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Latest Episodes
Episode 150: Happy Anniversary To Us!
We celebrate the milestone of our 150th episode with listener and friend Josh Retterer. We reflect on where we've been and where we're going.
Episode 149: Friendship Revisited
We revisit one of the themes of our earliest podcasts, friendship.
Episode 148: Judge Not...
In this episode we talk about the powerful temptation to judge other people, which most of us give in to all the time.
Episode 147: Fight or Flight Revisited
As we approach our 150th episode, we're revisiting some topics we did early on at the beginning of the podcast. This episode is about the human tendency to go into fight or flight mode in response to anxiety provoking realities.
Episode 146: Secular Modern Life?
In this episode we reflect on a 2008 article by the recently deceased Peter Berger which originally appeared in First Things.
Episode 145: Freedom then and Now
In this episode, in light of the upcoming Fourth of July celebration, we reflect on the nature of freedom and life together in the United States.
Episode 144: Why The Saved Need Saving
Do you think you're right and they're wrong? Who's on your heretic list? Liberals? Conservatives? Calvinists? Vegans? Valentians? We continue our musings on truth, heresy and learning the art of life together.
Episode 143: Truth, Heresy...can you know the Difference?
In this podcast we talk about a recent statement by Pope Francis, an article about Rob Bell, and the nature of disagreement in communities that care about their convictions.
Episode 142: Love The World?
We go back to Tomas Halik's work "I Want You To Be: On The God Of Love", considering how Christians can really love the world.
Episode 141: Narcissism and the Love of Self
We go back to our teacher Tomas Halik to consider narcissism and the possibility of really loving and being loved.