Dr. Keppe has said many times over the more than 2 decades I’ve been here in Brazil studying and working with him that no one is good alone. That means we act from influencers in our lives — and I don’t mean to social media kind. Friends and family, lovers and mentors, teachers and priests
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Growing up in a modern developed, secular society means limited access to theological understanding. There is some spirituality mixed into the stew of science and legislation and jurisprudence, but it’s of a modern kind — meaning a blend of concepts and ideas pulled from Eastern philosophy, New Age imaginings and Quantum physics. And as such,
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There’s a lot of certainty in scientific circles about how science and religion can’t go together. In fact, consensus that empirical science has made God unnecessary, and that religion, with its strange elements of faith and ritual, is irrational and harmful. If you’ve been listening to our series, you’ll realize we don’t walk down that
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We’ve been looking at the deep spiritual questions that rise in the human breast in our series. And we’ve been doing that through the lens of theology, which has been so dismissed, even despised, in our modern science. To our great detriment. As we’ll hear in this episode, Dr. Keppe accepted his clients’ questions and
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Our intention in this podcast series is to bring some consciousness about something that only a few desire knowing about: there are evil spirits organizing and guiding our lives. Already I can hear the howls of protest. I have a young teenage student from Europe who gets very agitated if anything metaphysical gets put forward
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The idea of Creation. The new atheists rail against that. “It’s not rational,” they insist. The product of a weak mind. Yes, I’ve heard all that before. In fact, I’m quick to admit that may have been my mind some years ago. I say “may” because I’m not sure what I thought about the origins
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Welcome to Episode 17 – our final episode – of the Modern Relevance of God Podcast Series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. You know, as I think about it, 17 is kind of an odd number for the final episode in a series about spirituality, isn’t it? It’s not particularly
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We’ve been attempting here to make the scientific case for the relevance of a more theological consciousness in our everyday lives. I’ve been impressed with the idea Dr. Joseph Ghougassian elaborated in the preface he wrote to Keppe’s, Glorification that if we have religions in the world, this must be because of a metaphysical dimension in us.
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I’ve been impressed in my personal journey of discovery with the rational arguments for the existence of God throughout history, by Augustine and Anselm, and more recently, as I mentioned back in episode 11, by the logical argument for Jesus elaborated by Oxford’s C.S. Lewis. They all make provocative reading. But for me, a devout
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Welcome to episode 14 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. My dad used to say the problem with the human being was we were born without an owner’s manual. I used to nod in agreement, but now I’m pretty sure my father
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