Best Patheos Podcasts (2024)

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Short Book Reviews: Volume IV 31:32

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Irish Impressions by: G. K. Chesterton How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by: Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form by: Paul Lockhart A Little History of Science by: William Bynum Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and …

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Short Book Reviews Volume III 42:25

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Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities by: David B. Auerbach The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin by: Keith E. Stanovich Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by: John Vaillant Persian Fire The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by: Tom Holland Submi…

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Short Book Reviews: Volume II 42:16

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The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (Volume 2) by: Iain McGilchrist The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science by: Erik Hoel Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by: Beth Macy American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert …

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Short Book Reviews Volume I 30:21

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The Creative Act: A Way of Being by: Rick Rubin The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by: Leonard Mlodinow Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year compiled by: Allie Esiri The Monster of Florence by: Douglas Preston Encountering Mystery: Religious Experience in a Secular Age by: Dale C. Allison Jr. As a Driven Leaf by: Milton Steinberg…

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Have More Kids! 23:47

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My report from Natal Con 2023. Including reflections on Tommy Boy, seatbelts, and the proliferation of polycrises.By Jeremiah

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The 10 Books I Finished in November 49:10

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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by: Robert Wright Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by: Matthew Desmond Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by: Michael Easter Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by: Robert Pirsig Finite and Infinite Games by: James Ca…

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Egregores, Group Minds, and White Magic 25:45

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/egregores-group-minds-and-white-magic Is there such a thing as a group mind? If so how does it affect the thriving and surviving of groups? What do such group minds look like from a historical perspective? What about a modern perspective?By Jeremiah

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[Patheos] - The Overemphasis on Love and Tolerance 17:43

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/11/the-overemphasis-on-love-and-tolerance/ Love is very important for Christians, but has there been too much emphasis placed on it? And has this emphasis warped it into something else? To put it more simply is perfect Christian love the same as unlimited tolerance? This post argue…

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Do Religions Still Have Arranged Marriages and Polygamy? 8:22

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Marriage and religion have always been related, and religions often address the spiritual and ethical components of marriage, but in many cae, marriage customs are based on cultural expectations. That means that while religious teachings may guide some of the taboos, vows, and underpinning ideas of what is expected of a man and woman in their marri…

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The 10 Books I Finished in October 56:05

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The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics by: Richard Hanania How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement by: Fredrik deBoer The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (Volume 1) by: Iain McGilchrist The Alter Ego Effect: Defeat the Enemy, Unlock Your Heroic S…

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[Patheos] - The Worst Book I've Ever Read 12:12

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/10/the-worst-book-ive-ever-read/ John Seel Jr.'s book, The New Copernicans, is the worst book I have ever read. He puts forth a dubious premise. In support of which he provides no data to back it up, nor any anecdotes which illustrate it actually occurring. To the extent there is a…

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Worthy of Our Sufferings 9:03

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/10/worthy-of-our-sufferings/ Dostoevsky wrote, "There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings." What does that mean? I think he meant that whatever suffering we’re experiencing it’s suffering God felt we were capable of handling. We need to prove worthy of…

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Can We Eliminate Struggle? - 2023 24:47

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/can-we-eliminate-struggle-2023 Humanity has struggled and suffered for so long that we might be unable to survive without them. We dream of such elimination through technology, but will that dream turn into a nightmare?By Jeremiah

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[Patheos] - Tragedies, Truths, and Technologies 8:15

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/10/tragedies-truths-and-technologies/ Historically we didn't worry about wars in far away places because we weren't aware of them. Now we're aware of them, but with the rise of AI we're going to have a similar difficulty acquiring accurate information. This is going to complicate o…

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What Do Buddhists Believe? 12:15

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Buddhists are as diligent about the practice of their faith as any Christian or Muslim. They also are willing to travel to spread their beliefs as missionaries. There is a strong Buddhist community spread across the globe that has organized itself into different schools and monastic traditions. Buddhism sets forth a clear set of values in the Five …

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The 12 Books I Finished in September 39:58

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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by: Natasha Dow Schüll The Evolutionary Limits of Liberalism: Democratic Problems, Market Solutions and the Ethics of Preference Satisfaction by: Filipe Nobre Faria A Language Older Than Words by: Derrick Jensen WTF?!: An Economic Tour of the Weird by: Peter T. Leeson Blowback (Second Edition): The…

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Would You Wager on Pascal's Mugging? 12:24

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/10/would-you-wager-on-pascals-mugging/ Imagine that someone walks up to you and demands all your money. If you fail to comply they threaten to kill all the inhabitants of some far off planet. How would you react? And is this similar to Pascal's Wager?…

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Betting on the Future 19:42

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/10/betting-on-the-future/ There are three obvious paths forward: religion, atheism and transhumanism. But each of these paths must be chosen. There's also a fourth path, that of apathy. Which should we choose?By Jeremiah

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AI Risk Might Be More Subtle Than We Expect - 2023 19:15

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/ai-risk-might-be-more-subtle-than Depressed people are more prone to addiction. If social media engagement looks a lot like addiction, does that mean algorithms for increasing engagement also increase depression?By Jeremiah

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The Greatest Three Nephites Story Ever Told 9:46

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/09/the-greatest-three-nephites-story-ever-told/ It is believed that, during his mortal ministry, Jesus granted immortality to three of His American apostles. Known as the Three Nephites they now wander the Earth until His return, doing good. This has lead to many stories of miracul…

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[Patheos] - Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios 12:19

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/09/faith-ufos-the-supernatural-and-transistor-radios/ Why are many people so willing to believe evidence of UFOs and Aliens, and so unwilling to believe evidence for God?By Jeremiah

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Do Christians Need to go to Church? 7:48

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Church services are meant to help Christians deepen their faith and give practical advice and encouragement on how to live out their faith each day. Church services are intended not as a time for a group of individuals to have simultaneous devotional experiences in a room together but as a time for believers to join together in a corporate experien…

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Speculative Attempts to Complicate Throughout History - 2023 29:54

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/speculative-attempts-to-complicate When things aren't going well, those in power will sometimes introduce some speculative chaos in the hopes that what emerges on the other side will be better. It mostly doesn't work.By Jeremaih

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The Thickness of Faith 13:45

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/09/the-thickness-of-the-world/ In the book Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis there is a scene where the King is arguing with a priest about what seems to be an unreasonable demand from one of the gods. The priest says something profound, something I'm still trying to wrap my head arou…

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The 11 Books I Finished in August 46:15

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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by: Matthew B. Crawford Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by: Oliver Burkeman Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future by: Jean M. Twenge When Violence Is the Answer: …

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The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope - 2023 26:35

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/the-apocalypse-will-not-be-as-cool There are many potential apocalypses, and when people imagine them they imagine that everyone will die. On the contrary most people will live, and it will be messy and miserable.By Jeremiah

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Does Technology Encourage Virtue? 13:29

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/08/does-technology-encourage-virtue/ Last week we looked at how technology appears to multiple our temptations, but what does it do to our better impulses. If we move from considering the Deadly Sins to the Capital Virtues does technology undermine our efforts or assist us?…

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The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items - 2023 26:34

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Apparently even the "smart" people are finally ready to admit that we should start reducing our annual deficit. In 2017 I was unclear on what the endgame was. I'm still unclear.By Jeremiah

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The Temptations of Technology 11:45

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/08/the-temptations-of-technology/ What effect does technology have on the temptations we experience? If we examine the seven deadly sins it would appear that in all cases technology makes these sins more tempting and more accessible. Why would that be?…

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The 9 Books I Finished in July and the One I Didn’t 37:53

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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by: Peter Turchin Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by: Pascal Boyer How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by: Steven Johnson Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by: Peter Attia MD Jump Gate Twist by: Mark L. …

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(Patheos) - And There Was Silence in Heaven... 16:57

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/08/and-there-was-silence-in-heaven/ In the Book of Revelation we read that when the seventh seal was opened there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. In this post I'm going to engage in some spurious scriptural speculation about what that might mean.…

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Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli? - 2023 21:53

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/is-pornography-a-supernormal-stimuli-15a?sd=pf Supernormal stimuli are those things which encourage us to do something that was historically very useful, but in an artificial and supercharged way. Think of the way junk food hacks our appetite.By Jeremiah

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(Patheos) - Technological Salvation 14:48

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Somehow I got the two audio files mixed up. So I published my substack thinking it was my Patheos piece, so now I'm publishing that Patheos piece. I will go through and try and fix some links, but I don't think I can fix it entirely... In any case here's the Patheos Audio: Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/techn…

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Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress - 2023 23:31

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/tribe-by-sebastian-junger-and-the The Siege of Sarajevo killed 20% of the population, a horror most of us can scarcely grasp, yet those who survived it look back on the siege as a period of unique happiness. Why should that be?By Jeremiah

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Chesterton's Fence and Technology 12:31

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/chestertons-fence-and-technology/ G. K. Chesterton noted that one shouldn't remove a fence until you understand why it was there in the first place. This is a great analogy for the concept of the traditions which have been passed down to us by religion. Technology allows us to r…

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The Vulnerable World Hypothesis as Map to the Future 32:38

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Expanding on Nick Bostrom's metaphor for technological development — it's like drawing balls of various shades from an urn, and if you ever draw a pure black ball, the world ends...By Jeremiah

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Separating the Beneficial From the Barbarous 12:13

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/separating-the-beneficial-from-the-barbarous/ Clearly there are some traditions which should be abandoned. And just as clearly there are some which should be preserved. But what are we to do with the vast majority which fall in the middle?…

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Traditions Separating the Important from the Inconsequential - 2023 36:59

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There's significant evidence that traditional practices were beneficial and adaptive. But many reject traditions as relics of a barbarous past. How do we make that determination?By Jeremiah

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The Technology of Religion vs. The Technology of Progress 12:50

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/the-technology-of-religion-vs-the-technology-of-progress/ Religion is a very old technology, and the wisdom contains is often hard to identify. This is unlike the technology we create intentionally, where the goal is always obvious. When these two technologies come into conflict…

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The 10 Books I Finished in June 37:42

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Feminism Against Progress by: Mary Harrington Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine by: Robert H. Lustig Categories by: Aristotle Prior Analytics by: Aristotle The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by: Mike Michalowicz The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler C…

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Religion is Technology 11:14

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Religion is often viewed as being completely different from technology, but in actuality religion is a technology, one of the oldest forms of it in fact. It's a particularly important form of technology one that we abandon at our peril.By Jeremiah

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The Ideas of Nassim Nicholas Taleb - 2023 22:27

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/the-ideas-of-nassim-nicholas-taleb-20d?sd=pf For many years this was the most listened to episode of my podcast. So it seemed logical to update it, but also it's one you might have already heard.By Jeremiah

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(Patheos) - A Judgment Day for AIs 14:11

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/06/a-judgment-day-for-ais/ If AIs are going to act as independent agents then they should be praised for the virtues and judged for their sins just as we all are. And in fact this judgment is one of the few things that will ensure their morality.…

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The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse - 2023 25:21

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/the-politics-of-the-zombie-apocalypse-e4c Per Scott Alexander it's possible that the right optimizes for survival, while the left optimizes for thriving. If so would a society entirely optimized around thriving actually function?By Jeremiah

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(Patheos) - Morality for Robots and AIs 11:03

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Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/06/morality-for-robots-and-ais/ AI risk has been in the news a lot lately. One way to reduce that risk is to make sure that AIs are moral. But what does morality even mean when you're talking about robots and AIs?By Jeremiah

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Burning Man, Dreamtime and Dragons - 2023 23:53

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/burning-man-dreamtime-and-dragons-8b8 Burning Man aspires to reinvent the culture of the Earth. I don't think it's going to, which is to say in 1,000 years I don't think that people will look back on this era as the Dawn of the Burners. But what will they think of us? That's the question we cover in this …

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(Patheos) - The Divine Attributes of Artificial Intelligence 11:32

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Artificial Intelligence has many attributes, which previously have been qualities we've only associated with the divine. This is cross posted from my Patheos column which you can find here: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/By Jeremiah

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The 10 Books I Finished in May and One I Didn't 43:54

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/the-10-books-i-finished-in-may-and I'm still figure out how to do anchor links. Also I really need to figure out how to write shorter reviews...By Jeremiah

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(Patheos) - What Has Technology to Do With Religion 7:31

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Religion and technology relate to each other in strange and subtle ways. Religion must, of necessity grapple with technology, but how to do that remains unclear. This is the first post of my new Patheos column. If you could subscribe that would be fantastic.By Jeremiah

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Nukes - 2023 25:39

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Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/nukes-2023 A updating of one of my past posts. I actually changed a lot more than I thought would. Also since it's not appearing on Substack I went a little bit crazy with footnotes. Let me know what you think of how I handled them on audio.By Jeremiah

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