Young Heretics

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Interview: Louise M. Perry, "Ludicrous Crackpot" Dec 29, 2023

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What is a TERF? I'm joined for this week's interview by Louise M. Perry, one of the most insightful and thoughtful observers of the wreckage left behind by the sexual revolution. We discuss the "radical" part of being a "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist," whether social norms can leave space for abnormality, and the limits of "cultural Christianity" as a sustaining civilizational force.

Read Louise's book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: https://a.co/d/0nVZ3nD

Listen to Louise's podcast, Maiden, Mother, Matriarch: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/maiden-mother-matriarch-with-louise-perry/id1671451793

Check out Louise's website: https://www.louisemperry.co.uk

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Wise Men from the East Dec 26, 2023

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It's (still) Christmas!! On the feast of St. Stephen's Day (AKA Boxing Day), we gather around the cozy fire with our egg nogg and our gifts to talk about...martyrdom? Here's one extra Christmas special on the full twelve days of the holiday and the connections between Christmas morning, the first Christian martyr, and the final festival of Epiphany, when wise men came from the east to seal Jesus as the Messiah, not just for the Jews, but for the whole world.

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Pick up my book, How to Save the West: https://a.co/d/9S57cfh

Interview: Inez Stepman, Bane of the Academy Dec 22, 2023

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Academia delenda est...et tunc recolenda. "The academy must be destroyed...and then rebuilt." Today's guest, Inez Stepman, is a thoughtful obsesrver of the American education system and an insightful exponent of hard-nosed practical action plans to revive the country's academic health. We discuss the great American tradition of local, homegrown classical education and the role it will play in our uncertain future.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Subscribe to Inez's podcast, High Noon: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-noon/id1557719559

Check out Inez's other work via the Independent Women's Forum: https://www.iwf.org/people/inez-feltscher-stepman/

Slay a Demon, Hang a Stocking: A Young Heretics Christmas Special Dec 19, 2023

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It's that time of the year again: time for some very online doofus to point out that Christmas falls around the same date as the Saturanalia, as if no one figured this out until Reddit was invented. In fact, the date of Christmas is carefully posed against the date of Easter so that the whole liturgical year can emerge out of the "signs and markers" laid down in the heavens from the creation of the world. Chew on that, reddit bros! It's a very Young Heretics Christmas.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Pick up my book, How to Save the West: https://a.co/d/9S57cfh

Interview: Paul VanderKlay, Very Online Pastor Dec 15, 2023

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How do you do church in the digital age? Is there such a thing as an atheist? To what extent are our crazy times really unprecedented, and to what extent are they nothing the Church hasn't seen before? These are some of the questions I tackle with my friend Paul VanderKlay, a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, a close observer of Jordan Peterson's rise to fame and the young men who find meaning in his work, and a rather unwitting YouTube sensation.

Subscribe to Paul's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/paulvanderklay

Check out his website: https://paulvanderklay.me/about-2/

Connect with our friends at the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

It's All Right, It's All True, It All Happened Dec 12, 2023

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Is Christmas just a rebranded pagan holiday? Or does the rabbit hole go somewhat deeper? After last week's foray into hermeneutics, this week I take a closer look at the history of Christian allegory, and why this particular form of reading became so important to the early church--and why it's still essential for understanding the meaning of Christmas (and everything else).

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Pick up my book, How to Save the West: https://a.co/d/9S57cfh

Interview: Stephen C. Meyer, Wizard of Sciences Natural and Divine Dec 08, 2023

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Does science disprove God, or reveal his handiwork? My guest today, Stephen C. Meyer, makes some of the most powerful contemporary arguments that the "God hypothesis" is becoming increasingly necessary to make sense of science and of human life. Stephen has a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from Cambridge, and his lucid explanations of his subject have drawn wide attention--as well as resistance from the more hidebound materialists of our age.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Read Stephen's book, The Return of the God Hypothesis: https://a.co/d/4hY9lQe

Discover Stephen's other work at https://stephencmeyer.org.

Like, Literally. Dec 05, 2023

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Literally, though, how do we read stuff? It's a question we rarely ask seriously, but it's an ancient one with profound implications for art, faith, and morality. This week I'm presenting an ancient distinction between literal and allegorical reading that helps to get past simplistic modern bickering over merely material truths. Carrying forward our conversation in art, this is a theme that will help guide the show in 2024.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Pick up my book, How to Save the West: https://a.co/d/9S57cfh

Interview: Faith Moore, Christmas Elf Dec 01, 2023

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Faith Moore is BACK to kick off the Christmas season with a moving meditation on faith, loss, and the meaning of the nativity. We discuss how the characters in her new novel took shape, why Christmas always comes associated with a certain nostalgic melancholy, and what to eat for breakfast on Christmas morning. Plus some embarassing (maybe?) stories about when we were kids.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Pre-order faith's book, Christmas Karol: https://a.co/d/9IDMq9C

Find faith on Twitter @FaithKMoore

Was Atlantis Real? Nov 28, 2023

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All your questions answered! This week, as the Thanksgiving daze settles gradually over us all, I dig into the mailbag and pull out three juicy questions I haven't had time to answer yet in the course of the show. Did Plato invent the myth of Atlantis? What kind of love does Jesus ask for from Peter after his betrayal? And what did Paul mean that personal spiritual gifts shall fall away when we see love "face to face"? It's a deep dive into questions linguistic, spiritual, and philosophical. Plus: a dig at 19th-century Germans.

Check out our sponsor, the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/

Pick up my book, How to Save the West: https://a.co/d/9S57cfh

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