Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk discuss civilization, beginning with the Two Kingdoms and their interconnected nature. They explore a framework for understanding civilization laid out by Ca...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk open the discussion for the new year by asking the question, "what is the Lutheran church?" They talk about the Year of Grace and the trouble ahead of us, in...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk bout the role of violence, its estrangement from modern life, and the historical normalcy of its use by citizens. They discuss how the nation was affect...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the benefits of stories, the wonders and vulnerabilities of childhood, the unnecessity of explicit detail, and imparting wisdom by engaging the im...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk finish the series on Hollywood. They open by comparing the suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths of various celebrities including Stanley Kubrick, ...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk answer a listener question about dealing with churches enforcing the government's whims, then return to the series on Hollywood. They talk about the place of...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the effect of urbanization on culture and media, the origin of the dime novel, and Jewish immigration to America leading to the birth of Hollywood...

In this special Thanksgiving episode Dr Koontz reads selections from various accounts and poems relating to Thanksgiving and Armistice Day (now known as Veteran's Day) and gives us...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk open the show by exploring the morality of debt and investment, then continue the discussion of rebuilding, talking about exercising agency in all seasons, p...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the new idols of the West, and return to the topic of surveillance, discussing the illegal activities of the Signal Intelligence Service, America'...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk follow up their series on collapse by discussing the rebuilding of civilization. In this episode they look at Emperor Justinian, the situations he dealt with...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the differences between mediums of communications, government surveillance through apps, the internet's role in the collapse of privacy leading to...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about preparing for economic collapse and answer a listener question about reading books. They then delve into the history of surveillance in early Amer...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk talk about the end of the world as we know it, living life in a state that doesn't know the dangers of indulgence while submitting to its authority, and what...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk open with a short discussion of video games simulating life without the meaning and wasting time that could be spent on real things, and then continue the di...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk continue dissecting the history of the Spanish Civil War, discussing the ideological division which made it and the growing intensity of each side's rhetoric...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk follow up last week's discussion on the nature of the Left with its counterpart, the Right. They discuss the cynicism and apathy of the right which feels tha...

Dr Koontz and and Rev Fisk continue the series on collapse, this week discussing the fall of the Second Spanish Republic, examining its similarities to both Argentina and the US to...

Dr Koontz and Rev Fisk spend this second episode on the collapse of empires discussing post-World War I Germany and the Hitler's rise to power in the wake of the economic devastati...

This week, the Mad Christian and Meridith speak about:    00:00 Opening 01:29 Title 08:26 Why is Jesus tarrying? 12:48 Knowing the times and being wide awake 24:30 Break 27:27 Why ...