Podcast Episodes

Stockholm Syndrome Christianity and The Sin of Empathy: A Conversation with John West and Joe Rigney

Season 7 Episode 365

John West’s Stockholm Syndrome Christianity and Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy both look at problems in American Christianity today. In this episode recorded at the Equipping the Saints Conference i…

Published on 12 hours ago

Universal Basic Income and the Meaning of Life

Season 7 Episode 364

The tech savants of Silicon Valley have issued dire warnings about an impending wave of unemployment due to advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. Essentially we're told humans are too slo…

Published on 1 week ago

Life After Secularism with Andrew Walker

Today's advertisement for the Life After Secularism Conference features Dr. Andrew Walker of World Magazine and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Secularism is in the rearview mirror--but where …

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Protestantism and Modernity

Season 7 Episode 363

Recently, Trad Catholics and Orthobros who are no fans of modernity have been blaming it on the Protestant Reformation. The argument takes a variety of forms, but how should we evaluate it? Using Cha…

Published on 2 weeks ago

An Invitation from C.R. Wiley: Life After Secularism Conference

Welcome to this brief invitation to the Life After Secularism Conference, November 14-15 in Battle Ground, Washington. Today Chris presents the topic and aim of the conference, explaining the need to…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Jonathan Pageau on Fairy Tales (among other things)!

Season 7 Episode 362

Jonathan Pageau of The Symbolic World joins the Pugs today to discuss fairy tales, iconography, Nominalism, why art is beside the point, and lots of other things! The guys enjoyed their time with Jon…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Aaron Renn: Life After Secularism Conference Speaker Interview

Welcome to this brief preview of the Life After Secularism Conference, November 14-15 in Battle Ground, Washington. Today Chris interviews Aaron Renn to get a little sample of what he'll be talking a…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

A Dive into the Estuary with Paul VanderKlay

Season 7 Episode 361

Regular listeners will remember our conversation with Annie Crawford about the Midwestuary conference. In this episode, the Pugs talk with Paul VanderKlay, the originator of the estuary concept. They…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Medical Hypocrites and the Hippocratic Oath

Season 7 Episode 360

On today's episode the pugs talk about disturbing comments made by some medical practitioners who publicly celebrated the Kirk murder as a social good. The discussion jumps into important issues conc…

Published on 1 month ago

Against the Machine! (Some Reflections on Paul Kingsnorth's New Book)

Season 7 Episode 359

Paul Kingsnorth, the award winning novelist and essayist has a new nonfiction book coming out and Chris got an advance review copy. Ostensibly it's about artificial intelligence, but what Kingsnorth …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago