Dan and Mark continue their conversation using history to make sense of the 2024 Presidential Election

In this episode, Mark and Dan use history as a guide for understanding the current Presidential election. They also discuss how Christians can approach this historic election.

Today Dan and Mark process how they have developed their ideas about thinking Christianly. They discuss how their studies, their research, and conversation partners God used to help them form their thought process.

Dan and Mark discuss Critical Theory and how it was developed in the 1920s and 1930s at Goethe University after World War One and how the ideas developed throughout the 20th century. Today, in the west many of the views that were developed by this movement are having significant impact on how people understand society, race, gender and sexuality.

Today Mark and Dan discuss how Lenin and the Russian Revolution served as a model for Frankfurt School and the rise of Critical Theory

Dan and Mark return from a break and spend some time tyring to make sense of the current Middle East crisis.

Dan and Mark discuss how Darwin and Freud are part of the genealogy of Critical theories

Mark and Dan discuss how Nietschze's thought was instrumental into constructing critical theory

Comrade Mark and Comrade Dan discussed the influence of the thoughts of Karl Marx on Critical Theory. Even though USSR collapsed over thirty years ago, Marx's ideas still permeate conversation in the west. Mark and Dan attempt to make sense of this.

Dan and Mark take some time to discuss the first critical philosopher and first liberal/modern theologian, Immanuel Kant, and show how his work has impacted western thought.