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Orthopraxis
by Jaymes & Ravi
Where orthodoxy meets real life, or: Insanity - practical application of Scripture and ranging everywhere. Amiable agreement and disagreement ensues.
Episodes
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The Jester's Ball
As per our tradition, the first episode of the New Year is an exploration of the Banquet and Ball experience. But this time we will be diving into one of the most unique of the Balls -- the Jester's Ball. And we are joined by none other than the very instigator of this wondrous event, Lichelle...
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Looking Into an AI Mirror
What is AI? How does it fit in a Christian worldview? Do we have to be worried about it? In what ways? Does it impact how we ought to live in light of Christ? What does it mean to be human? Lots of questions to explore! Things referenced in the show: Matchbox Machine Learning with Matt Parker The...
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Is Intellectual Property Really Real?
In an addendum series to our most recent rant through the ages, Jaymes and Ravi tackle a sacred cow of our modern times: intellectual property. Is it actually a thing? Should it be? Where did it come from? What does the Bible say? The answers may surprise you!
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The Digital Apocalypse
In the grand finale of Orthopraxis podcast's epic epochal extravaganza, Jaymes, our ever-present co-host, finds himself dethroned and demoted to 'guest expert' as Ravi flips the script. Buckle up as we blitz through the 70s and 80s, accusing them of ruining... well, pretty much everything! From...
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When Humans Become Cogs
Welcome to the rise of the industrial revolution, when everything from humanity to theology to community became mechanized! All hail the Machine-god! Erm, perhaps that's not a good thing... Ravi and Jaymes take this month's episode to explore the penultimate epoch of this series: the industrial...
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The Rise of Secularism
Were there ever actual atheists before modernity? Was the Enlightenment really all that enlightening? Continuing our trek through major epochs of history, we tackle the recent few centuries and the pros and cons of various aspects of progress.
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Myth-Busting with Constantine
Continuing our series on historical epochs, we dive right into the entirely non-controversial time period surrounding the first Christian Emperor: St Constantine the Great. We touch on a lot of previous episodes in this one, but we mostly constrain ourselves to pagan-bashing.
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A New Epoch!
We are undertaking a new series dedicated to history! We'll be exploring various major epochal shifts through time and how they are still impacting us today. In this first episode we lay out our motivations for doing this kind of exploration in the first place, as well as cover all the time…
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The Legacy of the Banquet & Ball
We return with our annual tradition of dedicating an episode to the Banquet & Ball. This time, we are joined by a few of Jaymes' siblings to explore the experience through their eyes. We don't go over what the Ball experience is itself as much in this one, so if you haven't listened to our…
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Summer Ramblings: Rings of Power and Rants
This time in our summer ramblings (which is when we recorded it, even if it's winter now...) we discuss our first reactions to Rings of Power as well as a smattering of other related topics like shoes!
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Summer Ramblings: A Particular Narrative Itch
Today's summer ramblings meander from a new breathing technique Jaymes is experimenting with, and some curiosity on both our parts about a certain kind of episodic hero-fiction.
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Summer Ramblings: When Did Social Dancing Become Optional?
Today in our summer ramblings, we talk about dance and its importance to culture, as well as potentially why and how we stopped doing it properly. Relevant article: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/when-and-why-did-we-all-stop-learning-how-to-dance
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Summer Ramblings: The Virtue of Grouchiness
Continuing in our summer ramblings, we grouch about people who are too grouchy!
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Summer Ramblings: Culture and Construction
Continuing with our rambles, we talk about a recent life-saving act of gun violence, as well as culture and creation.
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Summer Ramblings: Fall of Roe v Wade Fallout
Today in the next episode of Ravi and Jaymes rambling during the summer, we discuss some musings on various ethical nuances that came to light in the aftermath of Roe v Wade's fall. Relevant is this link.
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Summer Ramblings & Roe V. Wade
In our second episode of Summer Ramblings, we actually have news to talk about! Yay news!
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Introducing Summer Ramblings!
With all the busyness in the lives of Ravi and Jaymes, we are starting a new format for our summer series of episodes. Listen to find out what we're up to!
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Restoring Honor Systems in Modernity
Today Jaymes and Ravi tackle the final episode of our series on honor and shame systems with the challenging question of: "Now what?" How do we go about supporting honor in a shameless society that focuses exclusively on dignity? How do we go about creating culture that is honoring and healthy?…
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Honor Without Pride
How do we have a holy ambition for being honorable without falling to pride? How do we give (and receive) compliments well? How do we encourage each other without flattering each other? Come join us, and make sure to join our Discord server and participate in the conversation!
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Shame, Reconciliation, & Self-esteem
In this, the second episode of our series on honor and shame, we focus on the latter of those two controversial words: shame! How does shame fit within a Christian understanding of dignity, self-esteem, worth, and the image of God? Let's explore all of those things, and see how shame -- in its...
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Honorable Honor
This month we tackle a new series! This time focused on honor and shame and how they function within society for good and ill. This episode Ravi and Jaymes introduce the topic and how it is relevant to practical living out of proper theology, and as always define some terms. Come join us, and…
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Banquet & Ball Returns
Ravi and Jaymes are joined on this episode by Kate Rodriguez and Keturah Lamb, both long-time listeners to the podcast! We discuss this year's Banquet and Ball -- the Paragon Ball. Along the way we encounter topics such as cults and culture as well as the good, the true, and the beautiful.
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Christianity and Holidays and Holiness
Tis the season to argue about holidays! Er, no that's not right... Join Ravi and Jaymes as we explore three contentious holidays, their true meanings and origins, and how we should relate to them with a mindset of orthopraxis. And how are Christmas, Halloween, and Easter related to each other...
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Christianity and the Vices
At long last, we come to it. The episode where we talk about those things. The things the proper sort of people just don't do. Or shouldn't they? (Spoiler alert: petting kittens is evil.) Join us while we explore what may or may not make something a vice, and how we should relate to them, and to...
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Creeds, Catechisms, & Statements of Faith
Today we're going on a brief historical survey through the Church's wars against heresies as embodied in creeds and other expressions of the common faith. A very brief survey. Barely enough to get our toes wet, but hopefully enough to spark your interest in studying more!
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The Praxis of History
The world has been afflicted with poor history teachers, who seem to think that the most important things about the past are the most boring and useless parts of it. And so history has taken on a reputation for dry, dull, evilness. But is studying history only an academic pursuit of endless…
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Q & A Returns!
To wrap up our series on men and women, we're doing another Q&A episode! We cover topics ranging from Nietzsche to ghosts to child labor, and we even talk about a few things relevant to our series, haha. It's a fun ride, regardless, and we'd love to hear your thoughts!
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Communication & Modesty
Let your hearts be brave ye who venture into this subject!! We've been hinting since our earliest episodes that we would eventually, someday, take the dive and discuss our thoughts on modesty, and the day has finally come. But first, we lay some foundations in the key distinctions between men and...
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Siblings in Christ
So what happens if you aren't dating/courting and you aren't married (yet)... can you still be friends with that weird, alien, other half of the species? How do we navigate the awkward, touchy, complicated waters of false assumptions and accidental miscommunications? How do we live in love…
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Marriage & Covenants
After courtship and dating comes, Lord willing, marriage! But what does that look like? Joining Ravi and Jaymes this month are Azriel (our first returning guest!) and his wife to discuss the purpose and function of marriage. And we definitely have fun storming castles along the way. ;)
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Romantic Relations & Mushy Stuff
Today, Ravi and Jaymes are diving into the murky quagmire of mushiness that is romance-with-intent-of-marriage (or not, as the case may be). This is a complicated topic that has a ton of pitfalls and rabbit trails, which we... mostly tried to dodge. There are soapboxes and rants galore, though…
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Femininity & Synergy
Following up in our series on relations between the sexes, we dive into what is femininity? This is a hotly contested and debated topic, and there's so much more that could be said than what we could cover. But to help us out, we brought in a guest expert, Cora Jongeward, who is definitively more...
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Masculinity & Gender Roles
Beginning a series on relations between the sexes, we dive right in with "What is Masculinity?" and the accompanying complexities. We lay some foundations about equality and hierarchy, how the roles God designed fit together, and the challenges to those ideas from our culture. We really want to...
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The Banquet & Ball
Today we bring Daniel Hede with us as a guest to discuss the experience of the Banquet & Ball. This is slightly challenging, since, by its very nature, it is transcendent, ineffable, and nears the numinous. But we do our best, and along the way discuss the significance of honor, intentionality,...
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Bonus: Noel by J.R.R. Tolkien
And as an extra special Christmas present, here is a bonus episode with Jaymes doing a reading of Tolkien's Christmas poem: Noel!
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Christmas Music
Here we are again with an episode talking about music, and how we approach it from an Orthopraxis perspective, but this time... * drum roll * it's about Christmas music!! Here are the links to what we cover in this episode: Martin Luther Yells About Inferior Anglican Christmas Hymns -- by...
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Q&A: You Asked! We Rambled!
We are so thankful for all of you who have stuck with us on this crazy experiment of a podcast, and so for this month's episode, in honor of Thanksgiving, we did a Q&A, where we asked you all to supply the Qs. And boy did you ever! There are some brain benders in here, haha. There's also quite a...
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Video Games. Are They Evil?
So many things to do, so little time, how can we justify spending any of it on video games at all? Don't those rot your brain? What about the occasional demonic possession... aren't video games just as bad as rock music? Let's explore what value there is in video games, and how to enjoy them…
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Cussing, Gosh Dang It!
Yep, we did it. We've been trampling on the toes of some sacred cows on both sides of the aisle (and mixing metaphors while we're at it) for a while now, but this one might actually be one of the most challenging we've faced. We're tackling what we believe the Bible actually says about the...
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The Gods of the Copybook Headings
Bonus episode where Ravi reads out loud one of his favorite works of poetry by Rudyard Kipling!
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Secular Songs of Substance
What can we get from songs that aren't written by Christians? Is there any redemptive or edifying value to them? Let's find out! (Fair warning: we play secular songs in this episode.) Also, there's a bonus episode that comes with this one:...
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Classism vs Racism, or, Inequality in Scripture
A brave subject in these troubled times, or perhaps just reckless, who knows? We're aiming to cut to the heart of a biblical orthopraxis which clarifies and exposes the true nature of the conflicts and confusion running rampant right now. Scripture has a lot of amazing and beautiful things to say...
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The Pursuit of Happyness: The Triumph of Chris Gardner with Class
The last movie review in our series (for now anyway) focuses on Will Smith's portrayal of the real life figure Chris Gardner. We talk about charisma, determination, and the vital importance of fatherhood. We also talk about how it illustrates beautifully how class in America works. Specifically,...
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Ip Man: Philosophies in Combat
For this episode of movie review from an Orthopraxis perspective, we have pulled in one of our good friends to help us break down and analyze an Asian martial arts film. Because we're strange like that. Here we examine not only some fun stuff about story theory and cinematography and history and...
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Beyond the Mask: Action, Adventure, and Theology
Today we're discussing the independent film Beyond the Mask, and how it functions within a Christian worldview as a work of art (yes, we nerd out about story structure) and as a moral platform. As Christian craftsmen, how do we glorify God?
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The Prince of Egypt: A Scriptural and Cultural Analysis
Here we go on the instantiation of a series of episodes where we talk through various kinds of movies, so you can see how we apply Orthopraxis to media consumption. The first one: The Prince of Egypt!
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The Law, Legalism, and What Those Are and Aren't
This is one of those topics that unsaved people and new Christians often think they understand, but couldn't be more wrong about. Even mature Christians often get these topics askew. What does the law really mean for us who live in the New Covenant? How do we approach the Old Testament in...
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How Then Should We Eat?
Food and eating is one of the most fundamental aspects of life and culture, so it definitely falls under the category of "practical," but what about "theology"? Join us as we discuss what the Bible says, and just as importantly *doesn't* say, about food!
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Music in Life and Worship
Last episode we referenced our beliefs about music when discussing our beliefs about food, and so we figured we should probably elaborate on those as well. Music is an integral, daily part of our humanity, and is thus a very practical thing to explore theologically. Join us as we discuss the...
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Pandenominationalism & Graphing Theology
Today we're diving deep into what pandenominationalism means for our everyday lives, and presenting and comparing several different ways of organizing and categorizing theological beliefs. Graphs and charts are involved. Things get crazy.
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Where orthodoxy meets real life, or: Insanity - practical application of Scripture and ranging everywhere. Amiable agreement and disagreement ensues.
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Jaymes & Ravi
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Where orthodoxy meets real life, or: Insanity - practical application of Scripture and ranging everywhere. Amiable agreement and disagreement ensues.
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