https://meaningoflife.tv/programs/conversationsunion en-US 313739 Conversations about philosophy, science, religion and spirituality Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 Conversations about philosophy, science, religion and spirituality MeaningofLife.tv MeaningofLife.tv Administrator nonzero.news@gmail.com philosophy, science, religion, spirituality, christianity, buddhism, judaism, islam, values, morality, ethics, meditation no https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/37064 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/37064#respond Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:56:34 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=37064 Bob and Pam team up to analyze the mind of Trump … Inside the mind of a narcissist … Narcissists are made not born … Psychoanalyzing Trumpism … A moment of compassion for Trump … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 01:54:47 Christianity, Donald Trump, history, mental health, moral imagination, nationalism, politics, psychology, religion, tribalism, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/33307 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/33307#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2016 00:57:33 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=33307 Jesus, Buddha, Roger and Paul: friends in conversation … How do you say "nirvana" in Christian? 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… ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 02:15:18 Christianity, psychology, religion, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32856 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32856#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:25:33 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=32856 How personal trauma inspired David’s book on trauma and the Bible … Ancient Israel’s transition from polytheism to "monolatry" … The Babylonian exile and the birth of Abrahamic monotheism … The link between trauma and God’s covenant with Israel … Why the crucifixion of Jesus shocked his followers … Why have Biblical texts survived? … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 01:24:21 Christianity, Donald Trump, foreign policy, Islam, Judaism, monotheism, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32833 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32833#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2015 22:53:13 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=32833 A Catholic questions whether Jesus is the "one and only savior" … How Paul integrates Buddhism and Christianity … Paul: Jesus, like the Buddha, "fully woke up" … How "interbeing" leads to loving thy neighbor … Meditation, the Eucharist, and the feeling that "all is well" … Paul: Peace in the world starts with peace within yourself … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 01:44:41 Buddhism, Christianity, meditation, mysticism, religion, self, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32628 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32628#respond Sun, 25 Oct 2015 00:09:10 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=32628 Parallels between Christianity and Africa’s Diola religion … Essential Diola ritual practices … How economics caused the French Imperial powers to suppress the Diola tradition … The land as a "living being" … Aliou’s path to Christianity via Diola and Sufi traditions … Reading Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians from a Diola perspective … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 01:52:41 Christianity, colonialism, economics, ritual, Sufism, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32231 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32231#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2015 01:45:54 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=32231 Paul Tillich's conception of God as "the ground of being" … Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal … Tillich's engagement with Eastern mysticism … How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil … Tillich's recasting of the idea of divine revelation … Is there consolation in Tillich's view of death? … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 01:59:40 Buddhism, Christianity, free will, mysticism, Paul Tillich, prayer, religion, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32061 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/32061#respond Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:29:15 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=32061 Why Jerusha doesn't call her path to Islam a "conversion" … Jerusha: In Islam, science and belief are not in opposition … Constructing a Muslim feminist theology … Taqwa, the egalitarian idea of "God consciousness" … What the Koran says about the salvation of non-Muslims … Female Muslim scholars are between a rock and a hard place … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 02:17:02 Christianity, gender, Islam, religion, science, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/31979 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/31979#respond Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:55:17 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=31979 The Hindu idea that you are one with the universe … Moral implications of this idea of oneness … How different are Hindu and Buddhist philosophy? … Grappling with the Buddhist doctrine of "emptiness" … Connecting Hindu belief with the Christian Trinity … John: No, believers are not all “climbing the same mountain … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 01:37:45 Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, meditation, religion, https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/31754 https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/31754#respond Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:00:28 +0000 http://meaningoflife.tv/?p=31754 A brief history of liberal theology … Does "theologically liberal" mean "politically liberal?" … When theologians appeared on the cover of Time … The long lineage of identifying God with "being" … Hegel's idealism and the Christian logos … Challenges from neo-orthodoxy and liberation theology … ]]> MeaningofLife.tv 02:03:28 Christianity, Paul Tillich, religion,