Logical Christian Podcast

Episode 166: 1:52 - Heresy, Himesy, Theyesy From Conservative Roots to Progressive Puppets: How Evangelical Leaders Sold Out America Should a church be seeker sensitive? What is the emerging / emergent church movement? Church ends 52-year-old anti-gay stance The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2016 Resolution opposes investment in Israeli bonds LGBTQ bans slowly being eliminate...

Episode 165: 1:34 - Krazy Kar Karen Study Links Preference For Loud Cars to Some Unsurprising Personality Traits Dr. Julie Aitken Schermer A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism 31:22 - Affirmation is Hate List of national monuments of the United States Devils Tower List of monuments and memorials removed during the G...

Episode 164: 1:43 - Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? Tesla recalls Cybertruck due to accelerator pedal that can stick Tesla’s 19 vehicle recalls in 2022: a breakdown Tesla recalls 2.2 million electric vehicles in the U.S. over concerns with warning lights Ford recalls more than 456,000 Bronco Sport and Maverick vehicles over battery risk Ford recalls nearly 43,000 SUVs due to gas leaks...

Episode 163: 1:40 - Retire or Die! The CEO of 401(k) giant BlackRock thinks the government should raise the age for retirement Retirement Age by Country 2024 A brief history of retirement: It’s a modern idea Retire Life expectancy (from birth) in the United States, from 1860 to 2020 28:13 - What Have We Done New poll reveals young women are abandoning churches in "unprecedented numbers" as young m...

Episode 162: 1:41 - Wherever You Is, That's Where You Be At Mindfulness in your DNA? Capacity to be present is partly a function of genetics, study finds Mindfulness Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret About TEDS How to Live In The Moment And Be More Present Living in the Present Moment: 5 Bible Verses for Living in the Eternal Now Three Reasons Why Christians Should Live In The Moment 28:41 - H...

Episode 161: 2:32 - Twinkle, Twinkle, Innumerable Stars Carl Sagan Carl Sagan On The Issue Of ‘God’ 13 Incredibly Lucky Earth Facts How many stars are in the Milky Way? The Estimated Number of Stars in the Universe Just Tripled Scientists find galaxy supercluster as massive as 26 quadrillion suns Speck of light glimpsed by Hubble is truly an enormous old galaxy, James Webb Space Telescope reveals...

Episode 160: 2:14 - Who Cares Geography and Facts About the World's 5 Oceans 'Superstructure' bigger than Idaho has been growing on the seafloor by Fiji since the dinosaur age Discovery of strange underwater structures could reveal how life on Earth really began Mysterious Ancient Megastructure Discovered Lurking Beneath The Baltic Sea 26:40 - Fear and Alarm! 2023 was warmest year on record, start...

Episode 159: 1:55 - Eternal Power, Divine Nature LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS What are life’s biggest questions, and how does the Bible answer them? Where Do Humans Fit in the Universe? This Physicist Wants to Change Your Perspective Higgs boson: The 'God Particle' explained A Speck Of Sand Contains How Many Atoms The Smallest Bits Of Things: A Brief History Of Matter 27:40 - All Hail to the Science Prehi...

Episode 158: 1:31 - Hungry, Hungry, Humans Emhoff announces $1.7B in pledges to help President Biden meet goal of ending hunger by 2030 Food Security in the U.S. The War on Poverty After 50 Years What is the current poverty rate in the United States? War on Poverty The Time Has Come to End World Hunger How Much Would It Cost to End World Hunger? - UNWFP How Much Would It Cost To End World Hunger?...

Episode 157: 2:07 - Solar Warming FACT SHEET: President Biden Sets 2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target Aimed at Creating Good-Paying Union Jobs and Securing U.S. Leadership on Clean Energy Technologies The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station What is the Life Expectancy of Solar Farms? THIS MASSIVE SOLAR FARM, ONE OF THE LARGES...

Episode 156: 2:30 - Finally! Real Science! We've Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For The Last 300 Years What Are Newton's Laws of Motion? ‘Physics for justice’ is woke ideology disguised as science Towards equity and justice in ocean sciences Table 1 An overview of recent literature around ocean equity and justice organised across five themes and further sub-divisions (issues) therein. Ferm...

Episode 155: 1:51 - O Pastor, My Pastor! How to Build Trust How to Rebuild Trust in 7 Steps Disillusioned Americans are losing faith in almost every profession “How do I know I’m called?” Spurgeon and the Call to Pastoral Ministry Ethics Ratings of Nearly All Professions Down in U.S. 41:47 - Words List of dictionaries by number of words Dictionary.com Releases List of New and Updated Words for 202...

Episode 154: 1:53 - Real Suicide Prevention Canada halts assisted suicide program for mentally ill due to lack of doctors The psychological slippery slope from physician-assisted death to active euthanasia: a paragon of fallacious reasoning Eugenics in the United States Aktion T4 Bipartisan duo raises concerns about proposal to drop the words 'lengthen life' from NIH's mission statement Medical As...

Episode 153: 2:45 - Fiscal Fasting CBS anchor admits he failed to find a single person outside New Hampshire grocery store who 'feels good about the economy' after inflation rises to 3.4 percent Derry, New Hampshire Survey: How Many Americans Are Living Paycheck To Paycheck? Americans Can No Longer Afford Their Cars Average American Household Debt in 2023: Facts and Figures Bankruptcies Surge Amon...

Episode 152: 2:18 - Meanings, Nothing More Than Meanings The 12 Steps of the Hero’s Journey The hero’s journey: New psychology research reveals a pathway to greater life meaning Amazon Mechanical Turk Prolific Meaning Is About Mattering: Evaluating Coherence, Purpose, and Existential Mattering as Precursors of Meaning in Life Judgments Where Americans Find Meaning in Life Poll: Who Finds the Most...

Episode 151: 1:48 - We Broke the Moon Scientists Think We’ve Officially Entered the ‘Lunar Anthropocene’ The moon has entered a ‘new epoch’, scientists say Moon’s resources could be ‘destroyed by thoughtless exploitation’, Nasa warned NASA Sending Five Payloads to Moon on Astrobotic’s Peregrine Lander Navajo Nation’s objection to landing human remains on the moon prompts last-minute White House me...

Episode 150: 2:02 - The Science of Morality New neuroscience research provides fascinating insights into the mystery of moral cognition Moral Foundations Elicit Shared and Dissociable Cortical Activation Modulated by Political Ideology Living Together: Inventing Moral Science Amazing admission 37:39 - The Sin Factor Scientists Have Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses Dark triad Th...

Episode 149: Intro 2024 3:52 - Instant Disagreement 'Disgusting' Satanic Temple display at state capitol in Iowa sparks free speech battle THERE ARE SEVEN FUNDAMENTAL TENETS Baphomet Wicca Pentagram Meaning: Everything You Need To Know About This Powerful Symbol Gov. Reynolds calls Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol building ‘objectionable’ Why A Satanic Holiday Display At The Iowa Capitol Bui...

Episode 148: 1:54 - I Want an Oompa Loompa Now! 10 Reasons We Rush for Immediate Gratification Weight Loss Pills, Past and Present: How They Work, Safety, and More The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers Is Ozempic a Miracle Drug for Weight Loss? The New Anti-Obesity Drugs: What You Should Know Ozempic and the dark history of weight-loss drugs Why experts worry the 'magic' i...

Episode 147: 2:14 - Dear America...Love, Osama Osama Bin Laden's Letter to America: Transcript in Full Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden Here’s how the Palestinians got their name Franklin Prophecy Moses in Islam Did the Japanese offer to surrender before Hiroshima? Six maps explain the boundaries of Israel and Palestinian territories The Risin...

Episode 146: 1:37 - Trust Me! Would I Lie? We are all propagandists now Behistun Inscription Who was Darius in the Bible? History of propaganda Nazi Goebbels learned a lot from the USA's Edward Bernays, Edward Bellamy & Francis Bellamy Bellamy salute Pledge of Allegiance Edward Bernays Joseph Goebbels Glenn Broadcasts With Tokyo Rose's Microphone to Tell Incredible Forgotten Story of American...

Episode 145: 2:01 - Study Your Spell-ing The University of Exeter Now Offers Degree in "Magic and Occult Science" To Explore Topics Like "Decolonisation" MA Magic and Occult Science Associate Professor Emily Selove University of Exeter launches a new master's degree in the study of magic British undergraduate degree classification 38:46 - Compassion, Compas..., com..., c... The Paradox of Compassi...

Episode 144: 2:02 - Here Comes the Sun New Research: The World May Have Crossed a Solar “Tipping Point” Dr Femke Nijsse Electricity production by source, World Powering the Entire World With Solar: Surface Area and Panel Requirements Germany approves bringing coal-fired power plants back online this winter Amid an energy crisis, Germany turns to the world's dirtiest fossil fuel EV Battery Factory...

Episode 143: 2:31 - Christian Music is Dead Derek Webb Attends Dove Awards in Drag Bad Religion: Deconstructing the Christian Music Industry with Semler Meet Flamy Grant, the Drag Queen Carving Out Her Own Lane in Christian Music Skillet’s John Cooper Responds to Derek Webb Attending the 2023 Dove Awards in a Dress Accompanied by a Drag Queen and a Lesbian LGBTQ Artist Hits #1 on the iTunes Christ...

Episode 142: 2:36 - Duh, Or No Duh I Saved $800 a Month by Changing These 4 Spending Behaviors If you use any of these 9 phrases, you have ‘better etiquette skills’ than most: Public speaking expert Gen Z can’t work alongside people with different views because they ‘haven’t got the skills to disagree’ says British TV boss Gen Z are more concerned by getting better at their actual jobs than they a...