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January 2021

January 07, 2021
Sagely advice, another classic in the "dichotomy of control" from Marcus Aurelius' famous Meditations. And...

December 2020

December 22, 2020
Episode 6 is here! This episode features a conversation with Vance Morgan, a fellow Patheos...
December 15, 2020
The Canaanite slaughter. Whether or not you're a Christian fundamentalist or a strident atheist (or...
December 06, 2020
For those intoxicated by the Why is there something rather than nothing? question, I'm confident...
December 01, 2020
Latin for "unconquered", I remember hearing these incredible words for first time in the film Invictus,...

November 2020

November 25, 2020
It's one of the most famous heavyweight debates in philosophy of all time on the...

August 2020

August 16, 2020
As far as movies scenes go, it's a gem in natural theology vs. religious fundamentalism in...

June 2020

June 29, 2020
2020 will go down as an epoch year, one for the history books; two viruses,...

March 2020

March 31, 2020
Episode 5 is here! This episode features a conversation with Massimo Pigliucci and may very...
March 22, 2020
For those interested in an overview of the history and practice of Stoicism, author Massimo...
March 03, 2020
Episode 4 is here! This episode features a conversation with James Franklin. Dr. James Franklin...

December 2019

December 19, 2019
Episode 3 is here! This episode features a conversation with William Jaworski. Dr. William Jaworski...

November 2019

November 24, 2019
A controversial philosopher and theologian; to say the least - Soren Kierkegaard has always been...

October 2019

October 06, 2019
A fantastic quote from one of Martin Luther King Jr's sermons "Love in Action" on...

September 2019

September 26, 2019
Episode 2 is here! This episode features a conversation with Randal Rauser. Randal is a...

August 2019

August 27, 2019
Episode 1 is here! My podcast, like my blog, features the big questions; served with...
August 16, 2019
After having some very cool conversations with other authors, philosophers, and theologians, I've decided to...

June 2019

June 29, 2019
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song...

May 2019

May 05, 2019
I remember hearing a shortened version of this beautiful poem from a moving scene in...

March 2019

March 16, 2019
Adam and I had a very fun discussion on James McGrath's ReligionProf Podcast. We had...

November 2018

November 25, 2018
Earlier this year I wrote about MLK Jr on a Christian humanism which inspired me...

October 2018

October 24, 2018
The Meta tour continues! Adam and I are back it with another double header in...

August 2018

August 06, 2018
Another one from Rollins on the idea of belief as subjective "participation". The question of "Does...

July 2018

July 15, 2018
A powerful sentiment from Frederick Douglass on "exposing slavery", even the more salient coming from an...
July 05, 2018
Andrew Newberg, Eugene D'Aquili, and Vince Rause's book Why God Won't Go Away is outstanding....

June 2018

June 08, 2018
The to timeless question "Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?", one of the hallmarks of...

May 2018

May 20, 2018
Amazing evening last week on Thursday as Adam and I were hosted by the Ethical...

April 2018

April 29, 2018
I had a great time with Adam in Edmonton. While we were there, we had...
April 02, 2018
  The Meta book tour begins this week in Canada, followed by New York in...

March 2018

March 26, 2018
In his book Our Mathematical Universe, cosmologist Max Tegmark puts forward both a big question...
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