Christian Wayfaring https://youtu.be/awuWmSliHac The trials and triumphs of Christian life as pilgrims in the world but not of the world. Tom introduces the topic by way of David Elliot’s article: Passing through the Sirens, the Trials of the Christian Wayfarer in the World. The conversation discusses the various biblical senses of ‘world’ and engages the …
The Most Reluctant Convert https://youtu.be/1qIirqRqIkk Listen in for a quick question and answer session following yesterday’s episode: The Most Reluctant Convert.
The Most Reluctant Convert https://youtu.be/JzEZTH_XRhg This week, the Pug has a special guest, Max McLean, the founder of the Fellowship for the Performing Arts. Max has brought to the stage “The Screwtape Letters,” “The Great Divorce,” and “The Most Reluctant Convert,” the story of C.S. Lewis’s conversion; most recently staring in a film adaptation of …
C. S. Lewis and Miracles https://youtu.be/Z9hHbCUL7SI We wouldn’t have Christianity without miracles, and one miracle in particular—the resurrection and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth. Odd then, isn’t it, that not so long ago, there were some people who said that we could? C. S. Lewis knew that was nonsense, and he set out in his …
Medieval Courtesy Books https://youtu.be/L6g_3H0sVSk In this episode, the Pugsters look at the idea of courtesy and manners through the lens of medieval courtesy books. These were instructions to children on how to behave derived from chivalry and from instructions to novices in monasteries. Their goal was to inculcate virtue in children before they had a …
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 …
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, …