Episodes
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Preparing for the Post Christian World: Part II, A Re-look at the conversion of Constantine
The key to having a positive view of the end of Christian culture, by Christians, is the ability to separate out 2000 years of Christian culture from the essence, which is only the historical Jesus.
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Preparing for the Post-Christian World Requires a Paradigm Shift in Thinking
For the non-Christian, the new post-Christian world is attractive. However, for the Christian, it appears dismal. Their reaction is either 1: Denial, 2 Confrontation (the culture wars), or 3) Compromise, "new age Christianity where all views are equal. However, the most healthy way for a…
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The Onus of the Stiff Upper Lip
How Christian culture and Western culture (so influenced by Christianity) is wrong on how we deal with pain, and alternative ways to think about it.
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Feral Theophilia
It is possible to love God and have a relationship with him without being part of any religious social group, church, or system of belief.
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Postmodernism-The Parable of the Meteorite.
Borrowing from a philosophy textbook, I tell a metaphor of parable about a famous meteorite, which illustrates how postmodernism handles truth and why it is so attractive as a cultural construct.
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The History of Postmodernity, Part B
This is the conclusion of my review ot the highlights of the history of postmodernity, starting with the Greeks to the present.
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The Philosophical History of Postmodernity Part A
I want to take the listener on a journey through the highlights of the history of how we came to postmodernity in the west. It is a very simple explanation.
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Searching for Truth in a Postmodern ("trans-rational") World: Part I
This is my first in a series of podcast looking at the history of and problems with finding truth in a postmodern world from a simple philosophical perspective. The postmodern world, including postmodern Christianity (aka "New Age Christianity") relegates reason or rationality to an inferior...
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Religion Vs Science Part VII-B
If you are a religious person and you are happy with your religion, this is not the pod cast for you. But if you are a religious and you feel conflicted between the dogmas of your religion and what science is telling you, you should listen.
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Religion Vs Science Part VII-A
If you are a religious person and you are happy with your religion, this is not the pod cast for you. But if you are a religious and you feel conflicted between the dogmas of your religion and what science is telling you, you should listen.
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Science Vs Religion Part VI of VII
Previously I had focused on the philosophical, sociological and psychological issues involved with the conflict of science and religion. Today, as I wrap this conversation up, I focus on the more practical issues, between the first general dark ages and the new focal dark ages of the white...
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The Opening Chapter of the Novel, The Stones of Yemen
This is the introduction and first chapter of my new novel, The Stones of Yemen. It is about an American medical worker (PA) in a refugee camp in war-torn Yemen, who stumbles into an international incident that only he can thwart. It is about love and loss, bereavement and hope. It straddles that...
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Science Vs Religion Part V.
This podcast is a summary of the points I was making in parts I - IV, as I prepare to finish this in the next podcast. It looks at the fundamentals of how we find truth. The purpose of science and the bias of social sub-culture groups, including religious groups.
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What if Life has no "Purpose?"
Everyone seems to believe that life must have a purpose. What if that is not true. For the Christian, Rick Warren wrote a book about the "Purpose Driven Life." What if he was wrong? What if existence in the wonderful material world is simply God's gift for us to enjoy the way we want?
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Religion Vs Science, Part IV A Continuing Coversation
What role does bias play in finding truth?
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Science Vs Religion Part III
A look at our personal epistemology, what methods we use to find truth about reality.
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Religion Vs Science Part II
Science and Religion don't reside in different realms. They both must look at reality and asses the evidence. It is about epistemology. Science starts by removing biases to reach objective truth, while religion often imposes bias as the fundamental belief that must be adhered to before…
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Religion Vs Science, Part I, Foundations
This is the first part of a three-part series exploring the unfortunate war between religion and science, but better terms would be between evidence-based truth vs subculture dogma-based "truth." The church in America is dying a rapid death and part of it has resulted from the church's loss of a...
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Death and Dying, a Candid Conversation Part II
Why grief and anguish over death is the most spiritual frame of mind.
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On Death and Dying, a Candid Conversation
Religion often does a great disservice to the mourning process. It is not he or she that is most spiritual that mourns the least, but just the opposite. Death is unnatural in the Christian philosophical framework and therefore is worthy of our deepest grief.
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Mysticism Vs Mystery
We are living in an age when mysticism is again vogue. It is not the first time, but it appears in a culture whenever there is a disillusionment with reason, as has been true since the ninetieth century. Religion is now defined by experience not by factual information. In our present times, there...
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I Think Therefore I Am ... Not Spiritual
Religion has always wrestled with faith vs reason. Christianity is no exception. This is a look at the consequences of divorcing reason from faith.
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Do All Things Happen for a Reason?; the metaphysical cul-de-sac of determinism.
In my definition, fatalism is a locked-in meta narrative, or the big picture. Both religious people and atheist share that view. Determinism, on the other hand, is absolute control on a granular level, which is held by most religious people but only a few atheists. The religious person believes...
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Finding God the Hard Way; A Descartian Odyssey
Most people choose to believe in God, or to not believe in God for the wrong reasons. Following social norms can find us personal peace for the moment but is dangerous philosophically. I describe my own journey from Appalachian bible belt to evangelicalism, to atheism and back to the Christian God.
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The Transexual - A philosophical perspective
The white evangelical community has been at war (culture war) with the LGBTQ community for years, but the focus this year has turned to the "T" transexuals. I, as an ex-evangelical, want to make sense of the transexual from an objective and loving perspective, rather of one based on sub-culture...
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True Spirituality
What if everything we call "spiritual" is actually emotional? This podcast explores this possibility and meaning of it.
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The Theology of Cancer Part II (the meaning of suffering)
This is the second part of my discussion of my own journey with cancer and finding a healthy philosophical understanding of its meaning to my life.
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The Theology of Cancer (the meaning of suffering) Part I
What happens when we are diagnosed with cancer? Where do we find meaning in that diagnosis. It is my opinion that we often come to the wrong conclusions, 1) God isn't real, 2) God is cruel, 3) God is dead, 4) God did this for a reason, 5) Satan did this to me, or 6) I'm being punished for…
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Possible Answers to Basic Philosophical Questions
This is a summary lecture from the original lecture given by the late theologian/philosopher Francis Scaeffer in Switzerland in 1965. It basically looks at the simple options of the fundamental questions of philosophy.
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The Search for Truth (epistemology): A Neurologist's Perspective
How do we find truth? A look at the process from the perspective of brain function.
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Rational Christianity; An Introduction
This is the first in a series of talks about rational Christianity. For most people, they consider religion as an experience of faith and not subject to rationality or evidence. I believe that this is a faulty position that is built on a perversions of Platonic Dualism's metaphysical view. That…
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How Did We Get Here? A Brief Look at Truth in the Western World -- The Philosophical Perspective
I do a very quick, drive-by look at how we have arrived at truth in the west, starting with the Greeks.
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Pro-Choice Vs Pro-Life, Part V, the Idolatry of Pro-Life
Last part of a five-part series on the issue of Pro-Life and Pro-Choice. This talk is about how Pro-Life has become idolatry and how we can really reduce abortions to zero if we wanted.
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Abortion: Part IV: The idolatry of "Pro-Life," the Historical Perspective
In this V of VI installment of Abortion: The Shallowness of Pro-Choice and the Idolatry of Pro-Life, I'm looking at Pro-Life conservative American Christians, which includes evangelicals and conservative Catholics. This group was the most loyal backers of Donald Trump, even more so than the white...
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The Shallowness of "Pro-Choice" / The Idolatry of "Pro-Life" Part III
This is a podcast shadowing a series of articles posted on my blog at jmichaeljoneswriter.com. This series of articles discusses the topic of abortion, looking at the moral limits of both sides and how they could come together in peace to make unwanted pregnancies a thing of the past, rather than...
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Finding Humor in Tragedy; something funny happened on the way to getting incurable cancer.
I grew up in a family in Appalachia. My aunt Helen moved in with us when I was in grade school, and she was hilarious. But her life had been filled with tragedy and her humor was a way of coping. In 2019, after being very healthy, I was suddenly diagnosed with incurable cancer (multiple myeloma)...
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