Pagan Easter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Syxb25Xwrg&t=960sThis is the time of year when we get a lot of memes about how Easter is a warmed-over pagan holiday. Everything from the name “Easter” to the use of eggs and rabbits is a claimed to be connected to a pagan fertility goddess. Our resident historian Glenn takes great delight in debunking …
Varieties of Relativism https://youtu.be/AwJ1McDlwlc Tom introduces one of the driving assumptions that is underwriting the flux and chaos of current social trends: the assumption that truth is relative, perspectival, unable to be attained apart from our individual or group filters. The guys join in with many historical and contemporary insights into some key figures and …
In Defense of Mysticism https://youtu.be/H_Rqf85UOvE Many Christians today reject altogether the idea of Christian mysticism, but it has a long history in the church going back to the first centuries. The early church recognized three different types of mysticism: scriptural, which involved looking for symbolic or allegorical meanings in Scripture; liturgical, focused usually on the …
Duck Season! Rabbit Season! The Notorious Duck/Rabbit Problem! https://youtu.be/iWUGJ3L_Tyg Well, which is it, a duck or a rabbit? Today the Pugsters examine the notorious duck/rabbit problem. You probably have seen the drawing, look at it one way, and you see a duck, look at it another way and you see a rabbit. Often the drawing …
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Überhobbits: Engaging the Will To Power with Tolkien and Nietzsche https://youtu.be/1e1B0UL4zl0 Tom unpacks themes from David Blount’s essay on Hobbits, Tolkien and Nietzsche in relation to the differing way power and is understood and related to. Blount compares the Hobbits rejection of becoming Überhobbits in contrast to Nietzsche’s dark vision of embracing the will to …
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Welcome to Negative World: An Interview with Aaron Renn https://youtu.be/7lSh1hrtdZ0 Aaron Renn joins the show once again, this time to discuss an article he wrote for First Things entitled, The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism. It’s hard to miss that the social climate in which Christian ministry is conducted in the western world has become more …
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Ukraine and Russia: History and the Theology of Nationalism https://youtu.be/DBSu98115sM With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Glenn thought it a good time for a history lesson on Ukraine and Russia. As you might expect, he started over 1000 years ago, but noted especially more recent history and why the Ukrainians want to get out from …
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Philip Rieff and His Life Among the Deathworks https://youtu.be/Zb4KHxGDLGg Philip Rieff was one of the most incisive critics of the postmodern turn in western culture of the last 50 years. A secular Jew, he longed for a world that reflected a sacred order. His insights were as penetrating as those of Charles Taylor, but with …
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Fine Art and Cancel Culture: An Interview with Award-Winning Painter Arthur Kwon Lee https://youtu.be/gv_9zeu5s88 What does it take to make it in the highly competitive world of New York City art? Arthur Kwon Lee knows, he’s a young painter who won awards and was featured in prestigious galleries. He worked hard and developed his skills, …
Talking About God Improperly https://youtu.be/voHe7rxUlYQ Tom adds to his previous topic of speaking properly about God and takes it into the other direction. He notes that shifts in ideas of God led to shifts in ideas about Creation, the Human, and language in particular. By making God part of the same chain of ‘being’, language …