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- May 17, 202612 min
168. Ron Dodson: "Ethnos" and "Genos" in the New Testament
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.comRon and I get together to extend our discussion of the church as a nation unto itself by discussing the politically charged terms "ethos" and "genos" as they were used then and how they apply now.
- May 14, 202613 min
167. Dave Greene: Is the GAE Weaker in the Center than the Periphery?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.comDave and I get together to discuss the state of the Global American Empire
- May 7, 202630 min
166. Year A - 5th Sunday of Easter - 1 Peter 2:2-10 - "You Are God's Chosen Race"
Scripture Reading2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For in Scripture it says:“See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”8 and,“A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.Pulpit Notes[n.b. This is one of those instances where the variance between what was spoken and what was on the page in front of me is significant]Today is the fifth Sunday of Easter. In this period between Easter Sunday and Pentecost we spend our time meditating on passages that explore and open up for us the meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ for the world and in the life of us as believers.We struggle to properly relate to the New Testament scriptures in part because we live in an age of technology, of science. We live in a time where there only things that matter is what we can see and observe, the material world that can be measured and observed scientifically, that can be controlled through technology.Ours is a materialist world. What is most real is the things we can see. The unseen world of the supernatural and the metaphysical is less real to us than it was to those who lived in the period when men like Peter and Paul wrote.In their day, it was simply accepted that our world is a reflection, a revelation of the unseen spiritual world. In many ways that supernatural world was more real, more important, than the world that can be seen. The visible world is dependent upon the unseen world.The most important things that Jesus did were accomplished in this spiritual realm that is the foundation for the visible world.What Peter is doing throughout much of the book is helping the young church understand these realities and what Jesus did and how they shaped the universe within which we live.The task of our spiritual life is not to build things materially, whether churches or organizations or even nations; rather, our task is to reveal what is there in the unseen spiritual realm, this place where all things have been accomplished. Just like the Lord’s Prayer, we want to reveal the Kingdom and will of God as they already exist fully formed in the unseen heavenly realm.Our text builds in a progression, one thought building on the other. The lectionary actually begins mid sentence in the Greek. But this is fine, because it allows us to emphasize the point I open up with here this morning.“Like newborn babes, crave pure spiritual milk.” This is one of those moments where letting scripture interpret scripture can sidetrack you. Paul uses the image of “milk” in contrast to “meat” or “solid food.” But this is not what Peter is doing. He is not even telling his readers that they are immature, like babies. What he is doing here is saying that like babies, you need to eat the very best food you can eat, which is mother’s milk. What Peter is saying is that spiritually we need to eat the very best food we can eat.The word that he closes to use here, that is translated “spiritual,” is λογικὸν and not πνευματικός as he does in verse five. The choice of λογικὸν, especially in regards to this teaching is that Peter is urging his readers not merely to be “spiritual” but to seek the essence, the hidden reality that gives words their power.Something that we don’t often think about is that words and their meanings are separate things. People can use the same word but have very different associations with those words. You might have had a loving relationship with a pet dog while another person got bit by a dog. For one person the word “dog” evokes fear, and the other something warm and positive.So “pure spiritual milk” here means to seek the full divine truth, the supernatural and metaphysical realities that lay beneath t
- Apr 28, 202612 min
165. Garen Kaloustian: America Is an Economic Zone, Actually
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.comI have Garen Kaloustian on to talk about the central organizing force of America and American society. Is it Protestant Christianity? Anglo culture? Enlightenment liberalism? It's commerce.
- Apr 23, 202611 min
164. Ben Fleming: Let's Talk About the Reformation
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.comBen and I get together to talk about the Reformation, what caused it, and how we should properly think about it in the context of the times and the flow of historical events.
- Apr 10, 20261h 19m
162. Ben Fleming: Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground"
Ben Fleming is back to discuss a work, Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground," that underscores the thesis that the west is largely "stuck" playing out the same themes and ideas from the 1850's-1920's.Seeking the Hidden Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe
- Mar 30, 202632 min
163. Year A - Palm Sunday - Philippians 2:1-11 - "Radical Obedience"
Pulpit NotesNote: the spoken version of this message diverged quite a bit from the text that I brought with me to the pulpit.Today is Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday. Deep into Lent, we are boring into core Christian teachings. Who is Jesus? Who are we as Christians?The text we have in front of us is thought to be an early Christian hymn that Paul is using to make a point, likely because of its familiarity with the Philippian church.The English here in the NIV smooths out the language here in verse five, but in so doing obscures the point that Paul wants to make.It reads literally: “Let this mind be in you which also in Christ Jesus.”We have talked a lot about this fundamental Pauline concept of being “in Christ.” Salvation happens “in Christ.” We have been taken from “the world” and are now “in Christ.” In Christ we are a new creation. In Christ we are raised from the dead.But as we have learned, we don’t yet fully experience this reality today. A big part of the core of our faith is believing in this reality, that “in Christ” we are all these things.We know that until Christ returns this new reality remains hidden “in Christ.” This is why we lift our attention to heaven to where Christ sits at the right hand of God.In the way that Paul lays out his opening sentence here, what he is telling us is how to make this “in Christ” reality something that is revealed in our lives and the life of our community.Interestingly, the “in you” here is actually the plural form. What Paul is saying is that revealing Christ in our lives in not something we do individually, although we all participate as persons. But this is something we do as a community.So, Paul is teaching us that our mind, our thinking, our attitudes, our actions should reflect what is “in Christ.” Our mind is Christ’s mind. What is in you, among you, should be what is in Christ.So, what is “in Christ”?We have talked about this as a change in being, of our essence. We have gone from a space where our essential being is “of the world” to one where we are now “in Christ.” We believe, a core part of our faith is that this transformation has taken place, even if now this new essence is hidden “in Christ.” What is this essence? What does it mean to be “in Christ” to be a new creation, to be the body of Christ?It is easy to read the opening of the hymn and place the emphasis on the fact that the Son of God gave up his equality with God the Father to empty himself to become a servant to humanity to sacrifice himself for us, and if we combine this with Paul’s urgings in the first five verses that we should do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit and that would should consider others as better than ourselves as us being urged to be pushovers, or weak, or to put ourselves and the church at the mercy of bad actors would take advantage of all of this.This is not a call for weakness, but rather one of radical obedience to God the Father. We choose to be gentle not because we are weak, but because we are obedient.We are not the people who get walked all over. We are not a people who get taken advantage of. We don’t let bad actors take us for a ride.We can take a stand and hold our ground. We can say no. We can say, we don’t do that here. We can tell the truth about the reality of sin. We don’t have to ignore sin or bad behaviour. We can tell the truth. We can draw lines in the sand. We can hold each other accountable.Jesus did all of these things and they put him to death for it.The reality that Paul is talking about here is not one of being weak or giving excuse for passivity or to justify Christians being pushovers.In reality, this thing that Paul is calling us to is one of tremendous strength and discipline.What he is calling us to is a life of radical obedience.So here is how it works.You live in community. What do you pursue? Do you pursue what you want, what your plans are, what your ambitions are? Are you thinking about how other people need to be meeting your needs and accommodating you in what you want?Is it all about the respect you deserve? The recognition you deserve? Is it about people acknowledging how much you do around here? Is it about people noticing what you are going through and asking you about what you need? Is it about being upset because no one acknowledges you and your situation?You get the idea. It is not about you. It’s not about me.It’s even not about what I want for the church. And it is certainly not about trying to manipulate people by tugging on their willingness to sacrifice so that you can push your agenda on to people as if your plan, your vision for the church as if it is God’s vision.This is radical.It also means that because this is a communal thing, that when the Spirit of Christ is truly living in us and we are practicing th
- Mar 27, 202644 min
159. The "Exception" and So-Called Artificial Intelligence
Carl Schmitt's short work "Political Theology" offers some key insights into the nature of LLM algorithms, and their key, fundamental fatal flaw. It's the same problem the "the rule of law" has. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.seekingthehiddenthing.com/subscribe
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