Postmodern Realities Podcast

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Hosted by Melanie Cogdill the Managing Editor at the Christian Research Institute, Postmodern Realities is a podcast from the Christian Research Institute and the CHRISTIAN RESEARCH JOURNAL. Each podcast features in-depth conversations with our JOURNAL authors.

Postmodern Realities Episode 390 Enhancing Your Energy the New Age Way: Understanding Auras, Chakras, and Qi
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Lindsey Medenwaldt about her online article, “Enhancing Your Energy the New Age Way: Understanding Auras, Chakras, and Qi”....
Postmodern Realities Episode 389: Fear, Loathing, and Deconverting from the White Evangelical Church: A Review of ‘The Exvangelicals by Sara
Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church uses relevant anecdotes from her evangelical childhood and skillfully weaves her story together with sociological data and interviews of former evangelicals....
Postmodern Realities Episode 388 Jainism: India’s other Religion
This Postmodern Realities episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Derek Cooper about his online article, “Jainism: India’s other Religion.” https://www.equip.org/articles/jainism-indias-other-religion/
Postmodern Realities Episode 387 Judith Butler’s Theory of Gender Performativity: A Christian Response
From media to public education to social media campaigns, the American populace has been told from nearly every angle that the traditional distinction between male and female that is nearly universal in human cultural experience is mistaken. It did...
Postmodern Realities Episode Episode 386 Can a Christian Attend a Gay Wedding? Alistair Begg and the Bad Pharisee
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Anne Kennedy about her online article, “Can a Christian Attend a Gay Wedding? Alistair Begg and the Bad Pharisee”....
Postmodern Realities Episode 385 T.V. Review: Lessons in Anger: The Global Phenomenon of Bonnie Garmus’s ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Hillary Ferrer about her online article, “T.V. Review: Lessons in Anger: The Global Phenomenon of Bonnie Garmus’s ‘Lessons in Chemistry'”...
Postmodern Realities Episode 384 An Eternal Perspective on the Losses of Aging
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Elizabeth Turnage about her online article, “An Eternal Perspective on the Losses of Aging”...
Postmodern Realities Episode 383 'Dune: Part Two' Film Review: We’re All Mad Down Here: Religious Fundamentalism in ‘Dune: Part Two’
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Cole Burgett about his online review article, “We’re All Mad Down Here: Religious Fundamentalism in Dune: Part Two” Note: This review contains spoilers for Dune:...
Postmodern Realities Episode 352 ENCORE Fire from the Gods How ‘Oppenheimer’ Mythologizes Twentieth Century America
Please see this encore presentation of Episode 352: Fire from the Gods How ‘Oppenheimer’ Mythologizes Twentieth Century America that we did in August 2023. In March 2024, this film won the following Oscars. Best Picture, Best Director, Actor in a...
Postmodern Realities Episode 382 Is Divine Determinism Biblical?
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Clay Jones about his online Viewpoint article, “Is Divine Determinism Biblical?”. https://www.equip.org/articles/is-divine-determinism-biblical/ Viewpoint articles...
Postmodern Realities Episode 381 Christianity is Narrow. It Should Not Impose Its Views On Everyone
A common question on high school and university campuses to discuss issues like abortion is, “Why should we be forced to live by Christian beliefs?” Most college students reject the Bible as authoritative, reject the central tenets of the Christian...
Postmodern Realities Episode 380 Mere Simulation: A Review of ‘Freud’s Last Session’
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL authors David and Marybeth Baggett about their article entitled, “Mere Simulation: A Review of ‘Freud’s Last Session’”....
Postmodern Realities Episode 379 Enough For What? A Review of Scot McKnight’s ‘The Bible is Not Enough’
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Anne Kennedy her article “Enough For What? A Review of Scot McKnight’s The Bible is Not Enough” which is part of the ongoing column entitled, “Theological Trends”....
Postmodern Realities Episode 378 New Culture Critique Column: The Christian Self for Troubled Times and Meaning, Work, and the Value of Pers
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Doug Groothius about the first two articles in a new and ongoing column from him entitled, “Cultural Critique”. The first article covers, “The Christian Self for...
Postmodern Realities Episode 377 The Danger of Rewriting Jesus: A Review of ‘The Book of Clarence’
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL authors Cole Burgett and C.L. Mitchell about Mitchell's online article, "The Danger of Rewriting Jesus: A Review of The Book of Clarence"....
Postmodern Realities Episode 376 Jeff and Shaleia Divine and Escaping Twin Flames Universe
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Lindsey Medenwaldt about her online article, “Escaping Twin Flames: Why People are Falling for the Love Cult”....
Postmodern Realities Episode 375: The Satanic Temple Abortion Clinic: A Critical Assessment
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author John D. Ferrer about his online article, “The Satanic Temple Abortion Clinic: A Critical Assessment...
Postmodern Realities Episode 374 Did Pope Francis Authorize Priests to Bless Same-Sex Couples?
This https://www.equip.org/pmr-podcast/ episode is a conversation with JOURNAL author Anne Kennedy about the first in a new and ongoing column entitled, “Theological Trends”. Covered in this first column is “Did Pope Francis Authorize Priests to Bless...
Postmodern Realities Episode 373 A Christian Response to Scrolling and Doomscrolling
With the ever-multiplying options for social media platforms to engage with, influencers to follow, social trends to capitalize on, and stratifying social issues to research and form opinions about, getting away from our electronic devices can be...
Postmodern Realities Episode 268 ENCORE I’ll Start My Diet Tomorrow: A Christian Makes a New Year’s Resolution
Please see this encore presentation of Episode 268 ENCORE I’ll Start My Diet Tomorrow: A Christian Makes a New Year’s Resolution that we did in December 2021 as the content itself is still applicable around this time of year. Should Christians make...

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