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PZ's Podcast
From "Telstar" to "Vault of Horror," from Rattigan to Kerouac, from the Village of Bray to the Village of Midwich, help PZ link old ancient news and pop culture. I think I can see him, "Crawling from the Wreckage." Will he find his way? This show is brought to you by Mockingbird! www.mbird.com
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Episode 406 - Sail On, Sailor
I feel like I see more acutely than ever into the backing track of human experience. There is the "outside" of how our lives are going within givens a...
Episode 405 - Into the Mystic
One has been thinking all week about those precious little girls from Camp Mystic. There's also a pastoral situation or two in which sharp suffering s...
Episode 404 - A New Demographic? (Pt. 2)
How does someone who is living, like it or not, in the last third of life, address everybody else who is living in the second third? It's an important...
Episode 403 - A New Demographic? (Pt. 1)
While one was within the second third of one's life, one had all these goals in view, of happy marriage, happy fathering, and (most of all, sadly) suc...
Episode 402 - Pixie Dust (Essential)
Every version or tradition of the Christian Faith offers an objective or corporealized dimension within a person's (longed for) relationship with God....
Episode 401 - It's a Stretch!
It's been too long but here is my new episode.
It started with the second-to-last scene in an 'Outer Limits' episode from 1963 entitled "The Hum...
Episode 400 - Jordan, Meet Jackie
This is a sort of "marker" podcast -- my 400th. It's kind of my summing up on the subject of human identity and the origin of human satisfaction.
Episode 399 - Sligh and the Family...
Everyday I see how little I know.
Everyday I see how little I've read, or seen, or heard.
(Thought I had, but hadn't.)
A prime examp...
Episode 398 - Can You Read My Mind?
There is a roughly four-minute sequence in the middle of the first Superman movie (1978) that hits the stratosphere of movie emotion -- and of real-li...
Episode 397 - Out of the Deeps
I so want to connect with my hearers when I preach or speak.
Yes, one has a Message -- the One-Way Love of God embodied in the Compassionate Chr...
Episode 396 - Chapel in the Pines
I'm thinking about ecclesiology today. Rarely do.
But a combination of J.B. Priestley's "low anthropology", a couple of recent lightning bolts f...
Episode 395 - "Time Is On My Side"
Can't believe I got to see Irma Thomas in person a few years back.
(Saw The Stones performing the same song in 1965 on their first American tour...
Episode 394 - Philemon -- I mean "Philemon"
Every day these days I seem to find out something important that I didn't know before.
For example, that Burton Cummings has just released a new...
Episode 393 - Los Straitjackets & T.S. Eliot
Eliot's line from 'East Coker', "Old men ought to be explorers", never gets... old. It is inspiring, counter-intuitive, awesome, and, yes, within our...
Episode 392 - Garden of Eden
Mockingbirder Joey Goodall recently composed a public note of praise for 'PZ's Podcast', and his very act motivated this caster to record a new one. J...
Episode 391 - An Optimistic Tragedy
I often think about persisting impasses and persistent patterns in life.
How can you "live with" -- handle -- habitual defeats, whether from out...
Episode 390 - Glenda, Meet Jurgen
John Zahl recently said that God seems to be interested not so much in preventing our suffering as in redeeming us from it. (I might add, through it,...
Episode 389 - The New Perspective on Paul
Now "here's a howdy-do" (The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan). How does Joe Meek shed light on that ascendant movement -- and it still is ascendant -- with...
Episode 388 - Self Portrait
Consideration of these (thousands of) new "Tea Chest" tapes from Joe Meek is such a blow to old assumptions. For example, I thought I knew his music p...
Episode 387 - A Cappella (Acappullco)
The new release of hundreds of Joe-Meek tapes and tape-excerpts from the "Tea Chests" of yore is a fresh flashlight into the nature of reality within...
Episode 386 - I Am the Eggman
It was quite arresting, decades ago, when a young artist in New York City told me that, despite appearances -- she came across as confident and hopefu...
Episode 385 - Jack, Be Nimble -- NOT!
I keep hearing the word "nimble" these days. It comes up in relation to declining and therefore merging church institutions, in which a press release...
Episode 384 - Theme & Variations
Mary Zahl was recently the guest on an episode of a podcast known as "The Brothers Zahl" (out this summer). The subject of the cast was parenting, and...
Episode 383 - Do You Need a Receipt?
I wonder if you are ever struck by the ubiquity of this phrase at the end of every checkout line in the known universe: "Do you need a receipt?". Or,...
Episode 382 - We Interrupt This Program
You can't help noticing, if you study Soviet-Era Iron-Curtain sci fi illustrations and posters -- an activity which I feel sure governs your every wak...
Episode 381 - Up the Down Staircase
I'm trying to put into words the core principles of accessible Christian theology.
Not mentally or intellectually accessible, but feeling-access...
Episode 380 - It Only Takes a Minute, Girl (Pt 2)
I don't tire of quoting Thomas Cranmer's 'meme' that goes like this: "What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies." That is so true...
Episode 379 - It Only Takes a Minute, Girl (Pt 1)
An old acquaintance, an Australian bishop, has been quoting recently from a popular cartoonist and kind of pop philosopher "Down Under" named Mike Leu...
Episode 378 - PZ's Mature Thoughts Concerning Rock n' Roll
Personally, I think that one's most cherished tunes come from ... oneself. By which I mean that the music you love may say more about you than about t...
Episode 377 - Happy 50th, Rod McKuen
I've been thinking some about "borderland" states, meaning extremely strong states of mind and feeling that are not necessarily explicit, but are none...
Episode 376 - Fury
One just can't get over that repeating, concluding forcefulness of Los Straitjackets' music by which they almost always save the best for last -- like...
Episode 375 - New Morning
Heard a sermon last night that cut to the quick. It evoked the image of a "new priesthood" -- a new movement of God in the New Year. The preacher's vi...
Episode 374 - The Girl I Married (TZ 1987)
On December 29th, 2023 Mary and I have been married exactly 50 years.
What a marker for us! (I truly feel it and celebrate it.)
This marke...
Episode 373 - “Everybody’s Talkin’” — NOT!
Bishop Colin Buchanan died November 29th in Leeds Infirmary, and there’s been almost no coverage of it — not even in the Church press. Astonishing!
Episode 372 - We've Only Just Begun
This Christmas podcast is in honor of Mary's and my 50th Anniversary, which comes on December 29th. She and I are both in thankful awe of having made...
Episode 371 - At the Earth's Core
That's a fun movie, from 1976, in which a group of Victorian English people are mistakenly rocketed into inner space, right down to the core of the ea...
Episode 370 - Serling's Miracle, and Ours
When I survey... not the Wondrous Cross, but the world as it's currently going, it's hard not to despair. So many things seem and feel wrong -- are wr...
Episode 369 - Don't You Care
God spoke to me recently.
Not through a mediated form -- albeit it was through another human being. Not through concept nor reading nor paradox...
Episode 368 - Straining Out Gnats and...
I've been much affected by the pictures of murdered and bombed children from Israel and Gaza in the last week, and found myself comparing these unutte...
Episode 367 - "Summer of '42"
If you want to get to the core, the very heart, of a person's -- say, your own -- experience of Grace, ask them (i.e., ask yourself) to tell you about...