Philosopher Profile – Glenn Andrew Peoples
Say Hello to my Little Friend is the blog of Dr Glenn Peoples from Dunedin in New Zealand. It covers issues in philosophy, theology, politics, social issues, and anything else that takes Glenn’s interest.
That’s not all. Say Hello to my Little Friend is also a podcast, the most widely listened podcast on philosophy or theology in New Zealand, and perhaps in Australasia (so claims Glenn!). You can find and listen to the episodes by browsing the blog (you can make it easier to locate the podcast episiodes among the other blog posts by clicking the “podcast” category), or you can subscribe to the podcast at the iTunes Store. The iTunes page for this podcast is here.
The subject areas that come up most frequently at the blog and podcast include:
• Philosophy of religion in general, including arguments for and against theism, the (alleged) problem of miracles and the traditional issues covered in philosophy of religion.
• Theological / biblical hermeneutical issues including personal and corporate eschatology (heaven and hell, life after death, as well as theological/biblical questions surrounding the future of humanity and creation), biblical views of human nature, issues surrounding the charismatic/pentecostal phenomenon and various other areas of theological inquiry.
• The place of religious convictions in public and political life.
• Meta-ethics, the question of moral foundations, and in particular defending models of ethics with a theological grounding (like certain types of natural law view or a divine command theory), along with defending the thesis that philosophical naturalism leads to moral nihilism.
• Philosophy of mind, the questions surrounding the makeup of the human person and the relationship between the mind/soul and the body.
• More recently, the issue of the freedom of the will.
• Lastly (but never least!), general heckling of those with whom he happens to disagree, humour, capitalising on the political misfortune of others, music, and random comments that have no apparent causal explanation.
Here more about Glenn’s podcast from the Podcast Audio Promo.
On his most recent podcast episode, Glenn discusses the fiction-posing-as-historical-fact You Tube ’documentary’ Zeitgeist – The Movie.
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For excellent resources from Christian Apologist Lenny Esposito’s website Come Let Us Reason on the subject Did Christianity Steal from Mystery Religions? go here , here and the regular podcast (12th Dec 2010 to 2nd Jan 2011 episodes) here.