Red Letter Philosophy

Sep 30 2024 179 ep. 13 mins 280
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Red Letter Philosophy is a philosophy of religion podcast exploring the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, and the mystery of God.

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Where Is God?

Sep 30 2024 17 mins  
Where is God? How is the distance between God and man to be measured? In this episode we conclude a series of episodes on Divine Hiddenness. However, this is not your mother’s academic discussion. God, evil, life, pinball, drinks, and a wee bit of reverie await you, dear listener. Come and enjoy the show.

Divine Hiddenness & D. Z. Phillips

Jul 27 2024 17 mins  
When we experience evil, or silence from heaven, can any answers, any consolation, be found in philosophy? In this episode we consider this question in the light of D. Z. Phillips.

Divine Hiddenness & C. S. Lewis

Jun 30 2024 14 mins  
When we experience evil, or silence from heaven, can any answers, any consolation, be found in philosophy? In this episode we consider this question in the light of C. S. Lewis.

Deus Absconditus

Apr 26 2024 13 mins  
The world can seem a silent and indifferent place in the face of suffering and confusion. Where is God? Why should God, as some tell us, be in a whisper? Why should God dwell in secret places? In this episode we take up The hiddenness of God, the Deus absconditus.

RLP Replay: What's So Good About Good Friday?

Mar 29 2024 17 mins  
As we continue recovering from being under the weather, we bring you one of our Easter favorites. On this holiday episode of Red Letter Philosophy we ask the question, what’s so good about Good Friday? We also discuss the frame or boundary that is Holy Week. In the words of Peter Kreeft, “it takes boundaries to make anything interesting. If a picture didn't have a frame, it wou

RLP Replay: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

Mar 17 2024 14 mins  
This St. Patrick’s Day finds us under the weather. Rather than miss the day, we offer/bring one of our St Patrick’s Day favorites. Is St. Patrick’s Day a celebration of the Irish; Irish history, Irish storytelling, Ireland herself, or is St. Patrick’s Day a celebration of a saint and of the one who molded the saint? We couldn’t decide. So, on this episode we offer you bot

World In My Eyes

Mar 01 2024 11 mins  
In this episode we contemplate the problems of silence and unbelief through the eyes of Jean Paul Sartre and Frederick Nietzsche. Do these two great atheist philosophers agree, fundamentally, with the great Christian philosophers? Take up and listen.

RLP Holiday: Love & Death

Feb 14 2024 15 mins  
Every once in a while Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day; this episode is for such days. Love and death are visitors from another world, doors in the wall of the world. Join us as we contemplate love and death.

Policy of Truth

Feb 02 2024 12 mins  
After a three month hiatus, Red Letter Philosophy returns. The boys pick up their discussion of the problem of silence and the problem of unbelief. In particular, they look at an intriguing argument from famed author, Andrew Klavan.

RLP Holiday: Memento Mori

Oct 31 2023 18 mins  
Halloween, All Saints Day, All Souls Day: a trinity of holy and deathly days. In an increasingly secular age, these days become excuses to indulge the appetites: hedonism & ghoulishness. However, these days are days of profundity and depth when seen in the correct light. Join us as we contemplate mystery, death, and spirit in this episode of Red Letter Philosophy.