New intro that Michael was proud of at the time. Steve Brown is still producing radio and online content but the archives do not go back that far. Here is an archive post on why Michael does not use the word “inerrancy.” Discussion: 1 Timothy 6:6 on contentment.
I do not seem to have podcast #83 in my files. I did not realize that until I was ready to preview it and write copy but I have checked the numbers and verified that we can finish the run and get back to #105 without interruption.
Welcome back Great Big Stupid World by Randy Stonehill. The Gothic Catalog is still in business, Choral Treasure Radio is not. Discussion of Bill Maher and Religulous: “You can’t be a rational person six day of the week, and put on a suit and and make rational decisions and go to work and on one day of the week go to a building and think you are drinking the blood of a 2,000 year old space god. That doesn’t make you a person of faith, it makes you schizophrenic.”
As mentioned previously, episodes 48 – 81 are archived here and have been for a while. As we pick up at podcast #82, Michael discusses changes to the podcast then transitions to his desire to feel “at home” when worshiping with other believers in various traditions.
After several consecutive episodes we are about to hit a skip in my archives. Next week’s episode will be #31 and then we will make a big jump.
Van Til had an army of lawyers but didn’t bring those with him to The Master’s Table; The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claborn. The organization is alive and the website still works; The blogosphere does not represent the real world; You can read Remember the Faithful Remnant here.
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.
“Broadcasting from the theological Mecca of southeast Kentucky, the bustling metropolis of Oneida… this is Internet Monk Radio.”
In this episode: the personality of Evangelicalism; CCM Patrol; and iMonk gets an iMac. (CCM Patrol became Patrol Magazine in 2007.)
In the past 30 days we have lost John Madden, Betty White, Sidney Poitier, Bob Saget, Meatloaf and Louie Anderson. As far as I know none of these deaths are being blamed on Covid. Betty White was only a few days short of a hundred. Louie Anderson had been admitted to the hospital earlier this week and was fighting late stage cancer. It will be several weeks before the coroner releases any more information on Bob Saget.
Here’s a fun fact I just learned: Louie Anderson was originally cast with Bronson Pinchot in Perfect Strangers. When the show got picked up they didn’t feel the chemistry was right between Anderson and Pinchot and Anderson was replaced by Mark Linn-Baker. The Lou Appleton character became Larry Appleton and the show ran for eight seasons.
Thanks to generous listeners and fellow fans of Michael Spencer, I have added to my collection of podcast episodes over the years. I can’t go all the back to the beginning but I do have some early single digit episodes. Special thanks to “Eclectic Christian” Mike Bell for sharing these early installments.
Here is an interview with Michael Spencer from October of 2008. This is actually episode #2 of the brand new (at the time) SBC Voices podcast hosted by Tony Kummer. I’m not finding the Cornerstone 2009 interview/panel discussion right now but I may be able to go back into my own blog archives and pull it out. I will either post that next week or go back to iMonk Radio Podcast #5. I don’t have the first one but I do have ep’s 5 and 8 so down in the single digits.
Intro: Internet Monk a.k.a. iMonk, “That the World May Believe,” “Where We Got the Bible,” The New York Times had a chess blog (which reached the end of the line in Feb. 2011), Get Over It editorial in Patrol Magazine (read the iMonk reprint here).
Message: Gospel Cowards (read here). For John Piper on interracial marriage click here.
The Master's Table 