Episode 412: This is Your Brain on God with Dr. Jim Wilder

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Some people spend years learning theology and studying the Bible, but experience little or no transformation in their lives. What have we gotten wrong? Dr. Jim Wilder is a neurotheologian—that means he studies theology and brain science—who says we've mistakingly made the gospel about knowledge when it's actually about attachment. You don't want to miss what he has to say about the importance of food, joy, and gratitude in spiritual formation. Also this week, how does having power—or not having it—influence our beliefs? David French says America is experiencing a religious fundamentalist revival, but it's not Christian. And is the Holy Post guilty of being an echo chamber?

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Phil Vischer. Welcome to the Holypost podcast. I am here with Christian Taylor.
0:05.1	Hey, they're Phil Vischer. Hi, Christian Taylor and Sky, Jitani. Hello.
0:09.7	Hi, and we have Jason Rugg, manning the controls. How you doing, Jason?
0:14.7	I'm doing good. How are you? Super good.
0:18.0	And Julie is listening silently off to the side, taking notes. Thanks, Julie.
0:23.8	How's everybody, Sky, anything interesting? The last two, it's been two weeks since we recorded anything interesting in your life?
0:36.0	Really? Wow.
0:39.1	Christian, I'm trying to think.
0:41.5	I mean, that's a good thing. You got you got a PPP.
0:46.5	Do you need to PPP? Yeah.
0:49.2	Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm grateful for that. I was sharing before the recording that a lot of my travel for the fall is up in the air because of the pandemic.
0:59.1	And that's a little scary given that I have to pay for daughter going to college. So yes, I got the PPP loan to hopefully fill in the gaps if necessary.
1:08.7	That's good. That's good. And Christian, any movie news, anything interesting?
1:12.8	Yeah, I mean, last week we got a handful of rejections from film festivals, which were all painful.
1:19.8	So we've been accepted to one and then rejected from about 10. So, I mean, it's a terrible percentage.
1:26.6	We're happy for that one one. And then we did get a distribution deal offered.
1:32.8	And so, you know, we have to talk about that today.
1:36.0	We will be one that we will sign, but I mean, that's encouraging.
1:40.0	Uh-huh.
1:41.6	Uh-huh. Okay. Okay.
1:45.9	I don't want to what a hey, Phil, what was your highlight for the last two weeks? Well, thank you for asking.
1:51.4	What was my highlight? We had, I don't know, had some good pool time with my granddaughter, which is always fun.
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