PZ's Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
346 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.
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Episode 321 - Subtract Then Add
June 11th, 2021 | 23 mins 10 secs
I'm finally well enough to reflect, somewhat formally through this new podcast, on the recent illness I went through, and on what I heard at the nadir of it.
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Episode 320 - Moot Point
April 14th, 2021 | 17 mins 38 secs
While I was sick recently, a familiar feeling came "shining through". Nothing is really important except love and God.
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Episode 319 - "My friend the..."
March 25th, 2021 | 19 mins 1 sec
this podcast focuses on that extreme moment in life when you come to the end of your resources and finally have no choice but to reach out for succor. You don't first go for the prescription. You can't -- you have no idea what it is! You go to someone who can give you the prescription.
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Episode 218 - C'MON DAD
March 23rd, 2021 | 19 mins 38 secs
Rejection is decisive! Whether it comes in affairs of the heart, or at work, or in any relationship you want to name -- whether it comes in the form of cancer, self-sabotage, or an intrigue mounted against you -- rejection is impossible to swallow and assimilate, at least not in the initial instance. Yet there is a way.
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Episode 317 - Odessey and Oracle
March 4th, 2021 | 24 mins 22 secs
We are all on an odyssey of sorts, as Odysseus/Ulysses was in Homer. And we need -- I mean need urgently -- an oracle. Which is to say, we require a Word/words from outside ourselves to orient us and re-orient us.
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Episode 316 - The Ballad of John and Walter
February 23rd, 2021 | 18 mins 40 secs
What a load of uncharted material is out there for people who are looking for Grace! Here I have spent almost 60 years "trolling" for redemptive material, words and music, especially the Seventh Art, that would speak, and hopefully heal. And now I find, near the advent of my 70th birthday, literally TONS of main-line examples of transformative Christian art that I never even knew existed.
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Episode 315 - Top of the World
February 13th, 2021 | 20 mins 59 secs
Today I want to "double down" on the anchoring necessity of romantic connection within our everyday lives. Flourishing won't occur without it, and that's an empirical fact whether one likes it or not.
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Episode 314 - Heinz Agonistes
January 13th, 2021 | 22 mins 44 secs
How should we think about God when faced with massive, injuring disappointment?
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Episode 313 - Reverse Chronology
January 5th, 2021 | 15 mins 2 secs
Today's brief cast is intended as a salutary instance of what often happens in life: Things start well and end badly. It doesn't have to happen. God is there, even as I write this and you read it, and... I have proof.
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Episode 312 - Hope From Heinz
January 5th, 2021 | 21 mins
Take this irregular but prodigious instance of what can be done to transform an everyday mediocrity -- Heinz was a nice guy, to be sure -- and it can be seen what God can do for anyone -- like you and me, for example. I'm being completely serious.
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Episode 311 - Crescendo
November 19th, 2020 | 27 mins 22 secs
This cast looks at the current drama/s unfolding in the aftermath of November 3rd in unseen rather than in seen terms. Not that I know personally what is happening -- but rather, what one sees is seldom what one gets.
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Episode 310 - New Prince, New Pomp (c. 1605)
October 28th, 2020 | 22 mins 49 secs
I'm trying to understand, in Romans 7 and Mockingbird terms, a phenomenon I currently observe -- and feel -- all around me. It is as if the more control, medically and in terms of hospitalizations, that we are getting over COVID19, the more insistent and pressing are the visible measures a good citizen is supposed to be taking against it.
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Episode 309 - Little Bit O'Soul
October 22nd, 2020 | 23 mins 41 secs
When you reach a certain age, say from 55 or so on, if you don't move forward, you move backward.
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Episode 308 - Phosphorus
September 5th, 2020 | 22 mins 59 secs
If you want to find out the truth about yourself, follow the phosphorus!
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Episode 307 - Sacred Space
September 4th, 2020 | 21 mins 51 secs
My and your emotional, heart experiences are connected not just to a person, but to a place where we were with that person.
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Episode 306 - For Our Dear Margary
August 27th, 2020 | 28 mins 8 secs
This cast concerns Margery Lawrence (1889-1969), an English writer of supernatural short stories, as well as popular novels. She was also a committed spiritualist, who wrote within an explicitly Christian (tho' anti-clerical) world-view.