PZ's Podcast

Episode 372 - We've Only Just Begun

December 4th, 2023  |  20 mins 6 secs

This Christmas podcast is in honor of Mary's and my 50th Anniversary, which comes on December 29th. She and I are both in thankful awe of having made it thus far. And happily! To me this is worth celebrating. The cast sets out two requirements, or better, signs, as I see it, for an enduring marriage.

Episode 371 - At the Earth's Core

December 3rd, 2023  |  17 mins 43 secs

There's newness to be found at the center of the earth -- our earth, our core. This is the heart of the Christian Faith. God will always speak to beleaguered humans, but rarely until we get to the earth's core.

Episode 370 - Serling's Miracle, and Ours

November 16th, 2023  |  18 mins

When I survey the world as it's currently going, it's hard not to despair. So many things seem and feel wrong -- are wrong. Providentially (as I see it), I've been directed back to Rod Serling. Rod Serling has given me new hope today as I look out on the world.

Episode 369 - Don't You Care

November 1st, 2023  |  23 mins 15 secs

God spoke to me recently. Not through a mediated form -- albeit it was through another human being. Not through concept nor reading nor paradox nor metaphor nor memory. But right Here and Now! This podcast gives the outline of what happened.

Episode 368 - Straining Out Gnats and...

October 20th, 2023  |  21 mins 22 secs

The point of this cast is to look at the "camel" that you're really needing and trying -- unsuccessfully, for sure -- to swallow (i.e., digest/assimilate) in relation to the ten thousand gnats that you actually spend your time ... processing.

Episode 367 - "Summer of '42"

October 10th, 2023  |  23 mins 26 secs

This podcast observes the power of personal rejection but, more importantly, the power of personal acceptance.

Episode 366 - Our Movie

September 6th, 2023  |  19 mins 27 secs

In the cast I talk about soul and body, true self and false self, physical life and physical death: the promise of these things and the limitations of at least three of them.

Episode 365 - The Whole Loaf

August 14th, 2023  |  22 mins 53 secs

Part of the Loaf can be very good. But the Whole Loaf is better.

Episode 364 - How to Survive Being in Full Time Ministry

July 7th, 2023  |  22 mins 44 secs

Serving in full time ministry is as stress-full as any occupation can be. I can't prescribe a way-of-being or way-of-doing to help you. But I can describe what I have seen that works.

Episode 363 - In Quintessence

July 6th, 2023  |  20 mins 10 secs

The quintessence of one's continuing love of popular culture that embodies heart-to-heart communication is the subject of this cast. What makes a work of popular art "Christian"? Does it have to be explicit to qualify? Or implicit -- and therefore under the radar -- to really qualify?

Episode 362 - Midsummer Night's Dream

June 27th, 2023  |  17 mins 30 secs

Episode 361 - Outer Limits

May 17th, 2023  |  14 mins 58 secs

Verticality is a make-or-break attribute of the Christian Church. When we put horizontality before verticality, we run out of gas. Always. People cannot "keep up" horizontal good works and outreach if they are not being, as the English say, resourced.

Episode 360 - Outta Gear

May 13th, 2023  |  23 mins 38 secs

I think we probably all need to get "outta gear", at least to some extent.

Episode 359 - Better Late Than Never

May 12th, 2023  |  22 mins 54 secs

Why isn't God intervening to make the world a less harsh and broiling place? 'Where are you, God? Come on, already.' Another way of putting it: What's taking You so long?

Episode 358 - The Wisdom of... Los Straitjackets

April 24th, 2023  |  22 mins 17 secs

To me the music of Los Straitjackets gives hope for the last third of life.

Episode 357 - 'Mockingbird' en France

April 20th, 2023  |  21 mins 42 secs

Thanks to my college friend, I've gotten hooked on a French mystery program -- in episodes of an hour and a half -- entitled "Murder in...". The producers fill in the blank with a stunning regional locale each week -- Albi, Carcassonne, Blois, Colmar, you name it.