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Guyland by Michael Kimmel
Man Interrupted by Philip Zimbardo
Links Referenced
Where have all the good men gone? by Brad Wilcox, Emily Fuentes, Michael Krieger
The Demise of Guys - TED Talk by Philip Zimbardo
Episode 126 - Have Some Respect in this Game
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Episode 125 - Game Planning for the Podcast
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"How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us -- for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto."
The Parable of the Madman by Friedrich Nietzsche, found in Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882, 1887) para.125; Walter Kaufmann ed. (New York: Vintage, 1974), pp.181-82.
Episode 124 - Who's Your Hero?
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Proverbs 30:32-33
[32] If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. [33] For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
Romans 1:5-7
[5] through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, [6] including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, [7] To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
3 John 1:5-8
[5] Beloved, it is a faithful thing you do in all your efforts for these brothers, strangers as they are, [6] who testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner worthy of God. [7] For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles. [8] Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
Psalm 115:1–3
[1] Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness! [2] Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” [3] Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
Matthew 6:30–34
[30] But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? [31] Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ [32] For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. [33] But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. [34] “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Books Referenced
Glory Hunger by JR Vassar https://www.amazon.com/Glory-Hunger-Gospel-Quest-Something/dp/143354010X
Embracing Obscurity by Anonymous Author https://www.amazon.com/Embracing-Obscurity-Becoming-Nothing-Everything/dp/1433677814
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Faces-Collected-Joseph-Campbell/dp/1577315936/
Episode 123 - Embodied Carnage, Embodied Hope
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Reviewish
Pig staring Nicholas Cage - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11003218/
Links and Data Referenced
NIH statistics on alcohol https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics
Heath Effects of Obesity https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesity-consequences/health-effects/
Sexual Assault Statistics https://www.rainn.org/statistics/scope-problem
Books Referenced
O. Carter Snead, What it means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics. https://www.amazon.com/What-Means-Be-Human-Bioethics/dp/0674987721
Nancey Pearcey, Love Thy Body https://www.amazon.com/Love-Thy-Body-Answering-Questions/dp/0801075726
Scripture Referenced
1 Corinthians 15
Matthew 22:37, 38
Revelation 21
Episode 122 - Revolution of the Body
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Books Referenced
GK Chesterton - Orthodoxy
Abigail Favale - The Genesis of Gender
Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
Preston Sprinkle, Embodied
Links Referenced
The Eclipse of Sex and the Rise of Gender by Abigail Favale
Polyamory is growing by Geoffrey Miller
Scriptures Referenced
Genesis 1& 2
Judges 21:25
Ephesians 5 - whole chapter is worth your time
Romans 12:14-21
Episode 121 - Honor God with Your Body
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Books Referenced
Sam Allbery What God has to Say about our Bodies, https://www.amazon.com/What-God-Has-about-Bodies/dp/1433570157/
Reid S.Monaghan, Dream a New Dream about Sex https://www.powerofchange.org/s/dream_web_jw.pdf
Scriptures Referenced
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
[18] Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. [19] Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, [20] for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Timothy 4:12,15 [12] Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity...[15] Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.
Ephesians 4:29
[29] Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Romans 12:1
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Episode 120 - Feeding and Caring for the Body
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Links Referenced
A Guide to Fasting by Scott Jones
What would Jesus Eat by Doug Ponder
The Practice of Rest by Jesse Furey (sermon)
Books Referenced
Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
Embodied by Gregg Allison
Scriptures Referenced
Ephesians 5:28-30 “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.”
1 Timothy 4:7, 8 “Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; for whole bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.”
Proverbs 23:20-21 “Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.”
Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Episode 119 - The Embodiment of God
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Luke 2:8-14 (ESV)
8 And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear. 10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!
Philippians 2:5-11 (ESV)
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Links Referenced
Christmas Charlie Brown - Linus and Luke 2
CS Lewis on the Theology and Practice of Worship by Justin Taylor
Hark the Herald Angels Sing by Charles Wesley, a modern arrangement that is a favorite of the Home Team, from the 2011 album A Child is Born from Sojourn Music. Apple Music
Episode 118 - Embodied
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Our bodies are instruments to be played in honor of the King, not weaponized to dishonor God and debase other human beings
Reviewish
The Mindscape Podcast Episode - Christopher Mims - Our Interconnected Industrial Ecology
The Box - How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson
Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door - Why Everything Has Changed about How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims
Dune by Frank Herbert, AudioBook version
Scripture Referenced
Genesis 1 and 2
Romans 6:10-12
1 Corinthians 6:20
Ephesians 5:28-29
Books Referenced
Embodied by Gregg Allison
Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey
What God has to Say About Our Bodies by Sam Allberry
What it Means to be Human, The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead
Episode 117 - Home Team Culture
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Scripture Referenced
Deuteronomy 29:29
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
1 John 4:16–19
[16] So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. [17] By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. [18] There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. [19] We love because he first loved us.
Monaghan Home Team Values
Family Mission - follow Jesus to love and serve others, and have him use our lives to seek and save the lost
Leadership and Influence - We desire to influence others and stand on our own if and where need be. God has gifted and called us so why not lead!?
Life of the Mind - We value logic, thinking, reading, questions and thoughtful engagement with people in culture.
Theological convictions, yet never have lived in a church/Christian bubble - Our kids grew up in NJ in an ideologically and religiously pluralistic culture. We want to resist being captured by the culture but not live in fear of it. We do not think we must hide in a Christian subcultural world. This is ineffective and contrary to our missional calling in Christ.
Excellence and Achievement - Try Hards! Just be Awesome! We are loved by God so we are free to try hard yet fall hard into the sea of grace. It’s OK to fail forward so why not swing hard. If things go wrong we have each other and the deep ocean of the grace of God to catch us.
Openness and Conversations - We are willing to be around for one another in order to listen when we need to vent, bounce ideas off of someone, etc. This has built understanding and friendship in our family.
Humility and Service - We believe that nobody is a big deal but everybody is a big deal. There are no people who are too lofty, or too low, to love. We want to have humble, sober judgment of ourselves and be willing to connect with anyone.
Episode 116 - A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Question of God
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Hitchhiker’s Guide - Recommended Resources for the Road
The Question of God - CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud Discuss God, Sex and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi Jr.
Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin
The Return of the God Hypothesis by Stephen Meyer
Scripture Referenced
Mark 8:27-29
27 And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am?” 28 And they told him, “John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets.” 29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”
Episode 115 - Mere Evangelism with Randy Newman
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Today's Guest
Randy Newman is the author of Mere Evangelism and the Senior Fellow for Evangelism and Apologetics at The C. S. Lewis Institute in the Washington, DC area. He has also taught at numerous theological seminaries and colleges. After serving for over 30 years with Campus Crusade for Christ, he established Connection Points, a ministry to help Christians engage people’s hearts the way Jesus did. He has written a number of books and articles about evangelism and other ways our lives intertwine with God’s creation. He and his wife Pam live in Annandale, VA and are grateful for their children and a growing number of grandchildren. He is also the host of Questions That Matter, a podcast of the C. S. Lewis Institute
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Randy-Newman/e/B001KI1W0S/
Books Referenced
Questioning Evangelism https://www.amazon.com/Questioning-Evangelism-Engaging-Peoples-Hearts/dp/0825444284
Mere Evangelism https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Evangelism-Insights-Lewis-Share/dp/1784986445
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis https://www.amazon.com/Mere-Christianity-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652926
Scriptures Referenced
Mark 10:17-22
17 And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 18And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. 19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” 20And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” 21And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
1 Peter 3:13-15
13Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? 14But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, 15but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.
Episode 114 - He Kindly Stopped for Me
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Scriptures Referenced
Ecclesiastes 7:1-6
John 11:17-44
Links Referenced
Because I could not stop for Death (479) by Emily Dickinson - Poems | poets.org. https://poets.org/poem/because-i-could-not-stop-death-479.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”– Søren Kierkegaard Source info https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jorgen/kierkegaardquotesource.html.
Episode 113 - Underground Saints - Mike Echstenkamper
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Mike Echstenkamper - Athletes In Action at UNC (@uncaia) • Instagram photos and videos
Episode 112 - From Good to God
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Links Referenced
Letter From Birmingham Jail - Historical Context - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/letter-birmingham-jail
Text Available - https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-from-birmingham-city-jail-excerpts/
Books Referenced
Engaging Unbelief, A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas by Curtis Chang
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Scripture Referenced
Romans 3:10
Romans 6:23.24
Mark 1:14,15
William Lane Craig’s Moral Argument
MODUS TOLLENS - taking away or denying the consequence.
If P, then Q.
Not Q.
Therefore, not P.
An argument from Objective Moral Values
If GOD DOES NOT EXIST then OBJECTIVE MORAL VALUES do not exist (If P THEN Q)
OBJECTIVE MORAL VALUES do exist (NOT Q)
There GOD EXISTS (Therefor NOT P)
Notice the conclusion is a negation - Not (God does not exist )
The only way to DENY this argument is to demonstrate and ground OBJECTIVE moral values apart from God, OR affirm moral RELATIVISM
Episode 111 - From the Goodness of God
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Scriptures Referenced
Luke 18:1-2 [1] And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. [2] He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man (athropos).
Romans 2:12-16 [12] For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. [13] For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. [14] For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. [15] They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them [16] on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Psalm 34:8 [8] Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Mark 4:9 [9] And he said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Luke 20:22-26 [22] Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or not?” [23] But he perceived their craftiness, and said to them, [24] “Show me a denarius. Whose likeness and inscription does it have?” They said, “Caesar’s.” [25] He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” [26] And they were not able in the presence of the people to catch him in what he said, but marveling at his answer they became silent.
Books Referenced
J. Budziszewski, What we Can’t Not Know: A Guide https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Cant-Not-Know/dp/1586174819
Links Referenced
First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, Jan 1, 1802. https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html
Episode 110 - The Road Ahead
Show Notes
Reviewish
10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (And Answer) by Rebecca McLaughlin
Confronting Christianity by Rebecca McLaughlin
Episode 109 - The New Science of Morality
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Links Referenced
American isn’t split in half, its divided into four by Caroline Mimbs Nyce
Quotations
This new-synthesis view of morality has four basic elements: (1) a Humean mind-focused sentimentalism, (2) a Darwinian evolutionary account of why the mind has the traits it does, (3) a human interest–based utilitarianism about morality, all embedded within (4) a strident naturalism committed to empirical study of the world. (Science and the Good, 86, 87)
Innovations in neuroscience are important because they help us answer basic questions about morality, namely why you might be concerned with the goals and well-being of people besides yourself. In the new moral science, it turns out that people “have special kinds of neural populations that make concern for others very natural.” (Ibid. Later quotation from Paul Thagard, Ther Brain and the Meaning of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010)
The moral law is not imposed from above or derived from well-reasoned principles; rather, it arises from ingrained values that have been there since the beginning of time. The most fundamental one derives from the survival value of group life.
Frans de Waal, The Bonobo and the Atheist (New Yokr: W.W. Norton and Company, 2013), 228. Quoted in S&G, 88.
Once ethics is viewed as a social technology, directed at particular functions, recognizable facts about how those functions can be better served can be adduced in inferences justifying ethical novelties.
Kitcher, “Naturalistic Ethics without Fallacies,” Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012,) 315. Quoted in S&G, 90.
One strain of naturalism seeks to provide empirical explanations for all of reality by fitting it into a domain of interacting physical particles.38 This would render purely metaphysical or transcendent accounts of reality not only unnecessary but unthinkable. S&G, 91, 92.
“Level Three” findings would provide scientifically based descriptions of, say, the origins of morality, or the specific way our capacity for moral judgment is physically embodied in our neural architecture, or whether human beings tend to behave in ways we consider moral. Evidence for these sorts of views doesn’t tell us anything about the content of morality—what is right and wrong—but they speak to the human capacity for morality and in that sense are interesting. (S&G, 100.)
Episode 108 - A Critical Comeuppance
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Books Referenced
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray - https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/dp/1635579988/
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell - https://www.amazon.com/Existentialist-Café-Cocktails-Jean-Paul-Merleau-Ponty-ebook/dp/B00Z3E2KEC/
Links Referenced
How Wrongeth You Are!? A look at Cultural Relativism - https://www.gospelunderground.org/podcast/2018/9/5/episode-26-how-wrongeth
The Nicene Creed - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_versions_of_the_Nicene_Creed
Quotations
The explanations for our existence that used to be provided by religion went first, falling away from the 19th century onwards. Then over the last century the secular hopes held out by all political ideologies begin to follow in religions wake. In the latter part of the twentieth century we entered the postmodern era. An era which defined itself, and was defined, by its suspicion towards all grand narratives. However, as all schoolchildren learn, nature abhors a vacuum, and into the postmodern vacuum new ideas begin to creep, with the intention of providing explanations and meanings of their own.
Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds, page 1.
We are going through a great crowd derangement. In public and in private, both online and off, people are behaving in ways that are increasingly irrational, feverish, herd-like and simply unpleasant. The daily news cycle is filled with the consequences. Yet while we see the symptoms everywhere we do not see that causes...Murray, 1.
People in wealthy, Western democracies today could not simply remain the first people in recorded history to have absolutely no explanation for what we are doing here, and no story to give life purpose. Whatever else they lacked, the grand narratives of the past at least gave life meeting. The question of what exactly we are meant to do now — other than get rich where we can have whatever fun is on offer — was going to have to be answered by something.
The answer that has presented itself in recent years is to engage in new battles, ever fiercer campaigns and evermore niche demands. Defined meaning by waging a constant war against anybody who seems to be on the wrong side of a question which may itself have just been reframed and the answer to which has only just been altered.
The unbelievable speed of this process had principally been caused by the fact that a handful of businesses in Silicon Valley (notably Google, Twitter and Facebook) now have the power not just to direct what most of the world know, think, and say, but have a business model which has accurately been described as relying on finding ‘customers ready to pay to modify someone else’s behavior’ Murray, 1-2.
