25 March 2019
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You can’t measure human dignity
Tripp Fuller, host of the Homebrewed Christianity podcast, critiques the worldview of some of the “New Atheists.”
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In this video:
- What does Christianity have in common with Pabst Blue Ribbon?
- Young Bob and young Tripp’s critical readings of the Bible
- Tripp: Human dignity doesn’t fit into a reductive materialist worldview
- Do all Christians believe in divine intervention?
- Could a deistic God have created Jesus?
- Spiritual practices for the overly judgmental (pretty much everyone)
- Tripp’s culture shock upon returning to North Carolina
- Paul Tillich and the dialogue between culture and faith
- Tripp: Oprah is the spiritual leader of the one percent
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The interpretation of dreams
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How Facebook manipulates us
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