Alastair's Adversaria

Mar 03 2025 500 ep. 29 mins 182
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Characteristics of Dysfunctional Communities

Mar 03 2025 6 mins  
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/148465840/characteristics-of-dysfunctional-communities. Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos

On 'Empathy'

Mar 03 2025 12 mins  
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/i/138965068/on-empathy. Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and my research more

Leisure the Basis of Culture (with Christian Leithart and John Ahern)

Feb 16 2025 85 mins  
Christian Leithart and John Ahern join me for a discussion of Josef Pieper's essential essay 'Leisure: the Basis of Culture': https://amzn.to/4317bzk. Within our discussion, we mention several other books and articles, including the following: Mark Helprin, 'The Acceleration of Tranquility': https://ayjay.org/helprin.html C.R. Wiley, 'In the House of Tom Bombadil': https://amzn.t

Pentecost and the Gift of a New Politics

Feb 05 2025 39 mins  
The following was first published on the Theopolis website: https://theopolisinstitute.com/pentecost-and-the-gift-of-a-new-politics/. Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos a

Symbolic History in the Gospels

Jan 22 2025 32 mins  
The following was first published on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/19-symbolic-history-in-the-gospels. Lydia McGrew, 'Explaining away and symbolic details in the Gospels': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnz6-WR21H0&ab_channel=LydiaMcGrew Jonah Schupbach, 'Conjunctive Explanations and Inference to the Best Explanation': https://www.jstor.org/stable/26874516 Jesus th

Called to Freedom (with Brad Littlejohn)

Jan 12 2025 46 mins  
My friend and colleague Brad Littlejohn has a new book coming out, 'Called to Freedom: Retrieving Christian Liberty in an Age of License': https://amzn.to/40xaMTR. Within this superb short book, B pushes us to think clearly about an issue behind so many others: what is freedom? As our thinking on this is clarified, problems in a host of downstream areas that have been polluted by b

The Cosmos in a Tent

Jan 07 2025 15 mins  
The following was first published over on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/5-the-cosmos-in-a-tent. Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and my resear

Our God Contracted to a Span

Dec 31 2024 18 mins  
The following was first published over on my Substack: https://argosy.substack.com/p/43-our-god-contracted-to-a-span. Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and podcasts and

You Shall Call His Name Joshua

Dec 25 2024 42 mins  
The following was first published over on the Theopolis website: https://theopolisinstitute.com/you-shall-call-his-name-joshua/. Follow my Substack, the Anchored Argosy at https://argosy.substack.com/. See my latest podcasts at https://adversariapodcast.com/. If you have enjoyed my videos and podcasts, please tell your friends. If you are interested in supporting my videos and po

Did David Rape Bathsheba?

Dec 18 2024 28 mins  
Within this podcast, I mention the following article: Ezra Sivan, 'The King’s Great Cover-Up and Great Confession': https://thelehrhaus.com/scholarship/the-kings-great-cover-up-and-great-confession/ James Jordan, 'Bathsheba: The Real Story': https://www.biblicalhorizons.com/biblical-horizons/no-93-bathsheba-the-real-story/ Alastair Roberts, 'The Reopened Wounds of David': https: