Deep Talks: Exploring Theology and Meaning Making
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
The Death of Superman. Kingdom Come. Fight Club.
These are just a few of the cultural artifacts emerging from our collective cultural consciousness that give evidence to an imminent shift away from secularity in the West. Our modern myths are showing signs of a shifting cultural moment. We were told that if we killed God we'd have a religionless world, but what we got instead were new gods. Now, we're not so sure that we like these new gods better. Who or what are the new gods?
Let's look at a couple of significant cultural stories to see evidence of this growing discontent with the new gods of the secular age.
Plus, I'll discuss what happened in the 1960's and 70's in the New Age phenomenon, the psychedelic counter-cultural movement, and the Charismatic renewal movements which poked holes in the secular frame and how that eventually led to the New Atheism in the mid-2000's; and we'll see how New Atheism spawned the contemporary counter-movements to the meaning crisis like Joe Rogan pscychedllic resurgance, Jordan Peterson's intellectual dark web, Sam Harris materialist meditation practices, and John Vervaeke.
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Ep 61: Adam Russell- Transcendent Experiences, Psychedelics, & Sex
Ep 60: The Role of Symbols as Idols or Icons
Ep 59: Andy Squyres- Apocalyptic Art & The Unveiling of the Invisible God
Ep 58: Reconstruction Stories- The Psychedelic Christian? Paul Risse
Ep 57: Reconstruction Stories- Rick Guttersohn, LLMSW
Ep 56: How to do Theology While Binging Pop Culture
Embrace the Threshing Floor (A brief encouragement during this Coronavirus pandemic)
Ep 55: The Plague & The Crucified God
Ep 54: An Easy Bible Mistake That Keeps Us From Seeing Jesus
Ep 53: Ecclesiastes-Making Meaning Out of the Meaningless
Ep 52: Is 1 Corinthians 3 talking about purgatory? Did Paul believe in purgatory? (Patreon Q&A)
Ep 51: Justin Brierley- From Richard Dawkins to Jordan Peterson. The Shifting Conversation about God and Religion
Ep 50: The Problem of Evil (Part 9)- Objections to Molinism, Christians Creating Suffering, & the Rise of Natural Theology
Ep 49: Jen Meyerson- The Middle East, War, & Hope
Ep 48: The Problem of Evil (Part 8)- A Strange, Wonderful Molinist Life? Molinism Explained
Ep 47: The Problem of Evil (Part 7)- Martin Luther, John Calvin, & Evil as the Alien Acts of God
Ep 46: The Problem of Evil (Part 6)- Aquinas, Evil, & The Existence of God
Ep 45: The Problem of Evil (Part 5)- Will Evil Ever End? Do We Get Sinful Souls from Sex? Do We Have Free Will? (Gregory of Nyssa & Augustine)
Ep 44: The Problem of Evil (Part 4)- Third Century Theodicies (Tertullian, Plotinus, Origen)
Ep 43: The Problem of Evil (Part 3)- The Gnostic Matrix & the Early Church Fathers
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