129: The View From Above Fallacy
Talk Back to Me Have you ever heard someone go about explaining the two sides to an argument, only to later discover they're involved in one side of the controversy? While a situation like that isn't ...
5 Sep 202320min
128: How We Think About Faith
Talk Back to Me Those of us millennials who grew up in the American church will likely find this sentiment familiar: we read of the faithlessness of the Israelites, shuddering at their unbelief in the...
3 Sep 202315min
127: TELOS
Talk Back to Me Telos, Teleology, and the question of what is the end goal? In addition to the existential crisis, which turns out to be the contemporary edition of such, we engage with the long lasti...
31 Aug 202313min
126: Sovereignty
Talk Back to Me Both Politics and Theology place a heavy weight on the concept of sovereignty. Just like the idea of Human Rights, there's a difference between when these ideas began to see common use...
29 Aug 202323min
125: How to be a Christian in the Military
Talk Back to Me "How Can you Be a Christian in the Military?" What kind of answer are you looking for? Are you looking for a worldview or a set of moral imperatives. Are you asking if it is possible...
23 Aug 202325min
124: Is Gun Culture Materialistic?
Talk Back to Me So as not to be mistaken for a trap, Betteridge's Law applies here. There's a difference between materialism and accusing someone or some culture of being too materialistic. What we ...
22 Aug 202320min
123: Dualism, Descartes, Plato, and The Mind
Talk Back to Me We stand on the shoulders of Giants, who have gone before us, as men, just like us, to try to understand what it true and what it means for a thing to be true. For Descartes, his Medit...
21 Aug 202318min
122: Euthyphro Dilemma and the Gods
Talk Back to Me The question asked by Socrates gets to the heart of how we think about who or what God is. Many of the arguments regarding God falter over childish descriptions, evoking imaginary char...
18 Aug 202313min
