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New Persuasive Words is a sharp and insightful podcast that dissects the intersections of culture, politics, and theology with intellectual rigor and a conversational ease.
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Episode 404: The Past We Lost, the Future We Promise (opens the original)
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What if the deepest divide between conservatives and liberals isn’t simply about policy, but about time? Conservatives often locate America’s promise in an inherited past—its founding principles, traditions, institutions, and moral order. Liberals are more likely to locate that promise in an unrealized future: a more equal, inclusive, and just society that America has yet to become. In this episode, Scott and Bill explore these competing visions through the theological concepts of protology and
Episode 403: Did Christopher Nolan Christianize The Odyssey? (opens the original)
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Scott and Bill head back to ancient Greece—by way of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey . They explore what Nolan does with Homer’s strange, violent, morally complicated epic and take up a provocative debate sparked by Ben Shapiro and Ezra Klein: Has Nolan “Christianized” The Odyssey? What happens when a pagan story about glory, cunning, fate, and the gods is reframed around guilt, mercy, homecoming, and redemption? Is Nolan imposing a Christian moral universe on Homer—or revealing themes that were
Episode 402: The Scandal of Particularity Revisited (opens the original)
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In this episode of New Persuasive Words , Scott Jones and Bill Borror wrestle with one of theology's oldest and most unsettling questions: the scandal of particularity. Prompted by a provocative argument from Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony, they ask whether the Enlightenment's quest for universal reason came at the cost of dismissing the particular people, stories, and traditions through which faith has always been lived. Hazony contends that Enlightenment thinkers viewed the Hebrew Bible as a
Episode 401: Whose Christian America? (opens the original)
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What happens when theology stops shaping private belief and begins organizing public power? Scott and Bill examine the growing influence of Doug Wilson, the religious currents reshaping American conservatism, and the uneasy relationship between faith, politics, and democracy. Moving between current events, history, and theology, they explore how ideas once confined to the margins are finding new cultural and political influence—and what that means for the future of American public life.
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