productions: https://wileycraftproductions.com/

On today’s episode, the pugs engage the question: have contemporary Christian forms of spirituality made Christians more or less susceptible to secular, technological formation and manipulation? Tom introduces the topic by discussing Lori Branch’s significant work: Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth. From that introduction, the pugs then delve into a wide range of topics around this theme.
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Manipulatable Selves and Contemporary Christianity

In this episode, we welcome Tara Thieke on the show to talk about her two-part article on the rising popularity of witchcraft. The conversation touches on why witchcraft is growing, witchcraft as the female parallel to transhumanism, its connection to critical theory, Lindsey Clancy, the collapse of secularism, and the church’s failure to recognize the cultural drift toward the occult. We finish with how to respond to witches who are our neighbors. Join us for an illuminating discussion of a dark subject in our culture today.
 
 
Substack Articles:
<a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-211290389">https://substack.com/home/post/p-211290389</a>
<a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-213995701">https://substack.com/home/post/p-213995701</a>
 
 
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Connect with WileyCraft Productions: <a href="https://wileycraftproductions.com/">https://wileycraftproductions.com/</a>

In this episode, we welcome Tara Thieke on the show to talk about her two-part article on the rising popularity of witchcraft. The conversation touches on why witchcraft is growing, witchcraft as the female parallel to transhumanism, its connection to critical theory, Lindsey Clancy, the collapse of secularism, and the church’s failure to recognize the cultural drift toward the occult. We finish with how to respond to witches who are our neighbors. Join us for an illuminating discussion of a dark subject in our culture today. Substack Articles: https://substack.com/home/post/p-211290389 https://substack.com/home/post/p-213995701 Learn more about the Theology Pugcast and contact us: https://www.theologypugcast.com/ Support the Theology Pugcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetheologypugcast?fbclid=IwAR17UHhfzjphO52C_kkZfursA_C784t0ldFix0wyB4fd-YOJpmOQ3dyqGf8 Learn more about First Pres. Battle Ground: https://www.solochristo.org/ Connect with WileyCraft Productions: https://wileycraftproductions.com/

In this episode, we welcome Tara Thieke on the show to talk about her two-part article on the rising popularity of witchcraft. The conversation touches on why witchcraft is growing, witchcraft as the female parallel to transhumanism, its connection to critical theory, Lindsey Clancy, the collapse of secularism, and the church’s failure to recognize the cultural drift toward the occult. We finish with how to respond to witches who are our neighbors. Join us for an illuminating discussion of a dark subject in our culture today.
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Substack Articles:
<a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-211290389" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://substack.com/home/post/p-211290389</a>
<a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-213995701" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://substack.com/home/post/p-213995701</a>
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The Return of Witchcraft

The Pugs respond to a book review by Robert Bellah of Harold Bloom’s, The American Religion, from all the way back in 1992. Bloom contended that beneath the surface of an ostensible Christianity lurked an American version of Gnosticism. Bloom rejoiced, many people at the time objected, but has Bloom been proven right 30 years later? Tune in and find out what the Pugs have to say.
 
 
Article: <a href="https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/book-review-the-looming-triumph-of-gnosticism/?shem=aimgspe">https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/book-review-the-looming-triumph-of-gnosticism/?shem=aimgspe</a>
 
 
 
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The Pugs respond to a book review by Robert Bellah of Harold Bloom’s, The American Religion, from all the way back in 1992. Bloom contended that beneath the surface of an ostensible Christianity lurked an American version of Gnosticism. Bloom rejoiced, many people at the time objected, but has Bloom been proven right 30 years later? Tune in and find out what the Pugs have to say. Article: https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/book-review-the-looming-triumph-of-gnosticism/?shem=aimgspe Learn more about the Theology Pugcast and contact us: https://www.theologypugcast.com/ Support the Theology Pugcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetheologypugcast?fbclid=IwAR17UHhfzjphO52C_kkZfursA_C784t0ldFix0wyB4fd-YOJpmOQ3dyqGf8 Learn more about First Pres. Battle Ground: https://www.solochristo.org/ Connect with WileyCraft Productions: https://wileycraftproductions.com/

The Pugs respond to a book review by Robert Bellah of Harold Bloom’s, The American Religion, from all the way back in 1992. Bloom contended that beneath the surface of an ostensible Christianity lurked an American version of Gnosticism. Bloom rejoiced, many people at the time objected, but has Bloom been proven right 30 years later? Tune in and find out what the Pugs have to say.
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Article: <a href="https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/book-review-the-looming-triumph-of-gnosticism/?shem=aimgspe" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/book-review-the-looming-triumph-of-gnosticism/?shem=aimgspe</a>
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The Theology Pugcast: The New Iconoclasm: Presentism and Its Trendy Enemies

The Theology Pugcast: Culture to Language or Language to Culture?

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The Theology Pugcast: The Disturbing Embrace of Therapeutic Culture by the Church

The Theology Pugcast: Chivalry, Howard Finster, and Other Musings

The Pugcast is produced by The Logos Center and features Dr. Thomas Price, Dr. Glenn Sunshine, and Pr. C. R. Wiley. The Pugcast is recorded at The Corner Pug--a well-known watering hole in tony West Hartford, Connecticut. (Hence the name, "pugcast"--also the reason there is so much background noise.) The show could be described as "3 over-educated Reformed guys riffing on philosophy, theology, and stuff that bugs them." Each episode they invite you to take a seat in their booth and listen in on their conversation.

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