Episodes
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Alycia Wood
#44 Jay Watts interviews Alicia Wood in anticipation of the Being Human Conference that is being hosted at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta. Alicia works with Apologetics, Inc and will be speaking in November at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Being Human In A Modern World Fri, Nov 6, 2026...
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Matthew Burford
#43 Jay Watts interviews Matthew Burford in anticipation of the Being Human Conference that is being hosted at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta. Being Human In A Modern World Fri, Nov 6, 2026 7:00 PM – Sat, Nov 7, 2026 12:00 PM Register here… https://www.johnsonferry.org/widgets/...
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Matthew
#42 Jay Watts interviews Matthew Mittelberg in anticipation of the Being Human Conference that is being hosted at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta. Being Human In A Modern World Fri, Nov 6, 2026 7:00 PM - Sat, Nov 7, 2026 12:00 PM Register here......
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Carl Trueman Interview
#41 Jay Watts interviews Carl Trueman in anticipation of the Being Human Conference that is being hosted at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Atlanta. Matt Burford from Tactical Faith is on board with the interview and as a co-sponsor with Merely Human Ministries for the conference. Being Human In…
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MICHAEL C. SHERRARD Merely Human Ministries
Jay interviews Michael C. Sherrard for an upcoming conference at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Apologetics.org is headed up by Sherrard and he will be speaking at the event along with Carl Trueman, Paul Kingsnorth, and others.
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Being a local voice for Jesus
Restricting evil and loving everything local. Family, church and community. This was recorded on August the 14th.
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#37 Season 4 Episode 5
Discussions about Daredevil, United States Presidents, The Beatles, and the Image Bearers of God.
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#36 Season 4 Episode 4
Be strong enough to be hated
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#35 Season 4 Episode 3
Jay Watts tackles Essays, accountability, and answering questions about biblical justifications for abortion.
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#34 Season 4 Episode 2
Jay Watts on Treasure Planet and arguments for and against abortion.
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Season 4 Episode 1
Here is the first episode from Season 4 of Merely Human Things. Starting out with Gene Hackman and then moving onto the general distrust in institutions in the US, Jay ends up critiquing and praising George Orwell and his philosophy. We should never trust power and those who yield it. Whether…
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Merely Human Minsitries Christmas Episode 2024
Jay’s second annual Christmas Special.
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Thanksgiving Special
Season 3 Episode 11 Welcome to our Thanksgiving special and our intro to the Christmas Holidays! Jay offers up some post-election thoughts and Thanksgiving thoughts. What does it mean to have a separation of church and state?
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Halloween Special Episode 10 Season 3
Jay talks about Halloween and the political season. A reminder of the lesser of two evils principal and how we need to constantly be reminded that we did vote for the lesser of two evils
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#29 Season 3 Episode 9
Intro with the latest news about the Pro-Life community with a statement by Trump. What are the ideas that drive the current discussions about abortion and why ad hominem never works. Also we are in the dumbest election cycle in history, no matter which side you're on and no one trusts media...
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#28 Season 3 Episode 6ish...
The infamous missing podcast! This podcast is actually chronologically earlier than episode 27. Loving animals and the natural world fighting back against humanity! Elephants have names and the language of abortion.
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#27 Gaslighting and VP Kamala
#27 Gaslighting and VP Kamala by Jay Watts
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#26 The Reality of Party Platforms
Season 3 Episode 7 00:00:00 Introductory remarks include all the crazy political ramblings. 00:15:42 Animals, specifically crows 00:20:25 Republican Party Platform and backing off of the Pro-Life Position
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#25 Book Banning and Just War Theory
Hall & Oates, Orcas named Gladis, and book banning. Then Jay discusses Just War Theory and why it's important to think about and the full ramifications of that theory. Support Jay and his ministry HERE: https://give.cornerstone.cc/merelyhum... See more from Jay and Merely Human Ministries HERE:...
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Cannibals, The French Revolution and Arizona
On this episode, Jay begins the show trying to discuss the President of the United States accusing the people of Papua New Guinea of eating his uncle in World War II, but fails miserably to hold it together.
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#23 The Development View
Season 3 Episode 3 This episode starts out with a discussion of the diabolical behavior of roosters as highlighted in an old Scientific American article. Segment two disucsses Herman Melville, his posthumously published book Billy Budd the Sailor, and the attraction of art produced by people in...
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S3E2 Chimp's and the Unborn
After discussing his deep dislike for chimpanzees, this episode focuses on the recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court determining that under Alabama law the human embryo in vitro (in glass) is considered a child just as a human embryo in vivo (in the living) is under the state’s Wrongful…
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Season 3 Episode 1
Season 3 kicks off with Jay speaking about Taylor Swift and The Godfather.
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2023 Christmas Special
2023 Christmas Special by Jay Watts
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#20 Despair in our World | Interview with Jim Trotti
The Final Episode of Season 2: Despair in our World Jim Trotti, a professional counselor for young people, joins the show to discuss despair and the roots of despair in young people. His insight is surprisingly practical. In segment one, Jay makes the claim Roy Orbison’s vocal performance in the...
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#19 Book Review of Tearing us Apart
Introduction to Opposite Day, the day we discuss issues surrounding abortion and not the moral case against abortion. I usually stick to a disciplined approach to defending the dignity of human life, keep the main thing the main thing. Today we venture out from those things to discuss the book...
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#18 Interview with MJ Watts
I asked my daughter if’s he could get challenges and questions from her peers at Kennesaw State University, and she delivered in person. MJ Watts joins us to discuss questions surrounding life of the mother, the foster care system, abortion in cases of rape, and many others.
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#17 The Weird Abortion Analogies Episode
This Episode was lost between the cracks of editing and starts off declaring itself a Barbie free zone, an announcement that made more sense when it was recorded. Otters are predators revisited. The jokes about them stealing surf boards and paddleboards is updated with a serious story about women...
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Human Things Season 2 Episode 6 | Interview with Dr. Christopher Tollefsen
The Way of Medicine 00:00 Intro 01:50 Joe Versus the Volcano and How God Can Use Crisis to Focus Us After embarrassingly forgetting that Joe Banks had a brain cloud, this segment focuses on Joe Versus the Volcano and how it offers a wonderful reminder of how God can take someone consumed with...
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#15 MHT Advocating for Life on Campus
Guest is Tina Whittington, Executive VP Students for Life of America 00:01:30 | Episode 5 of Season 2 begins with more of the animal revolution. Elephants are stealing sugar cane, Orcas are attacking sailboat rudders, and now…an otter is stealing paddle boards! A multi-agency effort has been...
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#14 Jay's Mixed Tape Monologue
Season 2 Episode 4 Jay’s first monologue with this new format. Reminiscing on how much has changed since we were kids. Boom boxes, cassette tapes and figuring out lyrics as a child of the 80’s and 90’s.
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#13 Merely Human Things with Dr. Jeff Bilbro
Season 2 Episode 3 Interviewed in this episode is Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro. Bilbro is the associate professor of English at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Bilbro comes on to talk directly about "Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News". Why is this important for...
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Interview with Leah Savas
Reposting of Episode 5 of Human Things 2.0 starts with author and journalist Leah Savas of World News Group to discuss the book she co-authored with Marvin Olasky, The Story of Abortion in America starting in 1652!
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#12 Merely Human Things with Dr. C. Ben Mitchell
This episode open with consideration of how poor arguments are on the internet. It is difficult to find anything on social media serious enough to discuss. In the future, serious academic arguments will be considered more thoroughly including revisiting bodily autonomy arguments. The second…
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Merely Human Things with Scott Klusendorf (Full Interview)
This episode begins with an explanation of the long form podcast as our mothership. The vision is to produce longer content that takes it time to consider points of view. From this longer format, we will excerpt shorter segments and videos to offer more concise material. The first segment…
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#11 Merely Human Things with Seth Drayer
Season 2 begins with a little recap of the goals of the Human Things 2.0 long form podcast project. Jay shares his commencement speech advice including: 1) Mark special occasions and celebrate every victory, big or small. 2) Every day offers new opportunities and challenges, new opportunities to...
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#10 Merely Human Things with Scott Klusendorf Part 2
The last of season one of Merely Human Things. We are finishing up the interview with Scott Klusendorf. The intro has some very specific ramblings from Jay concerning how easily he can get invested in silly things that would normally have little weight on greater world matters. We've got a...
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#9 Merely Human Things with Scott Klusendorf
Summary Episode 9 This episode begins with an explanation of the long form podcast as our mothership. The vision is to produce longer content that takes it time to consider points of view. From this longer format, we will excerpt shorter segments and videos to offer more concise material. The…
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#8 Merely Human Things with Megan Almon
Life Training Institute’s Megan Almon joins the show to discuss Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux’s Happening, a novelized telling of her experience with illegal abortion in Paris in 1963. Megan shares her Three Things in evaluating the story as a work of literature and political statement...
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#7 Merely Human Things with Jay Watts - Pro-Choice Objections
We asked people who disagree with us to tell us why. We received a long message; one our producer began to reference as the The Letter. I tried to answer as briefly as possible as a segment of an episode, but the objections are wide ranging and require some discussion in unpacking. We went back...
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#6 Human Things with Jay Watts - Due Process etc,
Episode 6 is the first of three episodes originally recorded to be one single episode. Segment one features a discussion of creator verses organizer, inventor versus promoter, the underappreciated genius verses the public face of success. Jay explains why he takes sides with Jack Kirby and…
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#5 Human Things with Jay Watts - Leah Savas
Episode 5 of Human Things 2.0 starts with a rousing defense of the work of Hall & Oats including slightly messing up the names of two of their songs. Segment 2 discusses a short clip from a 2018 Oxford Union Panel on Abortion Rights where pro-abortion activist Ilyse Hogue of NARAL makes the claim...
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#4 Human Things with Jay Watts - Sho Nuff Bias
On this episode, Jay is going Eric Carmen style, all by himself. Bad Movie Night gets explained, Streets of Fire comes up (not for the last time), and midi-chlorians are identified as the bane of the Star Wars universe. On a more serious note, segment two evaluates the actions of 19th century...
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#3 Human Things with Jay Watts
On this episode, we discuss the idea of making a case for making a case for life. Why do those opposed to abortion engage this issue with such passion? Because the right or wrong of abortion centers on how we answer one question, “Is the unborn one of us?” People who agree that it is wrong to…
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#2 HumanThings with Jonathan Noyes
This episode addresses despair and community. We discuss how assessing human dignity through instrumental criteria or immediately practicable capacities leads to troubling issues in end of life care. The view that all human beings have value by virtue of what we are, intrinsic dignity grounded in...
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Human Things C.S. Lewis Society
Human Things C.S. Lewis Society by Jay Watts
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Merely Human Moment Believe Them
Merely Human Moment Believe Them by Jay Watts
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MHM Human Things #5 - Beautiful Things
MHM Human Things #5 - Beautiful Things by Jay Watts
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MHM Human Things #4 - Arguing and the Airing of Grievances
MHM Human Things #4 - Arguing and the Airing of Grievances by Jay Watts
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MHM Human Things Podcast #3 - Life is Pain
The fear of pain and suffering is often used to justify terrible decisions. This episode explores experiencing pain with hope and whether a life without it is possible or even desirable.
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