PZ's Podcast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

365 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.

  • Episode 324 - 'Apparently She Thought Not': Tyrone Davis and the End of the World

    August 21st, 2021  |  22 mins 41 secs

    This new podcast explores the element of humor in resourcing one's detachment from the "boxing ring" of everyday life. I want to say that when you "lose your life and thereby gain it back" -- in the New Testament view of the world -- humor takes on an almost crucial role in smoothing the uncomfortable edges of withdrawal.

  • Episode 323 - I Put a Spell on You

    July 22nd, 2021  |  23 mins 52 secs

    In this podcast, I look at "zero-case" policy in its high(est) bar of risk aversion; in its seemingly complete disbarring of models for human fulfillment outside of physical survival of the body; and its implacable and surprising use of the "civil arm" to enforce the details of the average person's locked-down life.

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    Episode 322 - Fifteen Percent

    June 24th, 2021  |  21 mins 38 secs

    Three more words came in the midst of my heart catheterization. Seriously. This episode of PZ's Podcast says what the specific words actually were that I believe came from God, and states what they meant to me. I hope they will each mean something to you.

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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.
    That is not a cliche. Or better, it is a true cliche.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.