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

  • Episode 398 - Can You Read My Mind?

    November 3rd, 2024  |  23 mins 55 secs

    Love does not start with loving someone, but rather with being loved by someone. Just ask Lois Lane.

  • Episode 397 - Out of the Deeps

    October 21st, 2024  |  24 mins 38 secs

    J.B. Priestley wrote that the only way the "Church" could 'come back' was to get through to the unconscious. Christianity's original, great and contagious strength had been to reach individuals in their depth/s.

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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.

  • Episode 395 - "Time Is On My Side"

    October 10th, 2024  |  25 mins 8 secs

    Time is on my mind just now.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.