Tag: God and science

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World 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.
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The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Episode 4 of our Modern Relevance of God special podcast series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. In our last episode, we looked at some of the consequences of materializing science, the reverberations of which we are
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It's July, and we're still in the middle of the pandemic. Actually, we've been in the middle of this for what, 4 months now? You ever seen anything like this? Of course not. Unless you're a Highlander who lived through the Plague. This crisis feels different, doesn't it, from all the other global crises we've
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. We're just out of the Easter period and some reflections. It was a tough week for the faithful. The burning of Notre Dame striking hard in that major center of Christian faith for 800 something years. And then the bombs exploding in Christian
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I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. "The idea of being a victim of evil is quite a comfortable one," writes Norberto Keppe in his book, Psychotherapy and Exorcism. "But what's really going on," he continues, "is that the human being actually selects the type of evil he wants in his
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I’m Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain these tenets suffer from a lack of evidence. “Faith is a great evil,” they say, “That leads gullible human beings to open their minds so much
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