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Major Milestone for Reclaiming the Mind Ministries

Well, considering my last post, this will seem out of place. We have just crossed a major milestone in our web ministry at RMM. In the month of January, we received over 1.5...

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What is God’s Will for My Life: The 90/10 Rule

Now if this question is not overstepping the bounds of a short blog, I don’t know what is :). This is a question that causes us Christians perpetual confusion, doubt,...

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Ignorant Evangelicals

Here is an interesting article. It reports about two UNC professors’, Christian Smith and Peter Kaufman, attempts to educate Christians about Christianity at UNC. The...

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Personal (Michael Patton)
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The Uninvited II: Crying and Sadness

Two guests that often show up a few days after the arrival of Poneros are named Crying and Sadness. They are different in type from the others I have mentioned thus far. While...

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The Uninvited: An Allegory of Evil

In my house, there are many uninvited guests. These guests show up from time to time and really disturb the comfortable situation that I attempt to make the norm for my day to...

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Update on mom

Mother seemed well, relatively speaking, this weekend. Thank you for your prayers and concern. Saturday morning she was taken to the ER again. They say that she had another...

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Is God a cheerleader?

My mother had an “episode” yesterday during therapy. They said that it could have been a seizure or another stroke, but they cannot tell. I guess her functionality...

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Welcome to the blog site

I hope you like it. We are still in the process of updating many things here, but I thought that it was time to begin to make the transfer. I think I will continue to post the...

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I knew there was a reason I don’t live in CA

As if California needs this. You would think that the lack of experience would make someone timid to introduce such a law.

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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust
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The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust

Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them.

As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen as stable sources of truth. But this does not mean truth itself is disappearing. It means confidence in those who interpret and deliver truth is fading.

In this episode, I make a critical distinction: science isn’t collapsing—trust in interpreters of science is. Science is a method. But people don’t live by methods—they live by meaning. And when the messengers lose credibility, people begin looking elsewhere for something to anchor their understanding of reality.

The deeper issue is that we are no longer building complete worldviews. Instead, we are assembling beliefs like a playlist—pulling ideas from wherever they resonate without asking whether they actually fit together. But a real worldview must answer real questions: What is ultimate reality? How do we know anything? Are there real morals? What is our purpose? What happens after death?

When those questions go unanswered, a vacuum is created. And that vacuum never stays empty.

This is where the “new prophets” begin to emerge—not from institutions, but from experience. And in a world that no longer trusts shared authority, experience itself begins to take the throne.

This episode sets the stage for understanding how we got here—and why what replaces truth may be far more dangerous than what we lost.

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    The New Prophets: Authority, Experience, and the Collapse of Trust Podcast culture is telling us something—and it’s not just about who people are listening to, but why they trust them. As voices like Joe Rogan and Shawn Ryan rise, trust in institutions continues to collapse. Government, media, and even scientific authorities are no longer seen […]
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    Israel, the Camaro, and the Faithfulness of God Can a promise from God mean more than the original hearer understood without meaning less than what God actually said? In this episode of Theology Unplugged, we look at one of the most important questions in biblical interpretation: how should Christians understand Old Testament promises in light […]

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