Subversive Orthodoxy
Subversive Orthodoxy
Podcast Description
Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in DisguiseThis is a podcast about philosophy and meaning. It is about how we as humans withstand the challenges of our cultures. It is about the general Judeo-Christian revelation of God in the world, and how the bloodiest century ever recorded couldn't kill that revelation nor the human soul. It is also about how that revelation, tossed aside as archaic, outdated, and obsolete may be the very life-giving power we need to resist this distracted techno state we are living in, full of anxiety, depression and teenage suicide. Hosted by: Travis Mullen and Robert "Larry" Inchausti, Professor Emeritus of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Focuses on the intersection of Judeo-Christian values and contemporary issues, with episodes like 'Surviving the Gulag: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn' analyzing themes of resilience and truth from historical narratives while exploring how these lessons apply to modern societal challenges.
Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise
Subversive Orthodoxy is a place for people who are burned by politics. We’re tired of culture wars and worn-out ideologies, but still have some hope that the Judeo-Christian story has something real to offer the modern world.
We take a clear-eyed look at how an ancient faith, often written off as outdated or oppressive, might actually help renew our public life, our imagination, and the way we treat one another.
This is not about nostalgia or picking political sides, rather its about undercutting polarization and re-humanizing ourselves in civic love and respect.
These voices provide a grounded, generous, honest faith that does not bow to the usual powers, whether that is the empire, the enlightenment, or the myth of endless progress.
It is about bringing back humility.
It is about re-humanizing our neighbors in a distracted age.
We try to do this through thoughtful conversation, reflection, and creativity.
If this resonates, we would be glad to have you along for the journey.
Hosted by:
Travis Mullen and Robert “Larry” Inchausti, Professor Emeritus of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
We trace existentialism from Kierkegaard’s pivot to the single individual before God to the secular push for meaning without God, then test what still helps in a noisy, anxious culture. We offer a grounded practice of stillness and a challenge to choose rather than drift.
• what existentialism means and why it endures
• Kierkegaard’s shift from systems to the single individual before God
• Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus in brief
• existence precedes essence and its cultural echoes
• subjectivity as owned truth, not private whim
• despair as the self refusing to be itself before God
• the leap of faith as passionate trust when guarantees end
• gifts to keep: honesty about anxiety, critique of the herd, real decisions
• risks without God: radical autonomy and thin hope
• a practical stillness exercise to cultivate the inner life
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Instagram: @subversiveorthodoxy
Host: Travis Mullen Instagram: @manartnation
Co-Host: Robert L. Inchausti, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and is the author of numerous books, including Subversive Orthodoxy, Thomas Merton's American Prophecy, The Spitwad Sutras, and Breaking the Cultural Trance. He is, among other things, a Thomas Merton authority, and editor of the Merton books Echoing Silence, Seeds, and The Pocket Thomas Merton. He's a lover of the literature of those who challenge the status quo in various ways, thus, he has had a lifelong fascination with the Beats.
Book by Robert L. Inchausti ”Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise” Published 2005, authorization by the author.
Intro & Outro Music by Noah Johnson & Chavez the Fisherman, all rights reserved.
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