Larry's Inklings

A brief summary of higher criticism or the historical-critical method as now known, its presuppositions, and its challenges to the trust worthiness of the Biblical Text.

17 Jan 202216min

19.1 The Quest / The Book God Breathed proposes that if God is in any way actively involved with humanity, if God has in some mysterious way and to any degree whispered unutterable realities of tru...

10 Jan 202218min

This is a meditation on freedom, fear, and hope as elements of the human condition. Freedom is understood as resting more in our ability to choose than in or ability to control, manipulate, or dominat...

3 Jan 202223min

The human condition ("Being Human") is one in which death is always at our heels. We can, and most people do, deny that death has any relevance for us personally, but that denial only turns death into...

27 Des 202121min

Our existence does not take place in a vacuum but in a particular kind of habitat or environment. One way of describing the environment in which being human takes place is as a sea of values. This epi...

20 Des 202124min

This short podcast continues to explore the human condition in our experiences of happiness, joy, and gratitude. It is appreciative of modern Cognitive Therapy as a help in working out negative emotio...

12 Des 202115min

We are all in a very real sense philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and anthropologists, for we all want to know what it means to be human. Are we here on this earth for a purpose, or are we mer...

7 Des 202117min

This thirteenth episode of The Quest (Chapter Two: The Mystery We Call God) focuses on the essence of Christian spirituality as encounter with the mysterious and personal presence of God. The Trinity...

5 Des 202124min