PZ's Podcast
Episode Archive
Episode Archive
368 episodes of PZ's Podcast since the first episode, which aired on August 4th, 2010.
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Episode 279 - The Ballad of Marianne and Paula
September 6th, 2019 | 22 mins 20 secs
This podcast is a personal summons to out-of-bounds faith.
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Episode 278 - Bonaparte's Retreat
July 29th, 2019 | 25 mins 42 secs
Core truths of life are often suppressed, masked, covered over, hidden. But when the truth about anything, from ill-anchored relationships to cultural captivities to urban blight, comes out, "Some People" (Belois Some,1985) become threatened. And more than threatened.
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Episode 277 - Running a Losing Race
July 24th, 2019 | 25 mins 37 secs
The secret of wisdom, as you get older, would be to bring a perspective that embodies an accurate disillusionment with false hopes and inevitably disappointing projects while at the same offering hope in "the things that remain". To do that -- to portray life in its "True Colors" while at the same providing a better Palette -- well, such is the ambition of this podcast.
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Episode 276 - Widow's Pique
July 8th, 2019 | 23 mins 35 secs
This particular cast concerns widowhood. Accurate statistics tell us that when you look out from the pulpit at your congregation, at least in most "main-line" churches, the number of widows likely to be present far outnumbers the number of widowers. And yet, I know of no more verboten subject in the pulpit than the disparity in life expectancy between men and women.
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Episode 275 - How, Exactly, Does Love Come Down?
June 24th, 2019 | 18 mins 42 secs
We all want to know, when we are down -- I mean, when we are really down -- where we can turn for help. "Where Do I Go" ('Hair', 1969), when I have nowhere else to go? Specifically, where do I go to find God? Or rather, where is God located that I might find him?
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Episode 274 - Tyrone Davis and the Future of Mankind
May 28th, 2019 | 22 mins 50 secs
People who come to church for the first time -- and most of us, probably -- are looking for relief from personal pain. We come to God -- when we really come to Him -- for relief and help in the now! This is an empirical fact from experience.
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Episode 273 - The Treasure
May 16th, 2019 | 18 mins 29 secs
Only one or two relationships that you have had will be on your mind at the end. It will be a person, not a thing; an intimate connection, not an idea or "narrative".
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Episode 272 - The Bell That Couldn't Jingle
May 7th, 2019 | 22 mins 30 secs
A short witness of a counter-intuitive Word received in church the other day; and an even more counter-intuitive "Word" from the world of pop music, which came crashing through my windshield on the way home from church.
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Episode 271 - Lazy Susan
April 19th, 2019 | 23 mins 47 secs
Imputation is the prime "agent" within the great dynamic of the Grace of God. In this cast, I try to explain how imputation works in life, concluding with reference to Taylor Caldwell's 1960 novel entitled "The Listener."
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Episode 270 - You Little Trustmaker
April 1st, 2019 | 20 mins 42 secs
This podcast is in fact a reflection on love and trust, on love enacted as well as love sworn. I hope it will open a door on your own loves, let alone on your own isolation (when you feel it) -- a door on Love as it really is.
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Episode 269 - Soul Trajectory
March 20th, 2019 | 21 mins 49 secs
As the human soul makes its trajectory through life, it "lights on" hoped-for objects of connection. From birth to death, the soul is looking for, urgently aspiring to locate, a substitute for the connection with God that it had before it was born. Unfortunately, the soul is almost always disappointed.
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Episode 268 - Seasons in the Sun
March 2nd, 2019 | 23 mins 50 secs
A reflection on the times of our lives.
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Episode 267 - Blowing Away
February 8th, 2019 | 23 mins 20 secs
Let's just talk about moms and dads and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, 'Friend and Lover' ("Reach Out of the Darkness", 1968). These are the things -- the people -- that make your world go 'round, or make it crash!
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Episode 266 - Soul Searchin' Time
February 4th, 2019 | 22 mins 57 secs
How is it possible for Gospel-emphasizing Christians to still flee a particular sinner?
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Episode 265 - Surprise, Surprise
January 30th, 2019 | 22 mins 7 secs
A friend recently surprised me with the observation that Christians he knows who preach a "theology of glory" seem to be more welcoming, and forgiving, of real actual sinners than Christians he knows who preach a "theology of the Cross". My own experience confirms what my friend said.
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Episode 264 - Tip for a Happy Marriage
January 7th, 2019 | 26 mins 33 secs
When the stresses involved in over-committedness and sheer over-work threaten not just to get you off course but to sink you -- that's when this tip for a happy marriage becomes, suddenly, decisive.