PZ's Podcast
About the show
From "Telstar" to "Vault of Horror," from Rattigan to Kerouac, from the Village of Bray to the Village of Midwich, help PZ link old ancient news and pop culture. I think I can see him, "Crawling from the Wreckage." Will he find his way? This show is brought to you by Mockingbird! www.mbird.com
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Episodes
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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.
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Episode 263 - Too Weak to Fight
November 19th, 2018 | 23 mins 12 secs
One's Christian life will fail if it is not rooted in the truth of human nature, which we all share, like it or not. Similarly, everyone's life, whether Christian or non-Christian or anti-Christian, will fail if it's not rooted in reality.
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Episode 262 - Magic
November 19th, 2018 | 22 mins 33 secs
When it comes to rules or advice for long-term marriage, I often seem to hear words like "covenant" and "promise-keeping". But excellent as they are in principle, these conceptions are insufficient to give you the oomph, the power, to do the thing you both want so much to do.
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Episode 261 - Mountain of Love
November 12th, 2018 | 20 mins 51 secs
The issue of romantic love is to the fore again, but the question is other: Why is there general radio silence on the vital point; or rather, why is there not more active concurrence in relation to it?
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Episode 260 - Transgressive Enough 4 U?
November 12th, 2018 | 23 mins 34 secs
Experiencing a massive re-think just now concerning world cinema!
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Episode 259 - Revenge of the Creature
November 6th, 2018 | 23 mins 59 secs
We're talking about love today -- wouldn't ya know -- and the relation of divine love to romantic love. It's a familiar, but one that remains very fresh, at least as long as human memory and human loss remain conscious.
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Episode 257 - T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia)
September 17th, 2018 | 23 mins 28 secs
Mrs. Zahl recently used the word "periphery" to describe our attitude, mine and hers, to increasing numbers of institutions, groups, and schools of thought to which we have been attached and for which we have been engaged for a long time.
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Episode 256 - My Antediluvian Baby
August 15th, 2018 | 21 mins 35 secs
Donovan's odd and brilliant song from 1970 entitled "Atlantis" is a good example of what PZ's Podcast is all about.
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Episode 255 - The Letter
July 31st, 2018 | 21 mins 30 secs
Pastorally -- and generally -- it is easy to miss the core of what's going on with a person in pain. You may see some symptoms -- tho' sometimes even the symptoms are hidden -- and may sub-rationally understand that something bad is taking place under the surface. But when it comes to the "Heart of Darkness" inside a sufferer, it may be very hard to fathom and to surface.