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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 16Calvin explains that the Tenth Commandment reaches deeper than outward actions and exposes the hidden movements of the heart. While earlier commandments forbid deliberate acts of harm such as theft, adultery, or falsehood, this commandment addresses the first stirrings of desire itself. God requires that even the thoughts of the mind be governed by love so that no impulse arises that seeks the loss or disadvantage of our neighbor. From this Calvin moves to the broader purpose of the law: God has revealed his commandments so that human life might reflect his own righteousness, forming a living image of...

2026-03-1608 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 15Calvin explains that the Ninth Commandment reaches far beyond lying in court and addresses the entire way we speak about others. Because God himself is truth, believers are called not only to avoid false accusations and slander but also to protect and defend the good name of their neighbors. Calvin warns that malicious gossip, subtle insinuations, sarcastic mockery, and the eager spreading of damaging stories all violate this commandment, even when the statements themselves are technically true. The law therefore governs not only the tongue but also the ear and the heart, condemning the desire to listen to slander...

2026-03-1505 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: March 14Calvin shows that the Eighth Commandment reaches far beyond simple theft and speaks to the entire fabric of justice in human relationships. Because God himself distributes the goods of this world, to seize what belongs to another—whether by violence, fraud, manipulation, or neglect of duty—is to violate God’s ordering of society. Yet the commandment does more than forbid stealing; it calls believers to actively preserve the good of their neighbors. Calvin explains that justice requires honest labor, contentment with what God has given, generosity toward those in need, and faithfulness within every calling—from rulers and pastors...

2026-03-1406 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 13Calvin pushes the Sixth and Seventh Commandments far deeper than outward behavior, showing that God’s law governs not only the hand but the heart. Murder is not merely the act of shedding blood; it begins wherever anger, hatred, or the desire to harm another person takes root, because every human being bears the image of God and belongs to the same human family. Likewise, chastity is not merely the avoidance of adultery but the disciplined ordering of desire according to God’s design for marriage. Calvin argues that purity of life requires both inward restraint and outward obedience: we m...

2026-03-1312 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 12Calvin reminds us that the Fifth Commandment is about far more than family etiquette—it is about God’s entire order for human authority. When Scripture commands us to “honour your father and your mother” (Exod. 20:12), Calvin explains that God is teaching us to respect every legitimate authority he places over us. Parents serve as the first and most natural example because their authority is easiest for us to recognize, but the principle extends outward to rulers, leaders, and all positions of responsibility that God establishes (1 Tim. 5:17). The honour commanded here includes reverence, obedience, and gratitude, because authority itself reflects...

2026-03-1206 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 11The Fourth Commandment is not about protecting a calendar but about teaching the soul to rest in God. In Book 2, Chapter 8, Sections 28–34 of Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin explains that the Sabbath first signified spiritual rest—ceasing from our own works so that God may work in us by His Spirit (Hebrews 3:13; 4:3, 9). The seventh day pointed forward to the perfection of that rest, fulfilled in Christ, the substance of the shadow (Colossians 2:16–17; Romans 6:4). Yet while the ceremonial aspect has been abolished, two enduring purposes remain: the orderly gathering of the Church for Word, sacraments, and prayer (1 Corinthians 14:40; 16:2), and humane...

2026-03-1113 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 10Calvin takes the Third Commandment and presses it past “don’t swear falsely” into a whole posture of reverence: God’s name must be treated as holy in thought, speech, doctrine, and interpretation, so that we neither trivialize his Word nor slander his works, and especially so that we do not drag his name into careless talk, spiritual theatrics, or manipulative religion (Exodus 20:7). From there he defines an oath as calling God to witness the truth, which makes swearing a kind of worship and explains why perjury is not merely a social sin but a direct profanation of God’s truthful...

2026-03-1013 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 9When God forbids images, he is not merely prohibiting carved statues—he is protecting his own glory and our understanding of who he truly is. In this reading from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 8, Sections 17–21, Calvin explains the Second Commandment (Exodus 20:4–6) as a safeguard against corrupt worship and distorted conceptions of God. Because God is incomprehensible and spiritual in nature, any attempt to represent him in visible form inevitably diminishes him. The commandment therefore restrains our impulse to fashion God according to our senses and imaginations, and instead directs us to the worship he himself...

2026-03-0908 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 8Here is your single-paragraph podcast summary, following your established Early Church Fathers track pattern (Calvin primary, plus Augustine and Aquinas listed), with a strong opening hook and no fragmentation:The First Commandment is not merely a prohibition—it is a claim of total possession. In Book 2, Chapter 8, Sections 13–16 of Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin shows that the Law begins with a preface designed to prevent contempt: God asserts his authority as Lord, binds his people by covenant grace—“I will be their God” (Jeremiah 31:33; Matthew 22:32)—and reminds them of deliverance so that obedience flows from gratitude, n...

2026-03-0809 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 7Here is your single-paragraph podcast summary, following your established format and tone:The Law does not shrink under Christ—it sharpens. In Book 2, Chapter 8, Sections 7–12 of Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin insists that Christ did not replace Moses but restored the Law to its true depth, exposing the Pharisees’ shallow externalism and pressing the commandments into the heart (Matthew 5:22, 28, 44). Anger becomes murder, lust becomes adultery, and every prohibition implies a positive duty of love—“You shall not kill” requires active preservation of life. Calvin then explains why God speaks in strong, even shocking terms: by naming the g...

2026-03-0709 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 6The Law can feel like a list of commands until you realize what Calvin is pressing on us here: God gave the Law to uncover who he is, expose who we are, and drive us—empty-handed—toward mercy. The Law teaches us that God is Father and Master, that obedience is not optional, and that righteousness is not something we invent; it is what God commands. But then the Law turns its light inward and shows us the real problem: we are not merely lawbreakers in our actions, but in our hearts—full of lust, rage, greed, and self-justifying religi...

2026-03-0614 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 5The Law is not the enemy of grace—it is the instrument that drives us to it, restrains us from ruin, and then trains us in holiness. In this episode, we continue John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 7 (Sections 11–17), where he explains the Law as schoolmaster leading sinners to Christ (Gal. 3:24), as a bridle restraining corruption (1 Tim. 1:9–10), and as the enduring rule of life for believers (Ps. 19:7–8; Ps. 119:105). Calvin clarifies what it truly means that the Law is “abrogated”—not its moral authority, but its condemning curse, removed in Christ (Gal. 3:10–13; Matt. 5:17). He then distinguishes the ceremonial law...

2026-03-0513 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 4A law that commands what we cannot perform and promises what we cannot secure—why would God speak that way? In this episode, we continue through John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 7, Sections 6–10, where he confronts the claim that divine commands prove human ability. Calvin argues that the precepts of Scripture do not measure our strength; they expose our weakness. The Law was not lowered to fit our capacity but raised above us to reveal our dependence. When Paul says the Law was added because of transgressions and that through the Law comes the knowledge of sin...

2026-03-0411 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 3If the will is bound, are we puppets—or still responsible?In this reading from Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2, Chapter 5, Sections 1–5, John Calvin takes up the strongest objections raised against the doctrine of the bondage of the will. He answers the charge that necessity destroys guilt by insisting that sin remains voluntary even when the will is enslaved by corruption. He dismantles the idea that punishment and reward require autonomous freedom, grounding all glory instead in divine grace (Romans 8:30; 1 Corinthians 4:7). He confronts the argument that, if human nature is the same in all, all must be e...

2026-03-0311 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Through the Church Fathers: March 2When we speak about God’s providence, do we really mean that nothing—not even the human will—escapes his hand?In this reading from Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 18, Sections 5–8, John Calvin presses the question further than most of us are comfortable going. He argues that even Satan’s activity, human decisions, and the seemingly neutral choices of daily life unfold under God’s sovereign direction (1 Samuel 16:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12). Calvin carefully distinguishes God’s righteous purposes from the wicked intentions of Satan and men, showing how God bends—even without violating—the human will in order to accomplish...

2026-03-0207 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: March 1Human sin is voluntary, yet never autonomous—and Calvin refuses to let that tension be softened or resolved away. In Book 2, Chapter 4, Sections 1–4, he confronts the uncomfortable reality that the human will, enslaved to sin, does not merely drift into evil but is actively governed under judgment, even while remaining morally responsible. Drawing on Scripture and Augustine, Calvin carefully distinguishes between compulsion and necessity, showing that Satan works powerfully in the reprobate without excusing human guilt, while God remains righteous even when the same acts are attributed to him, to Satan, and to men. Divine hardening is not reduced to b...

2026-03-0110 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: February 28In these sections, the argument presses directly into the heart of the controversy over human will and divine grace, showing that Scripture consistently locates the beginning, continuation, and completion of every good work in God alone. By tracing the testimony of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the Psalms, the Gospels, and the Apostle Paul, the case is made that a right will does not arise from human capacity but from God’s recreating action—removing the heart of stone and giving a heart of flesh. The prayers of the saints themselves bear witness to this reality, as even the desire to obey must...

2026-02-2812 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: February 28Grace does not merely assist the human will once it has begun to move—it creates the movement itself, governs it, and preserves it to the end. In Sections 11–14, Calvin follows Augustine closely to deny that grace is a reward for human effort or a supplement to an already-willing heart, insisting instead that grace precedes, transforms, strengthens, and sustains the will entirely by God’s free mercy. The will is not coerced by grace but inwardly renewed so that obedience flows from the heart, yet this renewal leaves no room for boasting, since every ability the will possesses comes from g...

2026-02-2811 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 26Here Calvin presses to the breaking point the question of human freedom, insisting that the will is not merely weak but enslaved, acting voluntarily yet necessarily toward evil until God intervenes. In Sections 5–7, he argues that conversion is not a cooperative project between grace and the will, but a divine re-creation in which God both breaks the bondage of sin and produces a new will altogether, so that every genuine movement toward righteousness—from its first desire to its final perseverance—is wholly the work of grace.Readings:John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 2...

2026-02-2611 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 25The opening movements of this chapter press the reader into an uncomfortable but necessary clarity: Scripture leaves no corner of the human soul untouched by corruption, neither intellect nor will, neither desire nor judgment. Calvin walks carefully but relentlessly through the biblical witness, showing that what Scripture calls “flesh” is not merely bodily appetite but the whole unregenerate person—mind included—set in opposition to God. Even the apparent virtues of the best pagans cannot overturn this verdict. What looks like moral excellence is restrained corruption, not healed nature. God’s providence curbs evil for the sake of order, but only r...

2026-02-2514 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 24In today’s reading from Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin pushes his argument about human inability to its breaking point. He rejects the idea that sin is merely ignorance or that the will retains even a small native power to move toward God. Human reason, Calvin argues, is not simply weak but fundamentally disordered—capable of flashes of moral insight yet unable to sustain obedience or rightly aim the soul toward righteousness. Even our best intentions collapse under the weight of vanity and self-deception. Turning to Romans 7, Calvin insists Paul is describing the regenerate believer’s struggle, not an...

2026-02-2414 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 23Human reason longs to know God, to trust His favor, and to live rightly—but Calvin refuses to let us flatter ourselves about how far that reason can truly go. In these sections, he presses the reader into humility by showing that even our brightest insights into God remain flashes in the dark unless the Spirit Himself gives sight. Scripture, conscience, moral instinct, even Christ preached openly—all of these remain ineffective unless God illumines the heart from within. Calvin’s argument is relentless and pastoral at once: natural reason leaves us without excuse, but never without need. What we kno...

2026-02-2311 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 22Human reason is not erased by the Fall, but neither is it trustworthy ground for hope, and Calvin presses us to hold both truths without flinching. In these sections, he shows how the human mind still shines in earthly matters—law, art, science, governance—yet collapses when it tries to rise toward God apart from grace. Whatever clarity remains is a gift, unevenly distributed, intentionally humbling, and constantly dependent on the Spirit who gives and withdraws insight at will. The lesson is sobering but freeing: reason is real, valuable, and useful, but it was never meant to be a refu...

2026-02-2212 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: February 21Self-knowledge can either drive a person inward toward pride or outward toward God, and today’s readings press that tension to its breaking point. Calvin insists that the deepest knowledge of self comes not from measuring what remains after the Fall, but from being stripped bare until nothing is left but dependence on grace, exposing how even our best instincts toward truth falter into vanity without God. Augustine echoes this inward collapse by showing how grief and friendship can temporarily mend the soul while still leaving it displaced, stitched together by loves that cannot finally heal. Together, these readings re...

2026-02-2111 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 20In this reading from Calvin’s Institutes, Book 2, Chapter 2, Sections 5–8, Calvin turns from philosophers to theologians—and finds that many Christian writers fared little better when speaking about free will. Surveying the Schoolmen and earlier Fathers, Calvin shows how careful distinctions about grace and freedom often collapsed into confusion, ambiguity, or misplaced confidence in human ability. While acknowledging the pastoral intentions behind these formulations, Calvin presses the question that cannot be avoided: what does “free will” actually mean if the human will is enslaved to sin? Drawing especially on Augustine, Calvin argues that freedom properly understood is not autonomy but libera...

2026-02-2009 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 19What happens to human freedom after the Fall? In today’s reading from Calvin’s Institutes, Book 2, Chapter 2, Calvin presses directly into one of the most uncomfortable questions in Christian theology: whether anything resembling free will truly remains once sin has done its work. Moving carefully between sloth and pride, Calvin critiques both pagan philosophers and well-meaning Christian theologians who tried to preserve human dignity by overstating human ability. Along the way, he exposes how easily “free will” becomes a theological placeholder rather than a carefully defined reality, showing why clarity here matters not only for doctrine, but for humility...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 18In these closing sections, Calvin presses the doctrine of original sin to its deepest and most uncomfortable conclusion: corruption does not merely touch the surface of human desire but penetrates the very center of the soul—mind, heart, and will alike. Sin has seized not only our appetites but the “citadel” of reason itself, blinding understanding and twisting judgment so thoroughly that nothing in us remains neutral or untouched (Romans 8:7; Ephesians 4:17–18). This devastation, however, must never be attributed to God as Creator. Calvin is careful here: our corruption is natural in the sense that it is inherited, but it is not o...

2026-02-1814 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 17In today’s reading, Calvin presses us into a kind of self-knowledge that is painful but necessary, dismantling every form of pride so that grace alone can stand. He insists that to know ourselves rightly is not to flatter our dignity but to confront our ruin—measuring ourselves not by human judgment but by divine justice, where all confidence in our own powers collapses. From there, he traces the fall of Adam not to mere sensual excess, but to infidelity: a refusal to trust God’s word, which opened the door to pride, ambition, rebellion, and finally the collapse of the...

2026-02-1712 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 16Today we reach the sobering and fitting conclusion of the First Book of Calvin’s Institutes, where divine providence is defended against its most serious objections—not by speculation, but by Scripture itself. Calvin confronts the claim that God must either have contradictory wills or be the author of sin, insisting that such objections are ultimately aimed at the Holy Spirit, who openly declares that God “has done whatsoever he has pleased” (Psalm 115:3) and that even Christ’s crucifixion occurred by God’s “definite plan and foreknowledge” (Acts 2:23; Acts 4:28). The error, Calvin explains, lies in confusing God’s will with God’s command...

2026-02-1609 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 15Today’s reading brings us to one of the most demanding—and clarifying—chapters of Calvin’s Institutes, where the doctrine of providence is pressed to its furthest edge and refuses to retreat. In Book 1, Chapter 18, Sections 1–2, Calvin confronts the uneasy question of how God can sovereignly govern even Satan and the wicked without becoming the author of sin, rejecting the comforting but unbiblical idea that evil occurs merely by God’s “permission.” Scripture itself will not allow that escape: the devil cannot touch Job apart from God’s will (Job 1:12; 1:21), Ahab is deceived by divine judgment (2 Kings 22:20), Christ is crucified accor...

2026-02-1509 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 14Life without providence is a life haunted by fear—but life under God’s providence is marked by unshakable peace. In Book 1, Chapter 17, Sections 10–14, Calvin contrasts the misery of imagining a world ruled by chance with the deep consolation of knowing that every danger, delay, and deliverance is held within the wise and steady hand of God (Psalm 91:2–6; Psalm 31:15). He shows that Scripture’s language of divine “repentance” does not signal instability in God, but mercy expressed in human terms—God’s threats are not revisions of his will, but instruments by which he calls sinners to repentance and brings about what...

2026-02-1407 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 13God’s providence does not excuse sin, erase responsibility, or render human action meaningless—it orders all things without becoming the author of evil. In Book 1, Chapter 17, Sections 5–9, Calvin presses this balance with pastoral force, insisting that while God sovereignly governs even wicked acts for righteous ends, guilt remains wholly with the sinner, not with God (Genesis 50:20). Properly understood, providence becomes a source not of fatalism but of clarity: it teaches believers to look beyond chance, to give thanks in prosperity, to exercise patience in suffering, and to resist despair when wronged (Job 1:21; Matthew 10:29–31). Calvin shows how God restrains enemies...

2026-02-1308 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 12God’s providence does not cancel human responsibility—it grounds it. In the opening sections of Book 1, Chapter 17, Calvin explains that Scripture teaches divine providence not to satisfy curiosity but to form wisdom, humility, and trust. God governs past and future, working through means, without means, and even against means, yet always with special care for humanity and especially for the Church (Proverbs 16:9; Deuteronomy 29:29). Far from encouraging passivity or impiety, this doctrine guards against blaming God for sin, rejecting lawful means, or neglecting obedience. Calvin insists that deliberation, planning, and prudence are not rivals to providence but its instruments, sinc...

2026-02-1210 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 11Providence does not mean blind fate or an impersonal chain of causes, and Calvin will not allow it to be reduced to either. In these closing sections of Chapter 16, he carefully dismantles the charge that Christian providence is merely Stoic fatalism, insisting instead that God actively governs all things by wise decree, not by necessity embedded in nature itself. Drawing on Basil and Augustine, Calvin rejects “fortune” and “chance” as pagan placeholders for ignorance, showing that what appears accidental to us is fully ordered by God’s hidden counsel (1 Timothy 6:20; Job 14:5). Events may be contingent from our limited perspective, yet nothin...

2026-02-1107 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 10Providence is not a passive awareness of events after the fact, nor a vague divine impulse that leaves the world to run on its own—it is God actively governing all things, directing every moment, judgment, blessing, storm, success, and sorrow according to his wise and deliberate counsel. In these sections of Calvin’s Institutes, we are pressed to abandon the comfortable fiction of chance and to confess instead a God who truly reigns: not merely sustaining nature in general, but ordering particular events, human lives, and even what appears accidental to our eyes. From weather and harvest to pove...

2026-02-1012 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 9God is not a distant Creator who wound up the world and stepped away—he is the living Governor who sustains, directs, and rules every moment of creation, so that what appears to us as chance is in fact ordered by his wise and deliberate counsel (Hebrews 11:3; Psalm 33:6, 13; Psalm 104:27–30; Matthew 10:30; Psalm 115:3). In these opening sections of Book 1, Chapter 16, Calvin presses past vague appeals to divine power and insists on a providence that is active, particular, and personal: governing nature, history, and human lives down to the smallest detail. Against philosophies that stop at creation or reduce God’s rule to gen...

2026-02-0911 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 8Providence is not God watching the world from a distance—it is God holding the helm, governing every moment, every creature, and every detail down to the sparrow and the numbered hair, which means that what looks like “chance” is actually the hidden wisdom of the Father at work for his own ends (Hebrews 11:3; Matthew 10:30; Psalm 33:6, 13; Psalm 104:27–30; Acts 17:28; Psalm 115:3; Jeremiah 10:2).Readings:John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 16 (Sections 1–3)Explore the Project:Through the Church Fathers – https://www.throughthechurchfathers.comPatreon – https://www.patreon.com/cmichaelpattonCredo Course...

2026-02-0811 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 7In this reading, John Calvin turns from speculation to consolation, showing how the doctrine of angels is meant not to satisfy curiosity but to strengthen faith. He grounds the reality of angels firmly in Scripture, presenting them as real, personal, ministering spirits appointed by God for the protection and care of His people. Calvin resists both extremes—denying angels altogether on the one hand, and obsessing over their ranks, numbers, or supposed guardianship assignments on the other. Above all, he warns against the subtle danger of angel-veneration, reminding us that angels exist to magnify God’s glory, not to riva...

2026-02-0708 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 6How do we truly know the invisible God when nature alone leaves us prone to confusion and speculation? In this reading, Calvin explains why Scripture provides a clearer portrait of God than creation by itself ever could, grounding our knowledge of the Creator in the historical account given through Moses. He rebukes arrogant curiosity about time, eternity, and creation, urging humility where God has chosen silence, and shows how the six-day creation displays God’s fatherly wisdom and care. Calvin then turns to the invisible realm, addressing angels not to satisfy curiosity, but to guard against errors that diminish Go...

2026-02-0611 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 5of God? In today’s reading, Calvin carefully addresses this tension by showing how Scripture speaks of the Father and the Son according to order and role without dividing the divine essence. He explains Christ’s words as Mediator, clarifies passages that seem to imply inferiority, and demonstrates that the Son’s submission belongs to His redemptive office, not to His nature. Drawing on Irenaeus, Tertullian, and the broader consensus of the Fathers, Calvin dismantles claims that early Christianity knew only the Father as God, showing instead a consistent confession of one God in three persons. The result is a sobe...

2026-02-0510 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: February 4When people try to protect monotheism by shrinking Christ, they do not save the doctrine of God—they replace it with a Trinity that collapses into fiction. Today Calvin confronts the claim that the word “God” belongs to the Father alone and shows why that move cannot survive the Bible’s own logic: if only God is good, immortal, wise, and worthy of exclusive worship, and yet these belong to Christ, then Christ cannot be divine only by association or participation. Calvin also refuses the attempt to confine Christ’s glory to His humanity, because the exaltation of the Mediator p...

2026-02-0406 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: February 3The doctrine of the Trinity is not a puzzle for clever minds but a boundary line that keeps the church worshiping the true God rather than a god of our own speculation. Today Calvin tightens the distinction that must be held without tearing the unity: one divine essence fully present in Father, Son, and Spirit, distinguished not by parts of deity but by personal relations that do not divide God. He then turns to the recurring threat—old heresies wearing new clothes—exposing how theories that reduce the Son and Spirit to projections, fragments, or derived divinity destroy the gosp...

2026-02-0312 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 2If the Son is truly divine, then the Spirit cannot be a lesser afterthought, a mere force, or an impersonal influence—and Calvin refuses to let the Bible be softened into that kind of half-truth. Today’s reading gathers Scripture’s testimony and the believer’s lived experience into a single confession: the Spirit was active before the world had form, sustains creation by divine power, grants new birth, distributes gifts with sovereign will, searches the depths of God, and is identified as God by the apostles themselves. Calvin then anchors the unity of the Triune name in baptism, insistin...

2026-02-0211 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: February 1Unity is not a late Christian invention—it is the native air of Scripture, because the one God has always made Himself known through the one Mediator. Today Calvin presses the Old Testament appearances of “the Angel of the Lord” until the reader feels the weight of the claim: this Angel receives divine honor, bears the divine name, and is recognized as God, and therefore cannot be a created messenger. The same Word who would later take flesh was already drawing near to the faithful as Mediator, leading Israel in the wilderness, and receiving titles and works that belong to Yah...

2026-02-0112 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Instutes: January 31In today’s reading from Calvin’s Institutes, we are confronted with one of the most decisive claims of historic Christianity: that the Word is eternally God, without beginning, change, or diminution. Calvin shows that denying the eternity of the Word—even while claiming to honor Christ—introduces change into God Himself and collapses the doctrine of divine immutability. Drawing from Moses, the prophets, the Psalms, the Gospels, and the apostles, Calvin traces a single, unbroken testimony: the Son who becomes incarnate is the same Lord who spoke in creation, appeared as the Angel of the Lord, led Israel in the w...

2026-01-3105 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 30What does it really mean to say that God is one—and yet Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? In this reading, John Calvin confronts both ancient and modern distortions of God by grounding our knowledge of Him in Scripture’s revelation of His infinite, spiritual nature and His triune being. Calvin explains why God cannot be reduced to creation, imagination, or philosophical abstraction, and why the Church was forced to speak precisely when heresy threatened the gospel. From the eternal Word active in creation to the careful use of terms like person and substance, this chapter presses us toward humi...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 29In this reading from Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin presses a simple but unsettling claim: true knowledge of God always demands exclusive worship, and the moment that worship is shared—even subtly—true religion collapses into superstition. Calvin exposes how idolatry rarely begins with open rebellion, but with divided devotion: God is confessed as supreme while His honor is quietly redistributed to others. By tracing this pattern through Scripture and church practice, he dismantles Rome’s distinction between “service” and “worship,” showing that sacred reverence cannot be redirected without robbing God of His glory. From Paul’s rebuke of false...

2026-01-2906 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Instittues: January 27Here Calvin traces idolatry to its true source: the human desire to make God tangible. Once the mind fashions a visible form of God, worship inevitably attaches itself to that form, no matter how carefully the act is explained or renamed. Calvin exposes the long-standing defense that images merely assist devotion, showing that the same arguments were used by ancient idolaters and rejected by Scripture. Whether one claims to worship God through an image or merely to honor it, the act remains the same—divine reverence is transferred to what is created. Calvin is especially sharp in dismissing the ve...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: January 28Calvin closes this chapter by appealing not only to Scripture but to history itself. For the first five centuries of the Church—when doctrine was purer and faith more disciplined—Christian worship spaces were entirely without images. This was not oversight, but wisdom. Augustine warned that once images are placed before praying people, they inevitably work upon the imagination as if they were alive, drawing weak minds toward superstition. History proved him right: wherever images entered the Church, idolatry soon followed. Calvin then turns to the Second Council of Nicaea and exposes how far things had fallen by the eigh...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 26In these sections, Calvin dismantles the familiar claim that images serve as “books for the unlearned,” insisting instead that Scripture calls them teachers of lies, not aids to faith. Drawing from the prophets, the apostles, and the early Church Fathers, Calvin shows that images do not clarify divine truth but replace it—substituting mute objects for the living voice of God in His Word. He argues that whenever visual representations are used as tools of instruction in the Church, they inevitably weaken reverence, distort doctrine, and foster superstition. True faith, Calvin insists, is not formed by gazing at wood or sto...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 25Today’s reading confronts one of the Church’s most persistent temptations: the desire to make the invisible God manageable through visible forms. In Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 11, Sections 1–4, John Calvin argues that every attempt to represent God visually—however sincere—inevitably corrupts His glory. Drawing from the Law, the Prophets, the Apostles, and even pagan witnesses, Calvin shows that God’s self-revelation consistently resists human imagination and demands reverent restraint. Divine appearances were never invitations to image-making but safeguards of mystery, reminders that God is spirit, not substance. Because the human heart naturally drifts toward superstition...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: January 24Today’s reading presses us to recognize that the God revealed in Scripture is not a different God from the one made known in creation—but the same Lord, now speaking with clarity, authority, and moral demand. John Calvin shows how Scripture gathers what creation whispers and declares it plainly: God’s steadfast love, righteous judgment, and faithful rule over the world. Against the confusion of pagan religion and philosophical speculation, Scripture does not refine humanity’s guesses—it excludes them. It identifies the true God by His works, His character, and His Word, and in doing so calls us not mer...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 23Something is deeply wrong when people claim the Spirit of God while discarding the very Word the Spirit inspired. In today’s reading from John Calvin, we confront the perennial temptation of “spiritual” enthusiasm that substitutes private revelations for Scripture itself. Calvin argues with force and clarity that the Spirit of Christ never leads believers away from the written Word but seals that Word upon the heart. To sever Spirit from Scripture is not freedom but delusion—and it opens the door to endless deception. True illumination comes when the same Spirit who spoke through the prophets and apostles confirms...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 22Today’s reading from John Calvin confronts one of the most persistent questions in Christian theology: why should Scripture be trusted? Calvin argues that while fulfilled prophecy, historical preservation, apostolic witness, and even the blood of martyrs all provide powerful external confirmation, none of these can create true faith on their own. Isaiah’s naming of Cyrus long before his birth, Jeremiah’s precise prophecy of the seventy-year exile, Daniel’s sweeping vision of centuries to come, the miraculous survival of the Scriptures through Antiochus’s persecution, and the unlikely authority of untrained apostles all testify that Scripture bears marks no h...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 21How can Scripture be shown credible to natural reason without replacing the deeper certainty given by the Spirit? Calvin carefully answers by pointing to the unmistakable marks of divine majesty woven throughout the Bible itself—its power, simplicity, harmony, and authority—qualities that surpass every human work and pierce the heart in a way no rhetoric can achieve (1 Corinthians 2:4–5). He then turns to the Old Testament, showing how the antiquity, integrity, miracles, and prophecies surrounding Moses bear public, historical witness to God’s hand, from the manna in the wilderness to the judgment on Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and from the...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 20Today’s reading presses to the heart of one of Christianity’s most decisive claims: Scripture does not gain its authority from human approval, argument, or institutional endorsement, but from God himself through the inward testimony of the Holy Spirit. John Calvin argues that while Scripture bears unmistakable marks of divine majesty and coherence, no amount of reasoning alone can produce the certainty true faith requires. That certainty comes only when the same Spirit who spoke through the prophets and apostles seals God’s Word upon the heart. Against both skeptics who demand rational proof and religious authorities who claim...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Insitutes: January 19Why should Scripture be trusted as God’s Word? Calvin argues that the Bible does not receive its authority from the Church, but from God Himself, confirmed inwardly by the Holy Spirit. While the Church bears witness to Scripture, it does not stand above it; rather, the Church is built upon the Word, not the other way around (Ephesians 2:20). Calvin insists that Scripture is self-authenticating—recognized by the believer much like light is known by sight or sweetness by taste—and that resting its authority on human approval would leave troubled consciences without true assurance. Addressing a frequently misused quote...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 18Why isn’t creation enough to lead us to God? In this reading, Calvin argues that while the world truly displays God’s glory, human corruption turns that light into a maze rather than a path. Scripture, he says, is not an optional supplement to nature but the necessary guide that gathers our scattered impressions of God and brings them into clarity. Like spectacles correcting failing sight, the Word enables us to see the Creator rightly, not as a vague power but as the true God who reigns, speaks, and reveals Himself for salvation. Drawing from the Psalms and the...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 17In today’s reading, Calvin delivers one of his most uncompromising critiques of false religion, arguing that any worship not grounded in God’s self-revelation ultimately replaces the true God with demons. Drawing from Paul and Christ Himself, Calvin shows that even sincere or culturally inherited religion is no refuge from error—ignorance of God is still guilt before Him (Ephesians 2:12; John 4:22; 1 Corinthians 2:8). Creation bears real witness to God, but without faith it cannot guide us to Him rightly. The problem is not lack of evidence but human blindness: though God’s glory is proclaimed loudly by creation, we corrupt...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 16In today’s reading, Calvin argues that knowing God does not require philosophical gymnastics or abstract speculation—God’s majesty is already placed directly before us in creation and providence. Yet what should be obvious is persistently ignored. Calvin shows how God reveals Himself through His works in ways that awaken worship, point us toward eternal judgment, and expose the limits of human reason. From the injustice of the present world to the hope of final justice, creation itself presses us toward the life to come. But instead of responding rightly, humanity repeatedly suppresses the truth, inventing idols and philos...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 15In today’s reading from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book 1, Chapter 5, Sections 5–8), we confront the limits of natural reason and the depth of God’s self-revelation in both the human soul and the created order. Calvin argues that the soul’s powers—its reasoning, creativity, moral judgment, and even its activity during sleep—cannot be reduced to bodily function, but bear the unmistakable imprint of God’s image. From there, he moves outward to creation and providence, showing how God’s power, eternity, justice, mercy, patience, and wisdom are displayed not only in the heavens and the earth, but...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 14Creation leaves us without excuse, but it does not leave us with clarity—and John Calvin explains why God never intended nature to stand alone as our guide. In today’s reading from Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 6, Calvin shows that although God’s glory shines clearly in the heavens and the earth, the human mind is too corrupt, forgetful, and inventive to remain anchored there. Without Scripture, we wander into superstition, false religion, and confusion; with Scripture, God gathers the scattered impressions of His majesty, speaks with His own voice, and leads us safely through the labyri...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 13Today’s reading confronts us with a simple but devastating truth: the knowledge of God is not hidden, distant, or reserved for the educated—it presses in on us from every side, written into the heavens, the earth, and even our own bodies, leaving humanity without excuse for ingratitude or denial. John Calvin opens Book 1, Chapter 5 of the Institutes by insisting that God has made himself unmistakably known through creation, so that no one can open their eyes without encountering divine glory, wisdom, and power. Yet this same clarity exposes the perversity of the human heart, which suppresses what it k...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 12Calvin presses us here with an uncomfortable truth: although God has planted a seed of religion in every human heart, almost no one allows it to grow into genuine piety. Instead of receiving God as He reveals Himself, people either sink into superstition or harden themselves in deliberate rebellion, fashioning a god of their own imagination and then worshiping that illusion. Calvin shows that false religion is not a harmless mistake but a culpable corruption—born of pride, curiosity, and a refusal to submit to God’s justice and providence. Even those who claim God is distant or indifferent are...

2026-01-1209 min $John Calvin\'s Institutes in a Year$

John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 11True knowledge of God is never something we invent, negotiate, or outgrow—it is something we are born with and spend our lives trying, often unsuccessfully, to suppress. In this reading from Calvin, we are confronted with the claim that every human being carries an implanted sense of God, a sensus divinitatis, placed there by God Himself and continually renewed so that no one can plead ignorance. Calvin argues that the universality of religion, the persistence of idolatry, and even the restless conscience of God’s fiercest mockers all testify to this inescapable knowledge. Though the human heart corrupts and...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 10To know that God exists is not the same as knowing God. In this chapter, Calvin defines the knowledge of God as recognizing Him as Creator, Sustainer, Judge, and the sole fountain of all goodness, from whom every true blessing flows (James 1:17). He rejects speculative curiosity and insists that true knowledge of God always produces piety—a reverent love that results in trust, obedience, and sincere worship rather than empty ceremony. While many outwardly honor God, Calvin warns that true religion is found only where the heart submits fully to Him, resting confidently in His goodness while standing in aw...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institues: January 9True wisdom begins where self-confidence ends. In this reading, John Calvin explains that the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are inseparably bound together: human misery drives us to seek God, and the holiness of God exposes the poverty of our supposed wisdom and virtue. As long as we measure ourselves by earthly standards, we remain satisfied with our righteousness; but when we are confronted with the majesty of God, our strength is revealed as weakness and our clarity as blindness (Isaiah 24:23). Genuine self-knowledge, Calvin argues, is born only when we stand before God Himself, as Abraham...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 8What responsibility does a king bear before God for the use of his power? In this final section of the Prefatory Address, Calvin appeals directly to King Francis I, urging him to judge the cause of the Reformed churches not by slander or prejudice, but by the Word of God and in the fear of the Lord. Calvin reminds the king that royal authority is ministerial, entrusted by God for the defense of true religion and the restraint of evil, and that all rulers must one day give account before the judgment seat of Christ without regard to rank...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 7Why did Calvin write the Institutes in the first place? In this epistle, Calvin explains that his original intention was to provide a brief and orderly introduction to Christian doctrine for those newly drawn to Christ, but the widespread confusion, ignorance, and distortion of the faith compelled him to produce a fuller and more systematic work. He presents the Institutes not as a replacement for Scripture, but as a guide meant to prepare readers to approach Scripture more fruitfully, with a coherent framework for understanding its teaching (Luke 24:27). Calvin also addresses accusations that the gospel he teaches is novel...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 6What truly marks the Church of Christ—power, visibility, and tradition, or faithfulness to the Word of God? In this section of his Prefatory Address, John Calvin defines the Church by its true marks: the pure preaching of Scripture and the right administration of the sacraments according to Christ’s institution. He rejects the accusation of innovation by showing that reform is not novelty but a return to apostolic faithfulness, just as the prophets, Christ, and the apostles themselves were accused of disruption when they called God’s people back to the truth. Calvin also answers the charge of rebell...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 5What truly marks the Church of Christ—power, visibility, and tradition, or faithfulness to the Word of God? In this section of his Prefatory Address, John Calvin defines the Church by its true marks: the pure preaching of Scripture and the right administration of the sacraments according to Christ’s institution. He rejects the accusation of innovation by showing that reform is not novelty but a return to apostolic faithfulness, just as the prophets, Christ, and the apostles themselves were accused of disruption when they called God’s people back to the truth. Calvin also answers the charge of rebell...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 4In this portion of the Prefatory Address, John Calvin challenges the misuse of the name “Church” as a shield for corruption and error. He argues that outward visibility, succession, and institutional authority are not enough to establish the true Church apart from fidelity to the Word of Christ. Calvin rejects the charge of schism, insisting that separation from corruption is not separation from the Church itself, and urges that all claims of authority be tested by Scripture rather than by antiquity, power, or appearance.Readings:John Calvin, Prefatory Address to the Most Christian King of Fran...

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John Calvin's Institutes in a Year Calvin's Institutes: January 2Calvin presses his case with clarity and courage, arguing that the Reformation is not rebellion but restoration—an urgent return to the pure worship of God grounded in Scripture alone. In this second part of his address to King Francis, Calvin exposes how superstition and human tradition have buried true piety, answers the charge that reformers are innovators and disturbers of peace, and insists that the gospel itself inevitably provokes opposition wherever it is faithfully preached. With pastoral gravity and bold confidence, he defends the authority of Scripture over councils and customs, pleads for fair judgment rather than slander, an...

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Total Movie Recall

Total Movie Recall TMR 037 – Amelie This week on Total Movie Recall, we find a new zest for life in 2001’s Amelie. Steve gets wistful recalling his time working in a porn shop, and Ryan reveals his ignorance about Paris. But is it ignorance? Don’t we kind of all know what Paris is really like? Smelly and smoky and rude? Not according to Amelie. Paris is a place of magical realism, true love, and tastefully decorated porn shops. Amelie (2001) d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet Starring: Audrey Tautou Mathieu Kassovitz Rufus Jamel Debbouze Isabelle Nant...

2020-09-0700 min

Legends of S.H.I.E.L.D.: A Marvel Studios TV & Film Fan Podcast

Legends of S.H.I.E.L.D.: A Marvel Studios TV & Film Fan Podcast "Brand New Day" S7E11 Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Review (A Marvel Fancast) LoS344The Legends Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Director SP, Agent Haley, Agent Lauren and Agent Michelle discuss the ABC television series Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. penultimate episode “Brand New Day,” the weekly Marvel News and some listener feedback. The Agents debrief you on the Dr. Horrible, Buffy and Angel references in the episode, that the series is indeed in a whole new timeline, that the team had shuffled team roles since season 1, the Agents welcome Ian DeCaestecker back to the show. That Director Mack is more of a Director this season than e...

2020-08-1057 min

The Pointless Century

The Pointless Century Three JokersEpisode NotesEpisode 2: Three JokersBatman (film, 1989)The Dark Knight (film, 2008)Joker (film, 2019)In Part II of our consideration of DC/Warner Bros movies, Anna complains about Christopher Nolan and stares into the void; Rachel mocks pointless rebellion and mindlessly performative fandom; Frank obsesses over various definitions of terrorism; we all agree Tim Burton’s Batman was the best effort of the franchise but appreciate all three versions of the Joker. Frank does a slightly better job editing and mixing.The Pointless Crew:Anna Wendorff (she/her/hers) – Communications, Rhetorics of Sci...

2020-06-181h 24

The Pointless Century

The Pointless Century Wonder Woman / Birds of PreyEpisode NotesEpisode 1: Wonder Woman / Birds of PreyWonder Woman (film, 2017)Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (film, 2020)In Part I of our consideration of DC/Warner Bros movies, Rachel rants against the culture industry; Anna ponders the aesthetics of destruction; Frank shoehorns in some history of military technology; we all agree Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman are badass but wonder if it’s even possible for Hollywood to make a feminist movie. Audio difficulties abound.The Pointless Crew:Rachel Hamele (she/her/hers) – History, Humanities, Quee...

2020-06-181h 26

Spoilers!

Spoilers!Armageddon (1998)- Spoilers! #155Josh pays his punishment with a movie review of 1998's box office smash Armageddon. When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper (Bruce Willis), who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. (Ben Affleck), who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter (Liv Tyler), until the mission proves otherwise. Release...

2018-03-1258 min