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Why Should We Love God With Our Minds?
12/06/2022
This 40 minute talk overviews important issues in a Christian approach to knowledge, truth, and beliefs.
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Reflections on Seeing the Miraculous Power of the Kingdom
10/28/2022
This presentation offers a big picture framework for thinking about the miraculous power at work in our everyday life, fostering confidence and anticipation for such work.
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Spiritual Formation, Virtue Ethics, and Christian Anthropology
6/22/2022
The lecture addresses the importance of philosophical accounts of anthropology for addressing issues of spiritual formation.
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Is the ‘Old Testament God’ Evil?
3/24/2021
This talk discusses controversial Old Testament texts that suggest that God committed ‘divine genocide’.
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Consciousness as Evidence for God, an interview on Parker’s Pensées Podcast
11-16-2020
Discusses an argument from consciousness for the existence of God and argues that out of the three answers for consciousness: naturalism, panpsychism, and theism, theism is the best explanation.
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The Anatomy of Unbelief
11-04-2020
The lecture summarizes important issues of epistemology when thinking about worldview beliefs and their formation.
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Can Christianity and Science Mix?
10/30/2020
This talk distills the issues involved when thinking about whether Christianity and Science can integrate as a body of knowledge.
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A Christian Understanding of Social Justice
10/16/2020
This talk surveys assumptions related to what J.P. takes as a contemporary notion of “social justice” and how a Christian vision of justice offers an alternative perspective.
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Evidence for the Soul Interview and Extended Q&A on Toughest Questions
6-17-2020
These conversations discuss important issues related to arguments for the soul’s existence and significance, along with extended discussions related to tough questions for Christians.
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Interview with Kay Warren on Mental Health Issues
3-23-2020
J. P. tells his own story of addressing anxiety and converses with Kay Warren about various forms of distorted thinking-patterns in our self-talk.
