Author Archives: Clark Bunch

iMonk Radio Podcast #15

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Broadcasting live from a dugout in Sevierville, TN, but with Van Til engineering and 3,000 typing chimpanzees working at the Internet Monk compound in Saint Sades, MD. The introduction plane keeps circling, which is also fun.

Fun fact: When Clay Spencer moved into Kirwan Tower on the UK campus it was the only dorm that did not have air conditioning. The Kirwan-Blanding Complex was demolished in 2020.

Review of Finding God Beyond Harvard. The link to the Veritas website at the end of that review still works as well; Suffering and how western Christians relate to it; Why Men Hate Going to Church by David Morrow, churchformen.com is still up and active.

Satur-deja Vu

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The Empire State Building (NYC), Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), London Eye (London) and Eiffel Tower (Paris) are lit in blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine’s flag in a show of solidarity. We’ve all seen convoys of military vehicles crossing the border and heard the air raid sirens in Kyiv but these images reflect a side of the story you may have missed. Pray for the people of Ukraine. Pray for the 40,000 NATO troops preparing to defend the rest of Europe and the 7,000 American soldiers that will soon join them. Pray for the whole of humanity should Vladimir Putin consider making good on his threat to use Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Even so Lord, come quickly.

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iMonk Radio Podcast #14

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You’re gonna think for a second you’re hearing the intro theme we all know and love but just wait. It’s different every week and hasn’t found a place to land yet. During the program listen for Van Til!

Discussion includes: Minor league baseball, cow pies, clown service, church shopping, Clay Spencer goes to UK (University of Kentucky, not the United Kingdom).

Satur-deja Vu

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Do you attempt to verify things you see on social media before sharing them, or just dismiss things that seem to be unlikely? Sometimes I see things that are meant to be funny but it forces me to think about them and then I have to do research. So here’s the deal with bananas:

Anything that contains potassium-40, as bananas do, produces antimatter as the isotope decays. Carrots, red meat, beer, lima beans – you and I – also produce tiny amounts of positrons. The thing about antimatter though is that it does not exist for very long. Every time a single atom of antimatter is created, it immediately cancels out one of atom of regular matter. So if a bunch of bananas lay on your kitchen counter for a week, the total amount of antimatter they contain is still net zero.

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iMonk Radio Podcast #13

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You haven’t missed anything. The very early episodes are the hardest to come by but I do have the next five in a row or so.

Today: Is Michael Spencer a Christian? New school year brings several students from China. I Have My Doubts is available via the iMonk archive site. Finally a few thoughts on Ravi Zacharias.

Killing Cupid?

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For every two or three friends I see on social media wishing others a Happy Valentine’s Day or posting a couples pic, there is another posting about gross candy in heart shaped boxes and $70 roses. I tend to think of Valentine’s Day in the same way as St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween. In our culture those days have a lot of activities for children but adults need to grow out of them. If you live in New York and have Irish heritage I’m not asking you to give that up but most of us are not Irish, not Catholic, and only talk about shamrocks and leprechauns one day each year. It makes something of a spectacle of people’s actual heritage. Adult Halloween parties send up red flags for me. Even Thanksgiving is a day for adults give thanks and spend time with family around a feast but it’s the kids that are making paper hats with buckles and learning about Pilgrims and Puritans.

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Satur-deja Vu

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Did you know? The Olympic rings symbolize unity by being interconnected and each ring represents a continent. North and South America are together, Australia is sometimes referred to Oceania and Antarctica has no permanent residents. For Team USA fans, Lindsey Jacobellis wins gold in women’s snowboardcross and then again with teammate Nick Bumgardner in mixed snowboardcross. For Jacobellis at 36, and Bumgardner at 40, this is the probably their last Olympics. Germany, Norway and the US are 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the gold medal count at my time of publication. Click here for more.

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There is Risk Involved

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I’ve worked a couple of stints helping my brother do commercial HVAC. Building automation has been a growth industry for at least 10 or 12 years now. The average homeowner can lock and unlock doors, turn lights on and off and adjust the thermostat from a mobile app. I knew about text and email alerts to warn about dangerous or undesirable conditions, but it never occurred to me to consider the usefulness of these things in terms of insurance. Church Mutual Insurance Company sent us a box full of sensors a year or two ago with installation instructions. There was an incentive, in terms of our premiums, to install them. We now have space temp sensors and wet floor sensors in our church building, connected through a wireless router to a monitoring service. If the temperature inside the church drops to near freezing, or water is detected by the water heater or under the kitchen sin, I will get text alerts and a phone call. It’s cheaper for the insurance company to give away the sensors than to fix major damage that can occur if problems go unnoticed. Insurance is all about calculating risk. It’s the same thing with companies that offer auto insurance rates based on your driving habits, which they will monitor when you install their device to track those driving habits.

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iMonk Radio Podcast #10

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Internet Monk Compound beneath Saint Sades Maryland mentioned for the first time as the intro begins taking shape, as well as the BHT wonderdog Van Til handling the technical aspects of production.

Have compassion for issues you may face later in life.

Small churches in big buildings.

It’s hard to turn old blog posts and sermons into a book. We know he eventually did it but in this early episode the process was just beginning.

You can read the soli deo post here and Purchasing Books with Wisdom here.

Steve Brown

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For the past several months we’ve been going through the Internet Monk Radio archives and re-sharing those episodes. Each time Michael Spencer mentions another blog or podcast I try to find that and see if it still exists. Many times they do not. I often find websites that have not been updated in years. When he shares a resource that is still operating I try to point those out and include a link in my post.

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