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The Nothing Human Podcast
by Michael Minkoff, Jr.
The Nothing Human podcast is a biblically-informed thinkspace for exploring and articulating all the ways we make or break sense of human experience. Join thinker and author Michael Minkoff as he investigates and interrogates meaning-making and thought categories in an effort to articulate a more cohesive understanding of human information within the superstructure of God’s truth.
Episodes
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Ep. 30: The Lord’s Prayer, pt. 6: And Forgive Us Our Debts
Michael explores the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” This episode covers the distinction of moral and material debts and the nature of true forgiveness. It also explores the profound implications of the condition attached to this…
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Ep. 29: The Lord’s Prayer, pt. 5: Give Us This Day
Michael digs in to the fourth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread,” focusing particularly on the translation of the mysterious word epiousion, usually translated “daily,” as well as the expansive connections between the prayer’s requested daily bread and Jesus’...
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Ep. 28: The Lord’s Prayer, pt. 4: Your Kingdom Come
Michael unpacks the second and third petition of the Lord’s Prayer (“Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”), spending considerable time discussing the nature of the kingdom of God from heaven, and what it would mean for it to fully arrive on earth. LINKS Michael’s Patreon
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Ep. 27: The Lord’s Prayer, pt. 3: Hallowed Be Your Name
Michael explores the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer, “Hallowed be your name,” digging into its grammatical peculiarity, its Old Testament roots, and its connection to the larger topic of the “name of God.” LINKS Michael’s Patreon
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Ep. 26: The Lord’s Prayer, pt. 2: Our Father
Michael explains details connected to the preface of the Lord’s Prayer, “Our Father who is in heaven.” He also closes by reading his poem “Praying as a Child,” from his first book of poems, The Landfill of Discount Messiahs. LINKS Michael’s Patreon
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Ep. 25: The Lord’s Prayer, pt. 1: Introduction
Michael covers some introductory material for a new series on The Lord’s Prayer. He discusses the forms, purposes, context, and uses of the Lord’s Prayer as well as general implications we can draw from it as a whole. This series was requested by Patreon supporters. Thank you all for your…
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Ep. 24: NH Conversations: Three Powers Recap with Christa, pt. 3
Michael and Christa return for part three of their recap on the Three Powers series. They discuss will-oriented biases in anthropology, singular and composite human being, sushi, evangelism and the affections, and much more. LINKS Michael’s Patreon Michael’s YouTube Livestream Link for October 8,...
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Ep. 23: Why Doesn’t God Just Make Us Perfect Already?
Michael tackles a listener question: “Why doesn’t God just make it so believers cannot sin after conversion?” The answer to this question balloons rather quickly to touch on many other things, including, in keeping with the trend of this podcast, the nature of reality. Enjoy! LINKS: Michael’s...
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Ep. 22: NH Conversations: Three Powers Recap with Christa, pt. 2
Michael and Christa return with the second part of their conversational recap on the three powers. This one covers the evil of diets and the moral limitations of your survival instinct, the nature of truth and fact, the age of the Spirit and the reformation of the affections, and more. LINKS...
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Ep. 21: NH Conversations: Three Powers Recap with Christa, pt. 1
Michael is joined by his sister, Christa, for an extended conversational recap on the Three Powers Series. In this first part, they discuss a wide range of things in unedited conversation. The origin of the podcast name Nothing Human. The meaning of Augustine’s pears. Will-oriented academics....
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Ep. 20: Good and Evil, Righteousness and Wickedness
Michael explains the important distinction between good/evil as affectional categories and righteousness/wickedness as moral categories. He explores the problem of evil, common grace, the last petition of the Lord’s Prayer, and numerous other biblical texts, recovering an understanding of how the...
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Ep. 19: Joseph’s Bones and Resurrection Trees
Michael takes you on an exegetical journey into the biblical significance of bones as a lasting memorial of a person awaiting the resurrection. Find out about the curious burial of the bones of Joseph, terebinth oaks as memorials of the dead, the connection of land inheritance and honorable…
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Ep. 18: Physical and Spiritual, Heaven and Earth
Michael investigates the distinction of physical vs. spiritual, exploring its Platonic roots and destructive consequences. Michael then discusses other, more strictly biblical distinctions, beginning with “heaven and earth.” LINKS Michael’s Patreon Review: What is the Mission of the Church?, by...
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Ep. 17: The Origin of the Soul
Where does the soul come from? Is it created by God or does it come from our parents and ultimately from Adam? Michael explores Creationism and Traducianism as it relates to the origin of the human soul, explaining them along the way. LINKS Michael’s Patreon Ep. 16: Body and Soul, Flesh and…
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Ep. 16: Body and Soul, Flesh and Spirit
Michael investigates our misconceptions concerning the body and soul, exploring the Platonic and NeoPlatonic influences on Christian thought, which has produced dualistic and body-dismissing conceptions of human nature and the source of sin. Some of this relies on our misunderstanding of the...
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Three Powers, Pt. 15: Three Powers, Trauma, and “Redeeming Heartache”
Michael unpacks how the three powers relate to trauma by drawing from the book Redeeming Heartache: How Past Suffering Reveals Our True Calling, by Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel. Allender and Loerzel helpfully categorize trauma into three biblical categories: the traumas of orphan, stranger,...
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Three Powers, Pt. 14: More on Internal and External Standards
Michael digs deeper into the internal and external standards for all three powers, discussing how we set or discern values of good, right, and true, and how we achieve equilibrium between individual and collective values. LINKS Michael’s Patreon Nominalism vs. Realism The Structure of Scientific...
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Three Powers, Pt. 13: More on the Affections
At your request, Michael explores the affections a little more deeply, particularly concerning the “ordering” of the affections. After establishing some foundational axioms for affective change, Michael explores some baby steps to processing and ordering the affections, particularly as modeled in...
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Three Powers, Pt. 12: Three Powers and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
Michael explains how the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Bible relate to the three powers of the human spirit. He explains how the offices of Jesus—of prophet, priest, and king—continue to be represented in the church’s verbal and embodied witness through the diverse gifting of the Holy...
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Three Powers, Pt. 11: Self-Awareness and the Overlap of the Powers
Michael explores the importance of self-awareness and the difficulties we have in self-awareness because of the way the powers often overlap each other. He then provides some language for articulating these overlaps or agreements between the three powers. Particularly, he talks about how desire...
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Three Powers, Pt. 10: Superiority and Submission
Michael discusses the touchy topics of superiority and submission, explaining how an understanding of domain, power, and authority helps us navigate both the internal submission necessary to become whole people and the external submission that grants peace and productivity in communities. LINKS...
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Three Powers, Pt. 9: Three Powers, Faith, and Salvation
Michael investigates the ways that the three powers of the human spirit relate to Christian faith as the instrument of salvation. He begins with a discussion of the intellectual aspects of faith, and another damaging corollary of the primacy of the intellect error in the West. He thens goes on to...
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Three Powers, Pt. 8: Three Powers and Anthropology
Michael applies the three power framework to anthropology—the study of humankind—with a wide-ranging conversation on gender, ethnic groups, global missions, and denominations. LINKS Michael's Patreon StackExchange Discussion of Man and Woman Made in God's Image Arianism Augustine, On the Trinity...
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Three Powers, Pt. 7: On the Intellect
Michael explores the intellect, truth, fact, bias, imagination, and experience to arrive at a more relational and integrated understanding of the spirit of the mind. He explores disorders of the intellect, which contribute to everything from sociopathy to sloth, and establishes humility as the…
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Three Powers, Pt. 6: On the Will
Michael explores the power of the will on its own terms, the difference between good/evil and righteousness/wickedness, the nature of divine righteousness, the location of the self, and various disorders of the will. LINKS The Problem of Evil Has an “Evil” Problem Civil Forfeiture Kant’s...
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Three Powers, Pt. 5: On the Affections
Michael traces a bit of the human and Christian history on the devaluation and dismissal of the affections, explaining along the way some of the reasons for that low assessment. He then outlines some biblically-informed objections to our collective abuse of the affections (and affectional…
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Three Powers, Pt. 4: The Powers Ordered and Disordered
This episode explores how each power of the human spirit might be well-ordered or disordered. Michael begins by explaining the relationship of the fruit of the Spirit and the three powers, gleaning from Paul’s letters to discern the well-ordered functions of the affections (Love), will…
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Three Powers, Pt. 3: How the Powers Relate
How do the three powers relate, both in individuals and in community? Michael explores the idea of the “throne room of the spirit,” where the leader, partner, and subject powers work together, or not, to accomplish the goals of the main power. He then explores the need for a standard for each...
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Three Powers, Pt. 2: One Power to Rule Them All?
In this episode, Michael investigates whether there is a proper ordering of the powers of the human spirit. Is one power supposed to be primary in the human individual or in a community? He discusses how that question has already been answered for most Westerners with the “primacy of the...
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Three Powers, Pt. 1: Introduction to Three Powers of the Human Spirit
Michael introduces both the Nothing Human podcast and his first multi-part series on the Three Powers of the Human Spirit. Join him as he introduces the ancient categories of mind, heart, and will and begins an exploration of their meaning-making capacity in biblical theology, self-awareness, and...
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The Nothing Human podcast is a biblically-informed thinkspace for exploring and articulating all the ways we make or break sense of human experience. Join thinker and author Michael Minkoff as he investigates and interrogates meaning-making and thought categories in an effort to articulate a more cohesive understanding of human information within the superstructure of God’s truth.
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