Dr. Paul Axton, theologian and host of the Forging Ploughshares podcast, sits down with David Gornoski to talk about his experience of living in Japan, the idea of shame in death, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and seeing Japanese culture through Christian eyes. While pointing out that Romans 7 is absolutely essential for understanding what it is to imitate […]
I am blown away in discovering Jesus’s seemingly hyperbolic symbolic aside at the entrance of Jerusalem is actually a prophecy: Luke 19:37-40: “As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works […]
How do we build and model our relationships in a Triune way as opposed to the way of scapegoating? Rich Bledsoe, chaplain at Boulder Community Hospital, calls in to answer this pressing question. Bledsoe likens the activity of the Trinity to a network of human beings. “The first corporation in the world,” Bledsoe says, “is […]
Roy Barzilai, independent researcher and author of The Testosterone Hypothesis, joins David Gornoski to explain how the decrease in testosterone has correlated with the current crisis in our health, politics, and culture. Barzilai argues that exposure to solar activity is not only the key to fighting the coronavirus pandemic but also important in tackling the coddling […]
David Gornoski gives his opinion on the news report saying that the New York Times tried to dox Tucker Carlson. Should the New York Times be trusted after it, time and time again, lied us into wars and hid the truth? The host of A Neighbor’s Choice also explains why parents should pull their children […]
Curt Mills, Senior Reporter at The American Conservative, joins David Gornoski to provide some much-needed analysis of the 2020 election showdown between Biden and Trump. Is there any chance for Trump to excel without the massive rallies that were commonplace in 2016? Why has Trump lost his energy in the campaign and is there any possibility […]
What is the Real ID Act? Journalist and author James Bovard calls in to explain how the REAL ID Act, like the Patriot Act, is government overreach under the pretext of protection. Also joining David Gornoski, to explore the injustice of locking up non-violent offenders in federal prisons and exposing them to the pandemic, is […]
How do we understand the growing undifferentiation–the breaking apart of traditional hierarchies–in western society? How can the church regain the gospel aesthetic of standing for the hidden victims of our society? The church must tell the stories of victims, David says, and in doing so, woke culture would evaporate in an instant. But then how […]
Historian Chris Calton calls in to talk about the history of policing in America. The primary contributor to issues like rioting and police brutality, Calton says, is urban policing. Crime is not the primary determiner in arrest and incarceration statistics, Calton shockingly states. If crimes haven’t increased then why are arrests increasing? The reason, according […]
In this episode, FEE.org’s Sean Malone joins David Gornoski to look at ‘Mr. Jones,’ a movie based on the Holodomor tragedy and the media cover-up that followed. Why isn’t the Holodomor as widely known as the Holocaust is in America? Totalitarian regimes were expected to hide the truth, Malone says, but what was really astonishing is the […]