Halting Toward Zion: Recent Episodes
Greg Uttinger & Emily Maxson
Join writer Emily Maxson and long-time teacher and theologian Greg Uttinger for a discussion about Christian theology and its applications through history, civilization, and education.
To ask us questions, you can email us at haltingtowardzion@gmail.com
Credits: Shake That Little Foot - Shady Grove (modified and used under Creative Commons); The Joy Drops - Not Drunk (used under Creative Commons) Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Greg, Rachel, and Emily discuss Greece and the ancient Greek religion, From Alexander the great to the philosophers, to the pantheon of gods.
Transcript:https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/4488a429-e7a2-4c9e-b4bc-0ab5678f128c
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily discuss the Greco-Persian Wars and the shift from Persia to Greece as the world power during the Hellenic Period.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/from-marathon-and-on?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily continue their discussion of their kingdom of Persia, its relationship with the children of Israel, and the slow progress to rebuild the temple.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/hadassah-queen-of-persia?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily continue their discussion of the Medo-Persian Empire, king Cyrus and his relationship with Israel, Zoroastrianism, and much more.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/cyrus-king-of-persia?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily discuss the origin of the Medo-Persian Empire, how it claimed the title of world power from Babylon, and the work God did through Daniel.
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily continue their discussion of world powers with Babylon, and the 4 brave Hebrews we follow through the book of Daniel.
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Why don't we know about Assyria? Why does a secular classical education ignore it?
Greg, Rachel, and Emily ask these questions and more as they discuss ancient Assyria/Persian culture.
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Greg, Emily, and Rachel summarize Israel's history up to the point they left off with the Phoenicians and Egyptians and setting the foundation of the Davidic Covenant as the framework for history going forward.
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God commanded His people to read His word out loud- that requires it to be written down.
Join Greg, Rachel, and Emily as they discuss the impact of the Phoenician alphabet, the artist as a part of history and culture, why it is and has been imperative that history is written our history down, and much more.
Transcript:
https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/947b3ccf-e3b0-4b48-917f-7d6652f540d1
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily discuss the Phoenician/Punic/Canaanite peoples and what they brought to culture, technology, art, and what their relationship was like with Israel... and why that matters today.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/purple-dye-and-child-sacrifice?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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"Your ultimate priorities generate your ethics"
Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they continue their discussion of the 10 commandments. Why should we not kill? What does kill even mean? What is the significance of the marriage covenant? Why are liars grouped together with murderers and adulterers? Who and what defines ethics and why can't ethics change as time moves on?
Our hosts discuss all these questions and more in this weeks episode
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-worldview-that-shaped-western?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Moses went up to Mount Sinai and received the law from God. What does that mean for Isreal? For us? for all cultures? Join Greg, Rachel, and Emily as they discuss the first 4 of the 10 commandments.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-law-on-mount-sinai?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Why does having an accurate record of history matter in God's story? Why does it matter that we tell a story in order? Why is it that secular histories refuse to consider the Bible an accurate historical text?
Join Greg, Rachel, and Emily as they discuss all this and more in this week's episode.
Transcript:
https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/6c193884-cbf8-4048-a736-f348d5160ff6
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Greg, Rachel, and Emily discuss "the gift of the Nile" -Egyptian. Tune in for their discussion of Egyptian Geography, Mythology, and death rituals, along with plenty more. Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/egypt-reaching-for-deity?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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"He really didn’t do much. He didn’t lead Israel out of Egypt. He didn’t call fire down from heaven. He didn’t raise the dead. He didn’t survive a world flood. He mostly lived out in the wilderness and raised some good sheep and cattle. But God promised to do something incredible through him and his seed, and without him everything afterwards falls apart."
Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as the discuss Abraham, who his seed are, and justification by faith.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/by-faith-abraham?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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"As promised, we will talk about dinosaurs today – dinosaurs and the deification of the dead – and I hope we’ll get to Abraham as well, but let’s start with dinosaurs."
Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they discuss dinosaurs, the implications of the cultural shift from Dragons to Dinosaurs, and what past cultures believed about the diety of the dead.
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/i-believe-in-dragons?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=truehttps://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/i-believe-in-dragons?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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"We left off last time right on the precipice before the Tower of Babel..."
Mankind reached for godhood, building a tower they imagined was unto heaven, building a society in rebellion to God's command to "Fill the earth." God quickly showed them that wasn't going to happen.
Join Greg, Emily, and Rachel as they discuss the post-flood world, ziggurats, the implementation of diverse languages, and cave dwellers.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-tower?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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What are the sons of God in Genesis 4? What was the actual scope of the flood? What happened to culture after the flood? Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss all this and more in this week's episode.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/htz-2023-12-28?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss the way culture grew in the first 2,000 years of history, from Cain and Abel to the flood and the technology and other advancements of the time.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/the-world-before-the-flood?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true
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"I think we’re wrapping up and beginning the long trudge through 6,000 years of human history."
Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss what exactly we are looking forward to, what (who) the substitute really is, and the aspects of a good story that we get directly from God's storytelling.
Transcript:
https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/674540dc-48dc-43a4-845b-f2f380bc11dc
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"What are the framing ideas to the way we look at history?"
Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss how and why sin affects our actions and our perception of history.
Transcript:
https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/32ae0b7c-ef65-496a-87f9-20e166c37e4d
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Greg, Emily, and Rachel discuss God's commandment to "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth," what being the image of God means, and the implications of continued Christian growth and fellowship in eternity.
Transcript:
https://haltingtowardzion.substack.com/p/daf67e49-f950-46ca-a59e-a9103fd9f792
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As we enter season 3, we welcome our new host, Rachel Voytek, to join Greg Uttinger and Emily Maxson. In this new season, we're focusing on World History and Church History, and how they relate.
And as any discussion of history should, we start at the beginning... again.
Transcript:
https://open.substack.com/pub/haltingtowardzion/p/in-the-beginning-again?r=1mbq24&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSDqy-nBSsDI8PWmV8pLc8sFJw5H-1KNta0Xo3IDmv30XvrKNFhgyonVyDtZb-u-w/pub
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Why do we care about princesses? And what does God think of them? And why does the Princess's father, the King, give her as a bride to the Prince? This week we consider examples of the royal bride in scripture.
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Turning a blind eye to sin isn't love. And therefore a unity that's merely surface-level is not true unity: it may even be worse than open conflict.
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vStinQsHi_IIL2IvxONDTU4jtbMm1xWVjqgpnJoh0Nds88dCtj2sPVcPLXd775ZFA/pub
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Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQpHefHSvXT1Wi-TvAFlwzFtaRCFkhBVyvF6Wc9AHCsK03pHw_nofdB32q1iDI0vQ/pub
2 Chronicles 7, Psalm 89
CrashCourse on Youtube? (not sure if you all want to include that)
History of the Idea of Progress - Robert Nisbet
The Creedal Imperative - Carl Trueman
Person of Interest TV series
Recos:
Greg - Isaac Asimov Foundation series
Bryan - The Rest is History podcast (Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) and Dominion by Tom Holland
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Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSeugLZZKgLFUVzY9lRIysL3MDV54wDOhyw5-x3XWvTk4pUr0Mou2KX_7k41oE2MQ/pub
Scripture: 1 Kings 10-11
Recos:
Emily - The Great Sex Rescue
Greg - Deuteronomy 6, talking about the Bible with your kids
Bryan - Web app Notion.so
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The Israelites won the battle of Jericho, but the disobedience of one man in that battle cost the whole nation the battle of Ai--and cost thirty-six warriors their lives. How is that fair? We're talking again today about the conquest of Canaan as worship, and noting how human relationship and the Gospel itself both rely on the concept of covenant representation.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2XJEUxv
Links:
Joshua 7: https://www.esv.org/Joshua+7/
The Code of Hammurabi: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp
American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw
Recos:
All That Is in God - James E. Dolezal: https://amzn.to/3B0MIZU
Introduction to Systematic Theology - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/3jamMoV
"Slow Train Coming" - Bob Dylan: https://amzn.to/3keHxyK
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The New Athiests would have us believe that God's command to Israel regarding the conquest of Canaan is pure evil--racist and genocidal. Today we're examining that claim: What exactly did God command? Was it evil?
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3z5BGCn
Links:
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe - Raphael Lemkin: https://amzn.to/3AYTm2Z
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins: https://amzn.to/3AZO5b
Recos:
Defrosting your freezer
Road Trips
Little America, Wyoming
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In today's episode, we're talking about Jericho: not merely a battle, but worship of the One True God.
This Episode Features: Jericho; McDonald's Or Burger King?; Thanksgiving Dinner With The Midianites;
Transcript: https://bit.ly/37xLSHu
Links:
Joshua 5-6: https://www.esv.org/Joshua+5/
Groundhog Day (1993): https://amzn.to/3yT1bGZ
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) - "The Insulting Frenchman": https://youtu.be/QSo0duY7-9s
VeggieTales: Josh and the Big Wall (1997) - "Keep Walking": https://youtu.be/C6-yEvZALeA
Revelation 11: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+11/
Clarkson's Farm (2021): https://amzn.to/3yKx9F6
"The Battle of Jericho" - Arr. Moses Hogan: https://youtu.be/XSnplmdfAVo
Recos:
Antihistamines
A Fiery Gospel - Richard M. Gamble: https://amzn.to/3s9EknH
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles S02E21 - "Paris, May 1919": https://youtu.be/TgnGg7s-_kk
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So who is this Joshua guy? In this episode, we'll take a look at Joshua's career before he writes the book.
This Episode Features: Joshua, Son Of Nun; Five Points And The Human Psyche; Ripping Off Francis Schaeffer; Cicadas; and the Fear Of Public Speaking.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3jJSAQw
Links:
Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3xfoTeG
Exodus 17: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+17/
Exodus 32: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+32/
Numbers 11: https://www.esv.org/Numbers+11/
Numbers 13: https://www.esv.org/Numbers+13/
Rear Window (1954): https://amzn.to/3l3cDLX
Numbers 27: https://www.esv.org/Numbers+27/
Deuteronomy 31-34: https://www.esv.org/Deuteronomy+31/
Hebrews 4: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+4/
Recos:
Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3xfoTeG
Live Not By Lies - Rod Dreher: https://amzn.to/3hDHxZc
"Flawless, Effortless Slow-Roasted Salmon" - Internet Shaquille: https://youtu.be/2YEHOs8SkkQ
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To kick off Season 2, we start by introducing ourselves and some of our favorite poems, and go on to discuss the concept of success in light of Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers"--and the book of Joshua. In the King James Version, the word "success" actually only appears in the introduction to the book of Joshua. So, what are we to understand about the nature of success?
This Episode Features: Malcolm Gladwell; Systemic Hockey Discrimination; Joshua The Son Of Nun; The CDC; History That Is Prophecy; Death By Committee; Cobblers And Monks; My Sanctification And Me; and Introverts Building Community.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3AA9iIN
Links:
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell: https://amzn.to/3xLq6LP
Joshua 1: https://www.esv.org/Joshua+1/
Psalm 51: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+51/
Hebrews 11: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+11/
"The Just Shall Live By Faith" - Halting Toward Zion: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/episodes/The-Just-Shall-Live-By-Faith-e12990l
Live Not By Lies - Rod Dreher: https://amzn.to/3hDHxZc
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2UR0kaA
The Story Graph: https://www.thestorygraph.com/
Recos:
"Ulysses" - Alfred Lord Tennyson: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45392/ulysses
"This Is Just To Say" - William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56159/this-is-just-to-say
"The Last Trump" - Banjo Paterson: https://www.poeticous.com/banjo-paterson/the-last-trump
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Continuing our discussion of the nature of faith, today we study the examples of faith given us in Hebrews 11. Did Jesus "do it all"? He did everything necessary for your salvation, certainly. He lived a perfect life of righteousness that is imputed to you. He also ordained works for you to do in your life, and delights in your doing them.
This Episode Features: Hebrews 11; A Retroactive Recommendation; Aristotle And Pollyanna; Meta-gaming; Justification By Faith; The Book Of Sarah; Who Got THAT Job?; and Maybe The Child Was Glowing.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2TKSpLj-htz-72
Links:
Hebrews 11: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+11/
Pollyanna - Eleanor Porter: https://amzn.to/3gbhxCk
How Should We Then Live? - Francis A. Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/2Sbq6FC
The Blacklist (2013-): https://amzn.to/34ZxZ3K
Recos:
Gentle and Lowly - Dane Ortlund: https://amzn.to/3pvtkQe
The Puritan Hope - Iain Murray: https://amzn.to/3z8Z9Tn
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Today we're beginning to answer a listener's question about the active nature of faith.
This Episode Features: Emily's Clean-The-House Music; Solo Scriptura; Quack Practice; BREAKING: Names Less Important Than Shenanigans; Snoopy; Greg's Favorite Meme; Mrs. Potts; and Darkest Peru.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3po1ntK-htz-71
Links:
TELL THE TRUTH OR AT LEAST DON'T LIE ft. Jordan Peterson (J B P W A V E) - Akira the Don: https://youtu.be/iA8n9JTTM38
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw
Westminster Shorter Catechism: https://www.opc.org/sc.html
Heidelberg Catechism: https://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/confessions/heidelberg-catechism
Westminster Confession of Faith: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/westminster-confession-faith/
Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen: https://amzn.to/2S74v0T
James 2: https://www.esv.org/James+2/
Charles Schultz: Peanuts - December 16, 1955: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/12/16
The Last Battle - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2TAKKiG
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3rNuSod
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Jonathan Edwards: https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/edwards_jonathan/Sermons/Sinners.cfm
Recos:
12 Rules For Life: The Album ft. Jordan Peterson (J B P W A V E) - Akira the Don: https://youtu.be/fSQSETwnrio
The Gospel Comes with a House Key - Rosaria Butterfield: https://amzn.to/3yWVrfK
The Whole Christ - Sinclair Ferguson: https://amzn.to/34G7ujr
Hank the Cowdog Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3cfyHO2
Promise and Deliverance - S.G. DeGraaf: https://www.monergism.com/promise-and-deliverance-4-volumes
Human Nature In Its Fourfold State - Thomas Boston: https://amzn.to/3fZeWvk
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Today David Maxson hosts a panel discussion on the wonders of Math and Physics with Greg and special guests David Lawrence and David Farschman! David Lawrence is a physicist investigating outer space, and David Farschman is a long-time teacher of mathematics. Tune in for awe of God, His creativity, His communication, and the mathematical words that describe the world He made and holds together--and why math and science matter for the people of God as we halt toward Zion.
This Episode Features: Wonder At God's Handiwork; Lawfully Wedded Husband; Two More Davids; Mongolian Archery; The Scientific Mind Of C.S. Lewis; Christian Schools Are Bad At Science; Being Good Ain't It; God's Credit Card; Rotary Numbers; Mathematical Words In A Minor Key; and Safe To Say Everyone Here Today Is A Nerd, But You Don't Have To Be.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3udanmm-htz-70
Links:
Heirloom Audio: https://heirloomaudio.com/
David Maxson's Music Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/SCNerdgm
Imaginary Unit - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit
Mathematical Constant e: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(mathematical_constant)
Pi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
Leonhard Euler - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
Goedel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter: https://amzn.to/3whHbf7
Wave Equation - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation
Miracles - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2T3oFch
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/3hEyMyC
Genesis 1: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+1/
Sir Isaac Newton - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
Big Trouble in Little China (1986): https://amzn.to/3eZpIm4
Proverbs: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+1/
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Why in the world would you read or listen to a story that someone just made up--A FAKE STORY? In today's show, Greg and Emily discuss the philosophy of fiction... and of history, which isn't all that different, as it happens.
This Episode Features: The Philosophy Of Fiction (And Of History); Nutritional History; #Relatable; Superior and Inferior Storytellers; A Non-Story; Kate Gives Us A Spoiler Warning;
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3bdxlCW-htz-69
Links:
Captain Kangaroo (1961): https://amzn.to/2QJCUlS
The Little House - Virginia Lee Burton: https://amzn.to/3d1yOfK
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey: https://amzn.to/3lF0o6q
The Story about Ping - Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese: https://amzn.to/3tQpQZL
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton: https://amzn.to/3c7STBY
Ruth: https://www.esv.org/Ruth+1/
Esther: https://www.esv.org/Esther+1/
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3aZvJNj
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy: https://amzn.to/3ef9IvN
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky: https://amzn.to/3aXq8qs
The Great Escape (1963): https://amzn.to/3tgXS8w
Avengers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers_(comics)
Teen Titans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Titans
Jonny Quest (1964-1965): https://amzn.to/2RmWiom
Judges 9: https://www.esv.org/Judges+9/
"I Just Can't Wait to be King" - The Lion King (1994): https://youtu.be/l8UFnc85-xM
2 Samuel 12: https://www.esv.org/2+Samuel+12/
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: https://amzn.to/3vCY1VB
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/3uHBJBv
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen: https://amzn.to/3vKutpf
Death Comes to Pemberly (2014): https://amzn.to/3th4rba
Charade (1963): https://amzn.to/3aYJmwe
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3cNXBVQ
Recos:
Charade (1963): https://amzn.to/3aYJmwe
The Shop Around the Corner (1940): https://amzn.to/3vHNfNF
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Mail call! Today we're answering some questions from a listener about Noah's Ark, angels, and the Declaration of Independence.
This Episode Features: Logistical Implications Of Dinosaur Captivity; The Water Buffalo Song; Rennaissance Paintings And Milton; The Theatre, The Theatre; Audience Participation And Angelic Cue Cards; Lives, Fortunes, Sacred Honour; and Why People Hate Brussels Sprouts.
Transcript: Coming soon
Links:
Genesis 6: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+6/
"The Water Buffalo Song" - Veggie Tales: https://youtu.be/ltG37Bbx1qk
"Song of the Cebu" - Veggie Tales: https://youtu.be/_uv8Ej4CEoQ
1 Peter 1: https://www.esv.org/1+Peter+1/
Ephesians 3: https://www.esv.org/Ephesians+3/
The Sound of Music (Theatre) on tvtropes: https://bit.ly/32JmJan
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3aCmTVs
Daniel 8: https://www.esv.org/Daniel+8/
Daniel 12: https://www.esv.org/Daniel+12/
Genesis 22: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+22/
The U.S. Constitution: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
The Declaration of Independence: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3dMV9zr
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexander Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/32MddmN
The Westminster Standards: https://amzn.to/3aEgOYG
The Time Machine (1960): https://amzn.to/2S31EWn
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3xo6Kgb
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin: https://amzn.to/2PjBxJH
Foundations of Social Order - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/3vmPqGB
Star Trek S02E17 - "A Piece of the Action": https://amzn.to/3tN94uM
Star Trek S02E23 - "Omega Glory": https://amzn.to/3tN94uM
Recos:
Brussels Sprouts
Donating Plasma
Foundations of Social Order - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/3vmPqGB
"The Theology of the Ancient Creeds" - Greg Uttinger: https://bit.ly/32LPuDw
Complete Poems of Banjo Paterson - Banjo Paterson: https://amzn.to/3sPl91p
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. This is the truth that sets the endeavor of Christian education apart from all other philosophies and disciplines: as Cornelius Van Til famously put it, "Two plus two is four and Jesus Christ is Lord." Through the preceding episodes of Halting Toward Zion, we've talked about the implications of God's character on sociology, politics, criminal justice, and many other topics--and today as we close out Book One of our podcast, we're applying all of those discussions, as well as the instructions God gave to His people in Deuteronomy 6, to education.
This Episode Features: Star Wars (The Real One); Weird Christian Schools And Weird Homeschool Co-ops; Esteemed Historian Spider-Man; Mini-Me; The Seven Parts Of Speech;
Transcript: Coming soon
Links:
Star Wars (1977): https://amzn.to/3dabnSR
Dominion - Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/2OJyBWC
Book of Eli (2010): https://amzn.to/3d96OZ5
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3uE423V
God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3hCQ50O
Deuteronomy 6: https://www.esv.org/Deuteronomy+6/
The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery: https://amzn.to/2PYe3dk
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/3uHBJBv
Clean Up Your Room ft. Jordan Peterson - Akira the Don: https://youtu.be/Zrsypgnpwl8
Jordan Peterson: More Important Than You Think - Akira the Don: https://youtu.be/p0mig8IeV-s
Recos:
Send us an email! We're going on a little bit of a summer break--still releasing episodes, but biweekly instead of weekly. We'll be back to our usual schedule in July, but before then, we'll release some special episodes including responses to listener emails. Reach out to haltingtowardzion@gmail.com!
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
After discussing Muppet adaptations of classic literature and film, we dig into history--why it's important, how to teach it, and who we are because of it.
This Episode Features: Proposing Historical Hermeneutics; Muppet Adaptations; Paging God; This Story Is Our Story; Tom Bombadil; Pencils Down, Please; and Beer.
Transcript: Coming soon
Links:
Citizen Kane (1941): https://amzn.to/3dCMzSl
Princess Bride (1987): https://amzn.to/3cSzvte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen: https://amzn.to/31Ky0XA
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3rNuSod
"Seven Stanzas at Easter" - John Updike: https://bit.ly/39KuyjW
"His Heart Beats" - Andrew Peterson: https://youtu.be/PaU3C5a2VUY
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3cNXBVQ
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001): https://amzn.to/3dAtEb5
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (2001): https://amzn.to/39MJNJn
Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (2002): https://amzn.to/31OPVfS
Luke 3: https://www.esv.org/Luke+3/
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/39MlLht
Hamlet - William Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3fPJS2R
"When the Roll is Called Up Yonder" - James M. Black: https://bit.ly/3dR1NUf
Babylon 5 (1993-1998): https://amzn.to/3uzn8J8
Recos:
Psychological Seduction - William Kilpatrick: https://amzn.to/3fGZ2qP
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl: https://amzn.to/2R5a8f3
Guinness Nitro Cold Brew Coffee: https://bit.ly/3rSDjyD
Acts of Service for a Loved One
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
In this second installment of our Cultural Transmission series, we take a look at "Social Studies": what is that section on standardized tests? Why does nobody know what it is? Well, partially because the people who came up with it weren't interested in telling us precisely what it meant. Today we'll dig a little bit into the history of social studies, and why its origins are a bit insidious as well as ambiguous.
This Episode Features: Social Studies; The Rat Dies; Isaac Asimov; Oculus Reparo; Cata-What-Now; McGuffey's Readers; Storytelling And Mysticism; and Bryan Is A History Teacher He Just Doesn't Get Paid For It.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3tZP3kg-htz-65
Links:
The Social Studies Curriculum - E. Wayne Ross: https://amzn.to/3wcNJMO
Montana Standards for Social Studies: https://bit.ly/39rKbwB
"Patterns" - Simon and Garfunkel: https://youtu.be/ynOiwRy8YQc
Foundation - Isaac Asimov: https://amzn.to/3dgd8wL
"The Year 2000 and All That" - Robert A. Nesbit, Commentary Magazine: https://bit.ly/3u5QCNE
Person of Interest (2011-2016): https://amzn.to/39oZKVT
The Principia - Sir Isaac Newton: https://amzn.to/3wa7epv
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling: https://amzn.to/2P9cKIr
Westminster Shorter Catechism: https://www.opc.org/sc.html
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery: https://amzn.to/3foHNKR
McGuffey's Eclectic Readers - William Holmes McGuffey: https://amzn.to/3fm4oI0
" 'Old Gruff' and His Readers" - Kate Uttinger, Leben Magazine: https://leben.us/old-gruff-readers/
"The Social Studies in Secondary Education" - Bureau of Education: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED542444
"Social Studies in the Hampton Curriculum" - Thomas Jesse Jones, The Southern Workman: https://bit.ly/3rCTvE6
"Origins of the Modern Social Studies, 1900-1916" - Michael Lybarger, History of Education Quarterly: https://www.jstor.org/stable/368079?seq=1
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin: https://amzn.to/3sM10d6
The Descent of Man - Charles Darwin: https://amzn.to/3sD5Kli
Rubicon - Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/3cD14ql
Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen: https://amzn.to/2PloxDg
"An Unusual Prince/Once Upon a Dream" - Sleeping Beauty (1959): https://youtu.be/TXbHShUnwxY
Recos:
Cheese Curds
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo - Tr. J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/31yCGzq
Foundation - Isaac Asimov: https://amzn.to/3dgd8wL
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Today we're kicking off a series on Deuteronomy, the last book in the Torah, and talking about cultural transmission: what do Christians pass on to their children?
This Episode Features: Deuteronomy and Cultural Transmission; Star Trek And Muppet Babies; The Gospel; Keep It Simple; Punk Kids With Character Arcs; Insufficiently Bombastic Victorian Rebukes;
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3waCJQg-htz-64
Links:
Micah 4: https://www.esv.org/Micah+4/
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994): https://amzn.to/3lFDfRq
Muppet Babies (1984-2020) - IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086764/
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling: https://amzn.to/3ueCkeC
Elements of Style - William Strunk and E.B. White: https://amzn.to/3c9oi6U
Animal Farm - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3vPQkw2
Recos:
Make Way for Ducklings - Robert McCloskey: https://amzn.to/3lF0o6q
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton: https://amzn.to/3c7STBY
The Story about Ping - Marjorie Flack: https://amzn.to/3tQpQZL
The Little House - Virginia Lee Burton: https://amzn.to/3d1yOfK
Freddy Goes to Florida - Walter R. Brooks: https://amzn.to/394gQbe
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Like us, the Israelites were prone to grumble, rather than being thankful to God in the midst of trials. Saying "thank you" might seem like a little thing, but Romans 1 shows us what's really at stake. Not only is thanklessness a sin for which we need Christ's forgiveness, thanklessness begets all sorts of other sins and confusions. After all, to be thankful is at root simply to acknowledge that God is God and He is good to us.
This Episode Features: Thankfulness; Emily Issues A Retraction; Shutting Up; All The Things; and Duct Tape Vs. Gaff Tape.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3m0KL9N-htz-63
Links:
Romans 1: https://www.esv.org/Romans+1/
'What Has God Ever Done For Me?' Asks Man Breathing Air - The Babylon Bee: http://bit.ly/38BBjE2
The City of God - St. Augustine: https://amzn.to/3bHcbxG
American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr
Isaiah 44: https://www.esv.org/Isaiah+44/
A Bug's Life (1998): https://amzn.to/3leB07h
Numbers 16: https://www.esv.org/Numbers+16/
Recos:
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/3crY2nt
MacGyver (1985-1992): https://amzn.to/2Q3du1J
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
The Wilderness was a punishment for the Israelites, but that's not all it was. God had good purposes for His people even there--purposes that are fulfilled in Christ for us as well as for the Israelites.
This Episode Features: A 40-Year Boot Camp; Homeless Former Celebrities; Scrub Brush And Cacti; TikTok To The Glory Of God; The Greater Good; Going To The Moon; and Calvin Was Not A Stoic.
Transcript: http://bit.ly/3cwYkJK-htz-62
Links:
1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/301dOj7
Nahum 1: https://www.esv.org/Nahum+1/
Deuteronomy 8: https://www.esv.org/Deuteronomy+8/
Luke 4: https://www.esv.org/Luke+4/
Revelation 13: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+13/
Revelation 20: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+20/
Heidelberg Catechism Q1: http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/1.html
Desiring God - John Piper: https://amzn.to/3tf2WuH
Recos:
The City of God - St. Augustine: https://amzn.to/3bHcbxG
Prayer
Getting Rid of Books You Don't Like
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/389mRDM
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
The God of the Bible is who He chooses to be--He has absolute and absolutely perfect freedom, and so is the source of all the derivative and analogical freedoms that we as creatures experience. So what does it mean for us to experience freedom?
Correction: Emily mistakenly calls the actor Robert Hardy (Harry Potter, All Creatures Great and Small) by the name of a different actor, Tom Hardy (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises). As far as we know, Tom Hardy is not an expert in medieval weaponry.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3fozrms-htz-61
Links:
1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/301dOj7
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut: https://amzn.to/3b2apqH
Babylon 5 (1993-1998): https://amzn.to/3uzn8J8
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3kx6rJH
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte: https://amzn.to/3uEyBXW
The Consitution of the United States of America: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
Longbow - Robert Hardy: https://amzn.to/3b3TjZw
Recos:
Who Murdered Chaucer? - Terry Jones: https://amzn.to/3dWlZWm
"Rope and Hollywood" - Lindy Beige: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfpQzV2GnM
Lilo & Stitch (2002): https://amzn.to/2NMCgCs
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
God didn't actually expect the people of Israel to fight giants and win, did He? Well, He wasn't surprised by their faithlessness when they were too afraid to enter the Promised Land. Nor is He surprised by our faithlessness when we let our fears stop us from sharing the Gospel. And yet, He still intends for His gospel to go out and convert the nations, and His people are His chosen messengers.
This Episode Features: Giants And Grasshoppers; Once Upon A Time There Was A Calvinist Evangelist; Eschatology; Self-Conscious Wheat; and The Lays of Ancient Rome
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2Zzt9Hz-htz-60
Links:
The Princess Bride (1987): https://amzn.to/2NJJPtc
The Late Great Planet Earth - Hal Lindsey: https://amzn.to/3aI2izD
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb
Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The 5th Dimension: https://youtu.be/VlrQ-bOzpkQ
Gilligan's Island Theme Song: https://youtu.be/-fqXcKFg08w
Lays of Ancient Rome - Thomas Macaulay: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/847/847-h/847-h.htm
Recos:
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling: https://amzn.to/3ueCkeC
The Minimal Mom on Youtube: http://bit.ly/3qFyr0a
Ballad Stanzas
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Last week we talked about the Hebrew liturgical calendar, and how the New Year celebration of Rosh Hashana came to be celebrated in the seventh month rather than, as one might have thought, at the beginning of the first month. Today we're talking some more about the message of Rosh Hashana--why celebrate a New Year's Day at all?
This Episode Features: Rosh Hashana And The Liturgical Year; The New Moon; Where Did That Sun Come From?; The Hallelujah Chorus; The World Has Already Ended Once; Faeries And Photons; Sir Patrick Stewart; Resolutions And Intentions, Or Rather, A Schedule; To Drink More Wine; and Oedipus Rex.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2ZgD6JW-htz-59
Links:
"Lighting of the Beacons" - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: https://youtu.be/QhRFaY8A9cA
Revelation 11: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+11/
2 Peter 3:4: https://www.esv.org/2+Peter+3/
Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/3pgn9O8
Tiamat and Marduk Myth Summary - Cliff's Notes: http://bit.ly/3qi6afJ
Star Trek: The Next Generation S05E02 - "Darmok" : https://amzn.to/3s0KJ3B
The Art of Manliness Podcast Episode #369 - "When - The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing": http://bit.ly/3aWPVP2
Dave Ramsey's Debt Snowball: http://bit.ly/3d45p6p
The Resolutions of Jonathan Edwards: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-resolutions-of-jonathan-edwards
Recos:
Wine Pairings and Meal Planning
You Don't Know Jack Classic Pack Bundle on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/sub/33692/
All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque: https://amzn.to/3abmRE5
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
The Hebrew calendar was full of holidays--holy rituals, assemblies, celebrations--events that involved all the families of Israel in the worship and fellowship of God. Today we'll investigate how those rituals speak to us, especially in our celebration of the Lord's Day.
This Episode Features: Calendars And Holy Days; If Your Life Was A Movie...; Why Does Everyone Try To Kill Princesses?; Ritual Treasure Hunts; Really Harvesting Barley; Going Up And Down Mountains; Lots Of Trumpets; All I Know I Learned In Kindergarten; and The Benefits Of Journaling.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3aMnjaO-htz-58
Links:
"Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Equilibrium (2002): https://amzn.to/3anlrFw
"The Andy Griffith Show" - Earle Hagen: https://youtu.be/AMZ6osLqEZQ
The Great Escape (1963): https://amzn.to/3tequAB
The Sound of Music (1965): https://amzn.to/36wBH66
"O Valencia!" - The Decemberists: https://youtu.be/E4QBeH2GopY
"Our House" - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: https://youtu.be/tKYjUn-SBcg
Hildegard von Blingin on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/9freakydarling9
Recos:
All of a Kind Family - Sydney Taylor: https://amzn.to/3j9q6yA
A Medieval Feast - Aliki: https://amzn.to/2YzrgKp
Some Lines A Day Leuchtturm Journal: https://amzn.to/3j5THsM
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
How much does it cost to worship God? How much did it cost in the Old Testament? The answer seems to be something rather than nothing--it's not free--yet the precise cost might depend on various vagaries of weather and international trade. In short, the market solves, and God expected Israel to participate in it.
This Episode Features: Sacrifice Means Killing Something; How Much For The Bull (China Shop Not Included)?; Lent And Fasting; Chocolate For Brownie Points; Greg The Potential Cattle Rustler; Cruel Tricks To Play On Your Children; Frankincense; Naturalism And Dominion; I, Pencil; and God Nowhere Demands Wildflowers.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3t8UDkN-htz-57
Links:
Isaiah 58: https://www.esv.org/Isaiah+58
"I, Pencil" - Leonard E. Read: https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/
Recos:
Getting Married and Having Children
The Heliand - tr. G. Ronald Murphy: https://amzn.to/3raibDZ
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Now that we've covered the practices of the different Old Testament sacrifices, we're going to dive deeper into the function of the sacrifices, and the specific ways in which they testify to the perfect sacrifice of Christ.
This Episode Features: The Old Testament Sacrifices In Under Three Minutes; Society, Community, And Communion; Representation; Individual And Collective Guilt (And Hornets' Nests); Puppy Dogs And Pony Noses; "Everybody Kills Hitler On Their First Trip"; Hogtying God; Still Infinity; Emergency Baptism; and A Hungry Cat.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3cajyOX-htz-56
Links:
1 Corinthians 15: https://www.esv.org/1+Corinthians+15/
American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr
"Wikihistory" - Desmond Warzel: https://www.tor.com/2011/08/31/wikihistory/comment-page-1/
"N.T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul" - Ligon Duncan: https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/nt-wright-and-new-perspective-paul/
Fighting for the Faith - Chris Rosebrough: http://www.piratechristian.com/fightingforthefaith/
Recos:
The Shortest History of Europe - John Hirst: https://amzn.to/3p3UqNw
Principium - The Arcadian Wild: https://amzn.to/2Ky7VGd
1066 And All That - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman: https://amzn.to/3bXU8E7
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
This week we're starting to look at the sacrificial system in the Old Testament: we'll look at each of the five main types of sacrifice, and consider what they communicated to the Old Testament saints, as well as what they communicate to us now in light of the New Testament.
This Episode Features: Hebrews 10; Ding! Gnosticism; Everyone Likes A Dead Animal, Right?; Levitical SparkNotes; Ritual Barbecue; Spring Cleaning; Caveats; and Legoland California.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3qol5Vx-htz-55
Links:
Hebrews 10: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+10/
Leviticus 1-7: https://www.esv.org/Leviticus+1/
Recos:
Hebrews 10: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+10/
A House for My Name - Peter Leithart: https://amzn.to/2MUXAoA
Biblical Theology - Geerhardus Vos: https://amzn.to/3bq6MeR
God in our Midst - Daniel R. Hyde: https://amzn.to/3qb2goB
Understanding Dispensationalists - Vern Poythress: https://amzn.to/3qaBwVj
Book Clubs
The Literary Life Podcast 19 in 2021 Reading Challenge: https://www.theliterary.life/19-in-2021-reading-challenge/
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
For the last couple of weeks we've been talking about the Justice system in ancient Israel; today we'll put that in the broader context of Israel's civil government. There's a lot that God doesn't tell us about the mechanics of administering the government, but there's a lot that He does tell us--and much of it emphasizes the necessity of a populace that knows God and His word.
This Episode Features: Written Law And Civil Liberties; Remedies For Oxen That Gore In The Street; G.K. Chesterton; Achan, Who Hath Stolen The Bacon; Cool Motive, Still Murder; The Bill Of Rights; Vote Harder; and An Awfully Libertarian Theocracy.
Transcript: Coming soon
Links:
Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/
The Code of Hammurabi and the Rule of Law - The Federalist Society: https://bit.ly/2Ln20E6
Repairing the Timeline - Halting Toward Zion: http://bit.ly/3brhiSY
Proofs of a Conspiracy - John Robison: https://amzn.to/3bqaAwB
Joshua 7: https://www.esv.org/Joshua+7/
2 Samuel 1: https://www.esv.org/2+Samuel+1/
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb
Panel Discussion on Christian Education - Halting Toward Zion: http://bit.ly/39pqlBw
Recos:
Reading the Bible
Studying the Bible
Prayer
Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haltingtowardzion/support
Garibaldi: "Oh, I'm an eye-for-an-eye, tooth-for-a-tooth kind of guy, Ambassador."
Delenn: "So you support a system that would leave everyone blind and toothless?"
Garibaldi: "Not everyone. Just the bad guys."
—“Passing Through Gethsemane,” Babylon 5 (1995)
This Episode Features: An Eye For An Eye; Babylon 5; When Musicians Fight; Demoted From Lounge Lizard; The Sword Is Not For Poking People; Robberbarons vs. Busybodies; Capital Punishment; and Jury Duty.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2MmVuNP-htz-53
Links:
Babylon 5 S03E04 - "Passing Through Gethsemane": https://amzn.to/3hzTzRy
Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/
Matthew 5: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+5/
Luke 18: https://www.esv.org/Luke+18/
Romans 12-13: https://www.esv.org/Romans+12/
Proverbs 20:22: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+20/
Proverbs 24: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+24/
"Piano Man" - Billy Joel: https://youtu.be/QwVjTlTdIDQ
"Would That It Were So Simple" - Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://youtu.be/G629a_3MkkI
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2Ms2FVb
God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3hCQ50O
"St. Patrick's Bad Analogies" - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/389mRDM
Recos:
Twelve Angry Men (1957): https://amzn.to/386SRbk
American Gospel: Christ Crucified (2020): https://amzn.to/3pOoahr
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand: https://amzn.to/3oamYUS
Earth's Holocaust - Nathaniel Hawthorne: https://amzn.to/388ZDgI
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Charles Dickens called the American prison system "slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain . . . immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Who decided it was merciful to lock people up alone? Today as we look at the case laws of Exodus 21 and following, we see a system geared toward making things as close to right as possible so that the victim of a crime can move on with his or her life.
This Episode Features: Penitentiaries And Psychological Torture; A Very Cordial Discussion About Covid Masks; Punk Kids Running Over Kittens; Financial Independence; and Morgan Freeman And Co-Star.
Transcript: http://bit.ly/3aIZP8m-htz-52
Links:
PBS's The Question of God: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/nineconv/index.html
American Gods - Neil Gaiman: http://amzn.to/3mTDck3
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville: http://amzn.to/3nUvMOC
American Notes for General Circulation - Charles Dickens: http://amzn.to/3mQISv1
Gallup: Americans' Mental Health Ratings Sink to New Low - Megan Brenan: http://bit.ly/2Kuxyrx
Exodus 21-23: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+21/
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo: https://amzn.to/3rxwuUs
Luke 19: https://www.esv.org/Luke+19/
My Friend Flicka (1943): https://amzn.to/3mRQNIG
Romans 8: https://www.esv.org/Romans+8/
Shawshank Redemption (1994): https://amzn.to/37QrxOp
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller: https://amzn.to/3aN8zdI
Leverage (2009-2012): https://amzn.to/2WPzbm4
Recos:
A Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): https://amzn.to/3aTfZMe
Your local, independent radio station
Fried Potatoes
Baking Sugar Cookies
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After reading some email about taxation (is it theft? Yes and no!) we dive into a discussion of the application of the law--who it's for, why we need it, and where it comes from... and how our view of prophecy, and our ideas of interpreting the Bible, influence our perspective on the law.
This Episode Features: Taxation And Tyranny; Prophecy And Law; Stealing Gnostic Thunder; The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine); 17th-Century Devotional Mysticism And Anabaptist Political Thought; and Eating One's Vegetables.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3rgXsiQ-htz-51
Links:
Romans 13: https://www.esv.org/Romans+13/
1 Samuel 8: https://www.esv.org/1+Samuel+8/
Matthew 22: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+22/
"Render Unto Caesar" - Greg Uttinger: https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/render-unto-caesar
Faith Works - John Macarthur: https://amzn.to/3apUu5x
Recos:
The Law of God is Good and Wise - Matthias Loy: https://hymnary.org/text/the_law_of_god_is_good_and_wise
The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3mDeF2m
An Eschatology of Victory - J. Marcellus Kik: https://amzn.to/3h300fO
Paradise Restored - David Chilton: https://amzn.to/2KFLDSu
Millennialism and Social Theory - Gary North: https://amzn.to/2Wx8Ade
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To celebrate our fiftieth episode, we've invited Kate Uttinger and Sam and Laura Negus (along with the usual suspects) for a roundtable on education and discipleship! Tune in for a lively discussion of parenting, teaching, the cost and the value of Christian schools, and the communion of saints.
This Episode Features: Greg and Kate Uttinger; Sam and Laura Negus; Ecumenical, Non-Parochial Schools; Don't Tell Your Parents I Said...; Classroom Discipleship; The Wild Wild West; Kate Does Not Equate Bryan To An Old Woman; Literature and Liturgy; Wanted: The Larry P. Arnn Of The Christian School; Could You Tone Down This Trinity Thing?; Perhaps Vegans Should Eat Fewer Eggs; Two Different Emilies Totally Lose It; and Writing Your Own Wedding Vows.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3qHAOjh-htz-50
Links:
The Millennium - Lorraine Boettner: https://amzn.to/3oql6XU
More Than Conquerors - William Hendriksen: https://amzn.to/349c9e7
Israel and the New Covenant - Roderick Campbell: https://amzn.to/2L5W6H1
The Book of Common Prayer: https://amzn.to/33Sgt0U
My First Hymnal - Concordia Publishing House: https://amzn.to/3qFfYkS
The Nicene Creed: https://www.ccel.org/creeds/nicene.creed.html
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons - Siegfried Engelmann, et al.: https://amzn.to/3gz5r69
Augsburg Confession: https://bookofconcord.org/augsburg-confession/
Heidelberg Catechism: http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/1.html
Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling: https://amzn.to/3gmQl3
Recos:
Indian Butter Chicken
Smart Classroom Management - Michael Linsin: https://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/
The Book of Common Prayer: https://amzn.to/33Sgt0U
Christmas Pudding
The Clown of God - Tomie de Paola: https://amzn.to/39Nv3e0
The Three Theban Plays - Sophocles: https://amzn.to/3qz86RH
Magazines
Not Cheering for Derby County Football Club
Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren: https://amzn.to/33T1bJh
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Last week we compared liberalism (what Thomas Sowell calls the Unconstrained Vision) to the Ten Commandments; today it's time to turn the same scrutiny on conservatism (the Constrained Vision). What happens when conservatism, rather than the Bible, becomes our default authority?
This Episode Features: Civil Religion; Rotten Oranges; Quacking Like A Christian; Suddenly, Scientology!; As Real As Burnt Bacon; The Apotheosis of George Washington; Honesty Is A Policy; and Everyone Is Now Most Assuredly Mad At Us.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3gkGoDK-htz-49
Links:
A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/31jQRcm
Death in the City - Francis A. Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3ouYeq6
For a Time Such as This - Jim Halsey: https://amzn.to/36Lj5zH
Total Truth - Nancy Pearcey: https://amzn.to/2VHsbqJ
Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke: https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/john-locke-two-treatises-1689
Lex Rex - Samuel Rutherford: https://www.monergism.com/lex-rex-ebook
The Constitution of the United States: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
The Apotheosis of George Washington - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington
The Children's Story - James Clavell: https://amzn.to/3lHQG1L
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: https://amzn.to/31lWbwk
Federalist 51 - James Madison: https://bit.ly/3mQ6alx
Horatius at the Bridge - Thomas Babington Macaulay: https://www.thoughtco.com/horatius-at-the-bridge-4070724
McGuffey's Readers: https://amzn.to/2JE8PR0
Recos:
In Search of the City on a Hill - Richard M. Gamble: http://bookstore.hillsdale.edu/MerchDetail?MerchID=725322
The Stormlight Archives - Brandon Sanderson: https://amzn.to/37GsyHx
Christmas Carolling in Public Buildings
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Now that we've looked at each of the Ten Commandments, let's see how political liberalism--what Thomas Sowell calls the Unconstrained Vision of human nature--measures up. If human nature is basically good or improvable, what does that mean for morality, society, and law?
This Episode Features: Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions"; Ye Shall Be As Gods; The Ongoing French Revolution; Transcendentalism; Evolution; Thomas Jefferson; Communism; and Thanksgiving.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/36ltHVJ-htz-48
Links:
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/3fRNjUv
Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt: https://amzn.to/3fKWo1c
A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/31jQRcm
Can You Name All of the 10 Commandments? - Ray Comfort: https://youtu.be/AsekMG2Kva0
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley: https://amzn.to/3lj3Z8D
An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice - William Godwin: https://amzn.to/37ebCIw
Witness - Whittaker Chambers: https://amzn.to/2VeU1KI
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3fNaQWQ
1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3fZ58Qr
Recos:
Thanksgiving
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Today we're looking at the Tenth Commandment, and the role of the heart--of strong desires, of love--in today's political landscape.
This Episode Features: Liberal and Conservative Passions; Who Died And Left You God?; St. Augustine and John Piper; Lambs And Their Lil Fluffy Knees; Mud Pies; Boromir; and Tax Revolts.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/339LL2Z-htz-47
Links:
Romans 7: https://www.esv.org/Romans+7/
The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand: https://amzn.to/3laG1gj
Unpublished Essay on the Trinity - Jonathan Edwards: https://www.ccel.org/e/edwards/trinity/trinity.html
Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3dkIy35
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - The Council of Elrond: https://youtu.be/JSxo579azeI
Recos:
Desiring God - John Piper: https://amzn.to/2UQVzKY
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams: https://amzn.to/2IEYaF0
Listening
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This week we're talking about truth, narratives (or as ordinary humans would call them, stories), and the Gospel. As Cornelius Van Til used to say, "There are no brute facts." But he wasn't denying the existence of absolute truth when he said that--he was pointing out that fact and interpretation go together.
This Episode Features: Postmodernism; Global Warming; Your Affectionate Uncle Screwtape; If You Can't Say Amen, Say Ouch; Secret Tumblr Knowledge; A Message For Brooke; and Truth And Humility.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/32Ht6eP-htz-46
Links:
The Rise of the Greeks - Michael Grant: https://amzn.to/3f3qsVx
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3mYS0hJ
The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2KcpwDb
Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen: https://amzn.to/2UtJM4M
1 John 5: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-John-Chapter-5/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams: https://amzn.to/2IEYaF0
Reading Between the Lines - Gene Edward Veith: https://amzn.to/3nndGEn
Recos:
Postmodern Times - Gene Edward Veith: https://amzn.to/36AAEkv
The Distinction between Law and Gospel
Cornbread Hamburger Skillet - Belly Full: https://bellyfull.net/cornbread-hamburger-pie/#wprm-recipe-container-25409
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"Thou Shalt Not Steal" necessitates the concept of property, so we'll be lobbing some critiques at socialism today. But because we're equal-opportunity killjoys, we'll start with the hyper-individualism of Ayn Rand and her misconceptions regarding property, and in the middle of our criticism sandwich we'll spread some delicious Biblical truth.
This Episode Features: Ayn Rand vs. John Calvin; My Boots, My Dog, And My Wife; Human So-Called Rights And Values; Republicanism And Democratic...ness; The Cattle On A Thousand Hills; Questions Of Eminent Domain; Protestants Love Socialist Reforms!; Can't Stop The Signal; and A Tower So Ivory You Can't Look At It In Direct Sunlight.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2GOEwWq-htz-45
Links:
The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand: https://amzn.to/3laG1gj
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin: https://amzn.to/3n2nwLQ
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3mYS0hJ
2 Samuel 24: https://www.esv.org/2+Samuel+24/
1 Kings 21: https://www.esv.org/1+Kings+21/
Ezekiel 46: https://www.esv.org/Ezekiel+46/
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/3eBFpOl
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2If9eZb
Ephesians 4: https://www.esv.org/Ephesians+4/
James 1: https://www.esv.org/James+1/
Recos:
Cheese Curds
My Family and Other Animals (2005): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482552/
The Black Book of Communism - Jean-Louis Panne, et al.: https://amzn.to/2GBEjFM
True Grit - Charles Portis: https://amzn.to/2I8P7M5
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Today we're talking about marriage--or rather, the ultimate reality that marriage reflects. God is not arbitrary; His commandments follow from His perfect nature, as do many patterns in creation, and especially marriage. Marriage is one of the best earthly testimonies to what the love of God actually looks like... so in society as we lose marriage, we lose real love.
This Episode Features: A Profound Mystery; Marshwiggles; Double, Double, Toil and Trouble; Toxic Feminiminimity; Pat Benatar; Coffee Snobbery; and Happily Ever After.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3jNqq4U-htz-44
Links:
Ephesians 5:32: https://www.esv.org/Ephesians+5/
The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3eaVrP9
Psalm 22: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+22/
Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - The 5th Dimension: https://youtu.be/VlrQ-bOzpkQ
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar: https://youtu.be/vo6PgC0cP4c
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: https://amzn.to/34D1IA0
Dominion - Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/2Hio0hc
The Gospel Comes with a House Key - Rosaria Butterfield: https://amzn.to/37TqC0n
Recos:
Taking Your Wife Out to Dinner
Tiramisu
Resolving Everyday Conflict - Ken Sande: https://amzn.to/3kFVIMh
Meeting with your Pastor and Elders for Counsel and Advice
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Last week we talked about life (and how we're not supposed to murder people). How are we supposed to treat non-human life? What exactly are animals, metaphysically speaking, and where do they fit in God's world? There's a lot the Bible doesn't tell us. But in this episode we'll look at a few of the things God does say about (and to) animals in His original creation... and in the new creation as well.
This Episode Features: A Christian Philosophy of Pets; Escapee Turtles; Always Look Up; What About The Penguins?; Tales Of Scamp The Dachsund; Heavenly Hunting; Talking Animal Etiquette; and Also Much Cattle.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/31EVXQn-htz-43
Links:
Genesis 1: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+1/
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/2QZPKsr
Dr Doolittle's Delusion - Stephen R. Anderson: https://amzn.to/2Ta6w9h
King Solomon's Ring - Konrad Z. Lorenz: https://amzn.to/3jl01uV
"So Long and Thanks for All the Fish" - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005): https://youtu.be/N_dUmDBfp6k
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams: https://amzn.to/3jfGPyM
"When the Music's Over" - The Doors: https://youtu.be/nOJSmXSFCWk
Calvin and Hobbes - Bill Watterson: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
Ecclesiastes 3: https://www.esv.org/Ecclesiastes+3/
Proverbs 12: https://www.esv.org/Proverbs+12/
The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2TerzYl
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3jeJBV1
Numbers 22: https://www.esv.org/Numbers+22/
Romans 8: https://www.esv.org/Romans+8/
Isaiah 11: https://www.esv.org/Isaiah+11/
Isaiah 65: https://www.esv.org/Isaiah+65/
Romans 5: https://www.esv.org/Romans+5/
"Elder Millennial: Parental Urge" (Language Warning) - Iliza Schlesinger: https://youtu.be/edytd0XRD4I
Recos:
Lessons from a Sheepdog - Phillip Keller: https://amzn.to/3kku8UL
Dominion - Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/2Hio0hc
The New Pony - A Little Golden Book: https://amzn.to/2TeFwWp
Maggy Smith: http://maggysmith.com/
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We worship the Living God. That statement distinguishes Christianity from every other religion, and also tells us something about how we are to treat our neighbors and our world. "Thou shalt not kill" is a bright line not to cross, but not just because killing is violent and nasty--but because God is who He is.
This Episode Features: Life (And The Universe, And Everything); Aliens; We Say Cult; The Duties Required In The Sixth Commandment; Decagons; and A Guest Appearance From Lucy The Attack Kitten.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3499j9f-htz-42
Links:
The Last Jedi (2017): https://amzn.to/348alCw
Babylon 5 (1993-1998): https://amzn.to/3adtST6
Star Stuff - Carl Sagan: https://youtu.be/tLPkpBN6bEI
"Dust in the Wind" - Kansas: https://youtu.be/zVokojoF_lY
St. Patrick's Bad Analogies: https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett: https://amzn.to/3o3U8pR
Institutes of Biblical Law - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/2H7z2Gc
Dominion - Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/3k8G1NF
Recos:
Paddington (2015): https://amzn.to/3o3WBR9
Decluttering
A Nail in a Sure Place - C.W. Powell, Jr.: https://amzn.to/3dzJB0C
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Why are we supposed to honor our parents? What is this fatherhood thing, anyway? We know God as Father and Son--He is the source of these concepts. We'll also discuss motherhood and the role of tradition in Christian life and Pagan myth.
This episode features: The Fifth Commandment; Where Is That Written?; Unholy Tax Evasion; Let The Reader Understand; Should Mothers Monsters Prove; The Wisdom Of Proverbs; and Indiana Jones.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/30RXiTz-htz-41
Links:
The Doctrine of God - Herman Bavinck: https://amzn.to/2GBVzLm
Mark 7: https://www.esv.org/Mark+7/
Crash Course in World History - John Green: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): Idol Swap: https://youtu.be/0gU35Tgtlmg
Deep Comedy - Peter Leithart: https://amzn.to/3jJ5NYq
2 Peter 1: https://www.esv.org/2+Peter+1/
Recos:
Missing from Action - M. Weldon Hardenbrook: https://amzn.to/2Fi4wsm
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky: https://amzn.to/36Prv9C
Why You Can Believe the Bible - Voddie Baucham: https://youtu.be/G1XJ7DeR5fc
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When God commanded Israel to "remember the Sabbath day," what were His purposes for society? We don't have a list of dos and don'ts for your Sunday, but with this episode we want to start you thinking about the patterns that the Fourth Commandment builds into our lives and our community.
This Episode Features: No Lists Of Rules For Sabbath-Keeping; Enough Of The Sarcasm; Happy Shovel Day; Liturgy In The Actual Religious Sense; Jurassic Park; and Toxic Hustle Culture.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3n67Wj3-htz-40
Links:
Groundhog Day (1993): https://amzn.to/3kNFfFE
Stargate SG-1 S04E06 - "Window of Opportunity": https://amzn.to/2HBs9wN
"Happy Days" - Pratt & McClain: https://youtu.be/9BOEb4ZN_jw
The End Is Always Near - Dan Carlin: https://amzn.to/36bAFNn
Jurassic Park (1993): https://amzn.to/2G1mqjE
Recos:
Libby App: https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/
The Whole Christ - Sinclair Ferguson: https://amzn.to/3jrNPci
Listening to Remember
Creature Comforts - Complete Series 1: https://youtu.be/YW2bSO2j6Lo
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Today we're talking about the Third Commandment: what it means to "take" the name of Yahweh, and to do so in vain. God's will for how we use His name stands in stark contrast to a magical approach to words, names, and reality in general.
This Episode Features: Magic And The Name Of God; Sassy Demons; A Chicken And Egg Problem; Power Of Attorney; Don't Mess Around With Slim; Good Vibes; and Low-Level Threats To The Universe.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3kOmn9u-htz-39
Links:
Acts 19: https://www.esv.org/Acts+19/
The Civil War as a Theological Crisis - Mark Noll: https://amzn.to/3j9kt2M
Recos:
@lin.loves.stories on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lin.loves.stories/
Jigsaw Puzzles
Shakespearience - T.E. Breitenbach: https://amzn.to/307pQYK
Good Neighbors or The Good Life (1975-1977): https://amzn.to/341kakk
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Join us for a talk about worship and tradition, as Bryan introduces us to the Regulative Principle of Worship--what it means, and what it doesn't mean. This is an area where legalism pops up on every side, as our sin nature really wants a list of rules to follow (or claim we've followed).
This Episode Features: The Regulative Principle; Skimming The Constantinopolitan Weeds; Bible Man; Traditionalism And Traditional Anti-traditionalism; The Whole Point Of Life; and The So-Called Middle Ages.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2FUFi33-htz-38
Links:
The Bibleman Adventure - Shattering the Prince of Pride: https://youtu.be/YjqoT281uRY
Recos:
Knowing Scripture - R.C. Sproul: https://amzn.to/2FCWk64
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians - Chris R. Armstrong: https://amzn.to/2Hfikol
Greb Design Co.: https://ejgreb14.myportfolio.com/about-me
Five Solas Typography: https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEahP_j3Yj/
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The Second Commandment requires, in the words of the Heidelberg Catechism, that "We are not to make an image of God in any way, nor to worship him in any other manner than he has commanded in his Word." In other words, after settling the question of authority with the First Commandment, Yahweh establishes a principle of representation--how He intends to communicate to us, and how we are to offer Him homage. Spoiler: neither is by means of images.
This Episode Features: The Second Commandment; Gaston's Literary Preferences; Hocus Pocus; Metaphysical Hyperlinks; Stargate SG-1; Esmerelda the Gypsy; Neil Postman; and Amaretto Sours.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2ZxjEcu-htz-37
Links:
Esther 3:8: https://www.esv.org/Esther+3/
Acts 17:7: https://www.esv.org/Acts+17/
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991): https://amzn.to/2UH1m6a
Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen: https://amzn.to/2ZwY9bM
1 Peter 3:15: https://www.esv.org/1+Peter+3/
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2RmRpsu
Stargate SG-1 vs Replicators: https://youtu.be/Z45Tpp9DBq4
John 14:8-14: https://www.esv.org/John+14/
John 6:66-71: https://www.esv.org/John+6/
"God Help the Outcasts" - Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame: https://youtu.be/gL0bcYXhFH4
Grandmother and the Priests - Taylor Caldwell: https://amzn.to/3isc8a1
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/2BFaHET
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury: https://amzn.to/2YD6hHv
1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3fZ58Qr
Recos:
Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman: https://amzn.to/2ZxKTTZ
Christianity and Liberalism - J. Gresham Machen: https://amzn.to/2ZwY9bM
"Healthy Snacks" - PEABOD: https://amzn.to/35vF7WY
Emily's Amaretto Sour Recipe
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In this episode we continue our discussion on the First Commandment and culture. Do Christian books have to be about missionaries? Do Christian shoes have to be tied with Christian shoelaces? We don't think so. But the Bible does shape our culture--the things we make--as we grow in conformity to the image of God's Son.
This Episode Features: Groups Of People Making Stuff; Pswaydoh Dragons; Christian Romance Novels; Smushed-Out Church; Progressive Sanctification; Something Stupid About The Puritan Work Ethic; and Our Favorite Bible Stories In The Most Boring Way Possible.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3h65XHg-htz-36
Links:
Micah 4: https://www.esv.org/Micah+4/
Heidelberg Catechism: http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/33.html
Rabbitson Crusoe (1956): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049650/
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/2QZPKsr
The City of God - Augustine: https://amzn.to/37JCaBc
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber: https://amzn.to/3ibLUIY
Secondhand Lions (2003): https://amzn.to/35bbMAR
Recos:
"The First Commandment" - Sermon by Paul Liberati: https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/scrc/sermons/82420211291715/
Thriftbooks.com
"The 10 Commandments" - Judy Rodgers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX8I7nNZNYE
Local Church Book Sales
Calvin & Hobbes - Bill Watterson: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
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In approaching the topic of the First Commandment, we come to--surprise! The gospel, because God's plan was always to conform us to the image of His Son. Every human action is religious, because the very existence of humanity is for the sake of covenant with God. So if we are in Christ, everything we make and do is holy and acceptable to God for His sake. That applies to philosophy and art, as well as to our daily vocations, relationships, even hobbies.
This Episode Features: The First Commandment and the Cultural Mandate; While Poseidon's Away The Greeks Will Play; Bacon Grease; Spoon Collecting; The Great British Bake Off; Learning Obedience; Heidelberg Snark; and Bach's Toccatas.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2QCDrlT-htz-35
Links:
How Should We Then Live? - Francis A. Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/2YmOuUf
The Whole Christ - Sinclair Ferguson: https://amzn.to/3jrNPci
Hamilton on Disney Plus: https://bit.ly/2QDtGUw
The Great British Baking Show (2010-): https://amzn.to/34KBYSP
Heidelberg Catechism: http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/1.html
Time Bandits (1981): https://amzn.to/2QF0g8c
Recos:
The Calvinistic Concept of Culture - Henry Van Til: https://amzn.to/31HjqAZ
Hiking
Audiobooks
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What's better than perfect justice? Swift, reliable justice--at least, that's the case we make in this discussion of the appellate court system that Jethro recommended to Moses in Exodus 18, with God's blessing. Going to court these days is notorious for sapping time and energy from everyone involved... surely there's a better system.
This Episode Features: Justice Systems And The Nature Of Man; Going Splat; Thanks, I Hate It; Presbyterian Forms Of Government; Political Hot Potatoes; You Want The Whales To Die; In The Name Of Love, What More In The Name Of Love; and Alfred the Great.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2YpC6Tu-htz-34
Links:
Exodus 18: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+18/
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie: https://amzn.to/31kIEF9
1 Kings 3: https://www.esv.org/1+Kings+3/
The Constitution of the United States of America: https://bit.ly/2Yo3UHY
The Bill of Rights: https://bit.ly/2YsrL9v
A Crime A Day on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrimeADay
Recos:
Mixology
Physical Exercise
The White Horse King - Benjamin Merkle: https://amzn.to/2Qgfe4z
The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/3aURIDF
A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/31jQRcm
How Should We Then Live? - Francis A. Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/2YmOuUf
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This week we're talking about the Song of Moses--both as hymn to God and as a national anthem... of sorts.
This Episode Features: The Song of Moses and National Anthems; Almost Heaven, West Virginia; Praise Choruses and Imprecatory Psalms; Running Away; Those Cheating Gibeonites; Stealing Bryan's Antiphonal Thunder; #Unhitch; and The Punisher.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3aCP1X3-htz-33
Links:
Country Roads - John Denver: https://youtu.be/1vrEljMfXYo
Exodus 15: https://www.esv.org/Exodus+15/
Biblical Theology - Geerhardus Vos: https://amzn.to/3fr7SG1
Revelation 15: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+15/
The Blacklist (2013-): https://amzn.to/3fZoxQQ
Bryan's Mystery Quote: Email us to identify!
God Save the Queen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_Queen
The Star-Spangled Banner Full Lyrics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
La Marseillaise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise
Lord, With Glowing Heart I'd Praise Thee - Francis Scott Key: https://hymnary.org/text/lord_with_glowing_heart_id_praise_thee
America the Beautiful - Katharine Lee Bates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
This Land is Your Land - Woody Guthrie: https://youtu.be/wxiMrvDbq3s
My Country, 'Tis of Thee - Samuel Francis Smith: https://hymnary.org/text/my_country_tis_of_thee_sweet_lan
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon: https://amzn.to/2YcbVQd
Recos:
Behold the Lamb of God - Andrew Peterson: https://bit.ly/2Yb3KDF
Redeeming Mathematics - Vern Poythress: https://amzn.to/321vKuD
Atheist Delusions - David Bentley Hart: https://amzn.to/3h6FcmU
The Holy Bible: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+1/
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Who are you? And whom do you serve? If these two questions aren't exactly the same, they're at least very closely related, as we see from the account of the Exodus. When God called Israel out of Egypt, He gave them a new identity--new answers to these questions, and new demonstrations of their answers. Join us this week for a discussion of the Passover.
This Episode Features: The Passed-Over Identity; Month Zero; Whose Leaven Is It Anyway?; Read The New Testament Please; Oh. No.; Go Ask The Pastor; Thanksgiving Lambs; I'm So Glad You Asked; The Lord Of The Rings And Babylon 5; Emily Does Laundry; Cousin Johnny;
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3g9VtGc-htz-32
Links:
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3bDwNUO
Democracy in America - Alexis de Toqueville: https://amzn.to/3gJ2tuJ
So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt - Keith Green: https://youtu.be/5BQkBdRWxrs
Recos:
Home-Grown Green Onions
Babylon 5 (1993-1998): https://amzn.to/3adtST6
Spirit & Truth (2019): https://bit.ly/3iu7MyV
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If you've ever read the books of Chronicles in the Old Testament, you may have wondered, "Are these nine chapters of genealogy really necessary?" The short answer is, yes, they are. God put the boring bits in the Bible on purpose. He cares about keeping track of the years and dates; chronology, the precise ordering of events, is necessary to history--necessary to finding meaning in a sequence of events. In today's episode we take a look at the French Revolution and the Cambodian Genocide as attempts at human autonomy over history.
This Episode Features: The French Revolution, The Cambodian Genocide, And The Most Boring Book In The Bible; That's What Gods Do; The Year Five Million; People Are Indeed That Picky; Shakespeare Throws A Wrench; Fencing, Fighting, Torture, Revenge...; Square Roots Are Like The Berlin Wall; and Bakersfield Country.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/39X1Hb3-htz-31
Links:
1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3fZ58Qr
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/2BFaHET
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3bDwNUO
The Mandalorian (2019-): https://bit.ly/2PqJfhG
Galaxy Quest (1999): https://amzn.to/33trIh0
A Theological Interpretation of American History - Gregg Singer: https://amzn.to/3gvk6hw
1066 And All That - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman: https://amzn.to/3gxchIc
The Wheel on the School - Meindert DeJong: https://amzn.to/31h4b0c
Narrative Trauma and Civil War History Painting, or Why Are These Pictures so Terrible? - Steven Conn: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3590666?seq=1
Recos:
Paul Revere: Boston Patriot - Augusta Stevenson: https://amzn.to/31jHfx5
Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman - Ellen Wilson: https://amzn.to/3kezFMP
Anything Can Happen - George Papashvily and Helen Waite Papashvily: https://amzn.to/39Yz50Y
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After sharing our favorite first lines of books, we return to Egyptology and the problem of chronology. In the ancient world, the task of history as we understand it today was rarely undertaken--the glory of the regime was more important than accurate records of events. With the few archeological records we have, it's quite a puzzle to piece together a timeline of ancient Egypt... if you overlook the records of Moses, that is.
This Episode Features: Famous First Words; Our Boi Augustine; A Renowned Actor-Historian; A High-Quality Girl; Thanks Tolkien; Good Barthianism; He Says In Words; and Bryan Looks Pensive.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/30ujQty-htz-30
Links:
1 Corinthians 15: https://www.esv.org/1+Corinthians+15/
Ages in Chaos - Immanuel Velikovsky: https://amzn.to/2CQ4430
The Exodus Problem - Donovan Courville: https://amzn.to/3ho2NiI
Centuries of Darkness - Peter James: https://amzn.to/3fOLmrb
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/2BFaHET
Recos:
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3b93aLQ
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee: https://amzn.to/2ZMopPz
The City of God - Augustine: https://amzn.to/37JCaBc
Rubicon - Tom Holland: https://amzn.to/30AHHqz
Hardcore History - Dan Carlin: https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte: https://amzn.to/3igdxku
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3hqSBGd
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To wrap up our discussion of the life of Moses, we talk today about the Exodus as co-opted by Liberation Theology, and as a true historical even by which God accomplished His purposes--both bringing about and foreshadowing the coming of Jesus Christ.
This Episode Features: Garlic and Onions; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (and also Death); Why Do The Mormons Have All The Good Sci-fi; Stars Of The Muppet Show; and Dweeby Movie Writers.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3jinuhH-htz-29
Links:
A House For My Name - Peter Leithart: https://amzn.to/2WyRdJm
So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt - Keith Green: https://youtu.be/5BQkBdRWxrs
Recos:
Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy: https://youtu.be/-6HOdHEeosc
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain: https://bit.ly/32B1l8A
The Philosopher of Antifa - Dinesh D'Souza: https://bit.ly/3eIR5NY
Politics and the English Language - George Orwell: https://bit.ly/3jeMQNz
A Simple Twist of Fate (1994) - https://amzn.to/2ZJAXat
Holes (2003) - https://amzn.to/2CqUPq0
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In Part 2 of our series on the life of Moses, we look at the showdown between God and the Egyptian magicians (together with the gods they serve). Not only does Yahweh utterly overpower the Egyptians, but each of the miracles He works also confirms His promises to those who believe, and reminds us how He governs the world at every moment.
This Episode Features: We Don't Need No Stinking Frogs; Houdini Was That Good; Accidentally Accelerating Light Particles; Remnants Of The Planet Krypton; People Are Highly Stabbable; St. Augustine Throws Shade; and #AuditTheFED.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3i28uD8-htz-28
Links:
Orthodoxy, Ch. 4 - G.K. Chesterton: http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/orthodoxy/ch4.html
Heidelberg Catechism Questions 27-28: http://www.heidelberg-catechism.com/en/lords-days/10.html
Jeremiah 14:22: https://www.esv.org/Jeremiah+14/
Psalm 104: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+104/
The City of God - Augustine: https://amzn.to/37JCaBc
Recos:
Handwriting
Systematic Theology - Louis Berkhof: https://amzn.to/2ZltxtR
Betsy-Tacy - Maud Hart Lovelace: https://amzn.to/2C6JJpY
The Practical Reality of Loving Our Neighbor - Dr. Frank Walker:
A Tale of Two Gospels - Dr. Frank Walker: sermonaudio.com/sermon/6142022922912
A Question of Identity - Dr. Frank Walker: sermonaudio.com/sermon/62120193602201
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If you had four years to teach your son everything he needed to know, where would you begin? That was the question Jochebed, the mother of Moses, had to answer when she was hired on as nursemaid by the pharaoh's daughter. Join us as we discuss Christian education, how our own parents brought us up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and how unbelievably smart kids are.
This Episode Features: A Pretty Princess; Crazy Random Happenstance; Fond Days With Saxon Math; Our Parents' Stories; The Pledge Of Allegiance; Inspired Veggie Tales and Moralistic Floating Somethings; and Pray For Your Kids.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/31Mi08B-htz-27
Links:
The Prince of Egypt (1998): https://amzn.to/3e3LbXl
The Ten Commandments (1956): https://amzn.to/38wlgX5
The Children's Story - James Clavell: https://bit.ly/2C7j504
Recos:
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3e6o2mR
Libib App: https://www.libib.com/apps
Peace Child - Don Richardson: https://amzn.to/2NYNhgp
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In this episode we bring together a few topics we've covered before--Ziggurats, Power Religion, and Egyptian beliefs--as we consider the great pyramids. It's still a mystery how exactly the pyramids were built, but we're busy with a different question: Why?
This Episode Features: Moderately Intentional Puns; A Man In Black (Not); Because It's There; The Winchester Mystery House; Follow The Money; Spoiled Magician Shows; and Okay, Javert.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3eFC3ZV-htz-26
Links:
Chariots of the Gods - Erich von Daniken: https://amzn.to/3i54IcV
Wally T. Wallington's Backyard Stonehenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs
The Riddle of the Pyramids - Kurt Mendelssohn: https://amzn.to/385JreT
1984 - George Orwell: https://amzn.to/3fZ58Qr
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury: https://amzn.to/2YD6hHv
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley: https://amzn.to/2BFaHET
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/382QkgK
Recos:
Moses and Pharaoh - Gary North: https://amzn.to/3g6Kk9L
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: https://amzn.to/31lWbwk
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte: https://amzn.to/3igdxku
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Today we're investigating the Ancient Egyptian understanding of burial magic and resurrection. (Spoilers: it's pretty messed up.) We also take the opportunity to talk about Christian burial and the true resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This Episode Features: There's A Myth For That; How To Grant Immortality; True Crocodile Facts; Return To Cream Of Wheat; Telegrams Jesus Never Sent; and Smoking Cures Salmon.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2NBsuQ4-htz-25
Links:
Horus Ruins Christmas: https://youtu.be/s0-EgjUhRqA
In The Beginning - Halting Toward Zion Ep. 2: https://bit.ly/2BujUzq
The City of God - Augustine: https://amzn.to/37JCaBc
A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift: https://amzn.to/314qrM6
Making Your Own Coffin - Art of Manliness Podcast: https://bit.ly/37K5A24
Living Life Backward - David Gibson: https://amzn.to/2zPrrZr
Recos:
Smoking Meat in the Style of Southern Barbecue
The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3dkIy35
Books With Burt - A Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Ncrp0G
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In this episode, we get to know Isaac as the beloved, sacrificed son of Father Abraham, as well as in his role as the father of Jacob and Esau... and if you know Jacob and Esau as the Mama's Boy and the Man's Man, you may want to take another look at the text.
This Episode Features: And Robin; Cousin It; Hebrew Verbs That Aren't There; How To Impress A Shepherdess; That Red Red Stuff; No One Hunts Like Esau, No One Punts Like Esau, No One Sells His Birthright Like A Dunce Like Esau; and Russian Novels and Belgian Comics.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2Y00LhT-htz-24
Links:
Biblical Theology - Geerhardus Vos: https://amzn.to/3fr7SG1
A Conflict for the Ages - Preaching Christ, a Reformed Forum Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2MVkxon
The Adventures of Adam Raccoon - Glen Keane: https://amzn.to/3hpRY0m
Recos:
Disney's Beauty and the Beast: https://amzn.to/2UH1m6a
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky: https://amzn.to/3cYUx6e
Asterix the Gaul - Uderzo and Goscinny: https://amzn.to/2UFiOb9
The Adventures of Tintin - Herge: https://amzn.to/3e3F4mK
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Today we’re talking about Abraham, Isaac, Kierkegaard, Resurrection, and the nature of faith. What exactly did Abraham think he was up to when he followed God’s commands to sacrifice his son?
This Episode Features: Unsatisfactory SparkNotes; Ancient Greek Ballistic Gel; Hebrews Hint Hints and Nudge Nudges; Probably Apocryphal Stories; and Bardic Inspiration.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2Y6UeRo-htz-23
Links
Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard: https://amzn.to/3csl37t
Wikipedia: Regine Olsen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regine_Olsen
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything: https://youtu.be/aboZctrHfK8
He Is There and He Is Not Silent - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/2MrMNP6
Westminster Confession of Faith: https://opc.org/wcf.html
The Conversion of Children - Charles Finney: https://www.gospeltruth.net/1849-51Penny_Pulpit/501216pp_conversion_of_chi.htm
Recos
The Francis Schaeffer Trilogy: https://amzn.to/3eJHTJq
Apologetics - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/3dysg7E
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman: https://amzn.to/2z3kZh2
Popcorn Parenting on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0dekadkyf8jsyOGYvIdDLR
Popcorn Parenting on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popcorn-parenting/id1506764123
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This week we begin to ask, “How should a Christian relate to his society? How does Christianity advance within society?” There are essentially three answers, and two of them are wrong.
This Episode Features: Our Favorite and Least Favorite Star Wars Movies; And Put On Pants; Missionary Tourism; Rod Dreher Is, In Fact, Roman Catholic; General Cincinnatus; Level 15 In Dream Interpretation; and Discern-O-Goggles.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2XlW4gI-htz-22
Links
Bleak House - Charles Dickens: https://amzn.to/36zciHL
When Helping Hurts - Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert: https://amzn.to/3gdnnT2
The Late Great Planet Earth - Hal Lindsey: https://amzn.to/3eeJ0kf
The Benedict Option - Rod Dreher: https://amzn.to/3g7WbVI
The Magician’s Nephew - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3gcQLsB
Lead On, O King Eternal - Ernest W. Shurtleff: https://hymnary.org/text/lead_on_o_king_eternal_the_day_of_march
Recos
Cast Iron Pans
Greg’s Asparagus Recipe
Redeeming Productivity - How I Use the Bullet Journal: https://www.redeemingproductivity.com/how-i-use-the-bullet-journal-method-to-steward-my-attention/
The Bullet Journal Method - Ryder Carroll: https://amzn.to/2Xorh2O
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As we continue in the account of Abraham’s life, we come to the topic of hospitality--its cost, its importance, and its purposes.
This Episode Features: Proto-Indiana Jones; Spiritual Cookies and Phantom Chicken; Bad Wine Tastes of Bitter Death; Emily Is Female; Fancy Food and Fancy Dishes; and a Title Drop.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2yrRjty-htz-21
Links
Genesis 18-19: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+18/
Genesis 15: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+15/
Living Life Backward - David Gibson: https://amzn.to/2WH5fJD
Luke 14: https://www.esv.org/Luke+14/
The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/2XcimBq
Matthew 25: https://www.esv.org/Matthew+25/
Recos
The Luck of Nineveh - Arnold C. Brackman: https://amzn.to/3dTXW79
The Gospel Comes with a House Key - Rosaria Butterfield: https://amzn.to/2AFM7TM
This Is Bruce Cockburn - A Playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO2BLdwO?si=optuSH9gQq6ITpQInZyEDQ
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Today we dig into the nature and role of oaths in covenant life. Scripture often uses the word “oath” to summarize the whole of a covenant, but we may not encounter many oaths these days. In our conversation, we try to recover some sense of an oath’s meaning and gravity, as well as what an oath that God Himself took means for our faith and life today.
This Episode Features: Wedding Rings; Awkward Things To Teach To Children; Newsflash--Sinners; A Disclaimer From Halting Toward Zion; Revered Physicist Jonathan Edwards; and Pot Gardens.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3dY1W6H-htz-20
Links
Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution - Stephen Knight: https://amzn.to/2WEB4CM
Jeremiah 34: https://www.esv.org/Jeremiah+34/
Genesis 15: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+15/
Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow Arrives in Port Royal: https://youtu.be/LkWQvzrv6gI
Recos
Christ of the Covenants - O. Palmer Robertson: https://amzn.to/3bz6j6w
Giving Glory to the Consubstantial Trinity - Michael A.G. Haykin: https://amzn.to/3bJjhi2
Gardening
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In this episode, we talk about Abraham’s hope and expectation for “a city, whose builder and maker is God.” There’s a lot that makes up a city, including shared laws and language, a variety of skills and resources, and community. While Abraham looked forward to the heavenly city and eternal fellowship with God, he also started building that city, after an earthly fashion, in his own life.
This Episode Features: Childhood Bible Class Dos and Don’ts; Lotsa Splainin; All Men Are Created Equal In One Very Specific Sense And Not Many Others; Sleight of Hand; Flour-less Cake and Taco Tuesday; and Bryan Likes Bread.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2Wreooe-htz-19
Links
Hebrews 11: https://www.esv.org/Hebrews+11/
A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L’Engle: https://amzn.to/2ygcTBn
The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2zMniox
Romans 12: https://www.esv.org/Romans+12/
We Are the World - U.S.A. For Africa: https://youtu.be/9AjkUyX0rVw
Recos
The Gospel According to Revelation - Greg Uttinger: https://amzn.to/3b1z1fZ
Capitalism
Small Business
Valiant Coffee: https://www.valiantcoffee.com/
Stroopwafel
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This episode kicks off our discussion of Abraham, as we dig in to the “blessing” that God promised to him. In the ancient world, being friends with the gods didn’t factor into religion: the gods were scary. But Abraham was called the Friend of God, on account of the righteousness credited to him through faith. In Galatians, Paul explains the meaning of this friendship for us in salvation.
This Episode Features: You Can Be The Henchman; Sassy Saint Theresa; Glawspel; Dear Listener; Cyberspace is for Eternity; Poppycock; In Other Words, You’re Crazy; and Well, That Exists.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3aWaau5-htz-18
Links
Our Town - Thornton Wilder: https://amzn.to/3ffCHOo
Disney’s Coco: https://amzn.to/3d8wbXX
The Epic of Gilgamesh: https://amzn.to/2zSQNoX
American Gods - Neil Gaiman: https://amzn.to/2KVxxct
Galatians 3: https://www.esv.org/Galatians+3/
The Weight of Glory - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2zMniox
Romans 8: https://www.esv.org/Romans+8/
1 Corinthians 7: https://www.esv.org/1+Corinthians+7/
The Creedal Imperative - Carl Trueman: https://amzn.to/2WhlU4Y
Federal Vision Baptists? - Brandon Adams: https://contrast2.wordpress.com/2019/12/03/federal-vision-baptists/
American Gospel: Christ Alone: https://amzn.to/2z11k0M
Be Strong In The Lord - Rev. Kevin Van Der Linden: https://reformationopc.org/sermons/be-strong-in-the-lord-2/
Recos
American Gospel: Christ Alone: https://amzn.to/2z11k0M
American Gospel: Christ Crucified: https://amzn.to/2yofZmC
Five Tomes Against Nestorius - Cyril of Alexandria: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/cyril_against_nestorius_01_book1.htm
German Covers English Songs on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7e8F2wXqhKkOXWT1F0fMWV
Finish - John Acuff: https://amzn.to/2WCNVnX
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Today we take another look at mythology, and the ways in which stories either reflect or distort the truths of the Gospel. We also look at some tendencies of ancient religion that still persist today, in politics and self-deification.
This Episode Features: No, Forget That, We Need Something Less Dramatic and Awesome; Babylon U; Greg Does Not Recommend Two Books; Habeas Corpus Schmabeas Corpus; Y’Are Not; Public Domain of Things; and Hug A Healthcare Provider (From A Distance).
Transcript: https://bit.ly/2VZ7w1c-htz-17
Links
The Seven Basic Plots - Christopher Booker: https://amzn.to/354zsF4
The Two Babylons - Alexander Hislop: https://amzn.to/2VX4Ilf
The Worship of the Dead - James Garnier: https://amzn.to/2S78Fm0
The Golden Bough - James Frazer: https://amzn.to/2VIkx0l
Horus Ruins Christmas - Lutheran Satire: https://youtu.be/s0-EgjUhRqA
Recos
Mythopoeia - J.R.R. Tolkien: http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan/mythopoeia.html
Lord of the Elves and Eldils - Richard Purtill: https://amzn.to/2KxaqoC
Fountain Pens: Lamy Safari - https://amzn.to/2KxaQvc
Human Interaction
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In this episode, we look at different instances of the sin of racism, inside and outside the church, and at the best remedy for racism: the Bible. The history presented in the Bible speaks of one humanity, divided into many nations--and “nation” is a covenantal concept.
This Episode Features: Theological Creativity Is Not a Good Thing; C.S. Lewis Jokes; We Offend Old-School Presbyterians; America At Its Hypothetical Best; French Typesetting; Because of The Reason; Music We Don’t Like Can Still Be Good; and Speaking of Segues...
Transcript: https://bit.ly/3aAgjvB-htz-16
Recos
A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park: https://amzn.to/34NHF0j
Living Life Backward - David Gibson: https://amzn.to/3eAK2b1
One Race One Blood - Ken Ham, A. Charles Ware: https://amzn.to/2xugtYd
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Throughout the ancient world, we see pagans building artificial mountains--pyramids and ziggurats--for magic rituals and demonstrations of power. Genesis tells us about one such attempt, in the plain of Shinar. At Babel, sinful man attempted to build his own city and his own mountain, as an assertion of his own godhood. How did Yahweh, the true God, respond? He thought it was hilarious. In this episode, we discuss the impulses behind Babel, trace them through history, and compare their ends and means to the City of God.
This Episode Features: My Heart Is Melting like Glowy Butter; A Concise Diplomatic History of the United Nations; God Is Not Your Dungeon Master; Faeries and Photons; Pentecost Spoilers; Raccoons Were a Big Deal™; and War Is a Touchy Thing.
Links
Wikipedia: Robert Koldewey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koldewey
On the Incarnation - St. Athanasius: https://amzn.to/3eghTpy
Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3efqBo8
Won’t Get Fooled Again - The Who: https://youtu.be/SHhrZgojY1Q
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2VmZgHP
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3cbAX6w
Romans 1: https://www.esv.org/Romans+1/
Relatable: The Dangers of the New Age - Allie Beth Stuckey: https://youtu.be/PMnGe2WixXQ
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: https://amzn.to/2VmxTOb
Disney’s Aladdin: “Phenomenal Cosmic Power, Itty Bitty Living Space”: https://youtu.be/SfTfXLLJlzM
Recos
The Creedal Imperative - Carl Trueman: https://amzn.to/3c8kpwj
Foundations of Social Order - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/2JWMZ7Z
Witness - Whittaker Chambers: https://amzn.to/2Vmzaor
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If you were a modern-day Noah, what books would you bring on the ark with you? We spend this episode exploring our answers to that question, but send us an email and let us know your choices!
This Episode Features: Leveling Up in Animal Handling; Just So Many Books; and Elect-o-goggles, New from Whamco!
Links
Genesis 6: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+6/
The Dangerous Book for Boys - Conn and Hal Iggulden: https://amzn.to/39zm24k
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle: https://amzn.to/2UUrvxD
Star Trek: A Piece of the Action: https://amzn.to/2R23TG1
Inferno - Dante Alighieri (tr. Anthony Esolen): https://amzn.to/39kSN5h
Romans 1-2: https://www.esv.org/Romans+1;Romans+2/
City of God - Augustine: https://amzn.to/2xzXZ8e
Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin (tr. Henry Beveridge): https://amzn.to/3ayzw1M
The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey: https://amzn.to/2xyM3Ud
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien: https://amzn.to/3bDwNUO
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2JvnslO
Taliesin - Stephen R. Lawhead: https://amzn.to/2QZ71m8
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/39w5oCL
The Great Tradition - ed. Richard Gamble: https://amzn.to/3bzIbku
A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander: https://amzn.to/2xCgPf2
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2xA0szw
The Aeneid - Virgil (tr. Robert Fagles): https://amzn.to/2R1jVjn
The Comedy - Dante Alighieri: https://amzn.to/340afuN
Complete Works - William Shakespeare: https://amzn.to/3azHqYv
The Conquest of Gaul - Julius Caesar: https://amzn.to/3azsdH9
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli: https://amzn.to/2w2038w
The Book of the Courtier - Baldesar Castiglione: https://amzn.to/3ayl89J
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: https://amzn.to/3aJwiZv
The Westminster Confession of Faith: https://amzn.to/3dFtFto
The Book of Common Prayer: https://amzn.to/2R3mbXA
Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan: https://amzn.to/2R0pT4i
Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant: https://amzn.to/2xBEigf
Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith: https://amzn.to/2vZydtw
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2xHnCnq
The God Who is There - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3bGVbVK
How Should We Then Live? - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3dJ5ASm
Recos
Jojo Rabbit: https://amzn.to/2UxBXMo
The Houseplant Song - Audio Adrenaline: https://youtu.be/6z37stZQ-8k
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After supplementing our previous discussions of ooparts and self-atonement, in this episode we begin analyzing something so horrible and devastating that we draw it in cartoons and use it to decorate children’s nurseries: Noah’s Flood.
This Episode Features: The Only Trustworthy News Source; Time Travel; Bread Is Malicious (And Sneaky); Corn Flakes, Graham Crackers, and Grape Juice; the Giraffes are Here to View the Tapestries; Papa Kent’s Moral Compass; Emily Becomes Agitated; and a Phenomenal Little Tome.
Links
The Babylon Bee: https://babylonbee.com/
The Antikythera Mechanism - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Romans Mastered Nanotechnology and Used it for Eye Catching Decoration - Ancient Origins: https://bit.ly/3cOjr8U-htz-13-1
The Lycurgus Cup - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycurgus_Cup
Wally Wallington’s Backyard Stonehenge: https://youtu.be/-K7q20VzwVs
Eating to Be Clean - Verily Magazine: https://verilymag.com/2020/03/orthorexia-diet-eating-health-food-anxiety-2020
Doorbells - Bill Bailey: https://youtu.be/SFQ_s87acFg?t=72
West Side Story: “Maria”: https://youtu.be/Jy2VGRDxSvU
American Pie - Don McLean: https://youtu.be/iX_TFkut1PM
Genesis 7: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+7/
2 Peter 3: https://www.esv.org/2+Peter+3/
Principles of Geology - Charles Lyell: https://amzn.to/3ay8Xdb
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989): “Here to view the tapestries”: https://youtu.be/z14uhNXcx-s
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2R3LQ2r
Inferno - Dante Alighieri (tr. Anthony Esolen): https://amzn.to/39kSN5h
Recos
The Doctrine of God - Herman Bavinck: https://amzn.to/2xnyOWl
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the 1960’s - Jonathan Leaf: https://amzn.to/2JhvsH1
The Art of Manliness Website and Podcast
The Pendragon Cycle (Kindle Edition) - Stephen Lawhead: https://amzn.to/2wF8d7c
The Masculine Mandate - Richard D. Phillips: https://amzn.to/2QNKatD
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Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/3541DUw-htz-12
What does your faith do to your understanding of society? Is progress possible? In this episode we begin to scratch the surface of these questions, and discuss how Christian, apostate, and outright pagan cultures have approached sociology in general and dominion in particular.
This Episode Features: Blame it on the Angels; Quote Rescue Unquote; Satanic Fanfiction; the Age of Aquarius; Chicken Sandwich Heresy; Anglican Pets are Better than Yours; Welcome to Buddhism in Central Asia.
Links
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell: https://amzn.to/38CEmtb
Genesis 4: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+4/
Peace Child - Don Richardson: https://amzn.to/3atxgZc
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Carl L. Becker: https://amzn.to/2RRfAk4
Communist Eschatology - Francis Nigel Lee: https://amzn.to/2PVleQs
Marx's Religion of Revolution - Gary North: https://amzn.to/3cD3SS5
The Road to Shambala - Three Dog Night: https://amzn.to/2TSlGAi
Recos
Millennialism and Social Theory - Gary North: https://amzn.to/39ycFmu
Nashville Hot Chicken
Counting Stars - Andrew Peterson: https://amzn.to/2PQsVr9
Red Shambala - Andrei Znamenski: https://amzn.to/2VVxrbt
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Good and evil are inescapable categories for human thought and action, yet Christianity alone deals in these categories in its underlying philosophies. Everywhere we turn, we see this question: how can we be clean? If we don’t have Jesus’ life and death in our place, we try to figure out some way on our own… yet in our sins we continue to defy God and harm our neighbors and even ourselves, and we know something’s still wrong. In this episode we discuss some of the popular ways to mitigate the feelings that stem from the legal reality of our guilt--and why they all fail.
This Episode Features: Emily Learns New Words; Ancient Greek Playground Bullies; Money Doesn’t Matter (Especially If Your Friends Give You Lots of It); Just Following Orders; Sin Is Abusive; Soap Commercials; Japanese Storage Units; Cain and Abel’s Family Values; Great Book, but Boring; and Moralistic Nonsense.
Links
Ghostbusters (1984): “Don’t Cross the Streams”: https://youtu.be/wyKQe_i9yyo
The Oresteia - Aeschylus: https://amzn.to/2I6TrZ1
Shooter (2007): https://amzn.to/32Bf1hE
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946): https://amzn.to/2Vwuf5Z
Hail, Caesar! (2016): https://amzn.to/2vj1ejP
Genesis 3: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/
The Quest for Holiness - Adolf Koeberle: https://amzn.to/3agUYYt
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: https://amzn.to/3adEdNR
Man of La Mancha (1972): https://amzn.to/39cacxU
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes: https://amzn.to/2T9iQaE
Wikipedia: Francis Bellamy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
Recos
The Gulag Archipelago - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: https://amzn.to/2T9ZySv
Postwar - Tony Judt: https://amzn.to/396PSOl
Little Women (2019): https://amzn.to/385SXwM
The Ancient City - Fustel de Coulanges: https://amzn.to/2IaMuWE
The Secular City - Harvey Cox: https://amzn.to/2wiuBT8
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Today we’re talking about the nature of knowledge: what do we know, and how can we know that we know it? When people talk about this question, it’s impossible to leave our religious--or anti-religious--convictions at the door. Because God personally defines reality, our attitude toward Him colors our relationship to absolutely everything else, including evidence and rationality. But trusting God makes a lot of the world make a lot more sense, and we don’t have to know everything in order to understand what God says to us, and to communicate with one another.
This Episode Features: Emily’s Favorite Nobel-Prize-Winning Poet; My New Friend Satan; Everything is Dangerous; Corporate Needs You to Find the Difference between Paganism and Phariseeism; Matrix! Rainbows! Dreams!; Little Wooden Shoes; So What You’re Saying Is…; Hindus Don’t Count (ba-dm-tsh); Pour-Over Coffee; and Everyone Grew Up On British Sitcoms.
Links
Genesis 3: https://www.esv.org/Genesis+3/
Slow Train Coming - Bob Dylan: https://amzn.to/2HxmLHL
The Matrix (1999): https://amzn.to/2vCXr0u
The God Who Is There - Francis Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/320RPcg
Christian Apologetics - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/321eaXr
The Defense of the Faith - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/38znF2k
Why I Believe In God - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/2Ht910R
God in the Dock - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2UZ1dM1
Reco's
The Arcadian Wild: https://amzn.to/3bNJ1ee
Before Philosophy - Henri Frankfort, et al.: https://amzn.to/322MpgT
Cooper and Cary Have Words: https://www.cooperandcary.com/
A Whole New World: The Gospel According to Revelation - Greg Uttinger: https://amzn.to/38BtzQF
The Problem with Christian Music: https://youtu.be/AE4_dHW0nWk
Why Christian Movies are Bad: https://youtu.be/50_3J6Go5Ng
Halting Toward Zion on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haltingtowardzion
Emily Maxson on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/emilymaxson
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When God first made Adam and Eve, He told them to “be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” After accomplishing our redemption, Jesus told the church to “make disciples of all nations.” In this episode, we discuss the relationship--in fact, the continuity--between these two commands. God’s purposes were not thwarted when the serpent persuaded Eve to eat the fruit. Rather, His desire for us to spread His image throughout the earth is fulfilled the more when we make disciples, whom He conforms to the image of His Son.
This Episode Features: Two Kingdoms Or Something; Why Don’t Detectives Turn On the Lights?; the Most Reformed Thing Emily Has Ever Said; Thinking God’s Thoughts After Him and Smaller; Bryan Disagrees With Greg; Greg Completely Agrees With Bryan; Thinking Nice Thoughts At One Another; I Just Ate Yesterday; Title Drop; Tradesies!
Links
Jane Austen’s Love and Friendship: Twelve Commandments: https://twitter.com/landfmovie/status/775475853761187842?lang=en
Perelandra - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/2RTV3uL
Let There Be Light - Andrew Peterson: https://youtu.be/aj3fsM5Am0Y
The Princess Bride: the Cliffs of Insanity: https://youtu.be/ClzaP8HN2wc
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3b93aLQ
Psalm 67: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+67/
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Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2zvEGOp-htz-8
As it turns out, the Bible talks about people who lived in caves. Today Greg and Emily talk about who some of those people were, how cool their art was, and why evidence always comes with interpretation. Whether we’re ancients considering the world’s origin, or we’re modern scientists and archaeologists, our reading of the facts can vary widely based on what we’ve already assumed to be true. One site of cave paintings, La Marche, provides a particularly good example of archaeological evidence that was initially dismissed by the archaeological establishment on account of their preconceptions about what cave people of a certain age did and didn’t do. Cave art displays marvelous creativity that testifies to the artists’ humanity--and also encourages us also to imitate God in imagination, in humor, and in art.
This Episode Features: Greg Doesn’t Say Dinosaur; Our Favorite Movies; You Don’t Know Something Until You Can Teach It; Long-Range Pudding; Alien Intrusion; The Old Yorker; Always Look Down When You Enter a New Chamber; and Post-Impressionist Race-Horses.
Links
Faith For All Of Life / The Chalcedon Foundation: https://chalcedon.edu/
The Everlasting Man - G.K. Chesterton: https://amzn.to/2GNbUcr
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn: https://amzn.to/2RP4Zpm
Faces From the Ice Age - David Whitehouse (BBC News, 2002): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2012385.stm
On the Attribution of Palaeolithic Artworks: The Case of La Marche (Lussac-les-Châteaux, Vienne) - Simone Chisena, Christophe Delage (Open Archaeology, 2018): https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0015
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In this episode, we talk about how God structures His relationship to us. Generally, there are five aspects of how God relates to us: He establishes His lordship over us, appoints a way of communication and representation between us and Him, gives promises and guidance as to what we are to do and how, ordains an external sign of the covenant to seal the deal, and provides a way for this arrangement to continue into the future. All of these aspects serve to bind us, legally and personally, to Yahweh in Jesus Christ.
This Episode Features: Archaeology Becomes a Thing; In Sickness and In Health and All That; Greg’s First Job; Our Odds of Being Faithful to God (Spoiler Alert: Zero); Puppet Shows and Flannelgraphs; Revival Isn’t Like Selling Vacuum Cleaners; Kibitzing Over Food; Level Up!
Links
Psalm 105: https://www.esv.org/Psalm+105/
The Westminster Shorter Catechism: https://opc.org/sc.html
The Prisoner: Opening Sequence: https://youtu.be/ygLg-7G0Xp0
How to Promote a Revival - Charles Finney: https://www.gospeltruth.net/finney-101/how2revtxt/how2promrev.htm
That Hideous Strength - C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/3b93aLQ
The Prestige (2006): https://amzn.to/31glQog
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Today we wrap up our discussion of the Trinity with thoughts on the love among the members of the Godhead. We can’t fully comprehend the self-existent life of God, but we can understand from the Bible that the Father and the Son share vibrant fellowship with and through the Holy Spirit--and when the Spirit unites His people to God, He brings us into this deep and lively communion. In fact, all three members of the Trinity acted in accord to accomplish the plan of our redemption, with an agreement sometimes called the Covenant of Redemption.
This Episode Features: Emily Asking Totally Invalid Questions; Prooftext Prooftext Prooftext; Orthodox Bureaucracy All Over Again; the Holy Spirit Doesn’t Clock Out; Louis Berkhof Is Le Tired; Sequentially, As It Were; Greek Synonyms that Don’t Mean the Same Thing At All; Greg Thinks of Things; the Heirs Don’t Write the Will; Conspiracy; Why Do the Anglicans Have All the Good Playwrights?; and the Spirit of 76.
Links
The Doctrine of God - Herman Bavinck: https://amzn.to/2uQPG6H
On the Trinity - Augustine: https://amzn.to/2TpldGQ
Foundations of Social Order - Rousas John Rushdoony: https://amzn.to/35TKMmj
Not Duty Bound: Geerhardus Vos on the Covenant of Redemption - Daniel Ragusa, Reformed Forum: https://reformedforum.org/geerhardus-vos-covenant-of-redemption/
Revelation 5: https://www.esv.org/Revelation+5/
The Westminster Confession: https://www.opc.org/wcf.html
John 4: https://www.esv.org/John+4/
Bleak House - Charles Dickens: https://amzn.to/384qHem
A Whole New World: the Gospel According to Revelation - Greg Uttinger: https://amzn.to/2QRN2Gc
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Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2VWAleL-htz-5
The core of most Trinitarian heresies is subordinationism: in some way they deny that the Son and the Holy Spirit are “of one substance, equal in power and glory” with the Father. In this episode, we explore the effects subordinational thinking has on our knowledge of God, as well as on the shape of a civilization. We also discuss the origins of the doctrine of the Trinity in the Bible.
This Episode Features: The Return of Mr. Potato Head; Court Martials, the Nuremberg Trials, and Watergate; the Heresy Two-Step, and Ancient Pagan Parenting.
Links
All That Is in God - James E. Dolezal: https://amzn.to/2QwAqCZ
Armageddon in Prime Time - George Bailey: https://amzn.to/35br0ly
For a’ That and a’ That - Robert Burns: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43805/for-a-that-and-a-that
Walden - Henry David Thoreau: https://amzn.to/2u5NOqi
Table Talk Radio: https://www.tabletalkradio.org/
Peanuts: November 12, 1959 - Charles Schultz: https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1959/11/12
The Lanyard - Billy Collins: https://youtu.be/0EjB7rB3sWc
Covenantal Apologetics - K. Scott Oliphint: https://amzn.to/2u5Uxk0
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The God of the Bible is unique, not only as Creator, but as Trinity: we worship One God who exists eternally in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Choosing words to describe this reality is difficult; after all, there’s nothing else just like God. So, we rely on the words of Scripture summarized very carefully in the historical creeds, which were developed in extensive, Scriptural study and debate. But the question is anything but coldly academic: in this episode we discuss how our salvation depends on the personal and interpersonal nature of the triune God.
This episode features: No More Mormon Jokes, the Great Puritan Theologian John Milton, the Dark Side of the Force, Be Good and Don’t Run with Scissors and Other Lessons from the Historical Jesus, Emily’s Appalling Lack of Cultural Literacy, and the SHOCKING TRUTH: What Really Happened at the Council of Nicea?
Athanasian Creed (excerpt on the Trinity)
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The Father is made of none, neither created nor begotten.
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The Son is of the Father alone; not made nor created, but begotten.
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The Holy Spirit is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.
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So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits.
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And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another.
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But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal.
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So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
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He therefore that will be saved must thus think of the Trinity.
Links
St. Patrick’s Bad Analogies (yet again): https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/
Paradise Lost - John Milton: https://amzn.to/2YPWL21
Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett:
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Book: https://amzn.to/2PO6cee
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Show: https://amzn.to/2Q9YeMH
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers - Carl L. Becker: https://amzn.to/2RRfAk4
The Athanasian Creed:
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Text: https://www.ccel.org/creeds/athanasian.creed.html
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Greg’s Commentary: https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/the-theology-of-the-ancient-creeds-part-4-the-athanasian-creed
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Click here for episode transcript: https://bit.ly/2S6EThf-htz-3
Emily and Greg dive into the pagan and Christian philosophies of time, chaos, and order. When we look at archetypes in the world--chaos, order, goodness, beauty--we assume we can tell these things apart, and distinguish between the important and the transient. As Christians, we believe we can understand because our Heavenly Father governs all things for His glory and our good, and He made the world to be understood--and as creatures who experience time and change, we can look forward to an eternity full of activity and exploration and live with thankfulness for the beauty God places in our world.
This episode features: Fix-It Felix, Jordan B. Peterson, Cloud-gazing with Linus and Lucy, the Cosmic Cow, Greg’s Favorite Christmas Hymn, Emily’s Least Favorite Christmas Hymns, the Moon Landing, Convenient Eastern Orthodox Time Warps.
Links
Greg’s Norse Mythology Videos: https://youtu.be/fZeE1XkvTNA, and https://youtu.be/DMIUVEIMZ2E
Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman: https://amzn.to/2PLZ7ej
12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson: https://amzn.to/2LSPN7g
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot: https://amzn.to/2POZftu
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin: https://amzn.to/2LWl2hX
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In this episode, we explore the claims of the Bible’s first verses and how they differ from every other explanation of the origins of the universe. From Genesis 1:1, we understand that God created the world out of nothing. In pagan origin myths, the world has always existed: the various gods rearranged the things that make up the world, but there was already something that existed, for them to rearrange. This difference helps us clarify what’s really going on when we speak with our unbelieving friends.
This episode features: Swimming Pools Full of Cream of Wheat, Magic and Esoteric Knowledge, the Cosmic Con-job of Eternity, Disney’s Aladdin, Columbo, the Revered Theologian Winston Churchill, Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Apologetics Cards.
Links
The Defense of the Faith - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/2spkn1u
Christian Apologetics - Cornelius Van Til: https://amzn.to/35oibWD
Van Til’s Apologetic - Greg Bahnsen: https://amzn.to/36w3p00
Always Ready - Greg Bahnsen: https://amzn.to/2RP2iVj
For Such a Time as This - Jim S. Halsey: https://amzn.to/2rL3X3z
Every Thought Captive - Richard L. Pratt, Jr.: https://amzn.to/35p6Eqe
Ezekiel and the Valley of Dry Bones: https://www.esv.org/Ezekiel+37/
Lutheran Satire - Saint Patrick's Bad Analogies: https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/
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In our pilot episode, Emily and Greg introduce themselves and kick off a discussion of the Unity of God and some of its implications. Theology Proper--the study of God as He is in Himself--speaks of the Singularity and the Simplicity of God: that is, there is only one God (who created everything that exists), and God isn’t made up of pieces or parts. He expresses Himself fully in each of His infinite attributes, and reveals those attributes in the Bible.
This episode features: The French Fries of God, How To Be a Perfect Student in a Christian School, Emily’s Preaching Pet Peeve, the Sh’ma, the Unsettling Origins of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Schaeffer Demands Tea, and God’s Will for Your Life.
Links
Lutheran Satire - Saint Patrick's Bad Analogies: https://lutheransatire.org/media/st-patricks-bad-analogies/
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