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A podcast that examines current events, politics, worldview, and ideologies, from an explicitly Christian perspective. We assume there is one true God in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and the Bible is his true and infallible Word. Anything else is up for discussion!

One Christian Thinks

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Episode 11: Freedom and Personal Responsibility

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 43:09


Welcome to the eleventh episode of One Christian Thinks! With this episode, I give some thoughts on the connection between freedom and personal responsibility.Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

The Story of Liberty: Reflections

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2021 20:51


Just a few of my own reflections on "The Story of Liberty". Feel free to share your own thoughts on the One Christian Thinks Facebook page!https://www.facebook.com/onechristianthinks

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 31 - Strangers and Pilgrims

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2021 32:11


The stalwart people from Scrooby and Austerfield, who fled their homes to maintain their principles, seek freedom and a new life in New England. There they establish a colony, with a new, revolutionary, system of government.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 30 - The "Half-Moon"

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2021 6:53


Captain Hudson, sometimes making friends with, and sometimes fighting, the natives, as he pilots his ship further inland.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 29 - The Star of Empire

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2021 28:18


The story of Captain John Smith, a wild adventurer, who became a leader of the first permanent English settlement in the new home of liberty.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 28 - William Brewster and his Friends

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 14:21


Men and women flee from England, in pursuit of religious freedom.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 27 - The Retribution that Followed Crime

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 13:51


Treachery in the highest places, but in the end, liberty continues to move forward.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 26 - Why the Queen of Scotland Lost her Head

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 13:24


Freedom is not complete until all peoples are free. And yet, even though Mary of Scotland was executed for committing no crime, the progress to freedom continued.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 25 - How the "Beggars" Fought for their Rights

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 15:21


How the brave people of Holland used their low-lying land as an asset, to defeat the Spanish army, and maintain their liberty.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 24 - St. Bartholomew

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 18:17


The St. Bartholomew Day massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots, by the Catholics in France.

Are we seeing the end of the scientific worldview?

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2021 23:04


After listening to a podcast episode by the Ezra Institute, and hearing something Joe Boot said, I decided to put out an impromptu episode discussing the "technocratic dictatorship" that we are seeing right now, taking over from democracy. I believe it was this episode that I was listening to:https://www.ezrainstitute.ca/resource-library/podcast/dominion-and-culture-making/

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 23 - The Queen of the Scots

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2021 9:52


George Buchanan writes a pamphlet called "De Jure Regni", in which it is proposed that "the will of the people is the only legitimate source of power" - a revolutionary way of thinking in the times of supreme leaders, monarchs, and popes!

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 22 - How the Pope Put Down the Heretics

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2021 12:12


The Vaudois, brave mountaineers living in the Alps, defend themselves against the Pope's armies, defend their right to think for themselves.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 21: Progress of Liberty in England

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2021 7:23


The march toward freedom is slow, but unrelenting, as men continue to think for themselves.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 20 - The Man who Filled the World with Woe

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 8:45


Charles, Emperor of Germany, King of Spain, Naples, and the Netherlands... ...burned, or hanged, or otherwise put to death, more than one hundred thousand men and women for reading the Bible.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 19 - How Liberty Began in France

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2021 13:35


Once again, liberty starts first with brave people being willing to think for themselves, defying the authorities of the day!

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 18 - The Queen Who Burned Heretics

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 36:37


Heretics, free-thinkers, are willing to suffer and even be executed, for conscience' sake. And yet, the more they are persecuted, the more their numbers grow!

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 17 - The Man who Split the Church in Twain

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2021 39:02


In which the Pope loses all authority in England: "No cause affecting the interests of the kingdom shall be judged outside the realm."

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 16 - Plans That Did not Come to Pass

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2021 24:55


The heart of a man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. - Proverbs 16:9So too, with kings, emperors, and popes.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 15 - The Men Who Obey Orders

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2021 7:47


The creation of a council, answerable only to the Pope and no other civil or ecclesiastical authority. They operated under one maxim: "A good motive makes any action right." In our words, we might say, "The ends justify the means."

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 14 - The Field of the Cloth of Gold

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 9:02


A grand tournament! Where many of the great actors in the Story of Liberty, assemble.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 13 - The Boy-Emperor

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2021 10:18


The kings, emperors, and cardinals conspire together, and against, each other.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 12 - The Boy-Cardinal

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2021 20:28


John de' Medici is pope (the man who can do no wrong), and John Tetzel is promising that people can buy their salvation, but both of them end up becoming laughingstock, as the march toward liberty continues.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 11 - What the Boy who Sung for his Breakfast saw in Rome

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2021 19:40


Friar Martin visits the Eternal City - Holy Rome; but what he finds there is that it is not holy at all.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 10 - The Boy who Sung for his Breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2021 9:24


God often uses those from seemingly insignificant positions to make great contributions, not only for freedom, but also for His Kingdom.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 9 - The Man who can do No Wrong

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021 14:48


If even one fallible man is thought to be infallible, it will only lead to corruption and exploitation.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 8 - A Boy who Objected to Marrying his Brother's Widow

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2021 23:09


Despite the signing of the Magna Carta, the preaching of John Wycliffe, and all the other things we have read about so far, freedom is still unobtainable in England. In spite of that, the story of freedom continues...

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 7 - The New Home of Liberty

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2021 18:04


Europeans have landed on the Americas! But the prevailing attitudes of those in Europe do not stay in Europe, but affect the Europeans' interactions with the natives as well.

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 6 - How a Man Tried to Reach the East by Sailing West

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 34:44


The discovery of a new land! But at what cost? And what would come of it?

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 5 - The Men who ask Questions

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2021 25:40


"Heretics", found, tortured, and punished, for their defiance of the pope. All of Spain must be cleansed of the heretics!

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 4 - What Laurence Coster and John Guttenberg did for Liberty

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 12:45


"With the setting up of the printing-press began the diffusion of knowledge. Knowledge leads to liberty. Men begin to comprehend that they have natural rights, which other men ... are bound to respect."

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 3 - The Fire that was Kindled in Bohemia

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2021 22:11


"Heretics", those who dare to think differently than the pope, are burned in Bohemia!

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 2 - The Man Who Preached After he was Dead

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2021 37:50


John Wycliffe preached about personal liberty and responsibility, from a gospel perspective. That's a message that does not die!

The Story of Liberty: Chapter 1 - John Lackland and the Barons

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2021 18:21


Listen along, as we learn about one of the most important documents every drafted in Western political history!

The Story of Liberty: Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2021 7:18


Introduction to The Story of Liberty, by Charles Carleton Coffin

Episode 10: The Christian and the Fight for Freedom

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 24:48


Welcome to the tenth episode of One Christian Thinks! With this episode, I carry on in our discussion of freedom, specifically considering the question, "Given that we as Christians have our spiritual freedom in Christ, should we even be concerned about our physical freedom?"Some sources:The Exodus Road: https://theexodusroad.com/International Justice Mission: https://www.ijm.ca/"Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade", by John Newton: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thoughts_upon_the_African_Slave_Trade"The Biblical View of Freedom", by Art Lindsley: https://tifwe.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-Biblical-View-of-Freedom-Lindsley.pdfI forgot to mention this in the recording, but if you really enjoy listening to me talk, check out the conversation I had with Real Talk, where we talked about all sorts of things related to culture, specifically how it relates to the church. You can find that through the OCT Facebook page, or at the following links:Part 1: https://www.realtalkpodcast.ca/e/ep-13-christmas-bonus-pt-1-culture-racism-marxism/Part 2: https://www.realtalkpodcast.ca/e/ep-13-christmas-bonus-pt-1-why-do-conservative-liberal-christians-disagree-so-much/ Music and editing: @calvinhuttenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 9: Freedom and the Law of God

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2020 29:18


Welcome to the ninth episode of One Christian Thinks! With this episode, I take a bit of a new direction, focusing on the idea of freedom, which will be the topic of discussion for the next few episodes. In this episode, I discuss freedom and the law of God. Music and editing: @calvinhuttenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 8: Symbolism and COVID-19

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2020 31:10


Welcome to the eight episode of One Christian Thinks! This is likely the last episode in which I focus on COVID-19. I discuss symbolism, which provides a little bit of a different analysis of COVID-19 than we might be used to.A few sources:Jonathan Pageau: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau/featured https://thesymbolicworld.com/Masks as Veils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heEMyxyCsX0The Great Reset: https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/Music and editing: @calvinhuttenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 7: Pandemic principles: considering COVID-19

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2020 42:13


Welcome to the seventh episode of One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I think a little bit about how Christians should be responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.A few sources:Rally "around-the-flag" phenomenon: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200925113625.htmClimate change predictions: https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictionsExcess Deaths: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/excess-deaths-coronavirus-united-states-covid-2020/Great Barrington Declaration: https://gbdeclaration.org/#readJonathan Pageau: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanPageau/featured Music and editing: @calvinhuttenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 6: The spiritual and Marxist aspects of Black Lives Matter

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2020 48:33


Welcome to the sixth episode of One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I examine the spiritual aspects of BLM, which are directly opposed to the Bible, as well as the Marxist connection.A few sources:https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=291479432259187https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4099803,00.htmlhttps://www.newsweek.com/why-are-black-americans-greater-risk-being-poor-361543https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theoryhttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/thomas-sowell-taking-on-the-invincible-fallacyhttps://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/communismhttps://progressivesoutherntheologians.com/news/2019/4/7/mlk-and-marxismhttps://www.npr.org/transcripts/123771194https://www.marxist.com/black-struggle-and-socialist-revolution.htmhttps://news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves--research-suggests-white-slavery-was-much-more-common-than-previously-believed/Discrimination and Disparities, Thomas Sowell, 2018, Basic Books.Music and editing: @calvinhuttenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 5: Black Lives Matter's claims: true or false?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2020 33:27


Welcome to the fifth episode of One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I do a little bit of analysis on some of Black Lives Matters claims, checking to see if they stand up to scrutiny.A few sources:https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2013.xlshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Homicidehttps://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htius.pdfhttps://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/05/larry-elder/larry-elder-mislabels-statistics-fatal-shootings-p/https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290437363_The_Reverse_Racism_Effect_Are_Cops_More_Hesitant_to_Shoot_Black_Than_White_Suspectshttps://mynorthwest.com/2114190/rantz-rioters-burn-seattle-police-alive-sealed-door/Breonna Taylor: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2020/07/29/breonna-taylor-case-should-louisville-police-charged-her-death/5529469002/George Floyd:https://medium.com/@gavrilodavid/why-derek-chauvin-may-get-off-his-murder-charge-2e2ad8d0911George Floyd #2:https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/audio/derek-chauvin-the-former-minnesota-police-officer-who-was-charged-with-third-degree-murder-in-the-killing-of-unarmed-black-man-george-floyd-has-now-seen-his-charges-upgraded-to-second-degree-murder-what-s-the-difference-1.12589093Rayshard Brooks:https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-atlanta-detective-sides-with-officer-in-defense-filing-for-rayshard-brooks-case-says-brooks-wouldve-been-charged-on-10-countsJacob Blake: https://madison365.com/kenohsa-police-opened-fire-less-than-5-minutes-after-being-called-scanner-audio/Jacob Blake #2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxPWlOKTR3cJacob Blake #3:https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-police-scanner-audio-of-jacob-blake-shooting-released-calls-into-question-media-narrativeDiscrimination and Disparities, Thomas Sowell, 2018, Basic Books.Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? Walter E. Williams, 2011, Hoover Press.Music and editing: @calvinhuttenFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Christian-Thinks-208970200903668/Questions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 4: The ever-changing definition of racism

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2020 27:30


Welcome to the fourth episode of One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I continue on with the analysis of the organization Black Lives Matter, particularly considering the question: "What is racism?"A few sources:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/racism-concept-change/594526/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=939000https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-holds-rally-supporting-individuals-arrested-in-chicago-looting-monday/2320365/https://nypost.com/2020/08/14/seattle-blm-protesters-demand-white-people-give-up-their-homes/Music and editing: @calvinhuttenQuestions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

From the Mailbag #1: Episodes 1 and 2

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 20:22


Join me as I interact with some feedback I received from episodes 1 and 2! Sources:https://contrast2.wordpress.com/2020/07/12/romans-13-forbids-revolution-not-disobedience-and-where-calvin-erred/New Bible Commentary, DA Carson & RT France, 1994, Intervarsity Press.Music and editing: @calvinhuttenQuestions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 3: Black Lives Matter and Identity Politics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2020 27:20


Welcome to the third episode of One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I take a look at the organization Black Lives Matter, particularly giving consideration to their foundation of identity politics and intersectionality. A few sources:How Civilizations Die, David P. Goldman, 2011, Regnery Publishing.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politicshttps://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheidhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-13/zimbabwe-offers-land-to-recompense-dispossessed-white-farmershttps://www.focusonthefamily.com/family-qa/what-it-means-to-be-made-in-the-image-of-god/https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htmMusic and editing: @calvinhuttenQuestions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 2: Civil (dis)obedience?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2020 28:15


Welcome to the second episode of One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I take a brief look into Christian civil obedience and disobedience, particularly amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As Christians, what is our response supposed to be?A few sources:https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/will-god/https://contrast2.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/romans-13-person-decretive-office-preceptive-or-both/https://contrast2.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/nebuchadnezzar-and-romans-13-person-decretive-or-office-preceptive/http://www.thetwocities.com/theology/historical-theology/the-reformation-and-civil-disobedience-guest-post/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacrehttps://banneroftruth.org/us/about/banner-authors/samuel-rutherford/https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/09/presbyterian-rebellion/Music and editing: @calvinhuttenQuestions, comments, complaints, or other feedback: oct@allmail.net

Episode 1: Introduction

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2020 11:37


Welcome to One Christian Thinks! In this episode, I introduce myself and the podcast, describe my motivations, and lay out some guiding ideas.Note: If you are having problems listening to this episode, it may be because I had to convert the audio file so that I could submit my podcast to Spotify. Just try restart it, and if you still cannot get it to work, send me an email: oct@allmail.net. Thanks!

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