Three podcasts
In the past six months I’ve recorded three different podcasts that may be of interest to my readers.
The first was an interview with Dr. Brett Salkeld of the Thinking Faith podcast, on some aspects of the Covid pandemic and how people of faith have responded to it. The podcast was recorded in December, and released in February. Consequently, some of the the material will be outdated, given the highly fluid situation. However, much of it remains evergreen, and addresses how I have approached making sense of the innumerable complexities of this time as a scientific layman interested in discovering the truth.
The second was also with Dr. Brett Salkeld, this time about some broader, more theoretical questions about the relationship between faith and reason, and how to navigate a highly turbulent information landscape in which many Christians are being pulled into unhealthy and counter-productive epistemologies. It’s more exciting than it sounds (At least, I thought so).
The third was the inaugural edition of the Utopian Idiots podcast. Utopian Idiots is a project I started with a couple of my friends, Jonathon van Maren and Will Pemberton. Will, as many of you will know, passed away last fall. Jonathon and I decided to forge ahead anyway, and are making a go at producing a podcast discussing the general themes of Utopian Idiots: i.e. the slow, meaningful, rich, non-political aspects of life.
John, I’m relistening to these because I found them so clarifying and mentally detoxifying. I’ve also been looking to reread some of your articles on Covid but I can’t seem to find them. Did you delete or move some of them?
I don't normally listen to podcasts. But I just listened to the first two, they were worth every second of my time. I really appreciated your level headed perspective on complicated matters that affect people's well being, and about which endless misinformation circulates. I've been disappointed to see otherwise sane people propagating this stuff.
I do oppose the heavy-handed vaccine mandates, and don't think it's unreasonable to have questions about the safety and effectiveness of rushed vaccines with novel technology. However, I can't take the psychotic claims going around, including that they were designed to eliminate 95%(!) of the world population, alarming 83% miscarriage rate, spike protein shedding, tentacled metallic organisms, or that anybody who dies after getting vaccinated must have been killed by it, even if they were already terminally ill. It's troubling that even the traditionalist SSPX coming to the conclusion that the vaccine is morally licit under these circumstances didn't stop LSN from posting multiple screeds about how it's the mark of the beast, and anyone getting it will be incorporated into the mystical body of Satan.