PZ's Podcast

PZ's Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 340 - Tales of Hoffmann
August 29, 2022

What do our favorite songs, movies, and shows -- and even places -- say about us? Why do we like the media we do? What draws us to one form of art rather than another -- to one sort of setting rather

Episode 339 - Anglican/'Anglican'
August 02, 2022

The Gospel of God's One-Way Love can find an appealing, commodious platform within the Anglican tradition. But when the tradition becomes a "thing" rather than a fountain, it can desiccate the very so

Episode 338 - Privilege (1967)
June 15, 2022

The vehement secularism all around us is no secret. But you can learn something about yourself by studying what others dislike about you.

Episode 337 - Our M'bird Guest 2022
May 03, 2022

Mockingbird's 14th annual New York City conference, entitled "Hope for a Weary World", was a kind of summit for this utterly needed Word. I'll bet almost everyone there felt the same way.

Episode 336 - Death Star Portal
March 11, 2022

It seems as if almost everybody is a little like the "Death Star" in Star Wars. There's a way in to our inner reality, but it's very small -- tiny, in fact -- and it takes a sure shot to get inside.

Episode 335 - The Big Street
March 11, 2022

Can you ever "over"-impute? Can you treat a person as they actually are *not* to such an extent that you lose yourself and are ultimately taken advantage of?

Episode 334 - Animotion II
February 15, 2022

The inborn primordial framework of our personhood does not prevent God from working for our good. He is always doing something, even if it looks at first like the "back story".

Episode 333 - Animotion I
February 15, 2022

In this podcast, I read a seminal passage from the Karl Jung's Collected Works that concerns the embedded archetypes of anima and animus. What he wrote is clarifying and surgical. "Read, Mark, Learn a

Episode 332 - What Church Means to Me
January 27, 2022

This is one's ecclesiology, one's doctrine of the Church, after a lifetime's involvement with it and 47 years' ordained ministry within it. For what it's worth, I think I've "got it now" ("One Monkey

Episode 331 - Robert Nathan (So There!)
January 24, 2022

You remember Robert Nathan. He wrote The Bishop's Wife and Portrait of Jennie, to name just two of his roughly 40 or so fantasy novels. But the thing is, Robert Nathan's novels are all short -- more l

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