Ep. 33 - Higher-Ed Bubble, The Pilgrim’s Regress, Akatastasia

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Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Tune in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about the higher education bubble. Then he plugs The Pilgrim’s Regress, and wraps things up with a talk about the Greek word “Akatastasia”. Happy Plodding! Show Notes: Higher-Ed Bubble anything that can’t go in indefinitely won’t we have lost the concept of university, because you need a universe we have a fragmented system we have people treating higher education as a sure ticket into the job market everything you could learn at school you can find online for a fraction of the cost there is going to be a crash, the higher education bubble will burst the pricing is crazy, and the government is involved we need to deregulate higher ed The Pilgrim’s Regress written by C.S.Lewis it is challenging and difficult book the book is an allegory defending reason and romanticism he wrote this book in two weeks Akatastasia Paul says God is not the author of confusion, but rather of peace (1 Cor.14:33) the word for confusion is akatastasia here or it can mean tumult what is the source of all such confusion and tumult? James tells us that the font of this corporate problem is the individual sin of envying and striving (Jas. 3:16)

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0:00.0	Yes, God, God. God don't never turn.
0:17.0	Welcome to Plodcast episode 33.
0:19.8	Thanks for your perseverance.
0:21.4	Thanks for sticking with this. Thanks for sticking with this.
0:22.5	Thanks for joining us.
0:24.2	So in this opening segment,
0:26.8	I want to talk a little bit about the bubble in higher ed.
0:30.6	The bubble in higher ed.
0:33.0	Now, so let's talk about a bubble first.
0:39.0	There was an economist. I think it was Ben Stein's father. I forgot what his first name is, but his last
0:45.9	name would have been Stein, who delivered this very insightful law, which is anything that cannot go on indefinitely won't.
0:57.0	Anything that can't go on indefinitely won't.
1:02.0	So, what do we have in in higher ed? We have a dysfunctional wrecked,
1:12.4	bloated and varied dysfunctional, wrecked, bloated, and very rich system.
1:17.0	So there's a lot of money, a lot of money floating a lot of colleges,
1:22.0	and about the only thing that is really succeeding in achieving
1:27.5	its defined mission would be the would be the football team.
1:32.8	So you have, we've lost the concept of the university
1:39.0	because in order to have a university,
1:41.3	you have to have a universe. And in order to have a universe, you have to have an RK, a point of integration, a principle of integration.
1:50.0	And since we've lost Christ culturally, we no longer have that.
1:55.0	So the university down the road from you is not a university at all.
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