Why must every tyrant act politically correct to achieve power? Where do our personal liberties originally come from? What is the cause behind the coming inflation? How can we disarm the scapegoating mob of cancel culture? Listen to the full episode as David Gornoski answers these questions while also commenting on some of the latest […]
David Gornoski sits down with academic Leigh Fetter who discusses his journey from secular atheism to Christianity by discovering the works of Rene Girard. David and Leigh discuss a variety of topics such as the Christian undermining of ancient myths; the possibility of Orwellian totalitarianism; the Nietzschean problem of recreating values; how Girard provides a […]
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 […]
In this episode, Shannon Braswell calls in from Washington to deconstruct cancel culture and the revolutionary zeal that drives it forward. Shannon exposes the violent, cyclical nature of revolutions and points out how Jesus gave us the key to break that cycle. What does the kingdom of heaven look like and how does it differ […]
New Testament scholar Douglas Campbell joins David Gornoski in a fascinating discussion on Pauline dogmatics and its effect on our worldview. What is the starting point of theology? Campbell says that dogmatics start from the statement “Jesus is Lord.” For us to know who the historical Jesus actually was, Campbell suggests that we start with […]
Why do conservatives continue to lose both politically and culturally? The answer, David Gornoski says, is that the left has successfully monopolized the art of story-telling. “The right doesn’t have its story right.” David challenges the right to understand what ‘Holy Spirit’ means. Paul describes Satan in the New Testament as a system of government; […]