Episode 59 - Deep Work

Reid and Jesse look at how our digital age fragments, distracts and disjoints our ability to do deep work. Guided by the book, Deep Work, by Cal Newport, they discuss how being able to go deep is both a helpful and virtuous path.

Show Notes

RUTs and BUTs

• Ridiculous - Banned Book Week! http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/banned

• Beautiful - Meat is Good?

  • The NYT - Meat’s Bad for You! No, It’s Not! How Experts See Different Things in the Data

  • The Research - Red and Processed Meat Consumption and Risk for All-Cause Mortality and Cardiometabolic Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies

Main Topic - Deep Work

• Article - Is Google Making us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr

• Book - The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

• Book - Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Book - Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher

• Book - Flow by Millay Csikszentmihalyi

Scriptures Referenced

Philippians 4:8, 9; Psalm 19:14

Episode 58 - The First Modern Mentor

Church historian and Anglican minister Rhys Bezzant joins Reid and Jesse in the Shedquarters to discuss Jonathan Edwards as mentor in the modern era.

Show Notes

In or Out

• What is a Canon of the Cathedral?

• Preparationism - Rhys appears in this Wiki

Main Topic - The First Modern Mentor

• Book - Edwards the Mentor by Rhys Bezzant

• The Works of Jonathan Edwards - Vol 16 - Letters and Personal Writings

• The Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University

Other Books by Rhys Bezzant

• Jonathan Edwards and the Church

• Amazon Author Page - Rhys Bezzant

Scriptures Reference

• Leaders as Servants and Stewards - Matthew 25; Luke 16

• Leaders as Ambassadors - 2 Corinthians 5

• On Imitation - Ephesians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 11:1

Episode 57 - Intellectual Vices

Show Notes

Reviewish 

• Jesse Recommends - Goodr Sunglasses

Main Topic - Intellectual Vice

• Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast - Episode 61 - Quassim Cassam on Intellectual Vices

• Book - Vices of the Mind by Quassim Cassam

• Book - Thinking Fast, and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.

• Book - On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt

Scriptures Read

• Luke 10:13-16

• Romans 1:18-23 and others

Quotations on Open Minds by GK Chesterton

“An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to shut; they were made to open only in order to shut.” (Illustrated London News. October 10, 1908)

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” (Autobiography)

https://www.chesterton.org/open-mind/

Episode 56 - ID Check

Show Notes

Scripture Referenced

Ephesians 1:3-10; Colossians 1:11-14

Quotation Cited

All interest of my reason (the speculative as well as the practical) is united in the following three questions:

1. What can I know?

2. What should I do?

3. What may I hope?

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

Episode 55 - This is Your Brain on Gratitude

Reid and Jesse look at recent research on the effect of gratitude on the body and the mind and discuss how this makes the most sense in a theistic universe.

Show Notes

RUTs and BUTs

• More States Option to Robo-Grade Student Essays

• Cyborgs will Replace Humans and Remake the World

Main Topic - This is Your Brain on Gratitude

Some Brains on Drugs Videos

• Brains Going into Drugs - https://youtu.be/LSFaDeRpSHA

• Brains on Drugs - https://youtu.be/GOnENVylxPI

Main Article

• Neuroscience says your Body and Mind get Stronger when you Focus on this One Thing

Scripture Referenced

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; Job 1:21; James 1:16-18

Episode 54 - Underground Virtue

Jesse leads us in a discussion about Virtue in life and as a follower of Jesus.

Show Notes

In or Out 

• Apple Card Review - https://www.thebalance.com/apple-card-review-4767210

• Carli Lloyd the Kicker? Yes Please. https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2019/08/21/carli-lloyd-uswnt-eagles-training-camp-field-goal-nfl-coy-wire-mxp-vpx.hln 

Underground Virtue

• A New Kind of Prosperity Gospel, Relevant Magazine https://relevantmagazine.com/life5/a-new-kind-of-prosperity-gospel/

• The Psychological Toll of Becoming an Instagram Influencer on Medium https://elemental.medium.com/the-psychological-toll-of-becoming-an-instagram-influencer-5bbd1d9174c4

• The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00850REQA/

• Bonhoeffer Haus Virtue Conference, September 28th, 2019 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtue-a-one-day-conference-tickets-65812742685 

Referenced Scripture

2 Peter 1:5; James 3:13; Proverbs 27:1, 2; Proverbs 30:32, 33

Episode 53 - Tech Party 2019!

A look at the trends and concerns with current technological developments in our world

Show Notes

Reviewish

• The Mikme - mikme.com

• Mikme Review - https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/25/mikme-review/

• YouTube Reviews

  • MrBobile - https://youtu.be/jEXsZnW6Jso

  • SomeGadgetGuy - https://youtu.be/vkTpELLHGhY

Tech Party 2019

• Twitter Thread about our Screens by Professor Paul Musgrave https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1155957537063096320?s=12

• Microsoft HoloLens Translators - https://venturebeat.com/2019/07/17/microsoft-wows-inspire-crowd-with-language-translating-hololens-hologram/

• DeepFakes and Video simulation - https://youtu.be/aJq6ygTWdao

• The After-ON podcast https://after-on.com

• This Cultural Moment https://thisculturalmoment.podbean.com/e/this-cultural-moment-live-at-wildfires-in-the-uk/

• The work of Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism, Deep Work https://medium.com/@nina.semczuk/5-practices-from-deep-work-by-cal-newport-thatll-change-your-life-303847ec5f3c

• Hong Protestors and Lasers - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/02/innovative-hong-kong-protesters-using-lasers-traffic-cones-parkour/

Episode 52 - Girl Power!

Reid interviews his teenage daughters about raising young women

Show Notes

Helpful Links

• Athletes in Action Soccer Tours Women’s soccer tours with Athletes in Action

• How Dads Shape Daughters’ Relationships Psychology Today

• How Dads Affect Their Daughters into Adulthood Institute for Family Studies

• First Hero, First Love: A Dad’s Role for Sons and Daughters National Center for Fathering

Book Recommendation

• Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters by Meg Meeker

Episode 51 - Gender Talk

Reid discusses how we might engage gender discussions today so that we expand the plausibility structures of our friends.

Show Notes

Reviewish 

https://www.thermoworks.com/BlueDOT

Gender Talk 

Twitter Link - https://twitter.com/reidsmonaghan/status/1140325816234061825?s=21

Relevant Scripture

Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. 24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, - 2 Timothy 2:23-25

Recommended Resources

Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey 

https://www.amazon.com/Love-Thy-Body-Answering-Questions/dp/0801075971/

God and the Transgender Debate By Andrew T. Walker

https://www.amazon.com/God-Transgender-Debate-Andrew-Walker/dp/1784981788/

Talking Points: Transgender by Vaughn Roberts

https://www.amazon.com/Talking-Points-Transgender-Vaughan-Roberts/dp/1784981958/

Is God Anti-Gay? By Sam Allberry

https://www.amazon.com/God-anti-gay-Questions-Christians-Ask/dp/1908762314/

Episode 50 - Men Going Their Own Way

Reid and Jesse engage modern men choosing to go their own way apart from marriage and family while exercising personal sovereignty over life.

Show Notes

Links Referenced

• Men Going Their Own Way, https://www.mgtow.com

• The Old Spice Guy - I’m on a Horse, https://youtu.be/VX5au0LOJp8

Relevant Scripture

• Matthew 19:30

• Mark 10:31, 35-45

• Philippians 2:1-18

• Psalm 100:2

• Ephesians 5:18-33

Episode 49 - Wisdom is Earned

Reid and Jesse discuss how technology, novelty and the immediacy of modern communications can lead us to neglect the wisdom gained by those who have gone before us in life.

Show Notes

Reviewish

• Reviewish Song Recorded and Performed by Michael Bond, Words by Reid S. Monaghan. Check out Michael Bond at https://www.mikebondmusic.com

• Can Science Answer Everything? By John C. Lennox https://www.thegoodbook.com/can-science-explain-everything

• The Shoe Doctor https://shoedoctorva.com

Main Topic 

• Ageism: A ‘Prevalent and Insidious’ Health Threat by Paula Span https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/health/ageism-elderly-health.html 

Scripture Referenced

• Leviticus 19:32; Proverbs 16:31; Proverbs 20:29; 1 Peter 5:5;

• Psalm 49:12, 13; Proverbs 10:14, 12:15, 13:20.

Episode 48 - The Self-Curated Life

Reid and Jesse discuss how technology, consumer choice and self-curation in life has fragmented communities and requires from us new ways of interacting with “the other” in our world.

Show Notes

Rantology

Twitter Beefs and 2 Timothy 2:22-25

Main Topic - The Self-Curated LIfe

The Perfect Thing by Steven Levy

https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Thing-Steven-Levy/dp/0091910102

The Chaos of Internet Culture

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/11/20/episode-34-the-chaos-of-internet-culture

Facebook bans Alex Jones and Louis Farrakhan

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-jones-louis-farrakhan-ban.html

Scripture References

• Philippians 4:8

• Psalm 19:14

• 2 Timothy 2:22-25

Episode 47 - Generations

In a round about way, Reid discusses the importance of generations sharing life and wisdom with one another.

SHOW NOTES

Links

• The Signal App - https://signal.org/

• Windsor Knots? I think knot! https://www.gq.com/story/tie-knots-zegna-windsor

Reviewish

• The Sweet Swine O’ Mine Red box smoker. https://youtu.be/UQyRwiyjGsc

• Sweet Swine O’ Mine rubs and sauces. https://ssomd.com

Scripture Reference

• Psalm 145

Episode 46 - Give Me That New Style Secular Religion

Reid and Jesse discuss the religious dogma, priesthood, cathedrals, heretics and militants of western secularism. 

SHOW NOTES

IN or OUT?

• Evangelicals and Politics

• https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/24/18513213/trump-evangelicals-gop

• “Evangelicals and Evangelical Beliefs” 

• https://lifewayresearch.com/2017/12/06/many-evangelicals-dont-hold-evangelical-beliefs/

• Give Me That Old Time Secular Religion

Books Referenced:

• You are what you Love by James KA Smith https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-What-Love-Spiritual/dp/158743380X

• The Coddling of the American Mind - Book https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224897

• The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft https://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Gate-Habsburgs-Ottomans-Battle/dp/0465013740/

• Empires of the Sea - The Contest for the Center of the World by Roger Crowley https://www.amazon.com/Empires-Sea-Battle-Lepanto-Contest-dp-0812977645/dp/0812977645/

Links Referenced

• The Intolerance of Tolerance by Greg Koukl https://www.str.org/articles/the-intolerance-of-tolerance

• The Coddling of the American Mind - Essay https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

• PZ Meyers on the New Atheism https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/25/the-train-wreck-that-was-the-new-atheism/

• The Guardian on the New Atheism https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/31/four-horsemen-review-what-happened-to-new-atheism-dawkins-hitchens

Episode 45 - Lifelong Learning

Reid encourages us towards both formal and informal paths for lifelong learning.

Show Notes 

Reviewish

• DA Carson, Christ and Culture Revisited  http://www.powerofchange.org/blog/2019/4/9/christ-and-culture-revisited 

Main Topic - Lifelong Learning

• New York Times Review of Books https://www.nytimes.com/section/books

• Westminster Books https://www.wtsbooks.com

• First Things Journal https://www.firstthings.com/

• Brian Regan on Reading http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s6qsfe/reading-the-news

1 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God. - 1 Corinthians 8:1-3

Take em to Church/Rantology

• History of Welches Grape Choice and the Lord’s Table: http://www.umc.org/who-we-are/methodist-history-controversy-communion-and-welchs-grape-juice

Epidsode 44 - Wrestle Like a Girl

Reid and Jesse discuss gender and culture with the aid of some courageous men and women on the wrestling mats. Our discussions of gender/sex and society need to account for biology, sociology and theology.

Show Notes

Links Referenced

• Wrestle like a Girl - Organization promoting women’s wrestling https://www.wrestlelikeagirl.org/

• Stats on Women’s Wrestling from the National Wrestling Coaches Association - http://www.nwcaonline.com/growing-wrestling/growing-womens-wrestling/womens-wrestling-facts-resources/

• News last month out of the Colorado State Wrestling Tournament - https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/24/colorado-state-wrestling-tournament-colorado-springs-wrestler-girl-forfeit/

• Girls Should not pay the Price when boys are too uncomfortable to play - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/04/girls-should-not-pay-the-price-when-boys-are-too-uncomfortable-to-play

• Male and Female Brain Biology - https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html

Reviewishes 

• Book Reviewish - The Club by Robinson and Clegg - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40225612-the-club

• Tech Reviewish - AirPods 2.0 - https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/27/airpods-2-first-impressions/

• Finance Reviewish - Apple Card - https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/27/18281071/how-apple-credit-card-works-fine-print-fees-cash-back-titanium

Episode 43 - Gospel Smackdown

Reid and Jesse discuss various aspects of the biblical gospel and how we must not merely want to put the smackdown on those with whom we disagree.

SHOW NOTES

Links Referenced

• Matt Chandler, Jared Wilson, The Explicit Gospel https://www.amazon.com/Explicit-Gospel-Paperback-Matt-Chandler/dp/1433542110/

• Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral https://www.amazon.com/Hermeneutical-Spiral-Comprehensive-Introduction-Interpretation/dp/0830828265/ref=nodl_

• Andreas Kostenberger, Richard Patterson, Invitation to Biblical Interpretation https://www.amazon.com/dp/082543047X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_thpLCbEVRCD4X

• Carl Trueman book review, regarding name calling (white privilege vs. social Marxist): https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/live-marxs-world-now/

Reviewish

• Captain Marvel https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/captain_marvel

Relevant Scripture

• Mark 1

• Galatians 3:1-9

• 1 Corinthians 15:1-3

• Isaiah 53

• Luke 4, Isaiah 61

• Titus 3:1-9

• Romans 1:1-8

Episode 42 - There’s an App for That

Reid and Jesse discuss the moral outrage aimed at Apple and Google for offering up Saudi Values in their Saudi Arabian app stores.

Show Notes

Links Referenced

Episode 26 - How Wrongeth You Are!

https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/9/5/episode-26-how-wrongeth

Moral Relativism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/

Beckwith and Koukl, Relativism, Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air - Chapter 2 

https://www.bethinking.org/truth/the-death-of-truth/2-what-is-moral-relativism

Main Topic 

Apple, Google Criticized for Carrying App that Lets Saudi Men Track Their Wives

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693994447/apple-google-criticized-for-carrying-app-that-lets-saudi-men-track-their-wives

A US Senator has demanded that Apple and Google remove a Saudi Arabi an government app that allows men 'abhorrent' control over women's lives

https://www.businessinsider.com/absher-senator-ron-wyden-demands-apple-google-remove-saudi-govt-app-2019-2

The Scandalous Origins of Human Rights by Ronald Osborn

“Can we have a rationally coherent, morally compelling, and historically sustainable discourse as well as a practice of humanistic values and human rights absent a “thick” metaphysical or religious framework, such as the one provided in the Western tradition for some two millennia by Judeo-Christian sources?” 

http://www.veritas.org/the-scandalous-origins-of-human-rights/

A Disjunctive Syllogism 

http://www.philosophy-index.com/logic/forms/disjunctive-syllogism.php

Episode 41 - Relationship Advice Gone Wild

Reid and Jesse hit up Valentines Day and learn about commitment in a round about way from contemporary relationship advice.

Show Notes

Valentines Day Historical Discussions

• Valentines Day History - https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a9299/valentines-day-history/

• Gory Origins of Valentines Day

  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/

• The Dark Origins of Valentines Day https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day

Main Topic - Relationship Advice Gone Wild

• Is Your Relationship Working by Jeanne Croteau https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeannecroteau/2019/02/06/is-your-relationship-working-ask-yourself-these-five-questions/

Scriptures Referenced

• Philippians 2

• Mark 10

• James 5:16

• Psalm 23:6

• Proverbs 3:3-6

Episode 39 - Woke, Too Woke, or Broke

Reid and Jesse discuss racism, justice, and the gospel with the help of Dr. Eric Mason‘s new book “Woke Church“

Show Notes

Books Referenced

Woke Church by Dr. Eric Mason

https://www.amazon.com/Woke-Church-Christians-Confront-Injustice/dp/0802416985/

One Blood by John Perkins

https://www.amazon.com/One-Blood-Parting-Words-Church/dp/0802418015/

Links References

Woke Christian Conference - https://wokechristian.com/

Jude 3 Project - http://www.jude3project.com

Thriving Frequency Conference - https://thrivingfrequency.com

Scripture Referenced

Ephesians 2:14

Matthew 23:23

Hosea 12:6