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Paul VanderKlay's Podcast — 192 episodes
From Sikh Heritage, to Bard College, to Jordan Peterson, to Estuary. Raj's Story
Why Religions Works, Aren't Going Away and Everybody Knows It
Do our Beliefs Overcome the Influences of our Religious and Cultural Containers?
Can Embodied Wisdom Transmission Survive the Internet?
Can the Mormons and other Religious Groups Survive the Internet?
Finding Nemo the Mormon
I'm Happy with my Slow Way of YouTube over the Alternatives
How Much Money Would Secure Your Future?
Candice Owens vs Andrew Wilson Illustrates Paul Anleitner's Book
Yes, Religious Formation Sinks Deepest in a Monoculture, but Good Luck with That
Western Progressive Liberationism, Formal Religions and Rationality
Two Christian Nations Divided by a Common Religion
Jesus Vs. Odysseus
What happens to Ministers When They Have a Crisis of Faith?
Don't Share Your Oil with those Foolish Virgins!
The Upheavals that Unsettled Ross Douthat, Yet Jesus Remains Dissolved Unseen in our Culture
Why is Horror the Last Genre Standing?
Can you Find "Zeus' Law" in the Bible? Can Failure to Fulfill it End Your World?
Nolan's Downsampled Odyssey gives us the Odysseus We Deserve
Must Equality Reign in Heaven? Alex O'Connor and Ross Douthat
Keep your Eye on Sinon's Stick if you Want to Watch Christopher Nolan's trick
Other Things Larger than Chrisopher Nolan are Masters of The Odysseus Movie
DTF St. Louis, The Crisis of Male Friendship and the Changing Architecture of our Relationships
Jesus is the New and Better Odysseus
The Religious Shaped Hole in Every Human Heart. The TLC and Our Stories
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is Gifting Western Civ a Common Religious Moment
Don't Share Your Oil with those Foolish Virgins!
Sacramento Estuary Conference Tickets are Now Available
Rod Dreher Suffers the Embodiment of our Failures and our Anxieties with Christ
Can you Have a Functioning Social Order if your "(God)" Never says "No"?
How Orthodoxy Inherited Both sides of the Emerging Church Movement. Salvation as health vs destiny.
The Authentic Givenness of the Voluntary American Enlightenment Religious Culture
When the Mysterious, Elusive Kingdom Becomes a Dragnet
PVK Q/A: Friendship and the TLC, Is America the Best Place to Live?
Post-Kildare Report Livestream
ARC 2026. Day 3 Third Day's the Charm Pt. 2
ARC 2026, Third Day's the Charm Pt. 1
ARC 2026 Day 2. Douthat Delivers
ARC Day 1: Liberal Lions, Anti-Liberal Dissidents and How WW1 Monuments Change
Jeff and Paul's Breakwater Adventure
It's Really Hard to Not Be At Least a Little Bit Protestant
Sac Estuary Conference Announcement: October 16 and 17, 2026
After the Same-Sex-Marriage War the CRCNA Will Try to Grow Forward with Three Factions
CRC Synod 2026: From Social Justice Anxieties to Confessionalist Anxieties
Mysticism: The Containment or Titration of God by the Church
Steve Skojec. "I'm not Glib or Happy as the Man Who Lost His Faith"
What Were Your Expectations of How Jesus and Church Would Change Your World?
Can You Deal Out Death in Judgment? Can you Anticipate Future Fruit from Current Appearances?
Disclosure Day Will Mostly Disclose What We Don't Want to Know About Ourselves
Stone-Age-Virgin Pearl Davis Quizes Orthodox Application of Ancient Religious Concerns
Hey PVK, Leave those Orthodox Honeymooners Alone!
Raised Hari Krishna, Deconstructed to a Nietzschean Rationalism, Then Caught by the Love of God. Kal
2 Messiahs, 4 Sons of God, Only One Spirit Wins
Is the Kingdom of Heaven like a Soundtrack?
Thoughts on My First English Language Orthodoxy Liturgy
The Imaginal in Saints and Holy Places, Kildare 2026
Fundamentalisms Remix Boundary Staves in the American Religious Marketplace
Trad-Immigrant Envy and Report from the Austin Estuary
Aliens and Indians, How will the UFO, UAPs become REAL to Americans
Tightening vs Loosening: The Coming War for Orthodoxy in America
Is "Why I Believe in God" best answered by an Argument? with Craig Biddle
American Orthodoxy says to the Internet, "Ok Mr. De Mill, I'm ready for my closeup!"
What is the Internet? Who should use it and for what? Who is President Foxman?
From Hippie Conservatism to Orthodox and Estuary Openness. Rigel Windsong Thurston
Barry Strauss' "Jews vs Rome" and Palestine 1936, Book Notes
Casting Magic Missiles, Fighting the Darkness with Friendship
The Chaos of Infinite Claims on the Modern State for Happiness Amid Hidden Values
Hey Orthobros and Orthobabes! Civilization wasn't (Re)built in a Generation
How to Avoid Regret
The Materialist's Dilemma with the Generous Jesus Myth
Why the Modern Siloing of Religion and Values is Breaking Down
Summary of Newbigin's Critique of Modernity's View of Religion
CRCNA Synod 2026 First Thoughts
Church OF England as Newbigin Battleground 40 years later: Angela Tilby and Tom Holland
Is Theology the Queen-Mother of the Sciences?
The Heretical Imperative almost necessitates Religious Deconstruction. Lesslie Newbigin
When Gen-X Fled the Boomer-Seeker Movement and found Lesslie Newbiggin
Breakwater London 2026: PVK, Nathan Jacobs, Joe Folley, Jared Smith, Justin Brierley, Glen Scrivener
New Mexico Native, From Baptist to Lutheran, Old PC Collector, Garrett White
Paul, the Greek Philosophers and the Resurrection
How Old Men in Christ Avoid Regret
Signal Groups and New Evolutions of The Corner
Opponent Processing between the Imperfectly Practical and the Ideal. Friday Estuary Livestream
Why People who Participate in _Religion_ Generically in the West Outcompete Non-Participants
Who is Everett Vroon?
As the Post War Secular Religions Recede, Deeper Religious Maps Re-emerge
Jonathan Pageau: The Prophet of Verticality
Why Bret and Heather Celebrate the Arenic God's Love of Vultures
What Jesus Lost to Win Us
Can You Talk People into the Resurrection?
The Giant Slayer from Read on CS Lewis The Pilgrim's Regress with @ShoulderSerf on YouTube
Jordan Hall says to Bret and Jonathan that Loving is the Key to Knowing and Being
(CORRECTED!) Pageau, Hall and Weinstein Revisit 2017 Jordan Peterson Maps of Meaning
Unexpected Activists and Feminists Screen-Praying to the Gods of Democratic Attention
Jesus Smuggles his Victories Into the World Through Our Sufferings
The Transition from Modern, Literate, Protestant world into Who Knows What is Well Underway
How Losing wins Hearts
Women and Mothers Navigating Giving, Identity, Being, Wanting, and Mary Mother of the Christ
Jordan Peterson's illness prompts Reflections on the last 10 years
Guy Becomes Muslim by Reading the Quran and Other Fancy Stuff
Suffering as Revelatory Connector between Lovers
Activists are our Modern Monks and Social Media Posts are our Prayers to a Divinized Imaginary
The Maps of Meaning We Must Constantly Make
The TLC is a Multi-Tool to Make the Internet Human Again (MIHA)
The Strangest Story Ever Told. How Jesus Won History
The Victory of Christ through suffering Replicated in Us
Competition and Affluent Liberationisms Fuel Secularisms
Aliens always Rewrite the Religions of Worlds They Visit
A World Without Suffering is a World without Caring
Have an Algo-Free TLC with RSS
Why We can't Meet Pascal's Wager
Fascist Trump? Nuremberg Christianity and the War in Iran
Why John Believed and How Mary withstood Angel Lumens
Is Agapic Love a Nice Sentiment but a Foolish Way to Live in this Brutal World?
The Question I'm Surprised No One Has Asked Me Yet
Bart Ehrman delivers apologist footnotes pitched to skeptics for Tom Holland's Dominion Thesis
Erosion and Adaptation. Marital and Familial Cultural and Religious Institutional Containers
Feeling the Thrill of Religious Rigor. The Nominalist-Rigorist Cycle
The Recession of Nuremberg Christianity
Yes, Mary Harrington and Tom Holland, the Singularity Has Happened, and the Beatles are Involved
The Crucified King
Bart Ehrman is Wrong, Believing for John began at the Empty Tomb
Bart Ehrman Doesn't Believe Jesus is the Son of God but Wants His Neighbors to Act Like They Do
Mark Parker goes digging for PVK lore
Ezra from the TLC
Why Pilate was Afraid of Jesus (Sunday Edition)
The Meaning Crisis doesn't CARE which Religion Your Parents Belonged To
Ramy is to Islam as Orthobros are to Orthodoxy? Procedural Religion?
How does the Eastern Church meet the Western Church among Normies in America? Nathan Jacobs
The Islamic Invasion of the Corner and the Quest for a There There
Cuckolding Islam: Can the Christian West Pass Off Its Secular Heir?
When Jesus Tried Pilate (Sunday Edition)
The Brief and Confusing History of "Religion". Kevin Flatt
Why Pilate Feared that Jesus might be a god
Fracking the Shorts in the Algo Crisis
Does Tom Holland's Dominion Thesis hold through the Secular-Social-Order Revolution?
Our Current Wobble Back towards a Renewed Sacred Social Order
Why Rationality Rules is God's Gift to a Metagelical Future
Dawn's story from a House-church Sect to Orthodoxy and the TLC
Jesus' Friends acted Nothing like Jesus
When Jesus Tried Pilate
People Long for Relationship with God More than an Answer to God's Existence
Steven Pinker and Ross Douthat Square Off around a Poorly Framed Question
Jonathan Pageau Tries to Provoke a Copernican Revolution on Kindly Atheist
How Rock and Roll Sold the Rebel Sell so the Real Rebel today wears Robes and venerates Icons
Islamic and Secular Common Religion in Evaluating Where to Live
Can Mystical Religion and Liberal Democracy Coexist? Tom Holland, Nick Cave, Islam
How Reliable Were/Are Jesus' Friends
We Who Wrestle with Church, Job Edition
The Convenient but False Division of our World into Religious and Secular is Ending
Martin Shaw's Liturgies of the Wild
"Religion" Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
O'Connor/Scrivener about Xian Reputation in the West. Law, Morality, and Changeability
Jesus Allows His Friend to Die to Humiliate Death in Front of Us All
Holland/Dominion Thesis? Compare 3 "Sons of God": Caesar, Alexander and Jesus
Living with AI in Feb 2026 with Tripp, Sam, Kale and I
Is it Wise to be a Sex Worker? How would you know? Was Job Wise? Is it about Feelings?
Why Scrivener will Win the Future Even if O'Connor Won the Debate
Will Evangelical Morph into Metagelical to Become America's Civilizational Religion? Corrected
When the Lights Go Out, We'll Need Intergenerational Communion More than Ever
Will Evangelical Morph into Metagelical to Become America's Civilizational Religion? .
Doctrine, Law, and Authority, in Liberal Democracies
The Most Rational Man in the Land, Sunday Edition
Jesus 1 Death 0. Could You Wield Death against such a Man?
What is the role of Doctrine to create Strong Communities in the Church, the Military and Ted Lasso?
Why the Christian Reformed Church Golden Age Failed
Would Jesus Eat Dinner in the Home of Jeffrey Epstein?
Why are Christian Reformed Churches struggling and Christian Reformed Day Schools Thriving?
Estuary Work Weekend March 13-15 at Living Stones in Sacramento
The Fun of Wobbly People Looking for Truthyness Together
Do Brian and Brad Imagine Two Different Christs? Identical Twin Pastors Divided By Trump
Unexpected Outsiders Trust in Jesus while Insiders Pause and Balk
The Most Rational Man in the Land
Finding Truth After the Modernist Epistemic Collapse. Feb 13 Friday estuary
Paint is Wearing Thin on the Painted Religious Bricks in the Secular Marketplace
I want the TLC to Break the 4th Wall and Be with Me. Sam from New Zealand
Christianity is a Meta-Religion and Secularism is its Liberal Prophet
Scott Adams' and Tom Holland's Woo-y yet Skeptical Approaches to Christianity
And the Best Way to Avoid becoming the Victim of a Sex Cult is...
Jesus Redeems his Samaritan Bride at Jacob's Well
Why do Surprising Outsiders Embrace Jesus with More Faith than the Insiders?
The West Losing its Christian Anthropology while it's unclear Epstein Elites will get Justice
Monarch vs. Law, Spirit vs. Instantiation. Secularity in The Kingdom of Sicily and Revolutionary Iran
From JBP-Pageau-Ortho Pipeline to Divorced, Broke but not Giving Up
Who is Daniel from O.G. Rose? How Did Daniel Become Who He Is?
Does Jesus' Response to Nicodemus Tell Us His Response to Scott Adams?
How should you respond when you discover you're participating in a corrupt institution? Estuary Live
When Jesus' Bride Met Him at Jacob's Well
Is Secularity an Open Source Religious Commons?
Tyler from LA who lives in NYC who love Estuary
Religious Leaders in the Modern World Can't Afford Clean-Room Purity and so they Fudge
Christian Nationalism and the Iranian Revolution: The Wobble of Gap and Seed Religion