Theology & Ethics

Welcome to the Theology & Ethics podcast! In this episode, the Kirkwood Center team discusses the common misconception that the date of Christmas was based on a pagan, Roman holiday. However, the historical evidence shows something very different. Also, we talk about whether and how we should celebrate Christmas.

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#christmas #paganism #december25 #happyholidays #waronchristmas #kirkwoodcenter #church #christianity #theology #ethics #bible

Chapters:

00:00:00-Introduction

00:02:23-Is December 25 based on “Saturnalia?”

00:09:02-Is December 25th based on “Sol Invictus?”

00:11:45-Where did December 25th really come from?

00:18:57-Should we celebrate Christmas at all?

00:27:35-Was it Good for the Church to appropriate Pagan symbols?

00:37:09-Christmas and the Contemporary Christian Mission

00:47:50-Shownotes & Resources

In this podcast, we talk with researcher, author and speaker, Carl Teichrib, on the aggressive anti-life MAID laws in Canada. Are western nations like Canada intent on depleting their population through coerced suicide? What does this mean for western civilization more broadly? This and more on today’s Theology and Ethics podcast.

Carl Teichrib is a Canadian-based researcher, writer, and lecturer focusing on the paradigm shift sweeping the Western world, including the challenges and opportunities faced by Christians. Over the years he has attended a range of internationally significant political, religious, and social events in his quest to understand the historical and contemporary forces of transformation – including the 2015 and 2018 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Burning Man, and the United Nations Millennium Forum.

Since the mid-1990s, Carl’s research has been utilized by authors, media hosts and documentary producers, pastors, professors and students, and interested lay people. From 2007 until the end of 2015, he edited a monthly web-based magazine, Forcing Change, documenting and detailing the worldview revolution underway – points of pressure, forces of change.

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:01:54-What are the Canadian MAID Laws?

00:08:45-Ordinary and Extraordinary Conditions for Euthanasia

00:16:57-Is MAID Trying to Kill the Lower Class?

00:20:40-Why "Death with Dignity" Has Nothing to do with Dignity

00:31:25-Death and Dying in a Christian Worldview

00:36:31-Human Error, Human Arrogance and Assisted “Suicide”

00:41:12-MAID and The End of Western Civilization

00:46:24-Euthanasia and Pagan Spirituality

00:56:42-Outro

In this podcast, we discuss the authorship of the Gospels with PhD candidate and NT scholar Wes Huff. Is the traditional authorship of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John still tenable in light of higher biblical criticism? Or did the Early Church Fathers basically get it right with regard to who penned the Gospels of Jesus Christ?

Wes Huff is the Director for Central Canada with Apologetics Canada Ministries and a New Testament PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in Textual Criticism. He holds a BA in sociology from York University, a Masters of Theological Studies from Tyndale University, and is currently doing a PhD in New Testament and Christian origins at the University of Toronto’s Wycliffe College.

Apologetics Canada

https://apologeticscanada.com/our-team/

Wes Huff Website

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/

#gospels #apologeticscanada #newtestament #authorship #textualcriticism #manuscripts

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:02:41-The Online Debate over Who Wrote the Gospels

00:03:48-The “Modern Question” of Gospel Authorship

00:07:35-Are The Gospels “Unusual” for Ancient Documents?

00:10:48-Does Gospel Authorship Matter?

00:14:28-The Earliest Traditions About Authorship

00:15:55-Textual Evidence for Gospels and Apocryphal “Gospels”

00:21:05-The Obvious Lateness of The Apocryphal “Gospels”

00:26:22-The Dating of the Canonical Gospels

00:34:17-Summary of the Arguments for Traditional Authorship

00:36:46-Papias’ Testimony and Mark’s Gospel

00:38:51-Counterarguments Against Traditional Authorship

00:44:18-The Gospel of John

00:56:02-Was There a “Hebrew Gospel” That Inspired the Other Gospels?

In this podcast, we interview Carl Teichrib, an expert researcher in New-Age Spirituality, Neopaganism, the Occult and Witchcraft, who visits one of the most infamous new-age event in the world, Burning Man, every year. What is Burning Man? What is taught or experienced there? And how can Christians engage with those at Burning Man or other festivals like it?

Carl Teichrib is a Canadian-based researcher, writer, and lecturer focusing on the paradigm shift sweeping the Western world, including the challenges and opportunities faced by Christians. Over the years he has attended a range of internationally significant political, religious, and social events in his quest to understand the historical and contemporary forces of transformation – including the 2015 and 2018 Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Burning Man, and the United Nations Millennium Forum.

Since the mid-1990s, Carl’s research has been utilized by authors, media hosts and documentary producers, pastors, professors and students, and interested lay people. From 2007 until the end of 2015, he edited a monthly web-based magazine, Forcing Change, documenting and detailing the worldview revolution underway – points of pressure, forces of change.

#burningman #spiritualism #paganism #witchcraft #occult #transhumanism

Game of Gods: https://www.amazon.com/Game-Gods-Temple-Man-Re-Enchantment/dp/1999492900/ref=sr_1_2?crid=D17QUDC06PO6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Cwj6ewQnLWI4mvjYJeLT3rQSC-BzHLdst8NyKpboPzIoPY2Vyb1Fvo2I2msMkc8_qNMVrUvDs3E5EhSzDzrE_9jbN4eX2dIsG-f4PuBF8KQ76qqIxwFnXzua0L-1AYzSC2YIv1JRY97K2Z87QdHw8T-ql7twWA5uY74MK3LqJqSe25Fi2H8KHGnSaBDfnfvtGJeo7Kga96MrCSDEEOrUVHwEA2sHZDhWlNYv80ECzbc.Y9iy9_CsV3y5-nZbkJkCbxqsTT3QtD6As9A0rLTIxIg&dib_tag=se&keywords=Game+of+Gods&qid=1732646029&sprefix=game+of+gods%2Caps%2C127&sr=8-2

Forcing Change: https://www.forcingchange.org

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:03:43-What is Burning Man?

00:08:29-The Connection between Burning Man and Big Tech

00:10:58-The Global Scope of Burning Man

00:12:14-The Normalizing and Legalizing of Burning Man Culture

00:22:07-The Elites That Gather At Burning Man

00:27:00-What is the Worldview of Burning Man?

00:31:22-How are Christians Perceived at Burning Man?

00:36:23-Engaging with Burners at Burning Man

00:41:04-Using Reason to Challenge Burners

00:49:19-Bad Encounters at the Burn

00:52:20-How Burning Man Culture is affecting the Church

00:55:30-Burning Man as “The Cult of Experience”

01:03:14-The Gospel, Personal Experience and Evangelism at Burning Man

01:10:19-Outro

In this episode we talk to CR Wiley about his upcoming book "St. Antony's Guide to Your Best Life Now," which looks at the life of St. Antony the desert father as a way for Christians to be faithful in a world dominated by Artificial Intelligence.

Bio: C. R. Wiley is a minister living in the Pacific Northwest. He has written for Touchstone Magazine, Modern Reformation, Sacred Architecture, The Imaginative Conservative, Front Porch Republic, Scenes Media, and National Review. His short fiction has appeared in The Mythic Circle (published by the Mythopoeic Society) and elsewhere, and he has published young adult fiction. He has been a commercial real estate investor, a building contractor, and a college professor. He is a member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.

Books by CR Wiley:

In the House of Tom Bombadil:

https://www.amazon.com/House-Tom-Bombadil-C-R-Wiley-ebook/dp/B09LSCR7LT/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=Fuiqf&content-id=amzn1.sym.e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_p=e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_r=144-9031752-5433267&pd_rd_wg=lWf2l&pd_rd_r=c6d6bc76-965b-46dc-99c0-edcca2350c42&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

The Household and the War for the Cosmos:

https://www.amazon.com/Household-War-Cosmos-Recovering-Christian-ebook/dp/B07SZB38CY/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=2Hdcy&content-id=amzn1.sym.e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_p=e5c4b41c-5fcc-40aa-ba1a-d4f042d962e8&pf_rd_r=144-9031752-5433267&pd_rd_wg=rruek&pd_rd_r=eb1cf2da-c2ce-485f-99c8-20ec07f3a933&ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk

#AI #Christianity #paganism #materialism #technology #transhumanism #kurzweil #harari

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:05:20-Kurzweil’s Vision of Transhumanism and AI Totalitarianism

00:11:07-The AI Threat to Religious Freedom

00:19:28-The All-Encompassing Power of AI

00:27:09-How Technology Debilitates Our Creative Powers

00:34:55-Is There an Upside to AI?

00:36:57-Who are the Conditioners?

00:40:21-St. Antony vs. AI?

00:45:46-AI and the Aesthetic World

00:54:48-Why We Can’t Ignore the Threat of AI

01:05:31-AI Demonic?

01:08:32-Living Faithfully in the AI World

01:13:34-Outro

In this episode of the Theology and Ethics podcast, the Kirkwood Center team breaks down what's ahead for a second term of Trump's presidency. What does a second Trump term mean for America, for conservatives and for Evangelicals? We talk about six positives of a Trump victory, and four negatives.

#MAGA #election2024 #americanpolitics #USA #politics #evangelicals #trump #trumpvance #kirkwoodcenter #church #christianity #theology #ethics #bible

Chapters:

00:00:00-The Surprise of Trump Victory

00:07:20-The Repudiation of the Cultural Elite

00:23:11 Curbing Democrat Totalitarianism under Trump

00:37:33-Validating the Experience of Legal Immigrants

00:47:49-Stopping Trans-Insanity under Trump

00:52:41-Trump Better for Israel and for Jewish People

00:58:37-The End of Cancel Culture under Trump

01:05:15-Trump is a Liberal President

01:10:24-Trump is a Pro-Choice President (in A Pro-Choice Country)

01:12:01-Trump is a Same-Sex Marriage President

01:16:53-Trump’s Horrible Speaking Ability

01:24:26-Trump, Political Idolatry and the World

In this episode of the Theology and Ethics podcast, the Kirkwood Center team (Dr. Darren Guerra, professor of Political Science at Biola University, Logan Zeppieri, Claremont Institute, and Lenny Esposito, Come Reason Ministries) discuss the incredible comeback of Donald Trump and what it means for America and American Evangelicalism.

#MAGA #election2024 #americanpolitics #USA #politics #evangelicals #trump #trumpvance #kirkwoodcenter #church #christianity #theology #ethics #bible

Chapters:

00:00:00-The Historic Comeback of Donald Trump

00:05:23-The Biggest Loser: The Mainstream Media

00:09:02-The Role of Alternative Media Platforms

00:12:00-The Reasons for Trump’s Victory

00:26:28-The Evangelical Christian Vote

00:37:22-How Should We View The Morality of Candidates?

00:41:49-What About The Pro-Life Issue

00:58:05-Some Predictions for Trump 47

In this episode of the Theology and Ethics podcast, we sit down with Bethel McGrew (formerly “Esther O’Reily”) to talk about Megan Basham’s bombshell book: Shepherds for Sale, and give some theological and philosophical reflection about the current state of politics in the Church and how Christians should vote their conscience.

Bethel McGrew is a freelance writer, teacher, maths Ph.D., cultural critic, bad Anglican. You might have spotted her at World, National Review, First Things, The Spectator, The Critic, Plough, or someplace else.

Bethel’s Substack: https://substack.com/@bethelmcgrew

Bethel’s Review of Shepherd’s for Sale at First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/08/how-the-evangelical-elite-failed-their-flock

#shepherdsforsale #bethelmcgrew #politics #election2024 #meganbasham #MAGA

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:00:17-Trump and True Conservatism

00:14:11-Trump & Harris: Egoists or Ideologues?

00:21:48-Leftist Totalitarianism, The Liberal Trump Voter and a bit about NAR

00:28:09-The Degradation of Culture and Politics

00:34:34-Outro

In this episode of the Theology and Ethics podcast, we sit down with Bethel McGrew (formerly “Esther O’Reily”) to talk about Megan Basham’s bombshell book: Shepherds for Sale, and give some theological and philosophical reflection about the current state of politics in the Church and how Christians should vote their conscience.

Bethel McGrew is a freelance writer, teacher, maths Ph.D., cultural critic, bad Anglican. You might have spotted her at World, National Review, First Things, The Spectator, The Critic, Plough, or someplace else.

Bethel’s Substack: https://substack.com/@bethelmcgrew

Bethel’s Review of Shepherd’s for Sale at First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/08/how-the-evangelical-elite-failed-their-flock

#shepherdsforsale #bethelmcgrew #politics #election2024 #meganbasham #MAGA

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro and Megan's Book

00:09:14-Mission Drift and the Christian Elite

00:14:25-How The Left Made Political Stances into Religious Commands

00:21:48-The Crisis of Pastoral Authority in the Culture

00:25:27-Is Basham Unfair to Those She’s Criticizing?

00:37:29-Basham vs. Ortlund

00:45:42-Is There Any Accountability for The Shepherds For Sale?

00:52:03-Are Basham’s Critics Being Disingenuous?

00:57:18-Basham Doing The Same as Those She Criticizes

01:07:52-Responding to Basham’s Reviewers

01:17:47-Outro

In this episode, the Kirkwood Center team discusses the role of Halloween and Horror in our culture. Is Halloween too pagan for Christians to celebrate, or does it still have a place in the Church?

#halloween #Christianity #horror #paganism

Chapters:

00:00:00-Intro

00:01:45-The Origins of Halloween

00:05:38-How the Early Church Approached Paganism

00:11:23-Halloween in the Modern Sense

00:20:33-Evangelicals, Halloween and Horror

00:28:34-Redeeming the Liminal Spaces of the Psycho-Spiritual

00:37:12-Has Death Become Too Unfamiliar to Us?

00:42:02-Shock and Pushing the Limits of Horror

00:45:30-Honoring God By Redeeming Halloween

00:48:16-Outro