All episodes
262: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan's Nightmare pt. 1
261: Herman Melville - Moby Dick
260: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 2
259: Hawthorne - Young Goodman Brown pt. 1
258: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 3
257: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 2
256: Dostoyevsky - The Grand Inquisitor pt. 1
255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche
254: Kierkegaard - Parable of the Geese & the King and Maiden
253: Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Minister's Black Veil
252: Hamann - We Hear the Blood of the Redeemer Crying Out in Our Heart
251: Hamann - The Hostility of the Serpent's Offspring against the Blessed Offspring of the Woman
250: Hamann - Interpreting the Sacred Scriptures
249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy
248: Grothe - Help for Hopeful Pilgrims
247: Grothe - How to "Save the World"
246: Grothe - Set Free for Life
245: Grothe - Effect of Law on Adamic Humanity
244: Grothe - The Death of Husband Law
243: Grothe - The Change of Lordship in the Christian's Experience
242: Grothe - The Justification of the Ungodly
241: Sasse - There is no Christian state
240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation
239: Bayer - The grace of God opens eyes and ears and hearts and mouths and hands
238: Bayer - Faith is wholly and entirely God's work
237: Paulson - Genesis is either the preached God speaking, or is the myth/science of the unpreached God
236: Paulson - Nature's life without a preacher is forensic: being judged and judging
235: Paulson - Darwin's real problem is … the command of God that has no restraint
234: Paulson - Life without a Preacher… Darwin's Origin of Species
233: Dreher - The Power of the Powerless Church
231: Dreher - Small Communities Can Rescue the Lone Individual
230: Dreher - The Christian family is a Survival Strategy for Faith in a Time of Persecution
229: Dreher - Family as an Effective Resistance to Totalitarianism
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228: Dreher - A Benda Guide to Child-raising
227: Bonus Debrief on Anger, Hatred, and Miscarriage
226: Dreher - Families are Resistance Cells
225: Dreher - Bear Communal Witness to Future Generations
224: Dreher - Create Small Fortresses of Memory
223: Dreher - Cultivate Cultural Memory
222b: Dreher - Reject Doublethink and Fight for Free Speech
222a: Dreher - Choose a Life Apart from the Crowd
221: Dreher - Value Nothing More Than Truth
220: Dreher - Progressivism as Religion
219b: Dreher - The spirit of the therapeutic has conquered the churches
219a: Dreher - The death of God in the West
218b: Pastoral Debrief on Soft Totalitarianism and the Church
218a: Dreher - The Totalitarian State Seeks to Control Your Actions, Thoughts, and Emotions
217: Dreher - The Unready Christians of Slovakia
216: Mullet - Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect
215: Pastoral Debrief on Christian Dissention
214: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance
213b: Paulson - You must refuse the claims of the church to rule marriage and the government
213a: Paulson - Becoming a servant of all and a saint in this world
212: Tocqueville - Religion Considered as a Political Institution
211: Tocqueville - Life is neither a pleasure nor a sorrow
210b: Hitchens - Eschatology is inseparable from religious faith
210a: Hitchens - Religion is the first chance to explain human nature and the natural order
209b: Hitchens - Religion abolishes obligation to live in truth
209a: Hitchens - Is it moral to tell anybody that their sins can be forgiven?
208b: Nietzsche - Seeing the alternative between Dionysus and the "Crucified"
208a: Nietzsche - Human history is built upon sacrifice
207: A Prayer for Memorial Day
206b: Eagleton - The figure of the tortured and executed Jesus is the overthrowing of the Satanic image of God
206a: Eagleton - Everyone knows that Nietzsche said "God is dead"
205b: Pastoral Debrief on ministry, vocation, and how we learn
205a: Scott Keith - Debrief on Two Kingdoms, Social Media, and Local Vocation
204: Luther - Difference between tolerating injustice and violence, and remaining silent
203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Everybody
202b: Robert Farrar Capon - Be Authentic and Authoritative Proclaimers of the Gospel
202a: Robert Farrar Capon - The Mystery and Guilt pt. 1
201b: Weil - The false god changes suffering into violence
201a: Weil - It is the innocent victim who can feel hell
200b: Weil - It is Not Good Which Evil Violates, For Good is Inviolate
200a: Weil - Evil is License and That is Why it Is Monotonous
199: Weil - We Humiliate Ourselves Before False Gods
198: Simone Weil - The Cross
197b: Leo the Great - Use Lent for general improvement in the whole round of Christian duties
197a: Leo the Great - All the actions of Christ reveal the presence of the twofold nature
196b: Luther - Paul cuts out all merit and gives glory only to God
196a: Luther - I was forgiven only by God's boundless grace
195b: Luther - Mesmerized by the wizardry of the devil
195a: Luther - Ancient serpent bewitches not only the senses but also the mind with false and evil thinking
194b: Luther - Our knowledge of God is merely passive
194a: Luther - God's will is to bless all nations... through Christ
193b: Luther - Christ has made us free, not civilly, not physically, but divinely
193a: Luther - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free
192b: Solzhenitsyn - Never knowingly support lies!
192a: Solzhenitsyn - "I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!"
191b: Solzhenitsyn - We lie to ourselves for assurance
191a: Solzhenitsyn - Things have almost reached rock bottom
190: Kennedy - The Gospel deals with all of life, because it comes to heal the whole man
189: Kennedy - A Christian stands for truth even when it hurts the most
188: Kennedy - This communist doctrine that God is something we can take or leave
187: Gerald Kennedy - Contentiousness is not listed as Christian virtue
186: Christmas During the Civil War
185: Christmas after the Enlightenment
184: Bowler - Christmas in Nazi Germany
183: Sasse - The secular and the spiritual are indeed to be dearly distinguished
182: Sasse - The office of the governing authority belongs to God's created order