Larry's Inklings

In this podcast I share those times and ways in which my own faith has been shaken, and what I have discovered in that shaking. The honest struggle with doubt and uncertainty is seen here as a means t...

29 Nov 202120min

This episode begins by looking at belief in God and what Glenn Chestnut calls "the mysterious X factor. It goes on to explore the four classical evidences for the reality of God: (1) the cosmological ...

23 Nov 202123min

This reflection asks two questions: "What do I mean when I say God?" and "When, if ever, did God become more than just a word for me?" It is noted that the Bible offers no metaphysical, philosophica...

15 Nov 202121min

This is the final episode on the chapter "How Do We Know?" It looks at five additional elements of postcritical thinking: (1) The appreciation of myth, symbol, and poetry. (2) Authoritative sources of...

9 Nov 202120min

This ninth episode on epistemology, or how we know, looks at a number of characteristics of post-critical thinking and finds: (1)Post-Critical Thinking Requires Critical Thinking.;(2) There Is No 42 L...

1 Nov 202118min

This seventh episode of The Quest / How Do We Know? asserts that the postmodern world has split off the conscious mind from its roots in the unconscious, so that those ways of interaction between th...

24 Okt 202122min

This episode continues to explore the question "How Do We Know?" by considering Martin Buber's "I –– Thou" knowing or encounter as a fourth way of knowledge–– relational knowledge as epistemology. In ...

18 Okt 202121min

Episode 5 of The Quest / How Do We Know? considers the ancient and contemporary concept of the "sensus divinitatis" (sense of the divine) as an innate faculty of spiritual knowledge––knowledge of and...

9 Okt 202119min