Episodes

Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Understanding Jordan Peterson, Part II: The Phenomenon (Clarke Scheibe)
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
Thursday Jun 06, 2019
This follow up talk on Jordan Peterson aims not at the theological but at the cultural and political. This talk seeks to answer two questions: How did Jordan Peterson become popular? and How has he remained popular? The answers are surprisingly not the same but are also not mutually exclusive.
NOTE: The beginning of the talk has extensive video/audio clips that help orient a person new to Peterson's political views and the rise of his fame. If one is very familiar with Peterson, one may want to skip ahead to the second question at about the 1:00:00 mark.
NOTE 2: All talks include a discussion period. This talk is 1:42:00 in length without discussion.
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Tuesday May 28, 2019
To What Serves Mortal Beauty: God and Human Attractiveness (Liz Snell)
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Our cultural obsession with human beauty has led to many damaging results, both physical and psychological. Yet fascination with human beauty is present in every culture and era. Is our love of beauty just a social construct, an adaptive feature of evolution, or something more profound? Join us in thinking about how to face human beauty in a way that leads us to the beauty of God.
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Saturday Apr 27, 2019
Daniel 3: From Peter Pan to Faithful Christian (Clarke Scheibe)
Saturday Apr 27, 2019
Saturday Apr 27, 2019
This is a look at Daniel 3, the story of the three friends thrown into the fiery furnace, yet preserved by God's power. This story challenges us to move away from the Peter Pan Syndrome into virtuous and courageous adulthood, and better yet, into being made like Christ.
The Copyright for all material on the podcast is held by L'Abri Fellowship. We ask that you respect this by not publishing the material in full or in part in any format or post it on a website without seeking prior permission from L'Abri Fellowship. © Canadian L'Abri 2019

Sunday Mar 17, 2019
Brave New World and Our Cult of Happiness (Liz Snell)
Sunday Mar 17, 2019
Sunday Mar 17, 2019
Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, published in 1931, envisions a future world governed by the mantra, “Everybody’s happy now.” Today, many of the once-shocking predictions in his novel have already come to pass as we sacrifice questions of human freedom and dignity for the pursuit of comfort and pleasure.
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Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
Hospitality as Christian Witness (Clarke Scheibe)
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
Tuesday Mar 05, 2019
Hospitality is often reduced to 'hosting' but should be seen as a faithful Christian witness not just in our homes, but intimately in our own person and widely out in society. This talk develops our understanding of Christian hospitality through the concepts of 'true truth' and 'true spirituality,' two concepts important to L'Abri's own hospitality.
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Monday Feb 25, 2019
Truth by Fiction: How Telling Tales Helps Us Live in Reality (Liz Snell)
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
In an era deemed post-truth and awash in fake news stories, do we really need more fiction? Explore the ways great stories can help us dwell more deeply in reality, experiencing the wonder, heartache, and hope of truth.
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Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Honest to God - Making Room for Lament in the Life of Faith (David Salverda)
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
How might we think of crying out to God if everything rests in God's hands? David Salverda, a pastor, looks through theological, particularly Reformed, responses at how people were called to understand their suffering in light of God's sovereign power. In light of these formulations, must we "keep calm and carry on" or might these give us the grounds for faithful and honest lament?
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Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Looking into the Black Mirror: Back to Freedom and Dignity (Clarke Scheibe)
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
This talk is about Francis Schaeffer's little book called Back to Freedom and Dignity where he explains how a reductionistic view of humans open us up to manipulation by an academic and scientific elite funded by the state. I will look at how his argument engaged his 1970s audience and then we will discuss together how we can see the implications in today's society.
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Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Is Sex a Human Right? (Liz Snell)
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Are we to think of sex as one of our basic human needs? Is it a human right?
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Thursday Dec 27, 2018
The Tao of Right and Wrong (Dennis Danielson)
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Seventy-five years after the publication of C. S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man (1943), proponents of materialism and naturalism still dominate the public square. Their reductionist and nihilistic approach to morality and other things that give meaning to human life also continues to shape what our children are taught in school. There’s every reason, in face of this ongoing dominance, to defend the case that Lewis’s potent little book sketched three quarters of a century ago—a case I seek to reassert in my primer on moral realism, The Tao of Right and Wrong.
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