Episode 285: Men & Social Status, Women & College Debt, Hypergamy, and More!

Men & Social Status, Women & College Debt, Hypergamy, and More! https://youtu.be/kQ2XPmewohw Today Chris takes the Pugs into the dark recesses of social status and asks questions few are willing to ask. For example: Why do so many women who apply to rent Chris’s apartments have so much student loan debt, and such low credit …

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Episode 284: Creation, Theophany, and Transcendence

Creation, Theophany, and Transcendence https://youtu.be/VOzJ-Uh6CCw Today’s show builds on the conversation about imagination and C. S. Lewis last week. Tom and the guys continue the interaction with Lewis’ rich sacramental vision and its implications for how our human created natures are enriched and helped to come into their own principally by the vertical, our relation …

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Episode 283: Imagination and Meaning

Imagination and Meaning https://youtu.be/koKTvlYzY8Y C.S. Lewis said, “Reason is the natural organ of understanding, but imagination is the organ of meaning.” “Working off Holly Ordway’s book “Apologetics and the Christian Imagination,” the guys discuss what imagination is, how it connects to meaning, and how it is foundational to reason. They also discuss the role of …

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Episode 282: Bonus Q&A: Anthony of the Desert and Defeating the Demons of Our Time

Bonus Q&A: Anthony of the Desert and Defeating the Demons of Our Time https://youtu.be/BmKIbh0EEqo Listen in for a short Q&A session following our previous episode. Support the Pugcast in Oxford on Indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-pugcast-goes-to-oxford/x/6893861#/ Support the Pugcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetheologypugcast?fbclid=IwAR17UHhfzjphO52C_kkZfursA_C784t0ldFix0wyB4fd-YOJpmOQ3dyqGf8 The Theology Pugcast is a ministry of Trinity Reformed Church in Huntsville Alabama. To view more …

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Episode 281: Anthony of the Desert and Defeating the Demons of Our Time

Anthony of the Desert and Defeating the Demons of Our Time https://youtu.be/0sjShyQLvWY It’s Chris’s show today and he returns to a theme he’s addressed a number of times–how can we resist the inhuman forces of the new totalitarianism? We’re up against a Borg-like globalist cabal that uses artificial intelligence, surveillance technology, and psyops to manipulate …

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Episode 280: Immodesty and the Image of God

Immodesty and the Image of God https://youtu.be/OIsxB38Rma8 As new forms of immodesty become fashionable and impact our everyday wolds in innumerable ways, dimensions of what is broken in us often remain what is ‘hidden’ or ignored. Tom and the guys engage this topic, especially from the insight that as image bearers we are imitative by …

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Episode 279: How Civilizations Collapse

How Civilizations Collapse https://youtu.be/sEBlM0yFF2s In this episode, Glenn talks about four causes of civilizational collapse: mass migration combined with corrupt and ineffectual government; sexual license; loss of belief in society and its values, and massive deficit spending. The guys talk about each of these, and, given that they are all are in place in America …

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Episode 278: The ‘C. S. Lewis Option’ for Renewing Christendom

The ‘C. S. Lewis Option’ for Renewing Christendom https://youtu.be/p8CuVCVqkU4 Today we are joined by Annie Crawford, a cultural apologist, a classical educationalist, and home-school mom. Today we discuss the incredible C. S. Lewis, a Pugcast favorite, and the wealth of his contribution to preserving ancient wisdom as it was received and refashioned in accordance with …

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Episode 277: Begging the Question of Christ and Culture

Begging the Question of Christ and Culture https://youtu.be/XNGEKTb7WSQ Richard Niebuhr’s classic, Christ and Culture has shaped the way we understand the relationship of the church and culture by assuming that what we mean by “Christ” when we discuss Christ and culture is Christian ethics. But is that the right place to start? Shouldn’t ontology be …

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Episode 276: The Diseased Defects and Effects of Popular Culture

The Diseased Defects and Effects of Popular Culture https://youtu.be/UBs82YWC73Q On today’s episode Tom introduces a theological analysis of Contemporary Popular Culture, especially its charged symbolism. After unpacking insights from church fathers like Tertullian and Augustine, in their Christian critiques of Public Spectacle Events, the gang enters into important discussion about the impact, function, and role …

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