PZ's Podcast
About the show
From "Telstar" to "Vault of Horror," from Rattigan to Kerouac, from the Village of Bray to the Village of Midwich, help PZ link old ancient news and pop culture. I think I can see him, "Crawling from the Wreckage." Will he find his way? This show is brought to you by Mockingbird! www.mbird.com
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Episodes
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Episode 396 - Chapel in the Pines
October 15th, 2024 | 24 mins 25 secs
I'm thinking about ecclesiology today. That, J.B. Priestley and Lou Christie.
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Episode 394 - Philemon -- I mean "Philemon"
September 29th, 2024 | 25 mins 10 secs
This podcast looks at the abreactive power of music and the aspirations of live theater to get through to our real selves. Like a sermon is meant to do! The vehicle is the off-Broadway play entitled Philemon, which first opened in 1975.
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Episode 393 - Los Straitjackets & T.S. Eliot
September 17th, 2024 | 21 mins 8 secs
Eliot's line from 'East Coker', "Old men ought to be explorers", never gets... old. It is inspiring, counter-intuitive, awesome, and, yes, within our reach. And everyone's -- not just that of "old men".
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Episode 392 - Garden of Eden
August 27th, 2024 | 24 mins 30 secs
The cast concerns the Center of Christianity, God's one-way love for us confused and seduced racketeers. Oh, and that is not one of three or four key affirmations. No, it is The Center of everything.
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Episode 391 - An Optimistic Tragedy
July 8th, 2024 | 22 mins 48 secs
How can you "live with" habitual defeats, whether from outward circumstance or inward personality, without wanting to throw yourself overboard? The Big Street may shed some light. St. Paul, too.
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Episode 390 - Glenda, Meet Jurgen
June 11th, 2024 | 19 mins 52 secs
John Zahl recently said that God seems to be interested not so much in preventing our suffering as in redeeming us from it. My long friendship with the theologian Jurgen Moltmann, who died last week, began with a somewhat dramatic "happening" that lines up with JAZ's statement. This cast describes what happened. (To respond to the fundraising appeal, please visit www.mbird.com/support).
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Episode 389 - The New Perspective on Paul
May 30th, 2024 | 24 mins 50 secs
How does Joe Meek shed light on that ascendant movement within New Testament scholarship and interpretation? Let me say how.
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Episode 388 - Self Portrait
May 29th, 2024 | 17 mins 10 secs
Consideration of these new "Tea Chest" tapes from Joe Meek is such a blow to old assumptions. We know very little, and whatever we do know -- really -- comes from outside ourselves. We know one thing, which we rarely know we know: we each need love, individual love for each one of us in our individuality. Everything else is "like the chaff which the wind blows away".
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Episode 387 - A Cappella (Acappullco)
May 29th, 2024 | 23 mins 46 secs
The new release of hundreds of Joe-Meek tapes and tape-excerpts from the "Tea Chests" of yore is a fresh flashlight into the nature of reality within this broken/fallen world.
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Episode 386 - I Am the Eggman
May 22nd, 2024 | 23 mins 54 secs
Appearances can deceive. Things are often felt more strongly than a person wants to let on. This cast describes the human condition as more serious than we sometimes imagine -- maybe than we ever imagine. At least until it happens to us!
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Episode 385 - Jack, Be Nimble -- NOT!
April 30th, 2024 | 21 mins 33 secs
I keep hearing the word "nimble" these days. It comes up in relation to declining and therefore merging church institutions. What the word hides is institutional attrition. It is a way of putting a brave face on empirical defeat.
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Episode 384 - Theme & Variations
April 22nd, 2024 | 25 mins 51 secs
PZ expounds on three principles of parenting informed by the Christian Gospel.
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Episode 383 - Do You Need a Receipt?
April 9th, 2024 | 22 mins 22 secs
Everybody all the time is sitting on a major inward issue.
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Episode 382 - We Interrupt This Program
March 25th, 2024 | 20 mins 7 secs
You can't help noticing, if you study Soviet-Era Iron-Curtain sci fi illustrations and posters, that there are ZERO aliens or extra-terrestrial forms of life to be seen. But where would you and I be without the possibility of answers that come from outside ourselves?
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Episode 381 - Up the Down Staircase
March 10th, 2024 | 19 mins 22 secs
I'm trying to put into words the core principles of accessible Christian theology. Not mentally or intellectually accessible, but feeling-accessible -- heart-accessible -- and therefore actually and experientially accessible! Christian theology neither from the top down (solely), nor is it from the bottom up (solely). It is Up the Down Staircase!