The Pugcast

The Fight Laugh Feast Network is growing. We are expanding our network and adding two more shows beginning in June!

How to Build a Tent, Westminster Confession of Funk, AD Robles, Campus Preacher, Law and Profits, and CrossPolitic make up the lineup, with The Patriarchy Podcast and The Theology Pugcast joining the first week of June. So tune in, enjoy the shows, support the network, and spread the word!

This was a network show to discuss the Equality Act, introduce you to our new podcast joining the network, and remind you of all the goodness that is coming from the current shows on the Fight Laugh Feast Network.

The Patriarchy Podcast

Tony Dipane and Pastor Joseph Spurgeon are headlining The Patriarchy Podcast, in order to remind the world that water does not flow uphill.

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Tony Dipane was born to white-privileged cisgendered parents in the fascist oppressed regime of America. As legend has it, he was also born with a golden spoon in his mouth of which he still has and uses daily to spoon-feed his mansplaining to feminists. When not crushing the rights of women everywhere on his show, The Patriarchy Podcast, Tony enjoys a good steak...raw, right off the still living cow. He is happily married to his oppressed perpetually barefoot and pregnant wife, Amy, and has so far spawned four horsemen of the patriarchal apocalypse.

Pastor Joseph Spurgeon graduated in 1999 from the John Knox School for Boys and later went on to earn his MOpp (Master of Oppression) degree from Southern Misogynist Seminary. When not preaching the subjugation of females in his church, he wakes up every morning at 2AM for a quiet 25k run, after which he replenishes his liquids with the tears of feminists. Joseph and his wife, Rowina, reside in an undisclosed compound in southern Indiana, where they have five children.

About The Patriarchy Podcast

This is a podcast for men. Not boys. Not babies. Men.

The Theology Pugcast

Pastor C.R. Wiley, Dr. Glenn Sunshine, and Dr. Thomas Price are sure to make your heads spin in The Theology Pugcast.

Pr. C. R. Wiley is the Senior Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Manchester in Manchester, CT. He is the author of The Household and the War for the Cosmos (Canon Press, 2019), as well as other books, and articles. He is a member of The Academy of Philosophy and Letters.

Dr. Glenn Sunshine is Professor of Early Modern History at Central Connecticut State University as well as Senior Fellow at The Colson Center. Glenn has written numerous books and articles. His most recent book is The Kingdom Unleashed, co-authored with Jerry Trousdale.

Dr. Thomas Price earned his PhD at the University of Oxford and he teaches Systematic Theology and Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and The University of St. Joseph.

About The Theology Pugcast

The Pugcast is produced by The Logos Center and features Pr. C. R. Wiley, Dr. Glenn Sunshine, and Dr. Thomas Price. 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.

News

The Equality Act is the biggest threat to religious freedom in US history

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/the-equality-act-is-the-biggest-threat-to-religious-freedom-in-us-history?fbclid=IwAR1EeWe25bqZW00aNsC0qR0Z-4Q5wYBLg3KQUQ6-QmiDkK8LNyIiGbhyTcI

House approves Equality Act, sweeping bill to expand gay rights

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/17/equality-act-house-oks-pelosi-priority-bill-expand-gay-rights/3707673002/?fbclid=

In today's show Glenn provides an introduction to Protestant Resistance Theory. You may have wondered, are Christians the doormats of human history? Do we always turn the other cheek? Do you ever run out of cheeks? Is punching back ever justified, not just in self-defense, but in armed resistance against tyranny?

Well, you're not the first person to wonder. Glenn provides an overview of how Christians in general, and Protestants in particular, have come to say, "Enough! Now I'm fighting back!"

Naturally, Tom and Chris have things to share--and you may have guessed, they agree that there is a time to fight back.

What is Chivalry and why is it important? Glenn starts out with a history of the concept and its key elements. The group then reflects on the loss and even inversion of those elements within our culture before moving into a discussion of folk artist Howard Finster.

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Tom introduces the topic by engaging Thomas Hibb’s book: Shows about Nothing. Chris and Glenn join in with many insights and rich analysis.

This week the guys discuss how many contemporary views of history assume or draw upon aspects of Christian historical understanding, inadvertently borrowing its teleological character, even when they undermine other essential aspects of it. Christian faith altered conceptions of history and brought to the fore a notion of history as being meaningful and being directed towards culminating purposes.  Secular emancipatory views which see history as progressing toward justice, or utopia, are examples that the guys get into in this important discussion.

In today's show Glenn proposes a controversial thesis: Machiavelli's The Prince wasn't promoting amoral political opportunism--in it Machiavelli was actually....

Well, it wouldn't be right to include a spoiler in the show notes, would it? Why not listen and find out what Glenn thinks for yourself?

Once again, there is a noisy pub to deal with, but we hope the show will provide enough tasty food for thought that you can look past that.

The Pug-crew continue their conversation with Ken Boa. In today's show the discussion surrounds the theme of Ken's book, Life in the Presence of God.

Talking to Ken is like trying to take a sip from a fire hydrant--you may need to listen to the interview a couple of times to get the gist of what Ken is getting at--but it will be worth the effort.  We hope you enjoy the conversation!

Here's a link to Ken's book.

In today's episode Tom asks the rhetorical question, "Who sets the agenda for the Christian faith?"

Winsome market-oriented church growth types demonstrate through their methods that they believe people should do that.  But maybe people don't actually know what is in their best interests. Tom traces out how autonomy and "authenticity" have come to shape much of evangelicalism in our time. Chris notes that this is what underlies the call to be "relevant". Tom labels this "Humanistic Evangelicalism".

But isn't this a case of tail wags dog?

By contrast Tom describes something he calls "Evangelical Humanism" and he says this is what constitutes a good Christian anthropology.

Feeling the need for some magic in your life now that you're stuck at home because of COVID-19? Well, we've got the show for you!

Today Glenn (aka "The Magic Man") provides a little history lesson on magic. One of the things that you'll learn is that magic as it was practiced in the antiquity--and the Renaissance (yes, the Renaissance)--wasn't as irrational as is often supposed. There were reasons it was believed to work. Understanding those reasons won't make you a practitioner of magic--but it will help you see that our ancestors could be wrong about certain things without being unintelligent. By the way, the same is true for other things in our time.

In some theologies it seems like God is so sovereign there is nothing left for anyone else to do. Secondary causation and creaturely agency appear to be defined right out of existence.

While this leaves people wondering about their agency, it also leaves angels with nothing to do.

So, in today's show Chris raises the question, what are angels for?

In the course of the conversation things gravitate toward the subject of the "principalities and powers" the Apostle Paul mentions in Ephesians and Chris recounts some disturbing personal experiences he's had with palpable evil, as well as one experience he had of a different nature when one of his parishioners lay dying in an Emergency Room because he had been cut open by a snow plow during a blizzard.

Glenn and Chris are joined once again by Dr. Ray Pennoyer, professor of philosophy.