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222a: Dreher - Choose a Life Apart from the Crowd Oct 09, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher

Lies Are Like Hotdogs. In this episode, we continue to read and discuss Rod Dreher's "Live Not by Lies." What harm is done to the churches by abandoning the Truth, and what about a society the lives by lies?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

What Hot Dogs are Made Of - Great Outdoors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=001dtJ0srBI

David Chapelle's Lutheran Take https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/10/08/brendan-on-dave-chapelle/

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221: Dreher - Value Nothing More Than Truth Oct 02, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher

The Cake Is A Lie. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher's "Live Not by Lies," discuss Vaclav Havel, and how the churches' learned passivity and helplessness have rendered their ministry and outreach impotent.

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

Masada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada

Subtle Art of… https://amzn.to/3FdaBRc

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220: Dreher - Progressivism as Religion Sep 28, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher

We're Not Going Anywhere Fast, So Keep Going! In this episode, we read Rod Dreher's book on being a Christian dissident, and discuss the myth of progress. What happens when the church adopts the myth of progress and how does it effect its ministry and outreach?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

Dark Docs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3SuH2Ue044b7ACX1syk4A

The Fog of War https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Operation Lockstep https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/operation-lockstep/

The Classicist: Destroying Culture https://victorhanson.com/the-classicist-destroying-culture/

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219b: Dreher - The spirit of the therapeutic has conquered the churches Sep 22, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher

In this episode, we continue to read Rod Dreher's book "Live Not By Lies." What happens when therapeutics captivate the church's teaching? How do we repent of willfully rejecting the incarnation of God In the Church's worship, and in our vocations?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

The Other Guys (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31

Noble Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie

Monsters of Rock https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-heavy-metal-thunder-rumbled-in-moscow/87048/

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219a: Dreher - The death of God in the West Sep 18, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher

It's So Soft, And Squishy. In this episode, we continue to read Rod Dreher's book on being a Christian dissident. We discuss soft totalitarianism and its effects on the church and culture. What happens when everyone has a grievance and nobody can forgive?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

The Other Guys (2010) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386588/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31

Noble Lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie

Monsters of Rock https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/when-heavy-metal-thunder-rumbled-in-moscow/87048/

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218b: Pastoral Debrief on Soft Totalitarianism and the Church Sep 15, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher

Riley and Gillespie spin off into a pastoral debrief on the effects of soft totalitarianism on the Church and Christians within their vocation.

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD – ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

https://orthochristian.com/47643.html

Twilight of Idols - Nietzsche https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm

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218a: Dreher - The Totalitarian State Seeks to Control Your Actions, Thoughts, and Emotions Sep 12, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher" — Rod Dreher

Christians Rush in Where Fools Fear to Tread. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher's "Christian Dissidents." What is totalitarianism? What are the consequences of soft totalitarianism? What is the Christian response to tyranny?

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fools_rush_in_where_angels_fear_to_tread

Generational warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare

Shadow Gate (documentary) https://www.millennialmillie.com/post/shadow-gate

Church of the Cosmic Skull https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Cosmic_Skull

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217: Dreher - The Unready Christians of Slovakia Aug 30, 2021

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Featured text: "Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents" — Rod Dreher

Christians Get Ready, There's a'Change That's Coming. In this episode, we read Rod Dreher's book, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. We discuss what happens when society and the churches turn away from God's Word and the Church, and defect, choosing instead to worship and obey people and things that are not Christ.

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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher https://amzn.to/2Wpmm4W

MEN HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD – ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

https://orthochristian.com/47643.html

Twilight of Idols - Nietzsche https://www.gutenberg.org/files/52263/52263-h/52263-h.htm

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216: Mullet - Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect Aug 21, 2021

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Featured text: "Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect" — Garrett Mullet

Run, Rabbit, Run! In this episode, we read and discuss Spiritualizing Cowardice, by Garrett Mullet. When we read and consider the life of David, how has the popularity of psycho-therapeutic language and post-modern cultural norms in the past century influenced the way we read and teach on Scripture at present?

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Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect https://onthe.rocks/spiritualizing-cowardice/

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised

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215: Pastoral Debrief on Christian Dissention Aug 17, 2021

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In this episode, we discuss pastoral topics, congregational life, the challenges Christians face today, and how things have changed for clergy and the churches since 2020.

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Spiritualizing Cowardice: The Christian Bystander Effect https://onthe.rocks/spiritualizing-cowardice/

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised

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