New Persuasive Words
"The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones." - Thornton Wilder
Episodes
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Episode 109: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
March 11th, 2017 | 28 mins 53 secs
We continue to reflect on the nature of love, inspired by the work of Tomas Halik.
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Episode 108: To Know Is To Love
March 9th, 2017 | 27 mins 2 secs
In this episode we keep talking about love. And we recorded it on Scott's birthday.
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Episode 107: All You Need Is Love?
March 6th, 2017 | 32 mins 3 secs
In this episode we talk about what may be the most important thing in human existence: love. Our conversation is inspired by Tomas Halik's newest book.
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Episode 106: Science Versus Faith?
February 21st, 2017 | 32 mins 44 secs
In this episode we look at the relationship between science and faith.
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Episode 105: The Age of Rudeness?
February 19th, 2017 | 28 mins 54 secs
In this episode we talk about the role of rudeness and manners in contemporary life, inspired by a piece in the NY Times magazine.
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Episode 104: Trump Around
February 16th, 2017 | 30 mins 45 secs
We were going to talk about the history and philosophy of science. Then the press conferences happened!
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Episode 103: A New Relativism?
February 10th, 2017 | 30 mins 8 secs
Traditionally relativism has been something that conservatives blamed on liberals. But in a new world of alternative facts is there a new relativism on the rise? We talk about this, and Bill's frustrations after doing a google search.
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Episode 102: American Exceptionalism
February 6th, 2017 | 32 mins 13 secs
In this episode we discuss the concept of American Exceptionalism, in addition to rehashing Bill's recent chastisement by a Facebook Group administrator.
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Episode 101: Natural Law
February 4th, 2017 | 36 mins 56 secs
The most recent Supreme Court Nominee is Neil Gorsuch. Mr. Gorsuch is a respected legal scholar and intellectual whose work has focused on, among other things, natural law. He wrote a monograph on the topic which served as his doctoral thesis at Oxford. We talk a little about natural law and its role in public life.
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Episode 100: More On The Truth
January 27th, 2017 | 35 mins 34 secs
In this episode we continue thinking about the nature of truth in a world of alternative facts.
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Episode 99: Truth and Bull@#!$
January 23rd, 2017 | 30 mins 41 secs
In this episode we continue to reflect on the nature of truth, specifically the relationship between truth, lies and bull@#!$. We reference the following pieces in the podcast: Harry Frankfurt’s On Bull@#!$ and On Truth. We also discuss C.J.
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Episode 98: The Myth Of Objectivity?
January 18th, 2017 | 35 mins 24 secs
In this episode we talk about a recent NY Times exchange about objectivity in a post-fact world. You can find the piece here.
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Episode 97: Conversation and Criticism
January 10th, 2017 | 29 mins 36 secs
We talk about conversation and criticism and the importance in our culture, inspired by Richard Rohr and A.O. Scott.
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Episode 96: Love Is What We Need
January 3rd, 2017 | 31 mins 21 secs
In this episode we take inspiration from a passage from Tomas Halik’s new book I Want You To Be.
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Episode 95: Lights Old And New
December 31st, 2016 | 35 mins 55 secs
In our last podcast of 2016 we discuss what may be the most important theological conflict in American religious history: the Old/New Light controversy. We reference a previous podcast we did in this episode. You can find it here: https://www.blubrry.
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Episode 94: The Variety of Religious Experience
December 29th, 2016 | 35 mins 2 secs
We talk about religious experience in a secular age inspired in part by a recent article in the NY Times by Ross Douthat. You can find the piece here: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/24/opinion/sunday/varieties-of-religious-experience.html.