This is a philosophical podcast, with Tim. This podcast exists because philosophers need to speak to the world, especially in the times we live in now. As James V. Schall wrote: "The job of the philosopher, especially the Christian philosopher, is to insist on the obvious because that’s what’s most likely to be taken for granted.”The obvious topics so often taken for granted range across the philosophical spectrum and include: wisdom, ontology, existence, being qua being, metaphysics, God the Father, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, universals, realism, commonsense, epistemology, faith, reason, truth, evidence, justification, belief, knowledge, ethics, goodness, morality, personhood, meta-ethics, applied ethics, bioethics, beauty, esthetics, art, logic, the history of philosophy, "philosophies of" religion, politics, law, culture, and education, philosophical figures like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, Suarez, Reid, Locke, Pascal, Husserl, Gilson, Maritain, Peiper, Schall, Willard, Kreeft, Plantinga, Moreland, and Craig.So we've got plenty to talk about.I connect philosophical ideas with whatever is in the news in any given week, especially on the Flashback Fridays podcast.Nota Bene: The thoughts, opinions and ideas in this podcast are mine and mine alone. They do not necessarily represent any of the ideas, opinions or beliefs of anyone else or of any institutions who might be employing me.