How does America stop feeding on itself? How do we learn to bridge our differences without killing each other halfway across the bridge? How do we even learn to have a civil conversation with each other? It’s the Holidays, for Pete’s sake — having civil conversations is part of the deal. What if we’ve forgottenContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #17: “Three Movies We Love And One We Don’t””
Category Archives: Politics & Spirituality
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #16: “Three Problems That Need Fixing NOW”
Finally (maybe?) clarity emerges from the election’s fog. Our ship of state’s sails have caught a new wind. We are only just beginning to head where it takes us. That’s the question: where will it take us? Will it take us toward unity? America desperately needs a vaccine for its most virulent pandemic — theContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #16: “Three Problems That Need Fixing NOW””
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #15: “What The Hell Just Happened?”
Though Randy and I recorded this podcast the day before we learned the final outcome of Election 2020 — that Biden and Harris had won handily — most of what we said remains not only true, but (if it’s possible) truer. Pick the crossroads metaphor of your choice. America’s there. While some of us mayContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #15: “What The Hell Just Happened?””
A Presbyterian Pastor & A Hardcore Atheist Walk Into A Podcast Together: The Faitheism Project Podcast — Episodes 1 – 14
In a time of rancor, malice and polar division, the Faitheism Project Podcast offers a strong measure of level-headed, respectful conversation about the Really Big Things. For all their theoretical differences though, life-long atheist (and TV-film writer-producer) A L Katz and Presbyterian Pastor Randy Lovejoy, over the course of a 15 year friendship, have discoveredContinue reading “A Presbyterian Pastor & A Hardcore Atheist Walk Into A Podcast Together: The Faitheism Project Podcast — Episodes 1 – 14”
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #14: “Biden V Trump — Call It!”
At very long last, election 2020 is here. Doesn’t it feel more like a thousand years instead of four? Who’s going to win this thing? And will we stand by our calls? Predicting the future is easy. We all do it. But, rarely, if ever, do we have to explain in the loss’s aftermath howContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #14: “Biden V Trump — Call It!””
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #14 Promo: “Who Will Win Election 2020 — And What Will It Mean?”
By Randy Lovejoy If talking about religion is a mine field, what is talking about religion AND politics? Join Presbyterian Pastor Randy Lovejoy and devout atheist A L Katz for another episode of the Faitheism Project Podcast. In this episode, good friends Randy and Alan turn their focus on election 2020 — with just aContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #14 Promo: “Who Will Win Election 2020 — And What Will It Mean?””
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #13: “Ya Call THAT An ‘Original Sin’?”
Why does evil (or Evil) take root so easily inside human heads? Why IS there a rotten apple spoiling the whole bunch? Why is there suffering to begin with? Christianity has often traced it all back to “original sin”. If only Eve had listened…But what if Eve is a literary invention? Doesn’t the entire cause-and-effect constructContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #13: “Ya Call THAT An ‘Original Sin’?””
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #12: “Evil, Part Deux”
Apparently mankind struggles with Evil. Randy and I certainly are struggling with it. When you’ve co-existed with Evil — as Randy did he lived in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe’s reign of terror — your perspective on “evil” or “Evil” is different than someone in America accusing Donald Trump of being Evil. Or a Trump supporterContinue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #12: “Evil, Part Deux””
A Presbyterian Pastor & A Hardcore Atheist Walk Into A Podcast Together: The Faitheism Project Podcast — Episodes 1 – 11
The first thing my friend Randy Lovejoy and I agreed about when we started our conversation about spirituality 15 years ago, was how much awe we both felt when we gazed up at the cosmos. We also agreed: spirituality and religion are NOT the same thing. Spirituality is how you relate to things vastly biggerContinue reading “A Presbyterian Pastor & A Hardcore Atheist Walk Into A Podcast Together: The Faitheism Project Podcast — Episodes 1 – 11”
The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #11: “What’s So Evil About EVIL?”
We all know what Evil is. It’s the “boogeyman”, a Bond Villain, Hitler. The boogeyman and Blofeld (Bond’s main villain), being inventions, can be evil for no reason other than “for evil’s sake”. Hitler, on the other hand, is more complicated because, frankly, evil is more complicated. Yes, what Hitler did was flat out evil.Continue reading “The Faitheism Project Podcast, Episode #11: “What’s So Evil About EVIL?””