Pragmatic Christian Podcast

Mason Mennenga returns to discuss podcasting, Twitter, theology, and Christian identity.

In this episode, we discuss Robert’s atheist background and talking people out of their faith, pentecostalism, speaking in tongues, ethnic diversity in the Bible, pluralism, “black” theology vs. “real” theology, and much more!

Political philosopher David Rondel comes on the show to discuss his book, Pragmatist Egalitarianism. We discuss the philosophy of equality and justice, pragmatism, William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and much more.

Theologian Thomas Jay Oord returns to the show to discuss the reception of his book, God Can't, answer more questions about his theology, and respond to some criticisms.

Michael Graziano is professor of Psychology and Neurology at Princeton University. His work focuses on awareness, and he has been working on a theory of consciousness for the past ten years. His theory is called the Attention Schema Theory of consciousness, which takes a brain-based approach to the problem of consciousness. In this episode we discuss his latest book, Rethinking Consciousness. We talk about consciousness, artificial intelligence, simulations, the reality of God, and much more.