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TCBI #34 - Depth Perception - Iain McGilchrist
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Iain McGilchrist is one of the most important intellectuals in the world right now (he's also my favorite thinker and philosopher and a personal hero). Part of the impact of his work is due to the thorough and rigorous research supporting his theories (more than 5,000 papers and essays and deep understanding of countless authors and artists and the…
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TCBI #33 - Broken Identity and The ”Depths” - John Vervaeke
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John Vervaeke PhD is an associate professor in Psychology and Cognitive Science whose work focuses on meaning and the science of wisdom. He's an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto, with his classes ranging from psychology, cognitive science to Buddhist psychology. His popular youtube lecture series "Awakening From The Meaning Crisi…
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TCBI #32 - Ghosts, Spirits, Astrology, and The Unconscious - Ashtyn Dolenuck
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TCBI #31 - Demons and Dominion - Fady Hana
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TCBI #30 Latter Day Apostasy - Alex Williamns
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Alex Williamns has hosted over 10 (different) podcasts, so he's a pro. He's also an ex-Mormon, which is something that came up when I had the opportunity to be a guest on one of those podcasts (an episode still to be released). As soon as it came up, the topic threatened to take over our conversation, but I knew it deserved its own conversation ano…
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TCBI #29 - Adventures in Mental Health - Dave Griffin
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Dave Griffin is an actor, writer, creative, father, husband, and delegate officer in his local Democratic party. Dave is also the voice of the beloved character "Jimmy Barclay" in the well-known audio drama "Adventures in Odyssey". He started on the show in its first official season around the age of 10 and continued to voice the popular character …
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TCBI #28 - Spiritual Techno Optimism - Caleb Weidman
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Caleb Weidman is a Media wiz, and has been creating quality content for Spiritual communities for the past decade. He's the president of Blackbar Media, a youtube channel focused on exploring how Christianity can be complemented and augmented by technology and media, and how people working within positions related to media production can better eng…
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TCBI #27 - Learning From a Master - Nadje Noordhuis
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Pre-order Nadje's new album: https://nadjenoordhuis.bandcamp.com/album/gullfoss Check out my favorite of Nadje's past work (Ten Sails): Bandcamp - https://music.lukehoward.com/album/ten-sails Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/7k6LMeVKzWrL9XHzNTPkXu Nadje Noordhuis is my favorite trumpet player, and is the primary reason I worked up enough de…
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TCBI #26 - A Typical Yogi - Markus Schneider
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Markus grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home but later upon examining his religion rejected it in general and began to think more deeply about his beliefs and his philosophy. In this conversation Markus shares a bit of his story and how he ultimately ended up practicing and teaching Yoga and meditation from a primarily secular framework. I cha…
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TCBI #25 - The Bones of Creationism - Ian Juby
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Ian Juby is a prolific hobbyist whose interests range from driving trains to amateur archeology to UFO theorizing to creation science. Ian's name has come up frequently in my house over the past several years whenever the topic of "evolution" was brought up. Many/most evangelical Christians (especially those of the generation before mine) hold very…
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TCBI #24 - Evangelicals and Evolution - April M. Cordero
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"Both Christians and atheists incorrectly accept the narrative that believers must reject evolution. I want to change this paradigm. I want to help Christians question their assumptions about this topic and broaden their perspective." - April M. Cordero April Maskiewicz Cordero PhD is a professor of biology at Christian university (Point Loma Nazar…
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TCBI #23 - The Conspiracy Theory Theory - Brayden Beattie
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I've known Brayden since I was a kid. Like many old friendships, Facebook allowed us to reconnect in some interesting ways later in life when we otherwise might not have crossed paths. I noticed Brayden had been posting a lot about various conspiracy theories and generally pushing back against the standard narrative and thought it would be interest…
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TCBI #22.5 - Processing Opponent Processing with my Opponent (Brother)
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Conversation with John Vervaeke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3AxPCwoVxA Subscribe to the podcast Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1ezktLCKtpdpPCvZHvFPvF iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/this-could-be-interesting/id1554166655 Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL3RoaXNjb3VsZGJlaW50ZX…
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TCBI #22 - A Way Out of the Vicious Cycle - John Vervaeke
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John Vervaeke PhD is a Cognitive Scientist and Cognitive Psychotherapist whose work focuses on meaning and the science of wisdom. He's an award-winning lecturer at the University of Toronto, with his classes ranging from psychology, cognitive science to Buddhist psychology. I discovered John and his work through my friend Connor during a time when …
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TCBI #21 - When Reading the Bible Leads to Atheism - Michael Wiseman
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Michael Wiseman is the host of "The Bible Says What?"-- a podcast a youtube channel exploring the limits of evangelical theology and biblical theory from an atheist perspective. He's also the author of a book of the same name, which you can find online here - https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Says-What-Michael-Wiseman-ebook/dp/B08Y7BLM3H/ref=tmm_kin_swa…
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Evan and I sit down to unpack some of the trickier parts of my most recent conversation with J.P. Marceau.By Garrett Vandenberg
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TCBI #20 - The Cosmic "Three-ness" - J.P. Marceau
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J.P. and I unpack his latest article concerning the overlap between Christianity, Buddhism, and various other religious traditions on their central "trinity" like concepts. While I recommend reading the article, it's not necessary to read first (in fact I'd recommend reading it after watching) as this conversation is intended primarily to help intr…
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TCBI #19 - The Age of Artifice - J.F. Martel
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Jean-François Martel has been working with various Canadian producers as a screenwriter and director for the past ten years. He's worked on numerous documentaries that have aired on most of Canada's major broadcasters, as well as writing and directing a number of award winning dramatic short films including "Cicada,". He's also the author of the fa…
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"Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them." - Matthew 13:12 What a ruthless principle. Pareto Distribution (or "The Matthew Principle) can be found in almost any distributive dataset. 20% of people have 80% of the money in (almost all) economic systems. 20% o…
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TCBI #17 - The Meaning of Magic - Sam Glenn
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Sam Glenn https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv45xgouMHfxSFyi3zavCqABy Garrett Vandenberg
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TCBI #16 - Evaluating Values - Taylor Ealand
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Taylor Ealand runs a conservative news commentary show called "Contrarix". Taylor reached out to me to chat a little bit ago, and we had a great conversation on his show about religion and politics. We had such a good time we decided to follow it up for This Could Be Interesting. We were interested in trying to unpack a little bit of the conundrum …
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TCBI #15 - Pierre Proudhon and the Individual - Cayce Jamil
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Cayce Jamil is an RA and Ph.D. student at UNC Charlotte. While I spent some time in Charlotte growing up, I actually came into contact with Cayce via a conversation thread on Reddit on one of the previous videos for this project. His responses were thoughtful and interesting but definitely strayed away from my own views. His views also revolved aro…
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TCBI #14 - Where Christianity Hits the Fan - Kevin McCreary
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Kevin McCreary is a YouTuber, podcaster, comedian, and all-around creative guy. I've known Kevin for a very long time. He was one of the very first connections I made with someone originally through the internet that ended up sticking around to be part of my life. Kevin and I have done various creative projects together here and there for the past …
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TCBI #13 - The Goat for Azazel - Daniel Townhead
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I recently got to have a conversation with Daniel "The Wakeful" Townhead. Daniel wrote an article recently that really intrigued me, so I reached out to him to see if he'd be willing to talk about it! The article is about philosopher Rene Girard's interpretation of the ancient myths and archetypal patterns of the stories man has held onto since bef…
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TCBI #12 - Reality and the Emergence of God - JP Marceau
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"As infants, we learn to perceive simple objects, and eventually people. As children, we learn to perceive increasingly complex emotions in people. Later, we begin to discern narratives and moral patterns. As we grow older, we learn to perceive social and historical patterns. As Christians, we strive to perceive the Pattern of all patterns, i.e., G…
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TCBI #11 - A Being of Pure Evil - Andrew Gaskin
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Andrew Gaskin is one of the most intuitive and creative people I know. He's extremely talented and way too humble. Every time I talk to him I'm amazed at the vast connections he makes and the interesting insights he comes up with. He's also an extremely talented vocalist and lyricist and has been a part of several musical projects, including a few …
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TCBI #10 - How To Prevent a War - Peter Farrugia
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Dr. Peter Farrugia received his D. Phil. from Oxford in 1991 with a thesis on French Anti-War Thought Contrasted to Its British Counterpart. He's taught at various universities but in 1999 he started teaching at Laurier Brantford as one of the founding faculty members. I was introduced to Peter by Ken Paradis. He and Peter are good friends, and con…
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TCBI #9 - A Theism Chat - Alex Pallas
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Alex Pallas is an atheist/ex-evangelical from Australia. I met Alex through one of Paul Vanderklay's Q&A videos in February when he asked some thoughtful questions about the Christian stories. I was interested to pick his brain further, so I reached out to him and he graciously agreed to have a conversation with me. While coming to definitively dif…
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TCBI #8 - Religion, Faith, Pastors... What's The Point? - Paul Vanderklay
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Paul Vanderklay is the pastor of Living Stones Christian Reformed Church in Sacramento California. While his position includes teaching a group of people in person, Paul teaches a much larger pool of people on a weekly basis via his youtube channel with a weekly series called "Rough Draft for Sunday" where he gives a first pass at delivering conten…
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TCBI #7 - Slightly Unorthodox - Devon Peacock
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Devon Peacock is a very interesting person to me. I first met him when we were both in our early teens while I was traveling through Eastern Canada with my family. We reconnected recently after Facebook decided to start including his quips, memes, and political hot takes in my feed. I was especially interested to chat with him about Orthodox Christ…
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TCBI #6 - How to Have a Conversation - Christopher Rosevear
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Christopher Rosevear is a Tyndale University and Seminary Graduate and has served in several churches in various positions including Associate Pastor of Youth and Young Adults at Uxbridge Baptist Church. He's an articulate communicator and a very intelligent and thoughtful guy. He's challenged me and my worldview at various stages in life, and has …
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TCBI #5 - The Sin God Commands - Lloyd Vandenberg
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Lloyd Vandenberg is my dad. He's 100% Dutch by blood but was born in Canada. He grew up in the Dutch Reformed church and became part of the Charismatic Evangelical tradition as a young adult. He and my mom have been touring with the rest of the family around the United States and Canada under the name "New Generation Ministry" for the past 30 years…
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TCBI #4.5 - Stickin' it to Jared Byas - Evan Vandenberg
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After the last conversation with Jared Evan and I had a lot of thoughts we still wanted to unpack, so we sat down to do our first ".5". I'm not sure if this is a format that's going to stick or not, but we'll see. The obvious flaw with doing this sort of thing is that in discussing a guest's ideas (or trying to rebut their ideas) they don't have a …
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TCBI #4 - Speaking in Tongues and Cheek - Jared Byas
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Jared Byas is a self-proclaimed "serial question-asker and ideas explorer". He's also the co-host of the popular podcast "The Bible for Normal People" along with Pete Enns and is the co-author of the book "Genesis for Normal People" with Pete too. He also just wrote a new book called "Love Matters More". Jared is a really interesting guy, and I'm s…
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TCBI #3 - To Take Arms Against a Sea of Complexity - Ken Paradis
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Ken Paradis is an Associate Professor at Wilfred Laurier University in Brantford Ontario. Before coming to Laurier, Ken spent time working at Palcky University in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, as well as at McMaster, SUNY Buffalo, and Dalhousie. While teaching at Laurier Brantford Ken has taught or administered in several programs including English, Con…
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TCBI #2 - The Church Catholic - Tyler Seidenberg
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Tyler (B.Mus., B.Ed., OCT, A. Piano Perf.) is an Evangelical to Catholic convert. He works as a freelance pianist/vocalist, educator, and producer from Oakville, Ontario. His works have been performed on radio and television across North America, and his music workshops have inspired music students and teachers across Canada. He also acted and perf…
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TCBI #1 - Talking to the man upstairs - Ken Paradis
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Ken Paradis is an Associate Professor at Wilfred Laurier University in Brantford Ontario. Before coming to Laurier, Ken spent time working at Palcky University in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia, as well as at McMaster, SUNY Buffalo, and Dalhousie. While teaching at Laurier Brantford Ken has taught or administered in several programs including English, Con…
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TCBI #0 - What could be interesting? - Andrew Kalmar, Connor Howard, Evan Vandenberg
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Hey, I just started a podcast! The concept of the show is based around the medium of the "long-form conversation". It's a medium that allows people to unpack complicated and positions on things in an appropriately long format that allows for some nuance and genuine humanity. I've been watching people in my community gradually sort of "drift apart" …
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