Podcast Episodes

Zach Garris and Honor Thy Fathers

Season 7 Episode 348

The Pugs continue their podcasts from the 2025 PCA General Assembly and welcome Zach Garris onto the show! Zach is well known in Reformed circles for his writing on masculinity and Christianity. Toda…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Aaron Renn and Evangelical Elites (or why there aren’t any)

Season 7 Episode 347

The Pugs are at the PCA General Assembly! And for their first interview from Chattanooga they welcome Aaron Renn back onto the show. After catching up with Aaron about his life following the Three Wo…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

A Mainline Reconquista with Pastor Jake Dell!

Season 7 Episode 346

Today the Pugs welcome Jake Dell onto the show. Jake is the pastor of the historic First Congregational Church of Woodbury, Connecticut (est. 1659). But he's also a man with a dream and a plan to win…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Throwback: Who Is Tom Bombadil?

Season 7 Episode 345

Unable to meet this week, the Pugcast decided to share an episode from the 2019 archives. Tune in for this blast from the past!

Perhaps the most controversial character in all of Tolkien's writing is …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Is Technology-Worship America's New Religion?

Season 7 Episode 344

Today the Pugs discuss a provocative essay in the English publication, AirMail by Tara Isabella Burton. In this article she explores a new and very self-conscious religious disposition that is taking…

Published on 3 months ago

Father Mark Perkins and Educating Boys to Become Men

Season 7 Episode 343

Today the Pugs welcome Fr. Mark Perkins of St. Dunstan's Academy in Virginia onto the show! St. Dunstan's brings together Christian formation in the Anglican tradition alongside an education in the c…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The Spiritual Side of Mental Health

Season 7 Episode 342

On today's episode the Pugsters welcome clinical mental health counselor Dr. Natalie Atwell onto the show. Dr. Atwell noticed a tremendous increase in the unusual number of rare mental health cases i…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Racial Essentialism and Multiculturalism

Season 7 Episode 341

This week, Glenn brings up a dangerous idea that is growing in some Reformed circles: the idea of racial essentialism, that is, that different races have immutable characteristics that affect their w…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Overcoming Language?

Season 7 Episode 340

Is the human capacity for language something that should be overcome? Some tech-gurus think so. Today’s show explores that topic by delving into the Christian understanding of human language as a cor…

Published on 4 months ago

Why Do Church Affiliated Colleges Always Trend Left?

Season 7 Episode 339

Recently James K. A. Smith said Calvin University should sue for divorce from the denomination that sponsors it because the governing body of that denomination says the university should enforce the …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago