PZ's Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
365 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.
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Episode 404 - A New Demographic? (Pt. 2)
April 16th, 2025 | 18 mins 40 secs
How does someone who is living, like it or not, in the last third of life, address everybody else who is living in the second third? It's an important question, cuz most of the time it's like two ships passing in the night.
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Episode 403 - A New Demographic? (Pt. 1)
April 9th, 2025 | 18 mins 52 secs
While one was within the second third of one's life, one had all these goals in view, of happy marriage, happy fathering, and (most of all, sadly) successful careering. But at this point it's beginning to look a little bankrupt. Maybe "superficial" is a better word. So "What Now, My Love?" Is the last third of life disillusionment and moping; or compulsed repetition; or possibly/impossibly "Behold, I do a New Thing" (Isaiah 43:19)? PZ is joined by a special guest to discuss these questions and more.
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Episode 402 - Pixie Dust (Essential)
April 7th, 2025 | 18 mins 44 secs
We need Pixie Dust. It's not an optional extra. It's essential.
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Episode 401 - It's a Stretch!
March 16th, 2025 | 22 mins 24 secs
It started with the second-to-last scene in an 'Outer Limits' episode from 1963 entitled "The Human Factor". Then we hurtled through time to 1996, to Cliff Robertson's touching redemption at the end of another 'Outer Limits' episode, entitled "Joyride". The combination of these two genius moments equipped PZ to talk about... yes... Anglicanism... and yes... the Episcopal Church... and yes... contemporary parish ministry.
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Episode 400 - Jordan, Meet Jackie
January 4th, 2025 | 21 mins 52 secs
This is a sort of "marker" podcast -- my 400th. It's kind of my summing up on the subject of human identity and the origin of human satisfaction.
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Episode 399 - Sligh and the Family...
December 2nd, 2024 | 22 mins 57 secs
Everyday I see how little I know. Everyday I see how little I've read, or seen, or heard. A prime example of this is Agnes Sligh Turnbull. Have you ever heard of Agnes Sligh Turnbull?
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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.
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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.
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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.