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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, 8 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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, 9 months 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
The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-is-r…
Published on 4 years, 9 months 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
The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/liv…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
S01 #07 - This monument is for the unknown good in our enemies
Season 1 Episode 7
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A few thoughts on the idea of the "the Good" (or "God") in the context of Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day drawing on a poem by the American poet and pacifist, William Edgar Staffor…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
S01 #06 - The Subtle Deer meets Jesus & Socrates
Season 1 Episode 6
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In recent weeks I’ve been trying to show various ways by which, and why, I think both our own liberal, democratic European and North American culture in general — and its liberal religi…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
S01 #05 - Athens or Jerusalem or Athens & Jerusalem?
Season 1 Episode 5
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Existentialism & Liberal Religion - A look at John F. Hayward's way of bringing the Jewish/Christian and Greek traditions back into play in a way that might make sense to modern sceptic…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
S01 #04 - The Flight of the Phoenix
Season 1 Episode 4
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Some thoughts on one basic way we can prepare ourselves for a future, post- COVID-19, time.
The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:
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Published on 4 years, 10 months ago