New Persuasive Words
Scott Jones & Bill Borror
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. Hosted by Scott Jones and Bill Borror, the show offers a thoughtful examination of contemporary issues, blending humor, historical perspective, and philosophical depth. With a keen eye for nuance and a willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, New Persuasive Words invites listeners into a space where ideas are tested, assumptions are questioned, and meaningful dialogue thrives.
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Nov 6, 2015 • 30min
Episode 24: How Do People Change?
We have the capacity to imagine changing into something different than we are. This can be the blessing and the curse of the human condition.
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Oct 20, 2015 • 29min
Episode 21: Fight or Flight?
What do you do when your back is against the wall? Most of us either run in hope that we're faster than whatever frightens us, or we fight thinking that we're stronger than it.
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Oct 17, 2015 • 27min
Episode 20: I Think Therefore…?
...how much do we know about our thought process? And how important is what we know? Is it is important as being known?
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Oct 6, 2015 • 33min
Episode 18: Friends
We need not view a friendship with another human being either as having no other end but itself or as being solely a means to friendship with God. God is known in communion, but of course communion, the eucharist, is not passed between God and the individual alone, but shared among the community of...
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Oct 1, 2015 • 27min
Episode 17: Don’t Worry, Be…Happy?
JOY IN NONSENSE. How can men take joy in nonsense? They do so, wherever there is laughter-in fact, one can almost say that wherever there is happiness there is joy in nonsense. It gives us pleasure to turn experience into its opposite, to turn purposefulness into purposelessness, necessity into arbitrariness, in such a way that...
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Sep 11, 2015 • 23min
Episode 13: Know Thy Selfie
We can probably all agree that smartphones are now an inseparable part of ourselves (if you can afford one, that is), and so is the Internet. Whether that’s a good thing is still undergoing intense philosophical scrutiny. What is not up for debate is that a lot of our socializing occurs online, and as...
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Sep 9, 2015 • 40min
Episode 12: Beware The Maelstrom
MAELSTROMS — THOSE POWERFUL SWIRLING whirlpools in the open seas — have been known to pull hapless fishing boats, crew, and cargo down into a deadly vortex to the ocean’s dark depths. Maelstroms take on epic proportions in the world of fiction. In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” the lone...
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Sep 2, 2015 • 39min
Episode 10: I Fought The Law
Contemporary American culture, however, holds a much more optimistic view of human moral capabilities than does the Bible, and this has unfortunately crept into churches. How else to explain the fact that a religion based on acknowledging our own faults and shortcomings has become widely associated with extraordinary judgmentalism and self-righteousness?…American Christianity now is in...
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Aug 29, 2015 • 30min
Episode 9: Blessed Are The Vulnerable
Some things you make. Some you recover. Some you discover. This podcast is a combination of all three. Often times after people see, hear or read something they connect with want to know where it came from. This came from our interaction with the work of Brene Brown, specifically around our need for relational connections,...
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Aug 25, 2015 • 37min
Episode 8: Did God Kill Jesus?
We recently had the privilege of talking with pastor, professor and author Tony Jones. You can find out more about Tony and his most recent Did God Kill Jesus? at his website: tonyj.net. Enjoy the conversation and grab a copy of Tony’s book!
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