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Postmodern Realities Episode 255 For Our Lamps Are Going Out: Gaslighting in the Age of Social Media
Of the legion of ways that we, since the dawn of time, have devised to deceive ourselves and others, the insidious cruelty at the heart of the phenom…
4 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 254 Grit Without Grace: Love and Tragedy According to Nondualism: A Review of the film Grace and Grit
Perhaps life’s greatest challenge is coping with suffering — or how to suffer well. All religions address this, but not in the same way. Christianity…
4 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 253 Does The Mysterious Benedict Society have the Right Stuff?
In 2019, Hulu announced that it would be adapting Trenton Lee Stewart’s 2007 novel The Mysterious Benedict Society as a streaming series. In some way…
4 years, 6 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 252 Meditation Upon the Death of a Pet
Almost all the exotic pets of my childhood in Africa were rescues, caught out of the bags of hunters and the clutches of small children who just want…
4 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 251 Growing Up and Letting Go in CODA
The film CODA (2021) is a coming-of-age story about a hearing girl and her deaf family. While the arc of the story has the stereotypical beats of a t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 250 Recovering the Argument for God from Beauty
Any amateur who has taken up a brush knows how hard it is to create a beautiful painting without training. Yet the natural world seems to produce bea…
4 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 249 Do Abortion Politics Hurt Women Enduring Miscarriage?
In the New York Times (NYT) opinion piece, “Miscarriages Are Awful, and Abortion Politics Make Them Worse,” abortion rights advocates Amanda Allen an…
4 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 248 Myself Am Hell: Rebellion and Gratitude in Milton’s Paradise Lost
In the human heart burns a yearning to be free — to live by our own discretion, to choose what we think good, and to stand responsible for the lives …
4 years, 7 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 247 Is It True That There Are Good Non-Christians?
Many Christians believe that there are good non-Christians. After all, if you actually know some good non-Christians, then there must be good non-Chr…
4 years, 8 months ago
Postmodern Realities Episode 246 Martyr of Science? A Reflection on the Anime Dr. Stone
Harrison Dulin writes, “The second season of the anime television series Dr. Stone wrapped up in March, and as someone entrenched in the worlds of sc…
4 years, 8 months ago