Deep Talks: Exploring Theology and Meaning Making
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
Dr. John Vervaeke is a renowned cognitive scientist at the University of Toronto. He's published groundbreaking research on the cognitive science of "meaning." His popular "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" lecture series is a massive 50 part video & podcast series with well over 1 million total views on YouTube. In this series, Vervaeke weaves together insights from cognitive science, biology, philosophy, theology, and history to try and help people understand how we've arrived at our current cultural meaning crisis in the West and what he thinks can be done about it.
It really is impossible to give a succinct summary of everything that we discuss together in this extended episode, but what I can say is that it was one of the more mind-blowing and insightful conversations I feel like I've had on this podcast. Plus, it was so great to have such a meaningful discussion with someone who would not profess to share my Christian convictions. Hopefully, we've modeled a way of dialogue together that shows that we can respect each other's convictional differences and still be open to learning from each other.
You can check out John Vervaeke's "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" lecture series here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ
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Ep 100: Invisible Stories Manifest in Visible Institutions (Behind the Image Leadership Podcast interview)
Ep 99: Paul Vander Klay - Did Blockbuster Video Kill Church?
Ep 98: Gods, Wizards, Witches, & the End of Secularity - HERE COMES THE NEW GODS (Part 2)
Ep 97: Fr. Kenneth Tanner- Discovering a Better Christian Story
Ep 96: Gods, Wizards, Witches, & the End of Secularity (part 1)
Ep 95: Ted Kim, John Mark McMillan, & Andy Squyres- RE-ENCHANTMENT
Ep 94: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Part 3/Conclusion)
Ep 93: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World- For the Bible Tells Me So (Part 2)
Ep 92: In Christ Alone? Salvation in a Pluralistic World (Part 1)
Ep 91: Jon Guerra- When Beauty Disarms Our Cynicism
Ep 90: Dan Kent & Paul debate Open Theism, Satan & Spiritual Warfare, & The Problem of Evil
Ep 89- Dr. John Walton- Answers in Genesis? Creation, Evolution, & The Lost Biblical World
Ep 88: The Problem of Evil Finale- The Most Beautiful of All Possible Songs
Ep 87: The Problem of Evil (Part 17)- In Conclusion | The Bible, Right-Ordered, Non-Ordered, & Dis-Ordered Suffering
Ep 86: Ted Kim- Finding the True Story in a Post-Secular, Cross-Cultural World
Ep 85: American Civil Religion- How Did We Get Here? w/ Adam Russell & The Ferment Podcast
Ep 84: The Problem of Evil- Greg Boyd & Thomas Jay Oord Conversation. Open Theism Vs. Essential Kenosis/God Can't
Ep 82: The Problem of Evil (Part 16)- Open Theism
Ep 81: The Problem of Evil (Part 15)- Process Theism | Creative Solution or A New Gnosticism?
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