Category: Culture

Beautiful Union (with Joshua Ryan Butler)

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Joshua Ryan Butler’s recently released book, Beautiful Union: How God’s Vision for Sex Points Us to the Good, Unlocks the True, and (Sort of) Explains Everything has occasioned considerable online controversy. Matt, Andrew, and I get into it all with him.

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Protestants & History (with Paul Gutacker)

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Paul Gutacker, the author of The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past, joined us for a discussion of how American Protestant understandings of sola scriptura and biblical authority played out in the context of the Civil War and debates around slavery.

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Chapters 18 & 19 (Through New Eyes)

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We finish our discussion of James Jordan’s Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World, talking about its final two chapters.

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The Genesis of Gender (with Abigail Favale)

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Abigail Favale joins us for a discussion of her book The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, exploring the contemporary ‘gender paradigm’ its character, its dangers, and how we ought best respond to it.

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Tolkien Dogmatics (with Austin Freeman)

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Austin Freeman, the author of the fantastic recent book Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology Through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth, joins Matt, Derek, and me to discuss theology through Tolkien’s eyes.

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MAID in Canada

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Susannah joins Derek, Matt, and me to discuss Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), recently discussed in a New Atlantis piece and in a Substack post by Richard Hanania.

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