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A podcast from two guys who love C.S. Lewis and are on their journey with his writing, scripture, and many other thinkers as they rebuild their faith.
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Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Daniel and I have another, more pointed, conversation around inspiration and inerrancy. We discuss, again, the major views taken on inspiration, what can be problematic with some of them, and how these views get expressed when talking about inerrancy.
While having this discussion, we use a video from Michael Heiser, investigating what it means to say the Bible is a "channel book." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu5ey2nztRQ
Later, we react to a podcast episode from N.T. Wright in which he brings up some of the same issues. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4bJr8LpjVN3U5mTyUJgwrP?si=7a9a20b49339464a Belfast email: belfastpodcast@gmail.com
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Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
In his book "Reaching Out: Three Spiritual Movements" Henri Nouwen starts talking about the move from loneliness to solitude. I read to Daniel in this episode from the first chapter, "A Suffocating Loneliness," and we discussed how we have felt these things in our lives.
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
Thursday Apr 14, 2022
In an independent conversation, Daniel and I discuss the consequences of being in seminary and how it may have made us cynical.
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Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
What do we mean when we ask for Scripture's "literal" meaning? Is there a "neutral reading" one can have of the Bible? What is the battle between the scientific atheist and fundamentalist?
Pageau Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VLPDSRL5f4&t=623s
Peterson Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-pvcdLTJg
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Continuing our discussion about the nature of literature and communication in a place and time, Daniel and I react to a sermon by Rob Bell on Revelation he gave at Willow Creek. In this sermon, Bell takes us back to the time of the early church and tells us how John flips Emperor worship in his letter to make a point about who is really on the throne.
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Continuing our discussion about the purpose of literature, using it as a lens, Daniel and I consider how time and place are necessary when understanding and interpreting a text, especially the Bible. Knowing time and place are essential; we see how the Bible communicates to us from a particular context and should be seen, especially for us today, as "cross-cultural" communication.
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
How are we supposed to approach the things we read?
Daniel and I attempted to answer this question in the podcast by seeing what Lewis thought to be the aim of literature, what he says in the "Abolition of Man," and what this can do when viewing fiction like Todd Phillip's movie, "Joker." Links:
McGrath lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPWgZR7peJk&t=2601s
Behind the Curtain Joker Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-b2THmH1aE
Jordan Peterson Lecture clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEfyCVD7BgI
Abolition of Man on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Abolition-Man-C-S-Lewis-ebook/dp/B002BXH5RU/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2PCUFOHXGL7KQ&keywords=abolition+of+man&qid=1646262919&sprefix=abolition+of+man%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
Sunday Feb 20, 2022
In this supercut, I attempt to streamline the conceptual work Daniel and I determined to do around what an Egregore is. With loads of help from Paul Vanderklay and Michael Heiser, I hope this can help turn on some light bulbs.
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
In this episode, Daniel and I react to a video by @PaulVanderklay where he reacts to a @RebelWisdom video on the sensemaking crisis and COVID. BJ Cambell brings in the idea of an Egregor, a demonic non-physical entity that emerges from groupthink. I intertwine this with the history of the Egregor being from the Enochian tradition, bringing us to Heiser and the Sons of God in Genesis 6 and 11.
Vanderklay's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHCACU53rqQ&t=509s
Peterson Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfAMvX_ioIU
Heiser's lecture video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4pOF5oEHCE
Heiser Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSFOZfqFcx4
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Daniel and I discuss the Augustinian framework of interpreting the Bible as art. Within this, though, is the assumption that the Bible is artistic, which it is! So we talk about how intertextuality affects the interpretation of the text along with a modern-day example in the new Spider-man film. Also, I brought in Michael Heiser's podcast episodes about Revelation to show how intertextuality is used in the book and how sly these kinds of things can be.
Heiser Revelation Introduction Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0FBLrUZgYO4r06X5oowwDW?si=f797fe080dbc41c2
Heiser Revelation 1:4 Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZJNGvEsQuRF4LZ8dwrmiv?si=D-eCdrW0TourPn1_a0tSzw