Out of Our Minds

This episode wraps up the conversation between Tim, Joel, Judy, and Mulu. The Lintons describe the amazing Sundays their church family spends together, which run from the crack of dawn until the night. Their ministry is “organic,” focusing on making disciples of Jesus Christ who go beyond the superficial. The church in Yilan County, Taiwan is all about living life together, just like Bonhoeffer wr...

Joel and Judy Linton, missionaries and church planters in Yilan County, Taiwan, join Pastor Tim Bayly again. Their conversation will continue in the next episode. During this session, Joel, Judy, and Tim discuss the conversion and discipleship of a particular family that has become a central source of strength in the church plant in Yilan County (you'll hear from one of them directly during the po...

Joel and Judy Linton, missionaries and church planters in Yilan County, Taiwan, join Pastor Tim Bayly. Judy recounts the immense suffering her family endured at the hands of political operatives by Chiang Kai-shek. She shares her own harrowing experience of being stabbed by an assassin and her subsequent conversion to Christ. Joel describes his role as a pastor at their church plant and the challe...

Jürgen von Hagen, pastor and former professor of economics at the University of Bonn, again joins OOOM to discuss pacifism, military conscription, and the impact of global economics on the spread of democracy around the world. How should Christians serve their governments during times of war? How should peace be pursued—by ignoring conflicts, by making every nation a medium-sized power, by hegemon...

We are all in the habit of putting obedience to God on a shelf when our political commitments come into play. We refuse to acknowledge the way our political affiliations corrupt our obedience. Few things expose this tragic truth more than our contempt for immigrants and sojourners. Young men, particularly, are prone to unyielding denunciations of immigrants. To them, Jürgen has the following exhor...

Even the most conservative churches today are filled with rebellion against authority. Why? Because we have lost the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God. As fatherhood died, so the fear of God has died, and so authority has died. Having lost the doctrine of God's Fatherhood, we simplistically bounce between what we understand to be the only two options: absolute autocracy and absolute mutuality. Men...

All history is a history of warfare. Christians understand that history is the outworking of man's Fall. Another fruit of the Fall is that man always tends to avoid conflict, hoping the issues will resolve themselves. Pastors and elders in the church must first be convinced that there will always be conflict in the church and that putting off entering into that conflict will make it worse. If you...

Pastor Tim and Andrew Henry discuss Helen Andrews' article " The Great Feminization ," in which she presents this thesis: "Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently." Is she right? Has God made men and women different? Does His W...

Links, in order of their mention on the podcast: Helen Andrews, " The Great Feminization ," Compact, October 16, 2025. *** Out of Our Minds Podcast : Pastors Who Say What They Think. For the love of Christ and His Church. Out of Our Minds is a production of New Geneva Academy . Are you interested in preparing for ordained ministry with pastors? Have a desire to grow in your knowledge and fear of G...

Links, in order of their mention on the podcast: Kierkegaard parable Andrew cites: From the Journal: Empty Nutshells ...God would be loved. Therefore He wants Christians. To love God is to be a Christian...Now "man's" knavish interest consists in creating millions and millions of Christians, the more the better, all men if possible; for thus the whole difficulty of being a Christian vanishes, bein...

Tim, Jürgen, and Andrew address the following questions in light of the murder of Charlie Kirk last week: Is Charlie Kirk a Christian martyr? What should be the Christian's response to Charlie Kirk's murder? Was Charlie Kirk's view of the 2nd Amendment righteous? What has the betrayal of fatherhood got to do with Charlie Kirk? What about Charlie Kirk's disposition made him what he was? Should ther...

Tim, Andrew, and Jürgen cover various topics, including government subsidies for farming, the role of government in the economy, and the influence of political ideologies on institutions like the Federal Reserve and the CDC. The podcast also touches on the importance of trade for peace, the potential consequences of ending the Federal Reserve, and the need for independent institutions to prioritiz...

 Key points from this episode: • Factionalism in the Church: Acknowledging the presence of division within the church and its potential benefits as an “immune system,” while also expressing a desire to avoid unnecessary factionalism.  • Historical Perspective on Holiness Movements: Discussing George Marsden’s book Fundamentalism and American Culture , which, among other things, explores holiness m...

Tim and Andrew discuss the ups and downs—pastorally and financially—of the church year. Along the way, they cover the science of fasteners (nylok bolts and nuts ), the death of expertise, quangos , creating a peaceful climate in a church to protect the sheep, disciplining the rich and the poor, dumpster diving, God's bountiful care for us, why pastors avoid addressing the world's calamities in the...

Tim and Andrew discuss Jacob Gonzales's " A Dialogue with Amathés: On Laws and Magistrates ." Memes, audio books, Bible translation issues, NASB95's footnotes, God's Fatherhood, male semantic meaning components, Christian nationalism, and associated issues are discussed. *** Out of Our Minds Podcast : Pastors Who Say What They Think. For the love of Christ and His Church. Out of Our Minds is a pro...

Sarah Dionne joined Tim and Mary Lee to discuss: How should parents relate to their adult children who are leaving the home (children generally between the ages of 17 and 22)? There are many books teaching parents how to care for toddlers and teenagers, but fewer about what to do with adult children who are leaving or have already left the home. How do parents handle it when their children are lea...

The point of warfare is to kill and win, but the means to that end must be considered. The bloodlust of mankind is seldom, if ever, suppressed at the point of considering some advantage. Then again, warfare has been a history of unfair advantages through technological innovation hidden from the enemy. Tim and Andrew discuss some of those technological advances in history, our latest technological...

The family meal: We set the table not only with food but also with conversation and leadership. Efficiency is not the priority of the day. We must slow down, guide the conversation, even after a long day at work. Time at the family dinner table serves as a microcosm of life. A father must concern himself with worship, etiquette (showing kindness to others), and directed conversation, while remembe...

The internet is a balkanization of the populace: Everybody finds those they want to listen to. It is exceedingly difficult to teach somebody whose principal input in his life is through the internet. With a flesh-and-blood pastor, you at least can see his sins, his wife, and his children. Generally, with a pastor, you can’t escape his bad smells, but on the internet, everything and everyone is per...

***Live Zoom videoconference with Jürgen and Tim will take place on Tuesday, April 29, at 2 p.m. ET .*** Jürgen von Hagen leads a discussion on tariffs, trade, and global economics. NOTE: This episode is best listened to with THESE GRAPHS pulled up on your device. Also discussed: Trump's tariff strategy, the Russian threat, trusting God with our lives, trade deficits, manufacturing vs. service eco...

Not All Tesla is Tesla. What Tesla means to people has shifted drastically. It’s a shibboleth in our culture. From the darling of the green left to the “Swasticar,” you're now considered a villain if you drive a Tesla, particularly a Cybertruck.  We don’t understand Elon Musk until we get a grip on South Africa and her unapologetic males. South Africans have not been run through the American/Europ...

What is the origin of the "devil's advocate"? What are the benefits of assigning someone to that role? It has been noted in Scottish Presbyterian polity that a unanimous decision has not been sufficiently debated. In other words, either the issue was trivial, the presbyters were apathetic, or no one stepped up to elevate the debate by serving as the devil's advocate.   Tim and Andrew encourage lis...

Pastor Tim is joined by his wife (Mary Lee) and their three daughters (Heather, Michal, & Hannah). They discuss Catherine Ruth Pakaluk's recent book Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth . The book serves as a launching point for discussing the joys and troubles of motherhood, childrearing, and the culturally rebellious decision to obey God's command to be fruitful and...

Jürgen von Hagen joins Tim Bayly to discuss fruitfulness, natalism, and fertility demographics. From Malthus to Erlich to many contemporaries—for over two centuries—the prophets of doom have pleaded with mankind to abandon fruitfulness to survive. Modern man—and the Christian church—has only been too willing to obey those false prophets in direct contradiction to God's commands in the creation man...

Rev. Dr. Jürgen Von Hagen joined Tim and Andrew to discuss European culture and international relations. Last week, US Vice President Vance gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference —a meeting of top European military leaders, diplomats, and government officials. Vance's speech was a shock to many Germans (and the broader European community) because they expected him to speak about the confl...