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The Theology Pugcast — 421 episodes
Bloodshed and Blessing: A Conversation with Fr. Dwight Longenecker
The Pugs Talk Shop on Writing
Coleridge, Truth, and the Imagination
The Beautiful Gift of Life: Dostoyevsky, Suffering, and Divine Grace
By What Authority? An Interview with Rev. Jake Dell
The Presbyterian Rebellion: Dr. George Grant on the Influence of Founding Father Rev. John Witherspoon
Kemper Crabb Returns
Brad Birzer Among the Inklings!
A Conversation with Megan Basham
Thickening Our Discernment: Magnifica Humanitas
The Not So Secret Life of Francis Bacon with David Innes
Throwback: Our Conversation with Malcolm Guite
Arthur and the Grail
What in the World are We to Make of All this UFO/UAP Stuff?
Post-Protestant, Post-Literate
What a Friend We Have in AIJesus?!
The Problem of Human Rights Law
Must Artists be Saints?
An Interview with Illustrator Stephen Crotts
Is Nature Conscious?
An Introduction to Critical Theory with Bradley G. Green
Too Healthy for Our Own Good!
Mother Ann Lee was Nuts: So, Why does the NPR Crowd Love Her?
J.R.R. Tolkien, the Christian West and the Temptation of Nordic Neo-Paganism
Bodyoids and Zombie Bioethics
Dr. Timothy Padgett on Constructive Ecumenism
Leisure, the Basis of Despondency?
Nature and Grace
Why the 'Woke' Won't Go Away?!
The Unintended Consequences of "Knowledge is Power"
The Gen Z Religious Awakening
Dr. Scott Masson and Reforging The Sword of Anduril!
Empiricist Deformations of Augustinian Theology
Matthew B. Crawford on "Craftsmanship in the Culture Industry"
Christmas and the True Myth
Adolescent Mental Health and the Chatbot Therapist
Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
The Philosophy of Language: A Conversation with Eugene Terekhin
Weimar America?
Sons of Adam and Daughters of Eve - A Conversation with Josh Herring
Educating for Reality
Stockholm Syndrome Christianity and The Sin of Empathy: A Conversation with John West and Joe Rigney
Universal Basic Income and the Meaning of Life
Life After Secularism with Andrew Walker
Protestantism and Modernity
An Invitation from C.R. Wiley: Life After Secularism Conference
Jonathan Pageau on Fairy Tales (among other things)!
Aaron Renn: Life After Secularism Conference Speaker Interview
A Dive into the Estuary with Paul VanderKlay
Medical Hypocrites and the Hippocratic Oath
Against the Machine! (Some Reflections on Paul Kingsnorth's New Book)
Imagination and Truth
Robot Wombs for Human Babies?
Annie Crawford and Midwestuary
Will Artificial Intelligence Make Creative People More Efficient?
Christian Humanism
Lambeth, Birth Control, and Eugenics
Timon Cline and the Work of American Reformer
Michael Foster and William Wolfe on Redeeming Institutions
Matthew Everhard and the Jonathan Edwards Study Bible
George Grant on why "Everything You've Heard about Christopher Columbus is Wrong"
Zach Garris and Honor Thy Fathers
Aaron Renn and Evangelical Elites (or why there aren’t any)
A Mainline Reconquista with Pastor Jake Dell!
Throwback: Who Is Tom Bombadil?
Is Technology-Worship America's New Religion?
Father Mark Perkins and Educating Boys to Become Men
The Spiritual Side of Mental Health
Racial Essentialism and Multiculturalism
Overcoming Language?
Why Do Church Affiliated Colleges Always Trend Left?
Ryan Lauterio and The Maker Institute
A Conversation with Malcolm Guite
On the Atonement
Prayer and Contemplation with Saint Anselm
The Strong Gods Are Back!
Emerging Technopaganism
Moral Wisdom and Natural Law
Haunted Cosmos--The Interview and the Book!
Apple Pie and Rocket Ships, Is a Wholesome Technological Future Possible?
Family Law & Manufactured Babies: An Interview of Jeff Shafer of the Hale Institute
There’s Something about Mary
What if Screwtape Were Female? An Interview with Tilly Dillehay
Anthony Esolen on Artificial Intelligence and the Desecration of the Word
Called to Freedom—An Interview with Brad Littlejohn
A Pugcast Pilgrimage: Now on Youtube!
Are Men Bibliophobes?
The Reality War
Magic [Systems?] in Fantasy Literature
The Scandal of the Incarnation
The State of the Culture, 2024
How to Build a Family Economy: An Interview with Rory Groves
Against Christian Civilization?
Cloning, Sheepzilla, and Transhumanism
An Interview with Vishal Mangalwadi
Who Are the Techno-Utopians?
Life on the Silent Planet!
Are Russell Brand and Jordan Peterson Idolatrous Pseudo-Christians? Purist Conversions, In a Liberal Key!
What Do We Do with the Body?
A Talk with Allan C. Carlson : October 25-26 Fatherhood Intensive : TRAD DAD 2024
October 25-26 Fatherhood Intensive: A Short Conversation with Scott Yenor : TRAD DAD 2024
Dark Enchantment
Are We Really Becoming Pagans Again?
Ideological History
Take Your Pick--Agency or Autonomy?
Whatever Became of Methodism?
The Delusion of Having a Meaningful Job
The Artistic and Intellectual Temperaments
The Grizzly Truth about the West
Who Counts as a Theologian? Reflections on Lewis with Dr. Jahdiel Perez
Thank God for Bitcoin?
Oxford Wrap Up
Oxford and Architecture
C. S. Lewis, Oxford Don: An Interview with Dr. Simon Horobin
Post-Mortem for Christian Colleges? An Interview with Dr. Phil LaFountain
Science and Beauty: A Conversation with Ken Boa
C. S. Lewis, Writer and Philosopher: An Interview with Dr. Michael Ward
Bonus Q&A with Dr. Alister McGrath
C. S. Lewis Apologist: An Interview with Dr. Alister McGrath
At the Bodleian Library
Ben Merkle, Tom Price, and What They Learned about Learning at Oxford
A Look at the Sacraments
If We're Not Saved by Our Works Why Work at All? A Conversation with Steve Jeffery
Academic Herd-Minds and Twitter Mobs
Boredom, Nihilism, and Endless Entertainment
The Pugs Answer Your Questions!
The 4B Movement, Misandry, and Anti-Natalism
Men & Social Status, Women & College Debt, Hypergamy, and More!
Creation, Theophany, and Transcendence
Imagination and Meaning
Bonus Q&A: Anthony of the Desert and Defeating the Demons of Our Time
Anthony of the Desert and Defeating the Demons of Our Time
Immodesty and the Image of God
How Civilizations Collapse
The ‘C. S. Lewis Option’ for Renewing Christendom
Begging the Question of Christ and Culture
The Diseased Defects and Effects of Popular Culture
Antisemitism in the Church
Political Theology with Timon Cline!
The Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age: An Interview with Rosaria Butterfield
Everything You Know about Plato is Wrong! (An Interview with David Talcott)
Forbidden Knowledge!
The Golden Age of Islam?
The Betrayal of the Evangelical Elites
Contrasting Visions of Glory and Suffering: Augustinian Reflections
Christmas Paradoxes
That Hideous Strength, the Most Accurate Dystopia of Them All?
Christmas Realism: Fully Supernatural, Partially Apocalyptic, Not Utopian
Biblical Cryptids
Techno-Realism and Bioengineered Babies
Away with Humanity! The Rising Embrace of Anti-Humanism
Where Did Evangelicalism Go Wrong? Part 2—An Interview with Garrett Craw
Where Did Evangelicalism Go Wrong? Part 1—An Interview with Michael Clary
Israel, Hamas, and the Laws of War
Regime Change! Patrick Deneen on the Post-Liberal Future
Joel Salatin and Rogue Food are coming to WPC in Vancouver, Washington!
The New Technology of Entertainment--Opportunities for Christian Film Makers and Writers: An Interview with Jason Farley of Loor TV
Your Pugs on Everything from Eschatology to the Nature of Rationality
The Cluster B Society
Christian Stockholm Syndrome? A Conversation with Dr. John West
The Apostle Paul’s School For Tentmaking: Conference Teaser with Dylan Stinson
Order and Liberty--Will They Ever Be Seen Together Again?
The Apostle Paul’s School For Tentmaking: Conference Teaser with Troy Albee
Is STEM Beautiful? An Interview with Mitch Stokes
Tolkien and Thomism: An Interview with Jonathan McIntosh
Chestertonian Calvinism? with Douglas Wilson
Identity Politics & Original Sin: An Interview with Dr. Joshua Mitchell
Is Our ‘Conscience’ Final in Matters of Truth and Goodness?
The Shattered Image of the Thirteenth Century
The Over Administered Life
Fashionable Euthanasia?
Bonus Q&A: Atheists Advocating Christianity
Atheists Advocating Christianity
The Glory God Is and the Beauty We Make
Bonus Q&A: Pursuing Beauty, Goodness, and Truth with George Grant
Pursuing Beauty, Goodness, and Truth with George Grant
An Introduction to The American Reformer: A Short Interview with Ben Dunson
Fire in the Streets: Bonus Q&A
Fire in the Streets
Jonathan Edwards on Preaching, Praying, and Publishing
God and Axiology--or, Why We Value the Things We Do
Converting the Vikings
Teaser: Pugcast Live In Memphis with George Grant!
Woo in the Silicon Valley?
Magnanimity: A Forgotten Virtue
Can Public Education Be Saved?
Away With God, Away With Humanity
The Role of the Imagination
An Interview with Kemper Crabb
Theology, the Queen of the Sciences?
Angels, Demons, and Christus Victor
The Return of the Old Gods
An Interview with Nathan Spearing about a Theology of Violence—and more!
And All that Jazz
Interview with Rory Groves about The Traditional Fatherhood Intensive
Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
Civilizational Madness
The Man Who Was Thursday
Are You a Plastic Pleasure Monkey?
Artificial Society and Technological Culture
The Blake Center for Faith and Freedom
The Reactionary Mind with Michael Warren Davis
Sabine Baring Gould: A Way of Life Lost to Modern Specialization
Bonus Q&A: The New Asceticism
The New Asceticism
The Art of the Inimitable Jack Baumgartner
Varieties of Atheism
Tolkien and Mythology
Knowledge Is Power—But Is That All?
Incarnation, Joy Incarnate, the Opening of Heaven to Earth, and Music
C.S. Lewis on the Tao
Up the Hierarchy!--Hans Boersma & Dionysius the Areopagite on Why We Have Hierarchy All Wrong
The Roots of Nihilistic Politics
The Case for Kids with Kevin DeYoung
Discovering the Discovery Institute
What Is Protestant Social Teaching?
Mere Christianity is Merely Great
Bonus Q&A: The Elites vs. Humanity
The Elites vs. Humanity
Witches Then and Now
"Dirty Harry" is a Christian Film? Are You Crazy? (Maybe.)
The Thomist Tolkien (an interview with Yannick Imbert)
What if Christians Had Their Own Version of NPR? (We Do.)
Christ All in All: Christology and Reality
Technology and the Return of the Old Gods
Where Totalitarians Come From
All Things G. K. Chesterton—Especially Distributism
After the Virus: Tyranny Rising
Cyberpunk and the Metaverse
Is Sweat Really Necessary?
James Wood and Welcome to Negative World!
Apocalyptic AI: Cyber Theosis?
Why Everyone Should Believe in Fairies
Joe Rigney and Welcome to Negative World!
Justice and Reality
Aaron Renn and Welcome to Negative World!
Christian Wayfaring
Bonus Q&A: The Most Reluctant Convert
The Most Reluctant Convert
C. S. Lewis and Miracles
Medieval Courtesy Books
Secular and Nihilistic Eschatologies and Political Theologies
God and History in Acts and The Academy
Bonus Q&A: Hopeless Romantics
Hopeless Romantics
Truth and Falsehood In a Lying Age
Will the Real Conservative Intellectuals Please Stand Up? : An Interview with Dr. Luke Sheahan
The Importance of Story: A Conversation with Moira Greyland Peat and Rachel Fulton Brown
The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis
Here Comes Transhumanism, Ready or Not!
The Dumbest Generation Grows Up! : An Interview with Mark Bauerlein
Pagan Easter?
Varieties of Relativism
In Defense of Mysticism
Duck Season! Rabbit Season! The Notorious Duck/Rabbit Problem!
Überhobbits: Engaging the Will To Power with Tolkien and Nietzsche
Welcome to Negative World: An Interview with Aaron Renn
Ukraine and Russia: History and the Theology of Nationalism
Philip Rieff and His Life Among the Deathworks
Fine Art and Cancel Culture: An Interview with Award-Winning Painter Arthur Kwon Lee
Talking About God Improperly
Sacred Architecture and the New Urbanism
Bonus Q&A: The Fairy Tale Wars
The Fairy Tale Wars
Talking About God Properly
Stoics, and Epicureans, and Cynics, Oh, My!
Shooting Rousseau Twice … and Clubbing Him with the Gun
Incarnation and Its Significance For Understanding All Things
Christmas and Paganism
A Requiem for the Church Growth Movement
Bonus Q&A: Plato's Revenge!
Plato's Revenge!
Culture and Worldview: What's the Difference?
The Prohibitive Cost of a Seminary Education
Bonus Q&A: Reformation 21 – Build, Defend, Repeat
Reformation 21 – Build, Defend, Repeat
Bonus Q&A: Owen Barfield’s ‘Saving the Appearances’
Owen Barfield’s ‘Saving the Appearances’
A Monk Without a Monastery
Tolkien’s “On Fairy Stories:” Escape
The Slavery Show
Technology, Wisdom, and Virtue
Pilgrimage
The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Magic, Enchantment, and Worldview
The Philosophy of the Vampire
Welcome to the Metaverse!
Sophistry Past and Present
The Rise and Fall of Heroes
Darwinian Conservatism?
Meaning in History: Part Three
The Rise of Biblical Criticism
Is Politics Everything?
Meaning in History: Part Two
Guilds, Craftsmanship, and Excellence
Ideologies That Are Out to Get Your Family
Meaning in History
Aesthetics: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
You're Special, Just Like Everyone Else!
Restoring the Transcendent Frame
Revelation, Reason, and Romanticism
It's a Mystery! Can Every Mystery be Solved?
Soul Sickness and Society: Plato and Christ: Part Two
Soul Sickness and Society: Plato and Christ: Part One
Warriors in the Garden: Martial Virtues and the Christian Man
Heiser’s Unseen Realm
The Hermeneutic of Suspicion
The Return of the Metanarrative?!
The Irish Saints: Redeemed Paganism
Individualisms: Which Sort of Individual are You?
Christianity’s Favorite Beverage?!
Sanctifying Myth
Esoteric and Exoteric Teachings
Why Have So Many In the World Gone Seemingly Mad?
Barometers and Worldview
Morgoth's Ring!
Jonathan Edwards and War
Contrasting Cultures: One Which Affirms and Celebrates Life, One That Centralizes Death
Science, Art, and Worldview
Social Darwinism: The Legacy of Darwinism for Culture and Politics
Athens and Jerusalem
The Via Positiva and the Via Negativa: The Positive and Negative Ways of Doing Theology
Ecology and the Libel of Christianity: The Legacy of Lynn White Jr.
Imperturbable Joy
Reading Old Books: Athanasius, “On the Incarnation”
Human Scale: What It Is, & Why It Matters
Let Us Keep the Feasts
Kill the Dragon, Get the Girl
Against the Great Reset, or Why Property Is Freedom
The Vice of Curiosity
In Living Memory
Postconstitutional America & the Cult of Expertise
The Boniface Option
God, Guns, and Government: An Interview About the 2nd Amendment with John Zmirak, Senior Editor of The Stream
The Forge of Tolkien: An Interview with Rachel Fulton Brown (Plus a bonus feature! Learn about Milo Yiannopolous!)
Music and the Liberal Arts
Leaf by Niggle, a Consolation for Artists
Discipleship in the Times of Heightened Propaganda
Geneva: City of Refuge
The Mere Christianity of Touchstone Magazine, an Interview with S. M. Hutchens
More on Films and Theology
Creational Theology
The End of Science? Cancel Culture and the Sciences
Movies and Shows in a Nihilist Key: How Nihilistic Trends Have Impacted the Movie and Television Industry
A Tale of Two Revolutions
Why Should Christians Care about Self-Driving Cars?
On Weeds and Fairy Tales
From Impiety to Totalitarianism
How the Current Cultural Trend Came to Absolutize the Present in Opposition to the Past
The New Iconoclasm: Presentism and Its Trendy Enemies
Culture to Language or Language to Culture?
Friendship According to: Aristotle, Aquinas, C. S. Lewis, and the Bible
The Disturbing Embrace of Therapeutic Culture by the Church
Chivalry, Howard Finster, and Other Musings
Goldberry & the Art of Redeeming Faerie
Origen’s Revenge: Contempt for Sex Differences Returns to the Church
The Last Closet: An Interview with Moira Greyland Peat
Good and Bad Kinds of Reality Splitting
NeoPagan and Heathen Movements
The Green Tolkien (and C. S. Lewis, too!) The Inklings and Environmentalism
Whistling in the Dark: Christian Hope as God's Creature
Christianity & How to Live through Plague
Adiaphora: What's Indifferent? Less Than You May Suppose
It's the Magic Episode!
Divine Simplicity
The Intersectionality Episode
The Black Death!
Ken Boa: Life in the Presence of God
Ken Boa: Shaped by Suffering
Vampires of New England!
An Introduction to Robert Nisbet and Paleo-conservatism
Roger Scruton and Beauty
Tolkien the Realist
The Movies and Transcendence
Bonus Mystery Episode!
What Conservatives Have to Do to Survive in Liberal Academia
In Defense of Christmas
Aaron Renn of the Masculinist Returns!
The Demise of the Shakers & the Dangers of an Over-realized Eschatology
Machiavelli & Politics in a World without Virtue
The "Greening" of the Church (and we don't mean for Advent)
Niceness: Stupid as it Ever Was
Deconstructing Critical Theory
Intellectual Faithfulness
An Education with Class: An Introduction to Classical Education w/ Dr. Ben Merkle
Leisure Suits the Basis of Culture? (An Introduction to J. Pieper)
Disciple-Making Movements & the Contest w/ Islam in West Africa
Evangelical Humanism Vs. Humanistic Evangelicalism
Who Is Tom Bombadil?
Consumerism as Worldview
Theology: From Queen of the Disciplines to Wallflower
Are Angels Out of Work?
Plato Can Be Your Friend
Propaganda Fills the Void Truth Left Behind
Productive Property: What It Is & Why It Is Essential for Liberty
Transhumanism: Frankenstein Returns
Life After the Welfare State
Liberty or License: What Does it Mean to Be Free?
The Barmen Declaration & Saying "No!" to Cultural Accommodation
Underground LGBT Networks in Evangelical Institutions
A Conversation with Aaron Renn
Fighting Back: Protestant Resistance Theory
Blue Collar Intellectuals
Can Enchantment Come with Air-Conditioning?
True Enchantment and the Consequences of Disenchantment
C. S. Lewis, Christian Platonist (and that's a good thing)
Technology: What Are We Really Making?
Are Evangelicals Crypto-Secularists?
The Case for Recovering Two Classical Virtues: Pietas & Gravitas
Technology: The Promise and the Peril
Meaning in a Cathedral
C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, and Aliens
More On Sins of the Tongue
Sins of the Tongue
The Image of God: Male and Female
Welcome to Babel: Evangelicals and the Pragmatic De-construction of Language
Nature and Names - Does Anything Mean Anything?
Undressing Transgenderism
The End of Complementarianism? Aaron Renn and the Masculinist #30
Creation from Nothing Means Something
"Cultural Marxism": An Emerging Worldview