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S01 #16 - "Little children, love one another", or how to bore the pants off your audience
Season 1 Episode 16
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An exploration of a few of the problems faced when trying to reiterate the important, in fact central, teaching of loving one another.
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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Bonus Episode - A Service of Mindful Meditation
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Welcome to this bonus edition of the “Making Footprints Not Blueprints podcast” which is a supplement to Episode 15. It is nothing more, nor any less, than a representative recording of…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
S01 #15 - On the need to take even strokes
Season 1 Episode 15
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How Henry Bugbee’s naturalistic philosophy and some mindful meditation might help us get through the pandemic.
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Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
S01 #14 - An ass eats its hay and a gardener turns their spade in readiness for the New Year (2021)
Season 1 Episode 14
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Exploring the need for liberals to commit to some kind of actual, ethical, religious and philosophical practice, especially during times of crisis such as the one through which, due to …
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
S01 #13 - Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian solution
Season 1 Episode 13
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A Christmas Day meditation on the question of how our everyday world of individual, finite things, including ourselves, relates to the whole. For this piece I gratefully draw upon two, …
Published on 4 years ago
S01 #12 - Steps, not-steps, promises and the art of metaphysical hitchhiking
Season 1 Episode 12
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Some thoughts on how and why one might commit to a religious/philosophical/political project that doesn't start, or even finish, with a blueprint.
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Published on 4 years ago
S01 #011 - How Nietzsche helps us better prepare to celebrate Advent & Christmas
Season 1 Episode 11
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An introductory exploration of how Nietzsche thinks "free spirits" are made and how becoming a free spirit might gift us with a meaningful way still to celebrate Advent and Christmas af…
Published on 4 years ago
S01 #10 - What was, must be tested
Season 1 Episode 10
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Some (positive) Christian atheist reflections on the seasons of Advent & Christmas drawing on the work of the twentieth-century German, Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch's 1972 book, "Ath…
Published on 4 years ago
S01 #09 - When is ruination not (quite) ruination?
Season 1 Episode 9
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Some Christian a/theist thoughts inspired by Heidegger and Bonhoeffer
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https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-is-r…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
S01 #08 - Live the questions now
Season 1 Episode 8
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A few thoughts on how to live well in the In-Between of question and answer
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https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/liv…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago