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Masters of Divinity
by Masters of Divinity
A podcast about 3 friends (JP, Father Chuck and Matt) who grew up in the church, and their journey through pop culture, fandom, and weird Christian trends.
Episodes
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201 - Battling Creative Blocks
This week, JP, Father Chuck and Matt have a good ol' fashion RIFF-SESH. If you're not familiar, a riff-sesh is when the gang doesn't have a specific topic in mind but would rather share what's been digging in their craws and speak candidly and off-the-cuff. This week JP is feeling a little down...
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Episode 200: How GET BACK Demythologizes The Beatles
We did it! 200 episodes, baby! In this episode, we celebrate our 200th episode by covering Peter Jackson's latest opus, the hit Disney+ documentary THE BEATLES: GET BACK. Jackson's documentary is an exhaustive, fly-on-the-wall look at The Beatles during the recording of their album LET IT BE. As...
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Episode 199: Bible Translation Hootenanny
And we're BACK, BABY! After a lengthy hiatus, Father Chuck and JP have returned to talk about translating and interpreting the Bible. They not only go into the history of translating scripture, but also talk about their own experiences and frustrations with translations, as well as with people…
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Episode 198: The Shoulderheim -- What are Angels?
This week, with an increasing interest in exploring the more fantastical and mystical side of the Christian faith, Father Chuck and JP talk about angels. They go over the hierarchy of angels, dispel some myths about their depiction (thanks in large part to Renaissance art), and develop a new…
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Episode 197: Spice World -- A DUNE Deep Dive
Well, it's been a minute, hasn't it? Fear not, because we're back, and unlike most media outlets, JP and Father Chuck have some thoughts on DUNE! Dune is the latest iteration of the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic, directed by Denis Villeneuve. It's taken a LONG time, but we think that we finally…
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Episode 196: Riff Sesh -- It's the 60s, Man!
So for the last couple of months we've talked about every Jaws movie, tackled Christian Hedonism, recounted our favorite Seinfeld episodes about religion, defeated Capitalism, and brought you one spooky-ass playlist for your Halloween parties. So, we're a little pooped, and we thought this week...
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Episode 195: The Bones Are Their Dollars -- A Music Mayhem Halloween Special
Whether you've got a Halloween party around the corner to host/attend, or you're just looking for some All Hallow's Eve vibes, you're gonna need some spooky tunes. So this week, Father Chuck and JP have curated their own playlists filled with all kinds of Halloween music goodness. Whether you're...
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Episode 194: Storming the Capitalism -- Our Spooky Opinions on Capitalism
This week, JP and Father Chuck go in on that mode of production based on private ownership of the means of production: CAPITALISM. We give our thoughts, our critiques, our experiences, and also take the time to highlight the current struggle over wages in Hollywood. We don't normally get…
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Episode 193: Seinfans -- What is the Deal With Religion???
JP and Father Chuck are massive, devoted fans of the hit sitcom Seinfeld. And if you haven't heard the news, that joint's on Netflix as we speak. So we went ahead and watched some episodes centered on religion, yadda yadda yadda, you got this episode to listen to. Enjoy!
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Episode 192: Atomic Halloween -- Sci-Fi During Spooky Season
So we all know that Father Chuck's the Sci-Fi Guy and JP is the Horror Guy. But what happens the two are combined for Halloween? You get an in-depth look at the Atomic Age Sci-Fi & Horror of the 1950s, baby! While people are planning their lists of horror movies to watch during October, people…
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Episode 191: I Love It When You Call Me Big Piper -- Exploring Christian Hedonism
If you've ever heard the phrase, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him," then you're probably familiar with Christian Hedonism, which is one provocative title! It probably conjures images that don't belong together, like Jesus and Hedonism Bot from FUTURAMA. But it's a…
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Episode 190: Don't Show The Shark -- Diving Deep Into JAWS
In the previous episode, we talked about the Brothers Brody and Their Many Shark Adventures, and since you were all good sports to let us indulge in our love of these bonkers sequels, we figured why not go ahead and talk about the famed original: the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic, JAWS. There's…
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Episode 189: JAWSEQUELS -- Our Favorite "Splasher" Movies
When it was released in theaters in 1975, JAWS was a major hit, terrifying audiences and creating an entire generation of aquaphobes, thalassophobes, and submechaniphobes. Steven Spielberg's debut in cinemas was studded with a terrific cast, a chilling story, and horrifying special effects. The...
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Episode 188: Stuck in The Airlock -- Our Space Camp Memories (And Other Camps Too!)
We're finally in the middle of the wet, hot, American summer and JP & Father Chuck couldn't help but to reminisce about their summer days spent at various summer camps growing up. They talk about their shared experiences from Space Camp in Florida, while JP also tells us a few tales from his time...
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Episode 187: Jesus Junk -- The Rise & Fall of The Christian Bookstore
An unofficial but ongoing series on this podcast is "Christian Curiosities," where we reflect and examine Christian trends from the days of yor. These trends permeated Christian communities and usually across denominations, and it was the Christian Bookstore that enabled these curiosities to…
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Episode 186: Spaceman From Pluto -- A Back to the Future Deep Dive
This week, in another edition of MASTERS OF DIVINITY, JP and Father Chuck revisit one of the most beloved film trilogies of all time: BACK TO THE FUTURE! JP explains the process behind developing the first Back to the Future movie, Chuck theorizes on a "Rogue Marty." This is one of those episodes...
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Episode 185: THEM ALIENS -- Observing Official Evidence of UFOs
We've seen the evidence. We have some thoughts. UFO's are back baby! Seriously, it's like 1995 up in here with the UFO mania going down. In 2017 the government confirmed the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects, and just this month the Pentagon has submitted a report to congress explaining...
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Episode 184: Goth Star Trek -- Learning to Love PROMETHEUS
Remember way, way, way back in the distant year of 2012? Before pandemics, Donald Trump's presidency, and NFTs? There was a movie that came out that summer called PROMETHEUS, and it was a prequel of sorts to the ALIEN franchise. People were really looking forward to it because the ALIEN franchise...
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Episode 183: Music Mayhem: Prime Candidate for a Burnout by Blenderhead
Time to smash our heads on the punk rock! In our final episode of Music Mayhem, The Wheel of Mayhem deemed Christian punk's "Prime Candidate for a Burnout" by Blenderhead worthy of closing out this year's series. Rounding out our completely unplanned series-within-a-series about the Christian...
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Episode 182: Music Mayhem: Jars of Clay
This week, JP and Father Chuck visit another seismic album in the 90s Contemporary Christian scene: Jars of Clay's self-titled debut album. Jars of Clay was drastically different from dc Talk in their style and approach to lyrics, embracing metaphorical lyrics and acoustic guitars, as well as a...
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Episode 181: Music Mayhem: Jesus Freak by dc Talk
Music Mayhem keeps going because Music Mayhem can't be stopped! For some reason JP and Father Chuck decided to (dc) Talk about JESUS FREAK, the seismic Christian rock album that hit the charts and even managed to get some MTV airtime, something that's very important to Christian labels. Father...
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Episode 180: Music Mayhem: Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath
Music Mayhem keeps on truckin', and this week we're truckin' to hell -- or heaven. Whichever you prefer, I guess. In 1979 Ozzy Osbourne was ousted from the legendary metal band Black Sabbath, and left a void that seemed impossible to fill. Enter one Ronnie James Dio, or as you and I know him…
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Episode 178: Mr. Parables
For our final episode in our unnamed series about Jesus-centric films, we watched Martin Scorsese's controversial classic, The Last Temptation of Christ. In the film, Jesus is portrayed by legendary actor Willem Dafoe, depicted as a man struggling with both the human and divine natures that dwell...
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Episode 177: Prosthetic Jesus Nose
This week, Father Chuck and Moderator JP talk about the extremely underwhelming 1979 classic, JESUS, a movie that was made in an attempt to create a visual translation of the Bible, and these days the film is used by THE JESUS PROJECT in an effort to convert people to Christianity through the...
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Episode 176: The Gospel of Mel
Like Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, Jesus is a figure who's graced the screen since the advent of cinema. Some of these movies are spectacular, while most of them are...well, they tried. When Mel Gibson announced that he was going to direct a film about the final hours of Jesus' life, it became one...
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Episode 175: PHILOSOPASTOR: A MoD Clip Show
This week, while the Masters of Divinity are still away dealing with their offline lives, we've produced a clip show made out of a couple of outtakes from past episodes! We promise things will be back to normal soon, but at the moment, real life calls. Until then, enjoy this fun episode! Check…
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Episode 174: You Don't Just Tweet, You Dunkaroo
This week, JP and Father Chuck discuss how they feel about the time-honored social media tradition of dunking on strangers. We promise this isn't just another "old men yelling about Twitter" episode, honest! SoundCloud: Check out our site: www.themastersofdivinity.wordpress.com If you'd like to...
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Episode 173: Two Hours of WandaVision Content
All right, so it's more like an hour and fourty-five minutes, but "2 hours" just sounds cleaner. We round up here. Hey! There's a show out there on the Disney+ that all the kids are raving about, called WandaVision and it's apparently a big hit. WandaVision is the first show produced for the…
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Episode 172: Pixar's Soul -- Regular Old Living
This week, we cap off our month-long series on the afterlife with a fun, light-hearted discussion of Pixar's latest hit, SOUL. Soul stars Jamie Foxx as the voice of Joe, a jazz musician who finds himself in the afterlife who desperately tries to get back to the land of the living. It's a…
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Episode 171: Purgatory is a Gym in 1910
This week, JP and Father Chuck discuss purgatory. Having grown up a protestant, JP has no idea what the doctrine of purgatory is, and Father Chuck is here to enlighten all of us. They talk about purgatory as a doctrine, as a belief embraced by CS Lewis, and why it kind of sounds like a gym for…
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Episode 170: HECK
Continuing our series on the Christian afterlife, Father Chuck and JP discuss HELL. We go over all of the cultural depictions of Hell and how they compare to what's described in the Bible, where these depictions originate, and how we've come to understand Hell. We also talk about how we…
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Episode 169: All Podcasters Go to Heaven
Hello once again MoD Squad! We've got an exciting month lined up for you, as JP and Father Chuck will be discussing the theologies behind the Christian afterlife. This week, we'll be taking a look at Heaven. What do Christians get wrong about Heaven? Turns out, a lot! Father Chuck explains the...
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Episode 168: A Guide to Starting a Moral Panic
The Salem Witch Trials, The Red Scare, The McMartin Preschool Trial, The War on Drugs, Netflix's Cuties...they're all vastly different events, with some based on real events, and some based on events that were completely fabricated, but they all have one thing in common: they created widespread...
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Episode 167: Strike First, Strike Hard, No Mercy
This week, Moderator JP, Father Chuck, and Occasional Matt are all here to talk about the Netflix sensation, COBRA KAI. Cobra Kai is a kind of spin-off/legacy sequel to the Karate Kid series of movies, mostly from the perspective of famous 80s bully Johnny Lawrence. Naturally, this is perfect...
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Episode 166: The Galactic Federation Rejected Our Application
This week, in the final episode of 2020, JP and Father Chuck are here to talk about one of their favorite subjects: conspiracy theories! This time, they discuss how conspiratorial thinking can be damaging to not just the the individual, but also society, and how it can take the place of a…
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Episode 165: Scream For Halloween
It's Halloween! Which means The Masters of Divinity get SPOOKY! And what better way to Get Spooky then watching a good old fashioned horror movie? Well, not THAT old fashioned. It's pretty post-modern, actually. This week, our very fearless trio sits down with Wes Craven's meta-horror slasher…
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Episode 164: MODAKU -- Witch Hunter Robin
Well, we've reached the end of MODAKU. Don't look so sad, you knew this was a test run baby, we wish we could go all out like we do with Music Mayhem, but that all depends on you! Let us know if you enjoyed MODAKU, and if we should tackle it against next year. But let's not get ahead of…
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Episode 163: MODAKU -- AKIRA
In this week's edition of MODAKU, Moderator JP brings us the cyberpunk classic AKIRA! Akira was what started it all in the U.S. It's influence is felt in not only countless anime, but also in countless science fiction films and television shows. With its technical achievements in animation, its...
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Episode 162: MODAKU -- My Neighbor Totoro
This week, Father Chuck brings us MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO to officially jumpstart our new series on anime, MODAKU. MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO is a timeless children's classic created by Hiyao Miyazaki, by way of the landmark animation studio Studio Giblhi. Father Chuck is very familiar with TOTORO, while JP…
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Episode 161: JAPANIMATION
One of the goals of our podcast is to explore, observe, comment, and sometimes satirize the various spaces within the vast universe of fandom. Four years after the creation of the podcast, we finally feel that we have the strength and capacity to explore the wild world of anime. Even though anime...
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Episode 160: Oh No We Forgot To Come Up With A Topic
This week, JP and Father Chuck have themselves a little old fashioned riff-session. You remember those, right? This episode's packed with everything. There's talk about preferring art & media that's a bit more off-beat and rough around the edges, there's some reminiscing of McGee & Me, JP rants...
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Episode 159: Pocket Preppers
This week, JP and Father Chuck talk about an interesting corner of the internet dedicated to what's inside your pocket. It's called "EDC" which is short for everyday carry, and you'll be surprised that there are whole communities and brands revolving around the stuff we carry with us in our...
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Episode 158: The Podcasters of Dark Water
DC and Warner Bros. broke new ground by giving us the first ever virtual conference (I have no facts to back that up, but you can't accuse me of shilling, because I'm admitting that I'm not sure if that's even true). We learned about Suicide Squad 2, the long-awaited Zack Snyder Cut of Justice...
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Episode 157: Indy Rock
"Adventure has a name," said one of the many taglines used to describe the character of Indiana Jones, the brainchild of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK should be considered classic cinema by now, as well as a window into an even older form of cinema, the cliffhanger...
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Episode 156: Vermin Unicorns
In Disney • Pixar's ONWARD, elvish brothers Barley and Ian embark on a perilous journey through a fantastical realm that also happens to resemble our modern times in order to meet their father who passed away before Ian was born. Needless to say, Father Chuck and Father Fun, who themselves are…
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Episode 155: Solarpunk'd
You might be familiar with cyberpunk, the dystopian science fiction subgenre popularized by William Gibson's NEUROMANCER and Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER. You also might be familiar with steampunk, a science fiction subgenre known for its obsession with goggles. But have you heard of solarpunk?...
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Episode 154: Music Mayhem -- Teenage Dream by Katy Perry
Well, here we are, at the end of all things -- not really, just Music Mayhem. We're sad to see it go, as Father Chuck, JP, Matt, and Father Fun have had a blast, as usual, surprising each other with albums and challenging our tastes and just enjoying some great music. You should all know by now…
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Episode 153: Music Mayhem -- Thriller by Michael Jackson
For our penultimate episode of Music Mayhem 2020, Matt chose one of the most successful albums of all time, Michael Jackson's THRILLER. THRILLER has it all: Beat It, Thriller, Billie Jean, that song with Paul McCartney, that one ballad, that other ballad, a couple of other ballads, and You Wanna…
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Episode 152: Music Mayhem -- Ceremonials by Florence + The Machine
Guest Co-Host Father Fun selects Florence + The Machine's sweeping and epic sophomore album, CEREMONIALS. If you're not familiar with Florence + The Machine, the first thing you'll notice is how powerful Florence Welch's voice is. It's the kind of voice that can overshadow the rest of your group,...
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Episode 151: Music Mayhem -- Guster On Ice
Father Chuck's favorite band of all-time is a little band from Boston known as Guster. Guster is known for their busker style music, their on-stage antics, and a guy who is absolutely wicked on the drums, dubbed the Thunder God. Listen to why Guster is Father Chuck's favorite band (Spoiler: It…
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A podcast about 3 friends (JP, Father Chuck and Matt) who grew up in the church, and their journey through pop culture, fandom, and weird Christian trends.
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