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Paul VanderKlay's Podcast — 192 episodes

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From Sikh Heritage, to Bard College, to Jordan Peterson, to Estuary. Raj's Story

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Why Religions Works, Aren't Going Away and Everybody Knows It

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Do our Beliefs Overcome the Influences of our Religious and Cultural Containers?

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Can Embodied Wisdom Transmission Survive the Internet?

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Can the Mormons and other Religious Groups Survive the Internet?

6

Finding Nemo the Mormon

7

I'm Happy with my Slow Way of YouTube over the Alternatives

8

How Much Money Would Secure Your Future?

9

Candice Owens vs Andrew Wilson Illustrates Paul Anleitner's Book

10

Yes, Religious Formation Sinks Deepest in a Monoculture, but Good Luck with That

11

Western Progressive Liberationism, Formal Religions and Rationality

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Two Christian Nations Divided by a Common Religion

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Jesus Vs. Odysseus

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What happens to Ministers When They Have a Crisis of Faith?

15

Don't Share Your Oil with those Foolish Virgins!

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The Upheavals that Unsettled Ross Douthat, Yet Jesus Remains Dissolved Unseen in our Culture

17

Why is Horror the Last Genre Standing?

18

Can you Find "Zeus' Law" in the Bible? Can Failure to Fulfill it End Your World?

19

Nolan's Downsampled Odyssey gives us the Odysseus We Deserve

20

Must Equality Reign in Heaven? Alex O'Connor and Ross Douthat

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Keep your Eye on Sinon's Stick if you Want to Watch Christopher Nolan's trick

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Other Things Larger than Chrisopher Nolan are Masters of The Odysseus Movie

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DTF St. Louis, The Crisis of Male Friendship and the Changing Architecture of our Relationships

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Jesus is the New and Better Odysseus

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The Religious Shaped Hole in Every Human Heart. The TLC and Our Stories

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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey is Gifting Western Civ a Common Religious Moment

27

Don't Share Your Oil with those Foolish Virgins!

28

Sacramento Estuary Conference Tickets are Now Available

29

Rod Dreher Suffers the Embodiment of our Failures and our Anxieties with Christ

30

Can you Have a Functioning Social Order if your "(God)" Never says "No"?

31

How Orthodoxy Inherited Both sides of the Emerging Church Movement. Salvation as health vs destiny.

32

The Authentic Givenness of the Voluntary American Enlightenment Religious Culture

33

When the Mysterious, Elusive Kingdom Becomes a Dragnet

34

PVK Q/A: Friendship and the TLC, Is America the Best Place to Live?

35

Post-Kildare Report Livestream

36

ARC 2026. Day 3 Third Day's the Charm Pt. 2

37

ARC 2026, Third Day's the Charm Pt. 1

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ARC 2026 Day 2. Douthat Delivers

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ARC Day 1: Liberal Lions, Anti-Liberal Dissidents and How WW1 Monuments Change

40

Jeff and Paul's Breakwater Adventure

41

It's Really Hard to Not Be At Least a Little Bit Protestant

42

Sac Estuary Conference Announcement: October 16 and 17, 2026

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After the Same-Sex-Marriage War the CRCNA Will Try to Grow Forward with Three Factions

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CRC Synod 2026: From Social Justice Anxieties to Confessionalist Anxieties

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Mysticism: The Containment or Titration of God by the Church

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Steve Skojec. "I'm not Glib or Happy as the Man Who Lost His Faith"

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What Were Your Expectations of How Jesus and Church Would Change Your World?

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Can You Deal Out Death in Judgment? Can you Anticipate Future Fruit from Current Appearances?

49

Disclosure Day Will Mostly Disclose What We Don't Want to Know About Ourselves

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Stone-Age-Virgin Pearl Davis Quizes Orthodox Application of Ancient Religious Concerns

51

Hey PVK, Leave those Orthodox Honeymooners Alone!

52

Raised Hari Krishna, Deconstructed to a Nietzschean Rationalism, Then Caught by the Love of God. Kal

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2 Messiahs, 4 Sons of God, Only One Spirit Wins

54

Is the Kingdom of Heaven like a Soundtrack?

55

Thoughts on My First English Language Orthodoxy Liturgy

56

The Imaginal in Saints and Holy Places, Kildare 2026

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Fundamentalisms Remix Boundary Staves in the American Religious Marketplace

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Trad-Immigrant Envy and Report from the Austin Estuary

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Aliens and Indians, How will the UFO, UAPs become REAL to Americans

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Tightening vs Loosening: The Coming War for Orthodoxy in America

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Is "Why I Believe in God" best answered by an Argument? with Craig Biddle

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American Orthodoxy says to the Internet, "Ok Mr. De Mill, I'm ready for my closeup!"

63

What is the Internet? Who should use it and for what? Who is President Foxman?

64

From Hippie Conservatism to Orthodox and Estuary Openness. Rigel Windsong Thurston

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Barry Strauss' "Jews vs Rome" and Palestine 1936, Book Notes

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Casting Magic Missiles, Fighting the Darkness with Friendship

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The Chaos of Infinite Claims on the Modern State for Happiness Amid Hidden Values

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Hey Orthobros and Orthobabes! Civilization wasn't (Re)built in a Generation

69

How to Avoid Regret

70

The Materialist's Dilemma with the Generous Jesus Myth

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Why the Modern Siloing of Religion and Values is Breaking Down

72

Summary of Newbigin's Critique of Modernity's View of Religion

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CRCNA Synod 2026 First Thoughts

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Church OF England as Newbigin Battleground 40 years later: Angela Tilby and Tom Holland

75

Is Theology the Queen-Mother of the Sciences?

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The Heretical Imperative almost necessitates Religious Deconstruction. Lesslie Newbigin

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When Gen-X Fled the Boomer-Seeker Movement and found Lesslie Newbiggin

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Breakwater London 2026: PVK, Nathan Jacobs, Joe Folley, Jared Smith, Justin Brierley, Glen Scrivener

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New Mexico Native, From Baptist to Lutheran, Old PC Collector, Garrett White

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Paul, the Greek Philosophers and the Resurrection

81

How Old Men in Christ Avoid Regret

82

Signal Groups and New Evolutions of The Corner

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Opponent Processing between the Imperfectly Practical and the Ideal. Friday Estuary Livestream

84

Why People who Participate in _Religion_ Generically in the West Outcompete Non-Participants

85

Who is Everett Vroon?

86

As the Post War Secular Religions Recede, Deeper Religious Maps Re-emerge

87

Jonathan Pageau: The Prophet of Verticality

88

Why Bret and Heather Celebrate the Arenic God's Love of Vultures

89

What Jesus Lost to Win Us

90

Can You Talk People into the Resurrection?

91

The Giant Slayer from Read on CS Lewis The Pilgrim's Regress with @ShoulderSerf on YouTube

92

Jordan Hall says to Bret and Jonathan that Loving is the Key to Knowing and Being

93

(CORRECTED!) Pageau, Hall and Weinstein Revisit 2017 Jordan Peterson Maps of Meaning

94

Unexpected Activists and Feminists Screen-Praying to the Gods of Democratic Attention

95

Jesus Smuggles his Victories Into the World Through Our Sufferings

96

The Transition from Modern, Literate, Protestant world into Who Knows What is Well Underway

97

How Losing wins Hearts

98

Women and Mothers Navigating Giving, Identity, Being, Wanting, and Mary Mother of the Christ

99

Jordan Peterson's illness prompts Reflections on the last 10 years

100

Guy Becomes Muslim by Reading the Quran and Other Fancy Stuff

101

Suffering as Revelatory Connector between Lovers

102

Activists are our Modern Monks and Social Media Posts are our Prayers to a Divinized Imaginary

103

The Maps of Meaning We Must Constantly Make

104

The TLC is a Multi-Tool to Make the Internet Human Again (MIHA)

105

The Strangest Story Ever Told. How Jesus Won History

106

The Victory of Christ through suffering Replicated in Us

107

Competition and Affluent Liberationisms Fuel Secularisms

108

Aliens always Rewrite the Religions of Worlds They Visit

109

A World Without Suffering is a World without Caring

110

Have an Algo-Free TLC with RSS

111

Why We can't Meet Pascal's Wager

112

Fascist Trump? Nuremberg Christianity and the War in Iran

113

Why John Believed and How Mary withstood Angel Lumens

114

Is Agapic Love a Nice Sentiment but a Foolish Way to Live in this Brutal World?

115

The Question I'm Surprised No One Has Asked Me Yet

116

Bart Ehrman delivers apologist footnotes pitched to skeptics for Tom Holland's Dominion Thesis

117

Erosion and Adaptation. Marital and Familial Cultural and Religious Institutional Containers

118

Feeling the Thrill of Religious Rigor. The Nominalist-Rigorist Cycle

119

The Recession of Nuremberg Christianity

120

Yes, Mary Harrington and Tom Holland, the Singularity Has Happened, and the Beatles are Involved

121

The Crucified King

122

Bart Ehrman is Wrong, Believing for John began at the Empty Tomb

123

Bart Ehrman Doesn't Believe Jesus is the Son of God but Wants His Neighbors to Act Like They Do

124

Mark Parker goes digging for PVK lore

125

Ezra from the TLC

126

Why Pilate was Afraid of Jesus (Sunday Edition)

127

The Meaning Crisis doesn't CARE which Religion Your Parents Belonged To

128

Ramy is to Islam as Orthobros are to Orthodoxy? Procedural Religion?

129

How does the Eastern Church meet the Western Church among Normies in America? Nathan Jacobs

130

The Islamic Invasion of the Corner and the Quest for a There There

131

Cuckolding Islam: Can the Christian West Pass Off Its Secular Heir?

132

When Jesus Tried Pilate (Sunday Edition)

133

The Brief and Confusing History of "Religion". Kevin Flatt

134

Why Pilate Feared that Jesus might be a god

135

Fracking the Shorts in the Algo Crisis

136

Does Tom Holland's Dominion Thesis hold through the Secular-Social-Order Revolution?

137

Our Current Wobble Back towards a Renewed Sacred Social Order

138

Why Rationality Rules is God's Gift to a Metagelical Future

139

Dawn's story from a House-church Sect to Orthodoxy and the TLC

140

Jesus' Friends acted Nothing like Jesus

141

When Jesus Tried Pilate

142

People Long for Relationship with God More than an Answer to God's Existence

143

Steven Pinker and Ross Douthat Square Off around a Poorly Framed Question

144

Jonathan Pageau Tries to Provoke a Copernican Revolution on Kindly Atheist

145

How Rock and Roll Sold the Rebel Sell so the Real Rebel today wears Robes and venerates Icons

146

Islamic and Secular Common Religion in Evaluating Where to Live

147

Can Mystical Religion and Liberal Democracy Coexist? Tom Holland, Nick Cave, Islam

148

How Reliable Were/Are Jesus' Friends

149

We Who Wrestle with Church, Job Edition

150

The Convenient but False Division of our World into Religious and Secular is Ending

151

Martin Shaw's Liturgies of the Wild

152

"Religion" Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

153

O'Connor/Scrivener about Xian Reputation in the West. Law, Morality, and Changeability

154

Jesus Allows His Friend to Die to Humiliate Death in Front of Us All

155

Holland/Dominion Thesis? Compare 3 "Sons of God": Caesar, Alexander and Jesus

156

Living with AI in Feb 2026 with Tripp, Sam, Kale and I

157

Is it Wise to be a Sex Worker? How would you know? Was Job Wise? Is it about Feelings?

158

Why Scrivener will Win the Future Even if O'Connor Won the Debate

159

Will Evangelical Morph into Metagelical to Become America's Civilizational Religion? Corrected

160

When the Lights Go Out, We'll Need Intergenerational Communion More than Ever

161

Will Evangelical Morph into Metagelical to Become America's Civilizational Religion? .

162

Doctrine, Law, and Authority, in Liberal Democracies

163

The Most Rational Man in the Land, Sunday Edition

164

Jesus 1 Death 0. Could You Wield Death against such a Man?

165

What is the role of Doctrine to create Strong Communities in the Church, the Military and Ted Lasso?

166

Why the Christian Reformed Church Golden Age Failed

167

Would Jesus Eat Dinner in the Home of Jeffrey Epstein?

168

Why are Christian Reformed Churches struggling and Christian Reformed Day Schools Thriving?

169

Estuary Work Weekend March 13-15 at Living Stones in Sacramento

170

The Fun of Wobbly People Looking for Truthyness Together

171

Do Brian and Brad Imagine Two Different Christs? Identical Twin Pastors Divided By Trump

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Unexpected Outsiders Trust in Jesus while Insiders Pause and Balk

173

The Most Rational Man in the Land

174

Finding Truth After the Modernist Epistemic Collapse. Feb 13 Friday estuary

175

Paint is Wearing Thin on the Painted Religious Bricks in the Secular Marketplace

176

I want the TLC to Break the 4th Wall and Be with Me. Sam from New Zealand

177

Christianity is a Meta-Religion and Secularism is its Liberal Prophet

178

Scott Adams' and Tom Holland's Woo-y yet Skeptical Approaches to Christianity

179

And the Best Way to Avoid becoming the Victim of a Sex Cult is...

180

Jesus Redeems his Samaritan Bride at Jacob's Well

181

Why do Surprising Outsiders Embrace Jesus with More Faith than the Insiders?

182

The West Losing its Christian Anthropology while it's unclear Epstein Elites will get Justice

183

Monarch vs. Law, Spirit vs. Instantiation. Secularity in The Kingdom of Sicily and Revolutionary Iran

184

From JBP-Pageau-Ortho Pipeline to Divorced, Broke but not Giving Up

185

Who is Daniel from O.G. Rose? How Did Daniel Become Who He Is?

186

Does Jesus' Response to Nicodemus Tell Us His Response to Scott Adams?

187

How should you respond when you discover you're participating in a corrupt institution? Estuary Live

188

When Jesus' Bride Met Him at Jacob's Well

189

Is Secularity an Open Source Religious Commons?

190

Tyler from LA who lives in NYC who love Estuary

191

Religious Leaders in the Modern World Can't Afford Clean-Room Purity and so they Fudge

192

Christian Nationalism and the Iranian Revolution: The Wobble of Gap and Seed Religion