Alastair's Adversaria
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Episodes
June 30, 2025 • 28 mins
The following was published on the Theopolis website: https://theopolisinstitute.com/eight-lessons-on-the-psalms-from-the-book-of-hebrews/.
Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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May 26, 2025 • 9 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/163357745/teaching-as-feeding
Within it, I mention this piece of mine: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/discipleship/why-i-went-cold-turkey-on-political-theology
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April 17, 2025 • 10 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/116018131/davids-lamb.
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April 3, 2025 • 15 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/145389515/the-levitical-system-for-the-uninitiated.
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March 21, 2025 • 3 mins
My next Davenant Hall course is on 'Bible Reading Skills for Narrative Texts'. Sign up here! https://davenanthall.com/course/bible-reading-narrative/
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Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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March 12, 2025 • 9 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/142188520/a-lenten-reflection.
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March 3, 2025 • 12 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/138965068/on-empathy.
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March 3, 2025 • 6 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/148465840/characteristics-of-dysfunctional-communities.
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February 16, 2025 • 85 mins
Christian Leithart and John Ahern join me for a discussion of Josef Pieper's essential essay 'Leisure: the Basis of Culture': https://amzn.to/4317bzk.
Within our discussion, we mention several other books and articles, including the following:
Mark Helprin, 'The Acceleration of Tranquility': https://ayjay.org/helprin.html
C.R. Wiley, 'In the House of Tom Bombadil': https://amzn.to/41jPn0P
Johan Huizinga, 'Homo Ludens': https://am...
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February 5, 2025 • 39 mins
The following was first published on the Theopolis website: https://theopolisinstitute.com/pentecost-and-the-gift-of-a-new-politics/.
Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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January 22, 2025 • 32 mins
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/19-symbolic-history-in-the-gospels.
Lydia McGrew, 'Explaining away and symbolic details in the Gospels': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnz6-WR21H0&ab_channel=LydiaMcGrew
Jonah Schupbach, 'Conjunctive Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation': https://www.jstor.org/stable/26874516
Jesus the Bridegroom in John and Revelation: https://argosy...
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January 12, 2025 • 46 mins
My friend and colleague Brad Littlejohn has a new book coming out, 'Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License': https://amzn.to/40xaMTR. Within this superb short book, B pushes us to think clearly about an issue behind so many others: what is freedom? As our thinking on this is clarified, problems in a host of downstream areas that have been polluted by bad notions of freedom may be considerably relieved....
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January 7, 2025 • 15 mins
The following was first published over on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/5-the-cosmos-in-a-tent.
Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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December 31, 2024 • 18 mins
The following was first published over on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/43-our-god-contracted-to-a-span.
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December 25, 2024 • 42 mins
The following was first published over on the Theopolis website: https://theopolisinstitute.com/you-shall-call-his-name-joshua/.
Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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December 18, 2024 • 28 mins
Within this podcast, I mention the following article:
Ezra Sivan, 'The King’s Great Cover-Up and Great Confession': https://thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/the-kings-great-cover-up-and-great-confession/
James Jordan, 'Bathsheba: The Real Story': https://www.biblicalhorizons.com/biblical-horizons/no-93-bathsheba-the-real-story/
Alastair Roberts, 'The Reopened Wounds of David': https://theopolisinstitute.com/the-reopened-wounds-of-jacob...
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December 17, 2024 • 7 mins
The following was first published over on The Anchored Argosy Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/42-an-obituary-and-advent.
Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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December 11, 2024 • 16 mins
The following was first published over on The Anchored Argosy Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/42-an-obituary-and-advent.
Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/.
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December 4, 2024 • 11 mins
The following was first published over on The Anchored Argosy Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/14-coronation. Within it, I mention a talk I gave at a Shrewsbury Psalm Roar event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3SftXtXnU&ab_channel=StGeorge%27sChurch.
Sign up for my forthcoming Davenant Hall course on the Psalms here: https://davenanthall.com/course/psalms-bible-miniature/.
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December 3, 2024 • 78 mins
Rhys Laverty (Senior Editor at Ad Fontes and Senior Managing Editor of the Davenant Press), Jake Meador (Editor-in-Chief of Mere Orthodoxy), and Susannah Black Roberts (Senior Editor of Plough and my wife!) join me to discuss 'Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy': https://amzn.to/3VouL44.
If you have not already done so, you should read Lewis's Ransom Trilogy: https://amzn.to/3VrP...
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