Episode 176 - Everything Is Tuesday
August Coda. Labor Day Coda. General Johnson Coda. Mergers Not Acquisitions Coda.
Aug 27, 2014•20 min
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Episode 175 - Does the Name Grimsby Do Anything to You?
An August summation, from one explorer to hopefully others. Rod Serling describes a unique case of one. Then Armando Trovajoli puts into music the secret of life. Yes, the secret of life.
Aug 26, 2014•29 min
Episode 174 - Federal Theology in the Letters of Samuel Rutherford
"So, here's the thing." : Wanna know what faith is? Listen to ABBA. Wanna arrest the decline of, oh, let's say, mainstream Protestantism? Listen to ABBA. Wanna understand yourself? Listen to ABBA.
Aug 22, 2014•29 min
Episode 173 - And the Winner Is
There is so much truth here. So much emotional truth, I mean. It could have been someone else. It could have been something else. It could have come from somewhere else. But it came from ABBA.
Aug 21, 2014•27 min
Episode 172 - Phony Wars
The subject is reality vs. ideology. 'Pet' Clark wanted to be Superwoman. I wanted to be a totally focussed pastor, great dad, and good husband. 'Helen' wanted to be "a woman of today". We all failed! "Sorry, it's not possible" (Petula says). And yet, a little child has led me. Lower case. But upper case, too.
Aug 20, 2014•31 min
Episode 171 - If You Can't Stand the Heat
Here is made a principled decision to opt out, of all manner of causes and notions. With the injunction, however, that in order to heal, you have to feel. Eric Clapton starts us out. The House Band brings it on home.
Aug 07, 2014•37 min
Episode 170 - Farewell to the First Golden Era
This is a podcast to celebrate: my 170th, in which are offered some Summer reading, a Concluding Un-Scientific Postscript, and the best track ever recorded by a certain Wonder. Hope you like it!
Jun 10, 2014•25 min
Episode 169 - Wooden Ships
This is about Meister Eckhart and Rudolf Otto, and CS & N. But it's really about whether and how to engage the world, given what we now know about it. Guess I'm skeptical, more than ever; and was surprised to have to dissent from the Master. First time!
May 23, 2014•42 min
Episode 168 - "Generation Zahl"
A penetrating and courageous televison program from Germany opened me up recently. It was an instance of what Stefan Kolditz, the writer of the program, called a "non-ideological access" to a tragedy. But not just their tragedy. My tragedy. Yours, too, maybe.
May 18, 2014•29 min
Episode 167 - Emotion
This is all about one thing. It didn't take Melanchthon to teach me about it, nor Thomas Cranmer. No. It took Burton Cummings to teach me about it. And life! So Stand Tall; and for God's sake, don't do something foolish.
May 09, 2014•30 min
Episode 166 - The House That Jack Built
Well, the glass ceiling is finally breaking. It's happening right before our eyes. But Aretha's going to help us see the "Kehrseite". With a little help from Lesley Gore, too. "Come and see." (John 1:46)
Apr 30, 2014•28 min
Episode 165 - Cosmic Recension
Meister Eckhart, meet Burton Cummings. And Randy Bachman. And me.
Apr 11, 2014•23 min
Episode 164 - Happy Clappy
"No use calling, 'cause the sky is falling, and I'm getting pretty near the end." This concerns the practical consequences of (near-)death in life. Join forces with Wolfman Jack (R.I.P.) and The Guess Who; and 'Charlie Kane'.
Feb 19, 2014•31 min
Episode 163 - Deetour
It's getting bigger. Bigger, at least, from where I sit. The Contraption, I mean. And thank you, Karen Young! And thank you, Mike Francis! This podcast is dedicated to JAZ, the Minister of Edits.
Feb 13, 2014•33 min
Episode 162 - Rain Dance
Thinking about Obamacare got me onto this one. But it's not about Obamacare! It's about Reality. And Guess What?
Feb 05, 2014•28 min
Episode 161 - PBS
That's Percy Bysshe Shelley, who gets a little help -- as if he needed it -- from Eric Burdon, and B.T.O, and John Harris Harper. And MAY this meditation on termination not be half-baked.
Jan 09, 2014•34 min
Episode 160 - Who Is Going To Love Me?
How can we know God? Where is God locatable? With a little help from D. Warwick and a little from St. John, I want to answer. Podcast 160 is dedicated to Jono Linebaugh.
Dec 20, 2013•27 min
Episode 159 - The Happiest Actual Life
It's really possible: "the happiest actual life", I mean. That was Booth Tarkington's phrase for the hope we could have in real terms, even when circumstances went against us and our intrinsic indelible nature went against us. Case in point: his novel "Alice Adams" (1921). Case in point: his character 'Alice Adams'. I think the story is so real as to be Real.
Nov 17, 2013•29 min
Episode 158 - Changing Social Conditions in Indianapolis
Boy, do we need a miracle. Such things really happen. As in Booth Tarkington, and as in John Galsworthy. As in me and you. And as in: The Buckinghams.
Nov 11, 2013•34 min
Episode 157 - Every Mother's Son
Taking a break now for a couple weeks, but wanted to leave a little white-pebble trail -- not of tears, but of hope. "Come on down to my boat, baby"; and I'm talking about you, Miss Wyckoff; and you, Mr. Cardew; and you, Mr. Zahl.
Oct 19, 2013•30 min
Episode 156 - I Am Curious (Orange)
A Protestant spin on a Golden Oldie from Sweden. This is also a warning against categorization -- a very personal warning, as I've suffered from categorization and feel it keenly still. "Och du?"
Oct 16, 2013•26 min
Episode 155 - Mandy
Alternate title: Mandy and the Episcopals. Irving Berlin sets the stage; Sandra Dee plays the lead, together with Troy Donohue; and James Gould Cozzens, like Sister Mary Ignatius, Explains It All for You.
Oct 06, 2013•39 min
Episode 154 - Kramer
Kramer is my word for transmitted family dis-function and disease. Kramer in this sense requires acute attention. With help from The Contraption, Kramer actually can be reduced. In this podcast, Richard Egan steps up to help us, with a little help from Faith. Percy, I mean.
Oct 02, 2013•30 min
Episode 153 - Love in the 40s
When you're 'mature', you're sometimes not. I learned this in my 40s. I first learned it in a parish, in 'Cheever country'. But it was also in 'Miami Vice', every Friday night. Valerie and Tubbs taught me, as did 'Sonny' and Theresa. And Jan Hammer. There was all this dread, too. Was it a dream?
Sep 30, 2013•30 min
Episode 152 - Groovy Kind of Love
The text is Isherwood's journal entry for August 3, 1967. The topic: How to grow in love for the people who are right around you. Lesley Gore is going to help us, plus, naturally, William Hale White; plus Gerald Heard; plus Wayne Fontana.
Sep 29, 2013•32 min
Episode 151 - Girl Talk
I've just written a book. It is called "PZ's Panopticon: An Off-the-Wall Guide to World Religiion". It's not about gender differences nor does it concern ideology. It looks at the religions of the world in terms of one question: What does this or that religion have to offer a dying person? My book concerns religion for a person in extremis. Dying seems to "concentrate the mind wonderfully" (Samuel Johnson). I think it serves a most concentrating purpose in helping a person sift through the wisdo...
Sep 27, 2013•35 min
Episode 150 - Early Roman Kings
This is about the Ancient Romans: their psychic position, their spirit-world of augury, and the effect of the birth of Christ. With help from Bob Dylan. Two corrections, too: The Thornton Wilder book is "The Woman of Andros", and 'Camulodunum' was the Roman name for Colchester.
Aug 28, 2013•50 min
Episode 149 - A Heartache, A Shadow, A Lifetime
This is a reflection on 45 years of New Testament scholarship. That's 45 years in 45 minutes -- one minute for every year. And Dave Mason puts it all in perspective.
Aug 25, 2013•47 min
Episode 148 - INGSOC
"A little trick with Dick" (The Name Game): This is about language, control, and Purr-FEC tion. With thanks to Eric Blair, too.
Aug 04, 2013•28 min
Episode 147 - Transcendence
What can you do when you're face to face with The Antagonist? I'll tell you this much: no one gets out of here alive. Unless there are Martians. This podcast is about suffering, and it's also about transcendence.
Aug 03, 2013•22 min
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