5.6 Meaning and the Problem of Death

EPISODE SUMMARY: Only two things are certain, according to Ben Franklin, death and taxes. And one of these certainties—death or at least the prospect of dying—arguably fills us with terror

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5.7 Meaning and the Problem of Eternal Boredom

EPISODE SUMMARY: In his Cambridge Element Volume on God, Soul and the Meaning of Life, Thaddeus Metz raises a number of worries about the relation between God, the soul, and meaning.

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5.8 Wealth and the Pursuit of Happiness

EPISODE SUMMARY: We’ve been exploring the search for meaning in a disenchanted world this season. Closely connected to the question of meaning is the question of happiness. There are many

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5.9 Success and the Pursuit of Meaningful Happiness

EPISODE SUMMARY: We are exploring four dead ends; four common ideas for what happiness is so that we can arrive at a biblically grounded understanding of meaningful happiness. In our

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5.10 Fame and the Pursuit of Meaningful Happiness

EPISODE SUMMARY: We’ve been exploring dead-ends on the search for meaningful happiness. So far, we’ve explored the ideas that wealth and success will bring happiness, noting that when treated as

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5.11 Pleasure and the Pursuit of Meaningful Happiness

EPISODE SUMMARY: We are continuing our exploration of dead ends when it comes to the pursuit of happiness. So far, we’ve considered happiness as wealth, success, and fame. In this

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Episode 5.12: Interview with Colson Fellows National Director S. Michael Craven

In this episode, Paul Gould interviews S. Michael Craven, National Director of the Colson Fellows Program Thanks to our season five sponsor:   In this episode, Paul interviews S. Michael

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Drink It In

It was a hard week. You know what I mean. The kind when so much happens you feel like you’ve lived a whole month in just a few days. Maybe

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Cultural Apologetics and the Church: Pastoral Tools and Gospel Barriers

Now that we have identified the primary tools of the pastor as artisan as teaching, liturgy, and systems of life together, the question becomes the shape of the structure we

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Cultural Apologetics and the Church: The Tools of the Pastor

We have already argued that “pastor as artisan” should be a primary metaphor for understanding pastoral vocation in the present day. As artisans, pastors shape and attend to the beauty

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