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In this episode, Douglas Wilson considers artificial intelligence as a modern speaking idol and discusses how to make distinctions between the useful and the demonic. Then he examines the New Testament word metraloas, or murderers of mothers, to underscore the weight and breadth of the fifth commandment in the Christian life. Finally, he reviews Bruce Gordon’s biography of John Calvin’s Institutes, tracing how that monumental work rose, declined, and was recovered across the centuries of church history.

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the Super Bowl halftime show and its cultural meaning, then continues his study of sin by explaining what Scripture means by having a doubtful mind and why worry is ultimately rooted in unbelief. He closes by discussing Philip Hamburger’s Separation of Church and State, clarifying the history of the phrase and what the First Amendment actually requires.

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In this episode, Douglas Wilson returns to the question of immigration, arguing that the real issue is not immigration versus no immigration but rates of immigration. He then explores the morally neutral verb metastrepho, to turn, showing how turning from vice to virtue is repentance while turning the gospel is to pervert the gospel of Christ, before concluding with a review of Plato’s Revenge and its case that the spiritual world is a necessary, empirically demonstrable reality.

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Douglas Wilson discusses large-scale daycare fraud in Minnesota and the human nature that enables it, explores the New Testament term mempsimoros ("complainer") from the book of Jude, and reviews Wild and Glorious by Aaron Youngren—a theological reflection on artificial intelligence, its promises, pitfalls, and demonic dangers.

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