Virtue in the Wasteland Podcast

In this, the last episode of 2016, Jeff and Dan discuss what they might slough off and let go of in 2017.  Rather than think too much about we will do in the coming year, this show explores what kind of rubbish, litter and filth we would like to shake off for the coming year.  We discuss politics, personal ideologies and the album of the year (and play what Dan believes is the best track... if you want to slip through it, he won't take it personally). We all know 2016 has been a tumultuous year, the guys discuss how we might enter the new year, #EGBOK style...

Direct download: sloughing_off_and_letting_go_of__2016.mp3
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How a famous 19th c. Danish statesman, hymn writer, poet, theologian and education reformer, though little known to many Americans today, had a profound influence on the world, and represents an alternative to angrier approaches to life.      

Direct download: Grundtvig.mp3
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Depression, Christmas, muddling through, hope, the Christmas blues, great but darker pop Christmas lyrics. The Pogues, Calexico, Eels and more. Why suicides don't really spike around Christmas. Why April is the cruelest month.

Direct download: Everything_Will_Be_Cool_This_Christmas.mp3
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What happened to the European Christian world after Luther posted his 95 theses. Protestant scholasticism, pietism, Philip Melanchthon, Johann Sturm, Martin Bucer, Primoz Trubar, and Johann Arndt.

 

Direct download: 1517_Legacy_and_Trajectories.mp3
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Fidel Castro, evil, the media, failures in journalism, ideology, how to defeat or overcome self-defeating ideology.

www.virtueinthewasteland.com

www.1517legacy.com 

 

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