686: Shootings, Single Fathers, & the Shadow Side of Ambition with Miroslav Volf
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Following the school shooting in Minneapolis, The Christian Post has offered a definitive answer for why these massacres keep happening and why gun restrictions won't work—people are evil. But why don't politically conservative Christians apply this logic to any other issues? Surprising new data show that more young men than women want to be parents one day, and there's a growing trend of single men becoming fathers by choice. What does this reveal about our society and the breakdown of dating and marriage? Theologian and best-selling author, Miroslav Volf, discusses his new book, "The Cost of Ambition." He says our culture of competition is damaging, and too many Christians ignore what the Bible says about the dangers of ambition. Also this week, Phil brings us news from the glowing future.
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0:00 - Show Starts
2:05 - Theme Song
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5:12 - News of the Glowing Future
11:58 - Mass Shootings and the Evils of Man
20:28- Is This an Argument for Antinomianism?
33:34 - Single Fathers by Choice?
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54:00 - Interview
57:06 - America and Competition
1:01:23 - Superiority vs. Excellence
1:13:28 - Nothing Out of Selfish Ambition
1:23:25 - End Credits
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. Following the school shooting in Minneapolis, the Christian Post has offered a definitive answer for why these massacres keep happening and why gun restrictions won't work. They say it's because people are evil. But why don't politically conservative Christians apply this logic to any other issue? Surprising new data shows that more young men than women want to be parents |
| 0:22.0 | one day, and there's a growing trend of single men becoming fathers by choice. What does it reveal |
| 0:27.3 | about our society and the breakdown of dating and marriage? Then theologian and best-selling author |
| 0:32.8 | Miroslav Volf discusses his new book, The Cost of Ambition. He says our culture of competition is damaging, and too many Christians ignore what the |
| 0:41.4 | Bible says about the danger of ambition. |
| 0:44.2 | Also this week, Phil brings us news from the glowing future. |
| 0:48.4 | Couple of notes, tickets are now on sale for two upcoming Holy Post live events. |
| 0:53.1 | First, on October 4th, Caitlin will be back in |
| 0:55.4 | Durham, North Carolina for an evening with Sharon Hottie Miller. And then on October 25th, |
| 1:00.8 | the entire Holy Post media crew, that's Phil, Caitlin, Esau, and me will be together for a live |
| 1:06.4 | podcast recording in Lombard, Illinois. That's out here in the western suburbs of Chicago. |
| 1:11.6 | To get tickets for either of those events, go to holypost.com slash events. Space is limited, |
| 1:17.0 | so don't wait to secure your seats. Again, it's at holypost.com slash events. Here is episode |
| 1:23.1 | 686. Hey there, welcome back to the Holy Post podcast. I'm Phil Fisher. I'm here with |
| 1:29.0 | Caitlin Chess. Hi, Caitlin. Hi, Bill. You came back again. I came back again. I did move back |
| 1:34.1 | because I was treated so horribly. And then I decided, okay, you know, I'll come back. |
| 1:40.8 | You treated so horribly by us. By Sky. Yes. sky what did i do by sky yeah yeah well we can |
| 1:47.7 | talk about that for holy post plus subscribers you can hear what terrible things sky did to katelyn that |
| 1:55.1 | made her run back to durham yeah hi sky hi phil are you? I was well until about 30 seconds. |
| 2:02.3 | Looking forward to our bonus content. |
| 2:04.8 | Now it's time for the theme song. |
| 2:08.6 | What's the news that you like the most? |
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