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Episode 028 – GongShow.gayHello there.
We decided that we were long overdue for a Gong Show… so we did one!
We get under the fingernails and discuss the recent posts on the UFaith site. Lots of interesting discussion.
Strong Caution: The post-show content contains a discussion that some may find offensive due to it’s mature nature.
linkscolor = "000000"; [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 026 – The Theology of Joe Pug’s Hymn 101We dissect the Joe Pug song that we’ve all come to love. You can listen to Hymn 101 on the MySpace page.
Here are the lyrics:
and i’ve come to know the wishlist of my father
i’ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished
i’ve come to wish aloud
among the over-dressed crowd
come to witness now the sinking of [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 027 – Capitalism!We get a bit political in this episode and discuss capitalism in North America.
Please enjoy!
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Where do we come from? Why are there multiple creation myths/stories, and how are they similar/differ?
Does belief in evolution mean you can’t believe in creation?
Is the Earth a test tube created by aliens? If so, what was/is their purpose?
Are we just a simulated world in a videogame?
Why are creation stories [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 020 – Previous 19 Episode Review PartyHey, we made it to 20!To celebrate, the three of us got together and recorded a review episode. We walked through the previous 19 episodes and shared our thoughts. If you are new to this talk show you might find this episode very useful. If you listened to them all, then this episode will be [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 024 – Souls… What are they good for?Hello!
This episode takes a look at the conept of having a soul.
Does it exist? if so how, why? Is it measurable? Do aliens have them? If so how intelligent/self aware do you have to be to get one. Can an animal have one?
Show Notes:
Dawkins on soul: http://richarddawkins.net/article,1342,Science-of-the-Soul-I-Think-Therefore-I-Am-Is-Losing-Force,Cornelia-Dean
Soul info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul
Rainbow Bridge: http://www.novareinna.com/bridge/index.html
Zombie ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 022 – Da Vinci and DemonsThanks for your patience while we took a bit of a summer break.
This episode is all abut the controversy of Dan Brown’s novels/movies, Da Vinci Code plus Angels and Demons.
We talk about Dan Brown the person, try to understand his motives, talk about why Christianity may be the focus for this books, work through the [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Josh Ritter, Escapism, and Heaven meeting EarthThin Blue Flame
I have recently been listening to Josh Ritter’s Thin Blue Flame (you can listen to it above, I linked it from his site) and can’t help but be struck by its beautiful and haunting exploration of God, the afterlife, and how our perceptions of the afterlife shape our ethics and our politics. Thin Blue Flame is [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 023 – The State of Religion In A Global Consumer CultureHello,
We are back this week with a somewhat continuation of our last episode.
Key Questions/Points:
Impetus for thinking about this topic: Dan brown follow-up article (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/opinion/19douthat.html?_r=1). What has happened to religion in a global consumer culture? Has its prominence wained? Has its prominence grown?
We live in a culture that wishes to consume everything from food, to clothes, [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 021 – Christianity and EcologyHey! Thanks for tuning in to episode 21. We talk about the concept of being a “Green Christian”. We also discuss the ways the Chrisitian faith has been a stumbling block to ecological concerns? Is this a result of core tenets of the faith, or because of misuse of the Christian name/bad interpretations of Christian [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 018 – Unring the Bell of ChoiceIn this episode we talk about the infant de-baptism article that Montana posted earlier in the week.
I think you might find this episode interesting because we cover some interesting themes related to this topic.
The only show notes I have is that Zac quoted David Bentley Hart’s, Christ and Nothing
David Benley Hart, “Christ and Nothing”, In The [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 019 – Gong Show: Where Dreams Become Heart AttacksWe are short a co-host this week, but we decided to make a short episode about food consumption in the western culture. We didn’t get into the spiritual side of things much, but we’re hoping it will atleast be fairly informative. Enjoy.
Here’s some show notes:
-South beach diet: http://www.southbeach-diet-plan.com/
-High Fructose Corn Syrup (glucose fructose)
-The Dr. show [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 020 – Previous 19 Episode Review PartyHey, we made it to 20!
To celebrate, the three of us got together and recorded a review episode. We walked through the previous 19 episodes and shared our thoughts. If you are new to this talk show you might find this episode very useful. If you listened to them all, then this episode will be [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 009 - Mortality and ImmortalityIn this episode we talk about mortality vs immortality in the following contexts:
Why do we want to be immortal (through religious beliefs)?
Humans vs. non-human animals
Why do we feel the desire to be remembered?
What are all the kinds of immortality?
If we believe we are just going to become worm food are we better able to live [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 008 - Gong ShowIn this gong show we have a wonderful special guest, Charlie, and talk with her about various topics including:
female portrayal in the religious texts
agnosticism
“exclusive club” religions
justice vs. forgiveness
redemption
Here are some references:
Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment. (California: Stanford University Press, 1987), pg.18.
Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans. (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), pg. 35.
This [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 009 - Mortality and ImmortalityIn this episode we talk about mortality vs immortality in the following contexts:
Why do we want to be immortal (through religious beliefs)?
Humans vs. non-human animals
Why do we feel the desire to be remembered?
What are all the kinds of immortality?
If we believe we are just going to become worm food are we better able to live [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 010 - Is It Important To Believe That Jesus Rose From the Dead? Why?First off, this episode is not an attempt to offend people of the christian faith, or to take away from the value and significance people may place in the death/resurrection of Jesus. In this episode we try to walk through some of the modern challenges of believing in the resurrection.
Here are some of the show [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 011 - Sexting, MyJesus and iJesusIn this Gong Show episode we talk about what sexting is all about, the popular posesive attitude toward God, and we try to envision what it would be like to have been born Jesus.
Here as some Show Notes:
http://faith-theology.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html
This show is one hour and 9 minutes long:
linkscolor = "000000"; highlightscolor = "888888"; [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 012 - Atonement: Sacrificial Payment or Gift?In this episode we talk about the concept of atonement. Was there a debt that was paid on the cross that Jesus died on? Was His death on the cross a symbol of mercy instead of a financial transaction? Was it also an act of selfishness? And why did Tom Green make a rap video? [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 013 - Religion in Pop CultureIn this episode we talk about how religion has been presented and portrayed in pop culture media like movies and TV series.
Here’s some show notes:
- In what ways are religions either superficially represented, romanticized, or mis-represented?
- Is the “presence” of religion in pop culture, or the “use” of religion in pop culture representative of pop [...]Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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