Bridges of Meaning Podcast: Recent Episodes
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From corn tasseling to seminary. A story of success and burning the candle fast, yet also of addiction, loss, and hardship. Being humble in the presence of God.
Josiah is a church planter in California. Discussions on the discord, church, what makes the discord a community, and what makes a church?
As Frank Ocean sang: "Maybe I should move and settle, two kids and a swimming pool. I'm not brave."
A conversation on aimlessness, potential, and obstacles. Finding your Heaven and overcoming yourself to get there. How can we reach goals while trying to maintain control?
Moving from Atheism to Christianity, and everything that comes with it. A honest conversation on conversion, relationships, reading the classics and seeking community. Jordan Peterson, foster care, self-authoring and processing one's past. Getting back in shape through running.
Nathan shares his being a "missionary kid" going through deconstruction, doubt, and slow careful reconstruction. Acting it out as a way to move forward.
A conversation about Baptists, Charismatic Christianity, Deconstruction, Marcionism, Augustine and Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl.
Luke talks about his moving from the "New Age treadmill" to Christianity. Epistemology, apologetics, and honest search for truth.
Richard talks about his upbringing in the Evangelical church and moving to Anglicanism. Getting ready for fatherhood, William Lane Craig, Brave New World and Jordan Peterson.
"This discord is a place when you accuse each other of heresy and afterward compliment them on that photo of their beautiful children." Aar0n and Job discuss Orthodoxy, the Discord, and more.
Jakobs and Job talk about agency, philosophy, giving Christianity a shot, and decadence.
Shelly and Tripp discuss Christian submission and the Christ-likeness called for specifically from husbands in marriage in the long-debated passage from Paul the Apostle's letter to the Ephesians.
Sarah, Tripp, Luke, and Sam talk through interpersonal relationships and the patterns we fall into when navigating life with a significant other.
Deacon Eric and Tripp give an overview of who Thomas Aquinas was, who his influences were, and why they, a Catholic (soon to be priest) and Protestant layman philosopher find him and his work vitally important.
Eric and Job talk about Jordan Peterson, Catholicism, and life as a deacon in a small town.
Jacob and Job talk about theism, atheism, Judaism, Chabad, rebbes and more.
Jacob's BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/faturechi/ Jacob's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/faturechi
Guy and Job talk about living overseas, faith, COVID-19, church congregations and more.
An agnostic-raised-atheist physicist walks into an abbey...to buy philosophy books. GingerBill and I talk beer, bread and why they're ordered by the pound.
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjgRhAkLfww
Mary and Luke team up again in this converZation of PVK spawned heavyweights.
Where is the Discord going? How can we establish offline meetups, what should those be about, and which subjects should be discussed? And why are people reluctant to meet with you after many years? This and more is brought to the table by Andrew K.
Guest starring:
- Ironroot!
- Job's Cat
- Job's work slack that he forgot to close...
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqaiTGgd2Cc
Luke and Sam focus their discussion on confessionalism and its impact on the Christian church, people, and the world.
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKm3hEuCUos
Alex and Matt talk about the movies Joker and Silence, and explore them as well as Thomas Merton, Descartes, and the role of faith, despair, and love with a special appearance by Luke towards the end.
Join Caleb and Cassidy as they work their way through the ins and outs of screen writing, explore the pros and unforseen cons of Christian missions, the unintended consequences of minimum wage laws, Christian celebrity status, falls from Grace, and the eventual place that all conversations reach these days: Kanye.
Original YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOOlD8iXx8M
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ion8gY69YzY
Part 1 of Shari, Luke and Caleb getting together to talk freedom, choice, and universalism.
Cassidy and Matt team up again, this time to launch the next series on Randos United called "Refining with Randos."
Original YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG-8w3ZkciA
Original YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTJNk2rwDA
Shelly and Jeff discuss Bible translation, immersion in other languages and cultures, Jordan Peterson, gender roles, and other simple stuff.
Original YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgyU_9qOZbc
Coming to you from the little corner of the little corner of the Internet, these wildly famous individuals talk about the movie JOKER and a few other things.
Andrel and Job discuss Jordan Peterson, catholicism, stoicism and being a volunteer EMT.
Sam and Job talk Jordan Peterson, meetups, propositional knowledge, faith, and how to put a baby to sleep.
Shelly and Carlos talk about the Catholic Church's teachings on sexual morality, specifically the very not controversial (/s) ban on contraception, and how this relates to Christians trying to live it out in a modern secular environment.
Readers usually meet on Wednesdays at 7 PM Eastern on the writers club server. If you're interested, join up on the Discord!
Original YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrvm2HkS1jg
Nick works with Julian to breakdown his ideas about the Zeitgeist. Don't know what that is? Check out this converZation and also read what Julian has to say about it here: https://coffeewithkierkgaard.home.blo...
Matt and I discuss Hemingway, the crucifixion, Jesus' life and ministry, the resurrection, and more...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Like_White_Elephants
Shelly and Annemiek speak on the generational handover, studying, traditional motherhood, child rearing, Jordan Peterson's ideas, and much more.
Carlos and I talk about "Engineers and Woo", a RationalWiki article. Who judges what someone can have an opinion on? How are engineers little gods, and all abstractions leak. How does PvK's "Frame of Frames" relate to software engineering?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo
Daniel tells a moving story of crippling migraines, the search for effective treatment, and what he found that works. Jordan Peterson, Orthodoxy, and fatherhood.
Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gju15ba_oJ4
Julian and Tyler talk about zombies and modern distractions.
Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfgYP5eARac
I (Jeff) for a long time have wanted to talk to Luke in-depth about C.S. Lewis' science fiction series, the Space Trilogy. Luke has a deep love for this series of books, and I've wanted to understand it a little better with his help. Here's our first attempt. Instead of reading it, I try my best at retelling the story, chapter by chapter. This is chapter one of the first book in the series called "Out of the Silent Planet." After that Luke shares his thoughts, and we walk through them, as well as bits and pieces of the chapter together.
Sarah and Julian talk farming. Farming in Mozambique, in the US, in Hutterite colonies, and the different techniques to employ from novelty and to rediscover from the past.
Original YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQkDGOUbjwk
John discusses Orthodoxy, Nassim Taleb, and the difference between having a worldview where God #1 exists and one where God #2 exists. Elephant rearing, script writing, and anti-natalism.
John's talk on Think Club about Simulation Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NFLAseCNU4
Rob talks about becoming a pastor, and what it is like to be one. Strong starting sermons, how a church is like the body of Christ. What does it mean to be a church, and how do you aid a country torn by civil war?
Cassidy P shares her plans for a documentary about the education system in the United States, the stigma placed on community college and trade school. Discourse with atheists, grounding beliefs, and mental health.
Matthias talks about finding Jordan Peterson, Paul Vanderklay and John Vervaeke. Exploring church, and finding community through alpha and beta courses. Acting as-if and Jordan Peterson-quoting pastors...
James shares his story of going from Roman Catholic, to New Atheist, to exploring Bulgarian Orthodox Christianity. Morning prayer, God's potential existence, fear, trembling and sin.