Spirituality – The STOP Radio Network

15Mar

Ep. 17 – True Religion

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to Episode 17 – our final episode – of the Modern Relevance of God Podcast Series on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. You know, as I think about it, 17 is kind of an odd number for the final

08Mar

Ep. 16 – Humanity’s Deep Need for God

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World We’ve been attempting here to make the scientific case for the relevance of a more theological consciousness in our everyday lives. I’ve been impressed with the idea Dr. Joseph Ghougassian elaborated in the preface he wrote to Keppe’s, Glorification that if we have religions in the

02Mar

Ep. 15 – Resonance with Mother Mary

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World I’ve been impressed in my personal journey of discovery with the rational arguments for the existence of God throughout history, by Augustine and Anselm, and more recently, as I mentioned back in episode 11, by the logical argument for Jesus elaborated by Oxford’s C.S.

22Feb

Ep. 14 – Resonance with Jesus

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to episode 14 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. My dad used to say the problem with the human being was we were born without an owner’s manual. I used

15Feb

Ep. 13 – How We Miss Paradise

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World Welcome to episode 13 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. As I’ve been developing this series, I have to admit I’ve been wondering about the acceptance of its premise in the

08Feb

Ep. 12 – The Ceaseless Attack on Christian Values

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World This is episode 12 of the Modern Relevance of God audio course here on Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. I’m Richard Lloyd Jones. I think one of the greatest difficulties I’ve had in coming closer to spirituality has been a pretty common one: mixing

01Feb

Ep. 11 – Are We Victims of God?

In Modern Relevance of God, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

The Modern Relevance of God Finding Meaning in an Inverted World How many times have you heard this phrase: “I don’t believe in God anymore because how could a loving God allow all this misery on Earth?” Usually it’s a Bruce Willis-like character in a war zone in some desolate African country squinting his eyes

12May

The Inner Game of Virus Defense

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

It’s week 8 of the quarantine here in Brazil. Restaurants and shops are still closed, they’re taking temperatures before they let me in to the supermarket across the street, and no end in sight to the general Big Pharma orientation to lock down everyone, high risk or no. It’s an entirely materialistic response to a

18Jan

The Chaos of Evil

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.One of the things that's happened to me over the 18 plus years I've been in Brazil working with the science of Analytical Trilogy elaborated by Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Norberto Keppe, has been a gradual opening of the door to my spirituality.

31Jan

Certainty of the Divine

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head

I’m Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head. A belief in immaculate conception, overcoming death with resurrection, divine miracles of creation … modern thinkers complain these tenets suffer from a lack of evidence. “Faith is a great evil,” they say, “That leads gullible human beings to open their minds so much