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Eric Brakey joins me to talk about his recent experience getting detained at the border after returning from a cruise. His papers and electronics were searched, and the border guards told him that his Constitutional rights didn’t apply. A story we should pay attention to.
Free State Project: fsp.org
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The desire to understand mechanism has led scientists, doctors, and researchers into grave error—the “mechanism fallacy”—thinking that correlations are not causally connected if the mechanism is not understood.
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We've become desensitized to the novelty of the Trinity. I am joined by Dr. Jared Ortiz to discuss the history and importance of the Council of Nicaea.
Guest's website: https://hope.edu/directory/people/ortiz-jared/index.html
Guest's book: The Nicene Creed: A Scriptural, Historical, and Theological Commentary
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There are too many anomalies in archaeology to ignore. Our paradigms will have to be revised.
My conversation with Michael Button, a rising star from the next generation of scholars. Check out his YouTube channel here.
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Textbook calculus is wrong because it's fundamentally continuous. We can do better, and a discrete calculus might even change how we build computers.
Interview with Ryan X Charles.
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I'm joined by Aaron Day of the Daylight Freedom Foundation to talk about... a completely different subject than we originally planned.
He shares his story about moving away from atheist materialism, and we also discuss the role (and dangers) of social hierarchies and other topics.
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The biggest hangup I have with Catholicism (and all the mainline branches of Christianity) is the Trinity.
I can understand a lower-case-t trinitarianism—that the concepts of “Father God”, “Son of God” and “Holy Spirit” are valid and useful—but the official doctrine of the Trinity still confuses me.
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The best Christian philosophy I’ve heard comes from the ancient traditions—Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
I would never have expected it five years ago, but I’m coming around to Catholicism in particular…
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