Past Episodes

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

PART I A Secular Culture Looks for Meaning Everywhere: Four Articles in Sunday’s New York Times Illustrate the Modern Search for Meaning

PART II The Post-Christian Character of Society: Humanity’s Deep Spiritual Hunger on Full Display

PART III What Is a Banana and a Piece of Duct Tape Worth? Apparently $120,000 — An Unsettled Culture Clearly Seen in Subversive, Modern Art

Monday, December 9, 2019

PART I The Clash Between Religious Liberty and the New Sexual Liberty Continues: Fairness For All Legislation Introduced on Friday

PART II The Infectious Logic of the Fairness For All Act: Why This Proposed Legislation Actually Weakens the Case for Religious Liberty

PART III Getting in Line with the Sexual Revolution: The Problem of a Theology of Subsequent Revelation

Friday, December 6, 2019

PART I New Demands to Remake Christianity: Understanding the Challenge We Face

PART II Christian Colleges and the LGBTQ Revolution: The Pattern of Disaster Looms Before Us

PART III The Christian Mandate of Clarity: For Christian Institutions, There Is No Chance of Faithfulness Without Clear Convictions

Thursday, December 5, 2019

PART I America’s Political Divide as an Impeachment Divide: House Intelligence Committee Releases Impeachment Report

PART II The Drama of the Impeachment Process Continues: Testimony from Constitutional Scholars Reveals Both Constitutional and Political Divide

PART III Disney+ Launches with Cultural Warnings on Some Content: The Changing Moral Landscape

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

PART I Kamala Harris Ends Her Presidential Campaign: The New Liberal Senator of 2016 Wasn’t Liberal Enough for the Democratic Party of 2019

PART II Elizabeth Warren Wants to Abolish the Electoral College: What that Really Means and Why it Matters

PART III The United States Is Not and Has Never Been a Direct Democracy: The Logic of American Constitutionalism

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

PART I Mormon Church Supports Utah’s New Ban on Conversion Therapy: The Moral Revolutionaries Won’t Stop with This New Policy

PART II Moral Liberalism on the Ballot in New Zealand: The Secularizing Nation Will Vote on Legalizing Abortion, Euthanasia, and Recreational Marijuana

PART III Nihilism in a Test Tube: Sperm Bank for HIV-Positive Donors Opens in New Zealand

Monday, December 2, 2019

PART I How Was a Convicted Terrorist Free and Able to Carry Out Last Week’s Attack on London Bridge? The Secular Mind and the Problem of Moral Evil

PART II A Father’s Nazi Past Makes Headlines Today: History Never Forgets

PART III World War Two Era Espionage Is in the Headlines in 2019: How Do You Rewind Moral Questions in History? Who Can?

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

PART I Michael Bloomberg Officially Enters the Presidential Race: An Unlikely Candidacy Driven by Contradictory Social and Fiscal Policies

PART II Pope Francis Makes Appeal to Abolish Nuclear Weapons on Visit to Japan: The Moral Problem of Knowledge When Discussing Nuclear Disarmament

PART III A Biblical Theology of Thanksgiving: True Thankfulness Is an Act of Worship to God the Creator

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

PART I The False Promise of Religionishness: Are Young Americans Lost to Christianity?

PART II What America Needs Now is a ... Religious Left? Why Collective Beliefs Don’t Mean Anything If They Are Not True

PART III Maybe Moderates Aren’t As Moderate As We Might Think: People Tend to Be Moderately Partisan, Not Truly Undecided

Monday, November 25, 2019

PART I Why Are Fewer Babies Being Born? A Warning in the New York Times From Eleven Years Ago Proves Even More Dire Today

PART II The Implications of a Religious Worldview on the Falling Birth Rate: Why the Birth Rate Crisis Is a Deeply Spiritual and Theological Problem

PART III Why Are Deaths of Despair on the Rise in America? How the Breakdown of the Family Has Led to Lonely Deaths

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