PZ's Podcast

Another meditation on hope (i.e., the Wing Thing), via death; yet death concretely and in the now, death you can get your skull around today and not tomorrow. Akira Ifukube is here to help undress us, as is Diogenes the Cynic, and Ludger Tom Ring; and, wouldn't you know, Raymond Scott. Podcast 116 is dedicated to Hewes Hull.

Another meditation on hope (i.e., the Wing Thing), via death; yet death concretely and in the now, death you can get your skull around today and not tomorrow. Akira Ifukube is here to help undress us, as is Diogenes the Cynic, and Ludger Tom Ring; and, wouldn't you know, Raymond Scott. Podcast 116 is dedicated to Hewes Hull.

"What makes the melon ball bounce?" What makes you bounce? This is an undressed talk about death, and death's funny aftermath.

"What makes the melon ball bounce?" What makes you bounce? This is an undressed talk about death, and death's funny aftermath.

Sequel to "Return to Form", with a push from Serling and a lift from Dylan.

Sequel to "Return to Form", with a push from Serling and a lift from Dylan.

This is podcast one in a new "story arc" -- a study in defeatedness, and a new hope I strangely feel. You could call it cross-notes of a theological psychologist.

This is podcast one in a new "story arc" -- a study in defeatedness, and a new hope I strangely feel. You could call it cross-notes of a theological psychologist.

Gerald Fried (b. 1928) and Gerald Heard (d. 1971): both were communicators of the non-rational, both were exponents of the subterranean echo. Fried did it through B-movie (and other) musical scores; Heard, through mystery novels and fantastic short stories. Jesus did it, too, through similes and parables. (If the second Gerald chose for his "nom-de-plume" 'H.F. Heard', I wonder what name Christ would have chosen, had His stories been published.)

Gerald Fried (b. 1928) and Gerald Heard (d. 1971): both were communicators of the non-rational, both were exponents of the subterranean echo. Fried did it through B-movie (and other) musical scores; Heard, through mystery novels and fantastic short stories. Jesus did it, too, through similes and parables. (If the second Gerald chose for his "nom-de-plume" 'H.F. Heard', I wonder what name Christ would have chosen, had His stories been published.)

Kipling shed light! From "Recessional" to "Children's Song", this podcast sings his praise. Kipling was also a 'both-and' thinker, a rare eirenic gift, and a Gift for Today. Episode 112 is dedicated to Stuart Gerson.

Kipling shed light! From "Recessional" to "Children's Song", this podcast sings his praise. Kipling was also a 'both-and' thinker, a rare eirenic gift, and a Gift for Today. Episode 112 is dedicated to Stuart Gerson.

John Betjeman listed five masters of the English ghost story, or supernatural tale. All five of them were the sons of Protestant ministers. What was going on with these sons, and their fathers. 'The Winstons' can tell us the answer, in their 1969 45 that we loved so, we sons of our fathers.

John Betjeman listed five masters of the English ghost story, or supernatural tale. All five of them were the sons of Protestant ministers. What was going on with these sons, and their fathers. 'The Winstons' can tell us the answer, in their 1969 45 that we loved so, we sons of our fathers.

Bishop Ryle made at least three big mistakes during his long ministry. If he were able to speak now -- he died in 1900 -- I believe he would admit them. To me they are revealing mistakes, from which there is something to learn. J.C. Ryle also had a core strength: He had been saved in his youth, when his world fell apart. He was a Christian, in other words, for the right reason. Yet like many spiritual people, there were still "unevangelized dark continents" inside him. Had these been "colonized" by the great Word that saved the young man, Ryle might have avoided the mistakes he made as an older man.