AK47 Season 2 Episode 39: Becoming An Apologist Without a Degree, with Richard Porter

 In the next episode of Kyle's apologetics series, he has Richard Porter on to talk about how you can learn apologetics without having to spend years of your life and thousands of dollars of your money getting an advanced degree.  We get to know how Richard became a Christian and got into apologetics, how to learn apologetics effectively, the usefulness of verbal and written debates on the truth of Christianity, Richard's views of Reformed Epistemology and Lydia McGrew's approach to arguing for biblical reliability, the importance of mentors and reading hard books, and more.

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Other Episodes in the Series

1. Sam Harper (Philochristos)

2. Evan Minton (Cerebral Faith)

3. Cameron Bertuzzi (Capturing Christianity)

4. Clinton Wilcox (this one is on the topic of abortion specifically)

AK47 Season 2 Episode 38: A Commentary on Nacho Libre. . . But Not Really

 Aaron and Kyle get together to do their very first film commentary.  We watch Nacho Libre and talk about it. . . Though we mostly end up talking about politics, American history, ministry, and related topics.  After the movie is over, we continue talking about church involvement in the lives of its single congregants.  We encourage you to watch the movie with us during the course of the episode, but you don't have to in order to understand or benefit from our conversation!

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AK47 Season 2 Episode 37: The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis and Idolatry

Aaron and Kyle talk about C.S. Lewis's influential sermon, The Weight of Glory, what its message is, and how it affected their lives.  They also talk about C.S. Lewis's other book, Till We Have Faces.  Eventually, they start talking about idolatry, what it is, and how to tell if you're idolizing something or not.  They then end off by talking about what's going on with their lives and COVID.

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AK47 Season 2 Episode 36: Our Experience As Talbot Philosophy Students

Aaron and Kyle come back together to discuss our experience studying philosophy at Talbot.  We talk about why we decided to go to Talbot, whether or not Talbot can help you achieve your goals in academia or ministry, what the philosophy professors there are like, our experience with the community at the campus, and some reasons why one may not want to attend Talbot.  We hope this will be useful for those who are thinking about going to Talbot for philosophy.

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AK47 Season 2 Episode 35: Responding to Bad Atheist Arguments Part 2

Tripp Parker (M.A. in philosophy from Duke) joins Kyle to continue going through Jay Beecher's tweet thread claiming that the Bible is based on pagan myths, it's full of errors, the biblical canon was decided at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., and much more.

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Sources Used for the Episode

The Mirror or the Mask: Liberating the Gospels from Literary Devices by Dr. Lydia McGrew

Alleged Historical Errors in the Gospels part one and part two by Dr. Timothy McGrew

We didn't mention this during the episode, but for a humorous response to the claim that Jesus and the stories about him are copied from pagan myths, check out this video from Lutheran Satire.

AK47 Season 2 Episode 34: Responding to Bad Atheist Arguments

Aaron and Kyle bring on a special guest, Tripp Parker (M.A. in philosophy from Duke) to talk about a tweet thread from Jay Beecher arguing that the Bible is copied from pagan myths and makes a bunch of historical errors.

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Sources Used for the Show

Jay Beechers tweet thread.

The History for Atheists blog.

AK47 Season 2 Episode 33: Thoughts on the Coronavirus

The members of the AK47 Podcast and The New Worlders teamed up for this episode.  We give our thoughts on the coronavirus, the reactions to it, whether or not its a natural evil, and more.  We read extensively from some articles to help drive the discussion.

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Sources Used for the Episode

We Were Wrong: So Sorry that We Ruined Your Life by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Novel Coronavirus, Ancient Economics by C.R. Wiley
Is the Coronavirus Evil? by Daniel Harrell

AK47 Season 2 Episode 32: Socialism and More

Aaron and Kyle discuss socialism, capitalism, presidential candidates, and government control, to the best of their ability at least.  As usual, their conversation takes several turns.  They talk about how technology will change our lives at home, how we work, and how get get an education, medicare for all, and they warn everyone to not catch the Coronavirus.

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Sources used or mentioned in the show

1. Tom Woods T.V.

2. Property and Ownership from the Encyclopedia of Philosophy

AK47 Season 2 Episode 31: Star Wars

The new Star Wars trilogy is over, so Aaron and Kyle give their thoughts on the movie, the prequel series, and more.  They discuss the Star Wars T.V. shows like The Mandalorian, The Clone Wars, and Rebels, and some of their favorite expanded universe stuff like Shadows of the Empire and Knights of the Old Republic.  A little politics injects itself into the conversation as well.

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AK47 Season 2 Episode 30: Mark Boone on Dualism

Aaron interviewed the Hong Kong based philosopher, Mark Boone, on dualism, hylomorphism, the state of things in Hong Kong, and other things in philosophy.

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Check out Mark Boone's Youtube channel, TeacherOfPhilosophy, here.

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