Episodes – Page 2 – Let The Bird Fly!

October 29, 2019

Episode 118: Oswald Bayer (Live Recording from HWSS Conference)

October 15, 2019

Episode 117: Let the Bird Fly – Life in a World Given Back to Us

October 9, 2019

Episode 115: Parables from Matthew 25

September 24, 2019October 2, 2019

Episode 114: Campus Ministry and Opinio Legis

September 19, 2019October 2, 2019

Episode 113: On the Skilled Trades

September 10, 2019September 19, 2019

Episode 112: On Elizabeth Gaskell

September 4, 2019

Episode 110: Syllabi (Not As Boring As It Sounds)

Let the Bird Fly! Podcast

The Death of Expertise

00:00 - Introduction 06:36 - Main Topic (The Death of Expertise) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT Wade and Mike take a look at Tom Nichols’ book The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters. Nichols makes the case that ignorance may be the biggest threat to a democratic republic. […]

The Life of Luther (Part 32) - Thomas Müntzer

In the THIRTY-SECOND episode in our Wingin’ It series on the life of Martin Luther, Mike and Wade discuss Thomas Müntzer. The radical reformer, who was once a student of Luther, turned to German mysticism that eventually to violence in his attempt to bring about a new age of Christendom. Take a listen as the […]

It Can’t Happen Here … or Can It?

00:00 - Introduction 15:16 - Main Topic (It Can't Happen Here ... or Can It?) In episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN Mike and Wade discuss Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here, a 1935 dystopian novel of how fascism took hold in the United States. The guys compare and contrast Lewis’ fiction with the current political […]

The American Revolution

00:00 - Introduction 08:00 - Free-for-All (What age of history you'd least/most like to have lived in?) 23:47 - Main Topic (The American Revolution) On episode ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX Mike and Wade are joined once again by Dr. Aaron Palmer from the history department at Wisconsin Lutheran College. Before getting to the American Revolution, […]

Wingin’ It 125.1: The Life of Luther (Part 31) – The Peasants’ War

In the THIRTY-FIRST episode in our Wingin' It series on the life of Martin Luther, Wade and Mike discuss the so-called Peasants' War, which took place from 1524-1525 (yes, they're still in the mid-1520's). In this episode the guys look at what drives the Peasants' War, as well as attempt to dig into the mind of Luther […]

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Episode 119: Let My People Go