2022

Secular and Nihilistic Eschatologies and Political Theologies https://youtu.be/MzP_XvBq7eE In today’s show Tom introduces the topic: how contemporary secular and nihilistic thinking owes its form to material deviations from the classical Christian understanding of God and final things. Once set in play, such altered understandings about God and final things led to the wide host of …

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God and History in Acts and The Academy https://youtu.be/ZsJ3RjcuV5s Is writing objective history impossible? Many today believe so. To these folks everything is “text,” meaning something we can interpret however we please, the implication being facts must be interpreted, and since we’re the only interpreters “history” is nothing more than one person, or group’s tendentious …

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Bonus Q&A: Hopeless Romantics https://youtu.be/0zHLQorkEeI Listen in for a quick question and answer session following yesterday’s episode on Romanticism.

Hopeless Romantics https://youtu.be/eJLdv6U3QBM In this semi-live episode, the Pugsters return to Romanticism, a topic we’ve touched on in a number of other Pugcasts. After a quick explanation of Romanticism as a response to cultural stress, the guys discuss some of the pathologies that have entered Western society as a result of the Romantic movement, including …

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Truth and Falsehood In a Lying Age https://youtu.be/5QyjWqZJBLo On today’s show the guys unpack aspects of contemporary culture and its move away from ontological truth. Language, once it’s detached from referencing the real, becomes a field of competing power plays and conflict. How are Christians to enact truthfulness, avoid falsehood in their discernment of truth, …

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Will the Real Conservative Intellectuals Please Stand Up? : An Interview with Dr. Luke Sheahan https://youtu.be/_wIdcAFRUL8 Today the Pugsters are joined by Dr. Luke Sheahan, President of The Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and Editor of The University Bookman. Among other things, Luke is an authority on the intellectual history of conservatism in the United …

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The Importance of Story: A Conversation with Moira Greyland Peat and Rachel Fulton Brown https://youtu.be/lnKQMD5gVsQ In this episode, Moira Greyland Peat and Rachel Fulton Brown return for the first time together as Pugcast guests to explore the importance of story and imaginative fiction as a vehicle for communicating truth in ways that can transcend nonfiction. …

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The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis https://youtu.be/ov3PhvgolyIToday the Pugsters are happy to welcome Jason Baxter on the show! Jason is the author of a new book on C. S. Lewis entitled: The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind. Have you ever wondered why no one seems to …

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Here Comes Transhumanism, Ready or Not! https://youtu.be/2sjC_jcdDUsEver feel like an upgraded body would be good to have? You’re not alone, and there are people who are ready to help–for a price. How about an extra 10 years of life, wouldn’t that be nice? Why stop there? Why not an extra 20, or 100, or 10,000? …

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The Dumbest Generation Grows Up! : An Interview with Mark Bauerlein https://youtu.be/FovgYAy5zAwToday the Pugcast is joined by Mark Bauerlein, professor emeritus of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things. Mark made waves back in 2008 with his book, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future …

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