Willie Grills talks about urban legends in America, how to think about horror stories, and why folk tales are effective at communicating culture.
Pr. Willie Grills – Zion Lutheran Church
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BHoP#201 Xmillenialism
Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about different Christian eschatological views, recent developments in sports and its broadcasting, the effects of immigration to culturally alien regions, the left’s idea of populism, the farmer’s protests in Europe, and the use of euphemisms to obscure truth.
Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID and Luther Classical College.
Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium
BHoP#175 Solve for Elon – Freedom is Capacity to Fail
Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about Elon Musk’s history and rise to fortune, Gen X and 80’s nostalgia, embracing risk, and confidence in confronting the powers of the world.
Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID, Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO, and Luther Classical College.
Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium
BHoP#165 Outsourcing Formula 1 – AI and Original Sin
Dr Adam Koontz and Rev Jonathan Fisk discuss the development of artificial intelligence and its comparisons to myths and technologies of previous eras, how it may be used in the future, and the captivating nature of images.
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Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID, Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO, and Luther Classical College.
Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium
BHoP#137 Home Grown Horrors
Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the recent Covenant school shooting, the demonic influence available through the internet that seeks the destruction of children, the self destructive demands of self made victims, and other incidents of mass shootings in America.
Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID, Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO, and Luther Classical College.
Dr Koontz – Trinity Lutheran Church
Rev Fisk – St Paul Rockford and Hebron Collegium
BHoP#092 Climate Control
Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk open the show by discussing Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter and the change the internet has undergone over the last two decades, then discuss climate politics as another example of a strange social movement gaining traction by manipulating the visible and invisible.
Book mentioned: The Visible Hand, Alfred Chandler
Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID and Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO
Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford
BHoP#065 Going Dark
Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the differences between mediums of communications, government surveillance through apps, the internet’s role in the collapse of privacy leading to collapse of the soul and the body, how this prevents you from being able to live in any sustainable way, and how “going dark” by reducing the ways you can be watched gives hope of dignifying the human soul.
Mentioned in this episode: Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake
Many thanks to our sponsors, Blessed Sacrament Lutheran Church in Hayden, ID and Our Savior Lutheran Church and School in Pagosa Springs, CO
Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford
BHoP#004 Pejorative Pride: The Irish in Wonderland
What is the difference between Irish and Scots-Irish (or Scotch-Irish) and Irish? How is Alice in Wonderland a metaphor for the internet? What do these questions have to do with life in America today? Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk discuss these topics in today’s episode.
Dr Koontz – Agrarian, Egghead – Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne
Rev Fisk – Author, Fanatic – St Paul Rockford