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Why Did Peter Sink (original series)

• 1. Blue Light (Start here!)

• 2. Detox

• 3. Jail

• 4. Release

• 5. On the Bike

• 6. Psych

• 7. Marathon

• 8. Ultra

• 9. Ironman

• 10. Work

• 11. Stumbling Blocks

• 12. Literalism was Killing Me

• 13. The Fall

• 14. The Empty Tomb

• 15. Love My Neighbor...?

• 16. The Most Difficult, Most Necessary Step

I Don’t Like Rules

• I Don’t Like Rules (part 1 of 5)

• I Don’t Like Rules (part 2 of 5)

• I Don’t Like Rules (part 3 of 5)

• I Don’t Like Rules (part 4 of 5)

• I Don’t Like Rules (part 5 of 5)

About Uranus

• About Uranus (part 1)

• About Uranus (part 2): What is truth?

• About Uranus (part 3): Abraham against the world

• About Uranus (part 4): Israel and God; Forrest and Bubba

• About Uranus (part 5): Bigger than Monday Night Football?

• About Uranus (part 6): Don’t get lost in the infinite loop of begat, begat, begat...

The Fountain of Youth

• The Fountain of Youth (part 1)

• Glory days, they pass you by (part 2)

• If I were a vampire... (part 3)

• Confusion around goats and donkey jawbones (part 4)

• Little Red Riding Hood and Eve meet for coffee (part 5)

• All about fitness supplements, horny goat weed, and spray tanning (part 6)

• The original paint that no solvent can dissolve (part 7)

Jumanji!

• Jumanji! (part 1)

• Jumanji! (part 2): Unlike Waldo, this message is easy to locate

• Jumanji! (part 3): When the band-aids of invented meaning stop working

The Gate of God

• 1. Me Speak Babel

• 2. The Table of Nations

• 3. Ben Franklin and Fifty Cent...Separated at Birth?

• 4. Poison: Give me something to believe in

• 5. Communication Breakdown

• 6. We now join our fallen world already in progress...

• 7. The Paradox of Control

• 8. Ghostbusters

• 9. A Lead Role in a Cage

• 10. The Only Way is Through

• 11. Enlightenment Propaganda Decoder Ring (inside this episode!)

• 12. Who, or rather, what, is the enemy?

• 13. The First Rule of Spiritual Fight Club

• 14. Unlearning Babel

• 15. Tower of the Mushroom Cloud

• 16. The Exorcism of the Nations

The Formless Void

• Getting the Order Right: The Five F’s

• Ironman Triathlon vs. Exodus 90

• Duct Tape and Bubblegum

• You Are What You Read (or Watch)

• Racing Thoughts

• Servant Mode and Service Opportunities

• Avoiding Distraction

• Narcissus

• Cold Beer on a Friday Night

• 31. The Foolish Brother

• The (Un)Righteous Brother

• The Two Commandments

• The Triangle (part 1)

• The Triangle (part 2)

• Searching in the Pandemic

• Power and Coercion (part 1)

• Power and Coercion (part 2)

• Modern Religions

• Planning Resentments

• Getting Stoned (part 1)

• Getting Stoned (part 2)

• Eight Percent Judas

• Unmoderning (part 1)

• Unmoderning (part 2): Deprogramming from the 1980s and 1990s

• Unmoderning (part 3): Caught somewhere between redneck and hippy

• Unmoderning (part 4): We all hate a hypocrite. So did Jesus.

• X’s and O’s

• Databases and Red Light Districts

• Databases and Red Light Districts (part 2)

• Databases and Red Light Districts (part 3): Bronze Age “myths”... shoved close to our faces

• Databases and Red Light Districts (part 4): When Vegas becomes the Temple at the center

• Election Day Special: Pandemics, war, riots, lies!

• Lead us not to the test

• We Want the Wrong Things

• The Dog and The Wolf: Removing the Collar

• The Miracle at Walmart

• How Faith Dies. A Post-Mortem. (1): A Simple Recipe for Unbelief.

• A Hybrid of Bluto and Kool-Aid Man

• The Joy of Confession

• What’s Wrong with the World?

• Sin is crouching at your door...like a stray puppy with big eyes

• Sin makes you stupid

• Your favorite band sucks, where “band” = ideology

• The Age of Costanza (1)

• The Age of Costanza (2)

• The Age of Costanza (3)

• Reading the Bible through the lens of: Protein Folding

• In Diversity We Trust? (1)

• In Diversity We Trust? (2)

• In Diversity We Trust? (3)

• In Diversity We Trust? (4)

• How to defeat Goliath, then and now

• The Pearl

• Falling Away

• What is a masterpiece?

• Jarvis

• For my Grandparents

• The death of the Author has been greatly exaggerated

• Goodbye Dawkins, Hitchens, Pinker, Ehrman, et al

• A thank you to Bishop Barron

• Dude, where’s my Mass?

• The Sacred Heart is Not Sentiment or Decoration

• A Reflection on “Islamic holiday Eid-al-Adha to be recognized as holiday for Rochester Public Schools”

• Re-imaging a Macbook and Transubstantiation

Why Catholic?

• Why I am Catholic (part 1): Guilt is Not a Doctrine

• Questioning Everything

• My Personal “Herschel Walker Trade”

• The Problem with “Faith Alone”

• The Real Spirit Murder

• More Than a Feeling

• “It didn’t feel like they were trying to sell me a car.”

• The Perfect Family

• Seat of Moses, Chair of Peter

• The Blood of the Cancelled

• False Charges of Cannibalism

• Matthew Shot First

• Matthew Shot First, continued

• Mass is only boring when you don’t understand it

• Agnes vs. The World

• The Great Religious Deception

• Agnes meets Abraham

• Chastity is Not a Dirty Word

• If the Church hates women so much, then why...?

• The pre-Christian utopia vs. the “Dark Ages” of Christianity

• Lies the sexual revolution told you and your parents

• Heretic: An ugly word that must be looked at

• More on the ugly word (2)

• Getting the right interpretation

• The Problem with “Reason Alone”

• What could possibly fit in this God-shaped hole in my heart?

• It’s not supposed to be cool.

The Inversions

• The Inversions: Introduction

• The Inversions (1): Time had a beginning

• The Inversions (2): God is one. Not many. Not none.

• The Inversions (3): Creation “out of nothing”

• The Inversions (4): Creation, without a struggle

• The Inversions (5): Heaven over earth

• The Inversions (6): Heavens...singular or plural?

• The Inversions (7): Creation, and how to read in the 21st century

• The Inversions (8): Angels are real. Demons too.

• The Inversions (9): Messengers, thoughts, and more on angelic beings

• The Inversions (10): It is good. It is very good.

Unmoderning

• Unmoderning (series opener)

• The Black Legend: The Propaganda You Inherited

• The Library of Alexandria: The Half‑Truth Versus the Timeline

• The “Dark Ages”: The History of an Insult

• Dogma: It Means a Boundary or a Fence, not a Cage

• Kulturkampf: When “Culture” Comes Via Coercion

• Angels: Not Symbols, Not Superstition

• Faith is Anti-Intellectual? Anti-Reason? No.