Name: Liturgies of Meaning by Tactical Faith
Duration: 27 min 57 s
Description: Talk 6: “Liturgies of Meaning: The Mythic Mode and the Recovery of Meaning-Making in a Fragmented Age” with Dr. Burford.

Talk 6: “Liturgies of Meaning: The Mythic Mode and the Recovery of Meaning-Making in a Fragmented Age” with Dr. Burford.

Liturgies of Meaning

Joel and Travis talk about the last of the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust. What counts as lust versus just appreciating beauty? Is sexual pleasure bad? What is the purpose of sex? Has Christian tradition ranked lust as one of the worst or least bad sins? How have we created strategies for dealing with lust that might really be exacerbating the problem? And what are some good responses to lust? Answers to these questions, along with perhaps a bit of TMI, in this podcast.

Lust

Recently, Rhett and Link (of "Good Mythical Morning" and "Ear Biscuits") shared their stories of how they left the faith. Many have responded in various ways. Joel and Travis start a series that will ultimately dig into the heart of apologetics itself--how the method of apologetics may be faulty, and how it supports a view of Christianity that may have the right information, but not the right perception of that information. This episode introduces some of the themes and ideas that will come out in this series.

Deconstruction of the Faith and Evaluative Outlook Apologetics (Intro)

Rhett and Link (of "Good Mythical Morning" and "Ear Biscuits") recently described the deconstruction of their faith. We start by talking about some of what we think they got right. We talk about the danger of holding rigidly to non-essential beliefs (and how they get confused with essential beliefs), the ways in which we say "love" but are actually teaching the opposite, and so on. One of us even goes on a strange tirade about denominations and division in the Church. The goal of this series is to evaluate our approach to faith and apologetics, and to see if there is a better way to talk about both.

Deconstruction of the Faith and Evaluative Outlook Apologetics 1

Joel and Travis begin to respond to the deconstruction stories of Rhett and Link, but not in the usual apologetic manner. Instead, they begin to look at how evaluative outlooks play into how we weigh evidence--from issues of benefit of the doubt/burden of proof to our understanding of the nature of truth and an obsession with certainty. Perhaps we've all been doing our "defense of the faith" in a truncated manner that in fact discourages faith?

Deconstruction of the Faith and Evaluative Outlook Apologetics 2

MHM Human Things #1 - Designed to Hurt

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Host: Matthew Burford
Guests: Drs. Neil Shenvi (@NeilShenvi), Calvin Bell (@CalvinB22026108), Rev. Keelan Adams (@pastorkFlatline), & Tameka Moment

A Gospel Conversation on Race

Joel and Travis talk Christian B. Miller's book "The Character Gap." We start off in this podcast asking what Dr. Miller asks in his book: Why would anyone want to develop a good character? And from that we move to questions about whether flourishing has anything to do with our desires being fulfilled, why we might want to change our desires, and what it is that we actually desire.

Talking about The Character Gap

Joel and Travis continue discussing elements related to Christian Miller's book "The Character Gap." They consider questions about the nature of desire, desire fulfillment, and whether these have anything to do with flourishing. There are two central issues that arise that make so that having our desires fulfilled cannot be related to real virtue. But perhaps we need to re-think what it is that we really want.

The Character Gap 2

Joel and Travis discuss the miracle of the Second Person of the Trinity become flesh. Everything from whether the Incarnation was only necessary because of sin to the nobility given humans to why it is that children are probably better at Christmas than we are. Hope you all have (had) a Merry Christmas!

Christmas 2020

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