Byrne runs The Anadromist Channel and Georgian Crossroads Channel. Byrne and I have had a number of conversations over the last couple of years. He's a wealth of wisdom and cultural knowledge and perspective. Links and notes below The Anadromist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIAtCuzdvgNJvSYILnHtdWA Georgian Crossroads https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFJ6Tm71ieNcjcUb-Trc8g the Joker Conversation https://youtu.be/ELo279fyc3Y Ellul https://youtu.be/ovrd-oFs6bQ Francis Schaeffer https://youtu.be/41YmCugxGKI Georgian Crossroads page: Pandemic Easter Georgian orthodox church Georgians hate anything that reminds them of communism Georgian pandemic Georgian gov’t said things would be bad... “Bad” doesn’t really man anything to us Joker movie Billie Eilish Marvel Universe ends Julie Nolky past self from 4 months into 2020 https://youtu.be/Ms7capx4Cb8 JBP disappears in 2019 Culture war changes very radically in the last few months Bob Dylan, times they are a changing, don’t speak too soon because the w Lenoard Cohen, things are going to slide slide in all directions We’re officially in the 21st century First truly global conscious event We’ve become insect like in the use of technology At one moment we feel this around the world, at the other moment we see fracture lines develop Hard borders coming back Alaska Woodstock, the last flag waving of the counterculture Landing on the moon Message of Love, Movie, Isle of Whyte festival 1970 All of that stuff was hidden from the public Woodstock was a muddy mess… Charles Manson, Satanic bible was reliease, altamont rock festival The psychedelic dream Our good natures will naturally take over Tom wolfe, the electric koolaid acid test Where are the adults here? If everyone is acting like children.. How we got here series Being a child is the standard adult… People don’t know how to mature. Pascal, the thought about distraction, in Pensees Now the clown can’t distract you anymore Juvenilzation, adoltescence, emerging adulthood Geeks and fans Math geek, film geek Geek comes from carnival performers, often alcoholics, a created freak, Monster Midway, Lindsay Greshem, Joy Davidson’s first husband, Nightmare Alley from Carny lingo into the popular culture Swallowing forbidden things. Ingesting anything related to your obsession, Veggie tales as “as long as it communicates the message”, but does it? Cute, big-eyed things don’t predate before Mickey Mouse Before then you didn’t find these big eyed cute things… The perfect way to smuggle messages Be true to yourself from Shakespeare, was full of himself and a liar Head canon, “in my head canon I see spiderman being like this” Leonard Bernstein on TV teaching people about Bach o ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c7uy6NLIM8

Q/A on the Bridges of Meaning Discord June 19 2020 I do these Q/A sessions on the Bridges of Meaning Discord server most Friday mornings at 10am PDT. https://discord.gg/jdVk8XU 0:00 Beginning in case I can't make it to today's session, I have a short question with a long preamble that I hope you can address for me: I really appreciated your monologue video from yesterday on racism. My church is currently working through a small group study based on a book curriculum written by a pastor and a church planter in the Wesleyan Church called Multiethnic Conversations The intent is to shift our local church into one that engages in actively transforming into a more multiethnic church. I detect a tension in myself that I don't fully understand - perhaps it means I'm racist, or maybe I'm a contrarian, or maybe both (and more), but there is something in me that says, "I'm fine with our church being multiethnic if that's who ends up showing up and becoming a part of the church and finding meaning and life here - it's great if that happens. But to intentionally say, 'We don't look multi-ethnic enough, and the multiethnic church is Biblical and right, and we are lacking, so we need to intentionally do things to change that,' feels off to me in some way. I think I have a concern that making multiethicity A focus of the church could shift into becoming THE focus of the church. And the potential prospect of making it the top of the hierarchy troubles me. All that said, my actual question is, in your view what was/is the Christian impetus for intentionally making your local church a multiethnic one like the one your dad started and you grew up in, and is there anything non-Christian about a church that isn't intentionally pushing itself to be more ethnically diverse? 16:30 Kinnism, THe CRC, Critical Race Theory 23:09 Spartan Theology, talking with an atheist. Jesus and Paul's connection to Essenes. 36:21 Calvinism: Predictability 41:00 I wonder what PVK thinks of "natural evangelism?" Or any of the various methods of evangelism being widely encouraged today? Methods he thinks are done well and others he's concerned to see within the church. 56:00 . So, I've been listening to Jonathan Pageau about, angels, demons and principalities and I have difficult time understanding what they are and able to articulate to others about it. So, what are angels, demons and principalities, and is there a different explanation from Orthodox Christian and the Protestant?? Thank you for your time 1:09:00 Job. Pre-covid Anything done for my church. 1:18:00 The internet tends to create monopolies, particularly for information-based products. Do you worry about the future of moving sermons online, and the fact that this would create a competitive winner-take-all environment ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1cGhq3FW4Y