The Mind Renewed : Thinking Christianly in a New World Order

"Pencil in the phoenix for around 2018, and welcome it when it comes"—The Economist 1988 This week we welcome David Haggith, economic commentator and writer of The Great Recession Blog, for a discussion on the international trend among central banks and governments towards a global cashless society. Regarded by central banks as a "drag" on their ability to manipulate economies to their liking, cas...

During TMR's Easter break, we take the opportunity to share a classic interview - "Who Rules America?" - with Dr. G. William Domhoff, Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Conducted as part of the Alternative Views TV series co-founded by Frank Morrow and Douglas Kellner, which addessed issues often ignored or misrepresented by the mainstream media, this impr...

"We want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail… [J.] Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him." (US President Harry S. Truman) So begins a recent commentary by our guest for this Good Friday edition of TMR, the constitutional attorney and author John. W....

"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence..." Or so said Richard Dawkins at the Edinburgh International Science Festival in 1992. But is that really true? Do faith and reason really not mix? And why do so many people seem to think this? Joining us, for the second of a sh...

Atlas, the impressive brainchild of Boston Dynamics and icon of Industry 4.0, raises perhaps more concerns than it does hopes for the future. Will Atlas's cyber progeny and digital cousins bring to pass a brave new world of endless leisure for the masses, or will they usher in an age of mass unemployment, poverty, or worse? We are joined once again by Patrick M. Wood, Editor-in-Chief of Technocrac...

This week we are honoured to speak with Charles and Mary Ann Strange, whose son Michael—Cryptologic Technician and Petty Officer (Collection) First Class Michael Strange—was tragically killed in a suspicious helicopter shoot-down in Afghanistan. Michael had served as a member of SEAL Team Six when it was reported to have assassinated Osama bin Laden at the beginning of May 2011. But on August 6, 2...

This week we are joined by Christian philosopher Dr. Glenn Peoples for an in-depth discussion on The Moral Argument for the Existence of God. Each of us has a sense of what we ought—and ought not—to do in the many and varied circumstances of our lives, but what is the explanation for this ordinary, yet seemingly-unfathomable phenomenon? Does it stem from a God-given human faculty to perceive objec...

This week we are once again joined by Dr. Tim Ball, retired professor of Historical Climatology at the University of Winnipeg, for a characteristically fun and fascinating conversation on the subject of Educational Ergonomics. What is education? What is it for? And−a question that increasing numbers of people are asking in these days of rising student debt and increasing unemployment−who is it for...

"What is truth?"—a rhetorical question famously snarled by Pontius Pilate during his interrogation of Jesus 2000 years ago. Yet the question is a real one, and the answer of monumental significance in every day and age. But especially in ours, an age in which the very concept of truth itself is under merciless attack. Joining us, for the first of a short series of interviews, is the writer and res...

If you're wondering what's happening to The Mind Renewed, all is revealed in this thoroughly dehumidified episode, as we explore the effects of the Boxing Day Flood upon the state-of-the-art studios at TMR, and uncover the host's various attachments to David Bowie, Pierre Boulez and solid oak flooring. Thereafter, in place of thwarted antediluvian good intentions, we take the opportunity to presen...

To kick off the New Year here at TMR we welcome The Fireside Nephilim Boys—a multinational think-tank affiliated to Like Flint Radio—who join us from diverse regions of the globe for a friendly, entertaining and sometimes controversial roundtable chat about... well, pretty much anything that managed to get under our collective skin during 2015. Is NASA hiding the truth about all our washing machin...

For TMR's final programme of 2015 we are joined by Dr. Mike Spaulding, Senior Pastor of Calvary Chapel, Lima and host of Soaring Eagle Radio, for a discussion on the subject of Biblical Hermeneutics. Isn't it obvious how we should read the Bible? After all, if it says such-and-such, surely it means such-and-such, and that's the end of the matter? Or is it really always quite so straightforward? Dr...

British film-maker, 9/11 Truth activist, and fellow Christian, Tony Rooke returns to the progamme to introduce his new film INCONTROVERTIBLE, "the first and only feature-length documentary" to portray the "candid views of Police Officers, Firefighters and Soldiers... about the official explanation for the events of 9/11." In 2013 Tony Rooke hit the headlines as he was summonsed to court for not pa...

We are joined again by Dr. Duke Pesta, professor of English at The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Academic Director of FreedomProject Education, for an update on Common Core, the US education system's so-called "Common Core State Standards Initiative". Touted as "a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English... created to ensure that all students graduate from high sch...

Once again we welcome to the programme Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, who joins us to give his reaction to the Paris Attacks of 13th November, assessing them in relation to current and historical geopolitical realities. In the second half of the interview Dr. Roberts shares with us his analysis of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership") and...

Remember what the world used to be like - before 2013 - when all our electronic communications were being scooped up by intelligence agencies and stored in massive data silos? Well now, thanks to Edward Snowden.... well, what? This week we welcome back to the programme writer, researcher and fim-maker Tom Secker of SpyCulture.com, InvestigatingTheTerror.com and the fascinating podcast ClandesTime,...

This week we welcome to the programme Manoj Raithatha, head of the South Asian Forum of the UK Evangelical Alliance, who joins us to share his inspiring testimony and to discuss his approach to evangelism and Christian engagement with people from Asian backgrounds. Manoj Raithatha, who is director of the course Discovering Jesus Through Asian Eyes, has been a teacher, a BAFTA award-winning TV writ...

This week we welcome to the programme David Conn of TruthSleuth.net for an in-depth discussion on the so-called Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ and its manipulative founder Jim Jones, under whose "leadership" over nine hundred people were killed in a mass "suicide/murder" on the 18th of November 1978 in northwestern Guyana. David Conn, who investigated Jones for eight years prior to the...

In place of the postponed interview with Tom Secker, I thought I would take the opportunity to share a few tips on how I go about producing podcasts and how I approach the whole business of conducting interviews (as requested by some TMR listeners). Highlights include: useful free software, how to avoid common errors, getting the most from a guest, big easy chairs, Japanese saucepans and phone cal...

This week we welcome Dr. Peter Phillips, professor of Sociology at Sonoma University, who joins us to discuss the secretive and elitist Bohemian Club whose annual campground meeting at Bohemian Grove in California is attended by some of the richest and most influential men in the world. Dr. Phillips, whose PhD (1994, University of California, Davis) centres in this very subject, joins us to discus...

The end of poverty and hunger! Good education and jobs for all! Decent shelter and a healthy life for every citizen of the world! Who could disagree with aspirations as lofty as these? So read the Goals of the UN's 2030 Agenda, a document shortly to be signed up to by the world's leaders at the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York (25 and 26 September). But, asks our guest, Patrick M. Woo...

For the fourteenth anniversary of 9/11 and to begin the Autumn season of programmes here at TMR, we welcome Richard Gage AIA, a San Francisco Bay Area architect for 28 years, a member of the American Institute of Architects, and the founder and CEO of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Mr. Gage shares with us his journey towards questioning the official narrative about 9/11, explains the work...

What is the so-called "Greek Debt Crisis"? Is it simply the result of economic mismanagement by the Greek people and their successive governments, or is there more to it than meets the eye? Joining us to answer this question, we welcome once again Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy), who explains that the crisis is not fundamentally about debt...

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country." (Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928) Entertaining, informative, irritating, embarrassing - you fill in the blanks - adverti...

We are joined once again by Dr. Graeme MacQueen, co-editor of The Journal of 9/11 Studies, for an in-depth discussion on his research into eyewitness evidence of explosions in the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. "Many of us are convinced that the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were brought down on September 11, 2001 through controlled demolition. But the question at once arises: if this...