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Maps of Meaning with Jordan Peterson

What is the Gospel?

What is the Gospel?

What is the Gospel?

What is the Gospel?

How Christmas Saves Us

Christmas Eve

The Primacy of the Invisible

The Primacy of the Invisible

Love Plus Woo-Woo

Prison Nativity Play

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Pascal's Pensées

Favorite Christmas and Advent Reflections

Calvinism, Coping and Stoicism

On John Brown

On John Brown

Third Sunday of Advent

Pascal's Pensées

On John Brown

"My own heart let me more have pity on"

On Wisdom

Tribal Kindness

Second Sunday of Advent

Pascal's Pensées

From Every Moment Holy

Everyone Makes Their Own Journey

To See the World As It Should Be Seen

The Many Metaphors of Salvation

First Sunday of Advent

Pascal's Pensées

"Bible Study"

Maybe When God Calls Us It Feels Like A Pain

God Gives Simply To Those In Need

The Geometry of Life

Pascal's Pensées

Deep Meaning, Self-Esteem and Nationalism

Life Without Deep Meaning

Jesus Died Praying

Everyone Gets To Where They Are Going

Pascal's Pensées

Prayer (I) by George Herbert

The Meaning of Sex

The Meaning of Sex

The Meaning of Sex

Pascal's Pensées

The Meaning of Sex

To Join the New Thing

Love as Attention

We Regard No One From a Human Point of View

Pascal's Pensées

We Regard No One From a Human Point of View

We Regard No One From a Human Point of View

We Regard No One From a Human Point of View

The Secret Kindness of God

Pascal's Pensées

Shame and the Kindness of God

Calvary as Theophany

Calvary as Theophany

Calvary as Theophany

Pascal's Pensées

Calvary as Theophany

Calvary as Theophany

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head

Pascal's Pensées

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head

Pascal's Pensées

The World Beyond Your Head

The World Beyond Your Head

Tiny Sins

Perception is Metaphysical

Pascal's Pensées

Evolution and the Fall

Eden, Death, Evolution and the Fall

When Morality Becomes Materialistic

The Lord's Prayer

Pascal's Pensées

Grace and the Devil

Is Psalm 109 an Imprecatory Psalm?

The Modern World and Hope

On Being Radical

Pascal's Pensées

In Praise of Old Churches and the Dangers of Founding Pastors

The Metaphysics of Petitionary Prayer

Scattering Seeds of Light

On Meaning in Life

Pascal's Pensées

On Meaning in Life

On Meaning in Life

On Meaning in Life

On Meaning in Life

Pascal's Pensées

Hexing the Taliban

The Rise of the Witches

The Prophetic Imagination and Universal Hope

Unquenchable Fire and Hope

Pascal's Pensées

Jesus the the Jolly Roger

Jesus and the Jolly Roger

Jesus and the Jolly Roger

Jesus and the Jolly Roger

Pascal's Pensées

Romantic Faith

On Taking Suffering Seriously

On Evil

On Evil

Pascal's Pensées

On Evil

The Disenchantment of Salvation

The Disenchantment of Salvation

The Disenchantment of Salvation

Pascal's Pensées

The Disenchantment of Salvation

Gratitude, Vulnerability, and Joy

Silence, Solitude and the Shyness of the Soul

Sunset Is My Business

Pascal's Pensées

On Divine and Human Agency

On Divine and Human Agency

On Divine and Human Agency

On Divine and Human Agency

Pascal's Pensées

On Divine and Human Agency

On Divine and Human Agency

On Divine and Human Agency

On the Existence of God

Pascal's Pensées

On Nondual Thinking

On Nondual Thinking

On Nondual Thinking

On Nondual Thinking

Pascal's Pensées

On Nondual Thinking

America's First Social Justice Warriors

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

Pascal's Pensées

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

Pascal's Pensées

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

Pascal's Pensées

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

On Conspiracy Theories and Christianity

Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up!

Pascal's Pensées

Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up!

Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up!

Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up!

Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up!

Pascal's Pensées

How to Think about Neuroscience

An Observation about "Christian Nationalism"

The Scientific Gaze and Mental Health

Cracking the Egg of the Cosmos

Pascal's Pensées

Bleaching the World of Meaning and Value

On Nihilism

The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth

Pascal's Pensées

The Book of Ruth

You Have to Practice God

On Job

Prison Prayer Request

Pascal's Pensées

Drawing Large and Startling Figures: God, Psychology and the Post-Christian World

Save Me From Myself

Love as Impassibility

The Purity Culture of Progressive Christianity: A Retrospective

Shame, Self-Esteem, and Idolatry

Pascal's Pensées: Week 6, The Contradiction

The Politics of Seeing

God Is In All Things

The Ethos of the Extraordinary: Self-Esteem in a Post-Christian World

Reading the Bible: Part #3, Error Toward Love and Grace

Pascal's Pensées: Week 5, Strange Organs

Reading the Bible: Part #2, God Has Your Back

Reading the Bible: Part #1, Make Your Call

Strike Three!: Evangelicals, Vaccines, and Science Denialism

Bursting Illusions: Part 3, Except for the God-Damned Bloody Corpse

Pascal's Pensées: Week 4, We Do Not Prove That We Ought To Be Loved

Bursting Illusions: Part 2, The Cozy Joy of Loving Your Enemies

Bursting Illusions: Part 1, Love Those Comforting Whirlwinds

Hunting Magic Eels on Audible. Plus a Study Guide!

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 8, Contagious Holiness

Pascal's Pensées: Week 3, Welcome to the Ache

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 7, Death, Animals, and Protecting Our Humanity

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 6, Guilt, Restitution, and Stereotypes

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 5, Theodicy and Collective Responsibility

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 4, Detergents

The Crack Running Through All Things

Pascal's Pensées: Week 2, Transcendence Matters

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 3, Holiness and Grace

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 2, Sobriety and Worship

Lessons from Leviticus: Part 1, Silence, Magic, and Relationship

We're Back

Pascal's Pensées: Week 1, God Matters

The Metaphysics of Mental Health

Hunting Magic Eels: Podcast and Interview

Hunting Magic Eels: Recovering an Enchanted Faith in a Skeptical Age

Happy to Be Potential Nazis: Political Resistance and Spiritual Formation

Go Wildcats!

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Final Week, For Not All Tears Are An Evil

The Purple Triangle: The Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany

The Enchantments of Celtic Christianity

The Gospel According to Game of Thrones

On Dependence: Part 4, Coda

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 60, Healing the Shire

On Dependence: Part 3, A Liberating Dependence

On Dependence: Part 2, A Reality That Cannot Be Earned By Us Or Eroded By Others

On Dependence: Part 1, Depending Upon the Dependent?

The Gift

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 59, Many Partings

God or Nothing

Salvation in Small, Messy, Intimate Spaces

Idolatry Is Always Polytheism

The Gathering of Israel

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 58, Arwen's Gift

The Kingdom of God is Entos Hymōn: Part 3, "Within Your Grasp"

The Kingdom of God is Entos Hymōn: Part 2, "Within You"

The Kingdom of God is Entos Hymōn: Part 1: "In Your Midst"

"He Devises Means So That the Banished One Will Not Remain an Outcast": Salvation and Divine Resourcefulness

Starting Lent in Texas

On Trinity and Politics: Part 4, The Economic Trinity and the Shape of Political Engagement

On Trinity and Politics: Part 3, Apophatic Trinitarianism

On Trinity and Politics: Part 2, Projecting Our Preferred Politics Onto God

On Trinity and Politics: Part 1, The Trinity Is Our Social Program

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 57, The Canticle of the Eagle

How to Detox Evangelical Christianity

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 9, You May Be Good But Are You Happy?

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 8, Protestantism, Disenchantment and Evangelizing the Young

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 7, Can You Save People Who Are Already Saved?

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 56, Is Everything Sad Going to Come Untrue?

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 6, Culture Wars Have Been Denominational Wars

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 5, Self-Esteem Among the Righteous

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 4, I Am a Good Person

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 3, Better Christians

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 55, The Author of the Story

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 2, The Social Gospel

Among the Post-Protestants: Part 1, A Mysticism of the Social Order

The Powers and Political Involvement

Throw Your Pebble into the Pond

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 54, Food for the Journey

Love and Idols

"Of Being" by Denise Levertov

Glimpses of Grace

The Non-Religion

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 53, When Christ Calls a Man, He Bids Him Come and Die

Style of Life: Having vs Being

Freed From our Subjectivities

A Lying Spirit Is Sent to the Evangelical Prophets

Faith and Mental Illness: Epilogue, The Causal Joint

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 52, One Small Garden

Faith and Mental Health: Part 8, Sin, Virtue, and Grace

Faith and Mental Health: Part 7, Solving the Paradoxes

Faith and Mental Health: Part 6, God's Non-Competitive Relation to the World

Faith and Mental Health: Part 5, Nature and Grace

The Gospel According to The Lord of the Rings: Week 51, The Hands of the King are the Hands of a Healer