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Ep 3: Practical Steps
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
Posted on 2015-08-10 00:00:00
In this episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin start talking about practicality, and then end up discussing Joseph Campbell, Harry Potter, transcendence, and speculative theology. Don't worry, it's all connected.
- Is death evil?
- Do we have a deathist culture?
- Death and all his friends
- The mission of God is to undo death and to replace it with life
- The connection between sin, death, and fear (Hebrews 2:14-15)
- Walter Wink, Rene Girard, and how death creates human evil
- Cautionary tales and apocalyptic thrillers
- Harry Potter vs Voldemort
- Joseph Campbell & Darth Vader
- Why is it always a ragtag band of misfits?
- Divergent and what always lies beyond the wall
- What Jesus' greatest commands and Galatians 3:28 say about the meaning of humanity
- Effective Altruism
- #thirdworldproblems
- Why going to the movies is necessary to survival
- Paul's vision of resurrection flowing out into the world
- And how we participate in that process
- The Embrace Project
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Ep 3: Practical Steps
Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
2015-08-10 00:00:00
129474078
Christian Transhumanist Podcast
Micah Redding, Amy Gaskin
2015-08-10 00:00:00
129474078
Guests
- Kevin Kelly
- NT Wright
- Science Mike McHargue
- David Deutsch
- Aubrey de Grey
- Frank Tipler
- Robin Hanson
- Robert Wright
- James Hughes
- Steve Fuller
- Liz Parrish
- Thomas Jay Oord
- Greg Boyd
- Philip Clayton
- Adam Ericksen
- Christian Piatt
- Paul Wallace
- Derek Flood
- Katharine Hayhoe
- Christopher Benek
- Robert Walden Kurtz
- Calvin Mercer
- Peter Enns
- Shannon Vyff
- Ron Cole-Turner
- Meghan O'Gieblyn
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The Christian Transhumanist Podcast is an editorially independent production of Micah Redding, provided here as a community resource on behalf of the CTA.