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The Jimmy Rex Show#634 - Ben Rogers - Top Influencer On Twitter Discusses How Nothing In The World Seems Normal AnymoreIn this episode of The Jimmy Rex Show, Jimmy sits down with Ben Rogers—better known as Dr. Manhattva—an internet thinker known for his viral insights on health, finance, philosophy, and systems. Ben shares his unique journey from Yale and Wall Street to full-time writing and deep inner work, sparked by a health scare that changed the course of his life.They dive into Ben’s transformation through yoga, somatic therapy, and personal exploration, as well as his sharp takes on the modern economy, identity, and living authentically in a noisy world. His ability to blend ancient wisdom...
2025-07-2356 min
The Unhelpful Parenting PodcastSchool fails, tales, parent confessions and T-Rex newsThis week's episode is packed full of confessions and funny stories sent in by parents!So we get straight to it, kicking off with a quick parent catch-up. Sam is yaying parent friends and being social with kids, while naying a toilet training fail. Bec is yaying almost being a tooth fairy and naying the never-ending piles of kids' clothes. The confessional this week is again full of parent confessions that really could be parent hacks, including telling the kids the toys at Kmart are a museum, video game power outages and changing...
2025-07-0824 min
REXLisa Rogers & Matt Hampton - Growing food & fibre leadershipDom talks with Rural Leaders CEO Lisa Rogers and Marketing & Communications Manager Matt Hampton about the launch of the MyLead platform, how it matches people with relevant leadership courses within the food and fibre sector and how it could help strengthen the leadership capabilities in the sector. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural content on your favourite streaming platform, visit rexonline.co.nz and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for more.
2025-05-2922 minREXREX May 29th - Tom Sanson from Gold Creek Simmentals, Lisa Rogers & Matt Hampton from Rural Leaders and Rural Health Advocate Craig WigginsOn today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Tom Sanson from Gold Creek Simmentals near Gisborne about its recent successful bull sale, the history of the stud and the ongoing effects of Cyclone Gabrielle... He talks with Rural Leaders CEO Lisa Rogers and Marketing & Communications Manager Matt Hampton about the launch of the MyLead platform, how it matches people with relevant leadership courses within the food and fibre sector and how it could help strengthen the leadership capabilities in the sector... And he talks with rural health advocate Craig Wiggins about career choices, dog trials and Fieldays. ...
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Hooks & Runs247 - "A Stranger Among His Own Kind:" Rogers Hornsby (Texans in the Hall)Rogers Hornsby won seven batting titles, hit .358 in his 23-year Major League career and remains the all-time batting average leader both among right handed hitters and in the National League. He managed the 1926 St. Louis Cardinals to franchise's first World Series title only to be traded two months later in a salary dispute. Hornsby's career and personal life were marked by conflict, antagonism, lawsuits, acrimony and bitterness. But the man could hit. This week we return to our series, Texans in the Hall to discuss the life and time of the enigmatic Rogers Hornsby.Also this week...
2025-04-2751 min
Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersReview “Christians in a Cancel Culture: Speaking with Truth and Grace in a Hostile World,” by Joe DallasJoe Dallas is a counselor, an expert on human sexuality from a Christian perspective. He's written several books on this topic, but I consider the book reviewed here to be one of the most practical and helpful books I've read in the last few years. It covers topics like cancel culture, homosexuality, racism, gender identity, abortion, so you might think this is a book about politics. But it is not. This is a book about how to live in a cancel culture and interact with people whose values might be fundamentally different from ours, assuming you are a Christian...
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We Are The They#34 - Jonny Warner and Mike RogersToday we are joined by Mike Rogers and Jonny Warner from LG4, as we share experiences from the last ludus together. They are also 2 of the members of group 4 who got engaged over this past year and we wanted to talk about what the group has taught them about relationships.
2025-01-0950 min
Simplify Podcasting | Christian Coaches + Business Owners Launching and Leveraging Podcasts in Online MarketingFrom Realtor to Podcaster: How to Leverage Podcasting to Dominate Niche Markets with Kobi Rex | #247Can a kids' game tie into podcasting for your niche?Why, yes! Yes it can and...why it might not be a good idea for this game to make it on your podcast.My mission is to convince you there are tons of niches that work for podcasting - even if you initially poo poo podcasting for them. If you don't believe your niche can work for a podcast, you're missing out on huge collaborative and income-producing opportunities. (That means your audience is missing out, too.)💥🏋♀🧘🏽♀️🔥💪🏼REGISTER FOR THE FREE💰 B...
2025-01-0931 min2024-12-1454 min
Unconventional MinistryHigher Education, Groundbreaking Media Ministry, and SAT-7 with Dr. Rex Rogers S5 EP#179In this episode of Unconventional Ministry, we are joined by Dr. Rex Rogers, President of SAT-7 USA, a groundbreaking international nonprofit media ministry broadcasting hope and the Gospel across the Middle East and North Africa. With over 34 years of academic experience, Dr. Rogers shares his journey from the halls of higher education to the frontlines of faith-based media outreach. Discover the unique vision and calling that led him to step into leadership at SAT-7, a ministry leveraging technology to deliver Christ-centered programming in some of the world's most challenging environments.
Dr. Rogers reflects on the spiritual needs...
2024-12-1021 minEncouragement LiveThanksgiving: An Important Biblical Mandate with Dr. Rex RogersThanksgiving: An Important Biblical Mandate with Dr. Rex Rogers
2024-11-2354 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Unique American Experience and ChristianityAmerica has called the "First New Nation," a "Great Experiment," and a Christian nation. Each of these phrases have been the source of extensive historical research. Whatever your preference, clearly biblical Christianity made an enormous impact upon not onlly the United States but Western Civilization. The USA, God be praised, is still a land where religious liberty is honored, and with it freedom of speech. It is a place where all people, including Christians, can learn to discern how their faith can contribute to lives and culture. May this struggle, this Great Experiment, continue. For more Christian commentary and...
2024-11-1809 min2024-11-0254 minEncouragement LiveGambling: Don't Bet On It with Dr. Rex RogersGambling: Don't Bet On It with Dr. Rex Rogers
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Around the Cracker BarrelAround the Cracker Barrel - Rex Allen Junior and Rex Allen Days in Wilcox (Broadcast 10/04/2024)For this week's Around the Cracker Barrel, Join host Guy Atchley with special guest Rex Allen Junior, in the live broadcast from the Rex Allen Theater in Wilcox Arizona.Rex Allen Junior shares with listeners about his father, Rex Allen who was an American singer, songwriter, actor, and narrator, known as the "Arizona Cowboy." Rex was one of the last of the singing cowboys, alongside legends like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. We also learn about his companion horse Koko. We also get to learn about Rex Allen Days happening this weekend in Rex Allens Birthtown Wilcox Arizona.
2024-10-0430 minEncouragement LivePraying in Times of War with Dr. Rex RogersPraying in Times of War with Dr. Rex Rogers
2024-09-2854 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat Does the Bible Say About Guns?Guns are a major current controversy that repeats with every mass shooting or shooting at a notable person like the former president, Donald J. Trump. As Christians, we are called upon to apply God's Word, will, and moral instruction to our lives and the world in which we live. So what does the Bible say about Guns? Is it immoral to purchase or own a gun? Is the only purpose of guns to kill human beings? Should governments institute forms of gun control, gun buy back progrrams, or outright gun confiscation? What does the Bible say about weapons, sin...
2024-09-1609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSpiritual Awakening in the American UniversityYear 2023 saw several unplanned, unsponsored revivals or religious awakenings take place on American public university and private college campuses. Beginning year 2024 academic term a similar experience has occurred at Ohio State University. Is this the precursor to more such events during this academic year? Is God working as a counter to the spiritual wasteland many higher education environments have become, some the site of aggressive, destructive, and often antisemitic demonstrations? For more Christian commentary from Dr Rex M Rogers see www.rexmrogers.com, or YouTube channel @DrRexRogers. #university #revival #spiritualawakening #campus #demonstrations #antisemitic
2024-09-0909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLove Your Neighbor--Immigrants Too?Scripture commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, but does this include immigrants? Does it include illegal or unauthorized immigrants? Immigration can be considered on many levels, but here we examine the idea of "Love your neighbor" on both a personal or individual level and a political or national level. Certainly, no matter how immigrants arrived, they are here and they are human beings who we are to love by building bridges of friendship and ministry in Christ. But on a political or national level, the idea of loving our neighbor does not preclude nationhood, borders, vetting, stewardship...
2024-09-0210 min2024-08-2454 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTruth MattersTruth is disappearing in Western culture; in America too. If we do not believe in truth, real, objective, facts-whether-we-like-them-or-believe-them truth, then the edifice of our civilization crumbles. Our culture crumbles, then our nation inevitably will crumble. This sounds melodramatic and hyperbolic, but it is historically demonstrable. No truth, then no right or wrong, no fact or fiction, no beauty, no better or best, no certainty; When this happens, immoral actions increase, and sooner or later, government steps in to control, to oppress. Without truth, tyranny is possible, or inevitable, and America is flirting with all of this. Truth matters...
2024-08-1909 min
Jurassic Park CastEpisode 69 - John HammondWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 69 - John Hammond.
In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest June Hatfield joins the show to chat with me about:
Seattle, the Pacific North West and the Olympic Peninsula, Cray Supercomputers, Olympic National Forests, ancient forests, the "Grunge Scene," the tradition of re-reading Jurassic Park every summer, paperback editions of Jurassic Park, and First Edition of Jurassic Park, changes between different editions of Ju...
2024-07-181h 43Encouragement LiveHow We Use Our Tongues with Dr. Rex RogersHow We Use Our Tongues with Dr. Rex Rogers
2024-05-2554 min
Rising Stars With Rex Wallace and Mick TwomeyS3 E3 A Mostly Actuarially Sound Discussion Of The Final Rule ImpactJoin Rex Wallace from RWC Consulting and Mick Twomey , CEO of Hyperlift as they discuss the final rule impact with Hayley Rogers, Consulting Actuary with Milliman
2024-05-2246 minWe Are The They#14 - Mike Rogers and Derek TuimaugaListen along as Mike and Derek each share their unique perspectives on the Ludus trips that we get to experience in the Leadership Groups of We Are The They. These weekends are incredible opportunites to experience growth, have fun, and come together with your brothers in life changing ways. Enjoy!
2024-04-0942 minEncouragement LiveTraining Up a Child in Spiritual Prospects for the Next Generation with Rex RogersTraining Up a Child in Spiritual Prospects for the Next Generation with Rex Rogers
2024-03-3054 min
Faith Radio PodcastRogers, Rex - SAT-7 USA (churches challenged in Algeria) The President for SAT-7 USA, Rex Rogers, shared about the overall ministry, which concentrates on using satellite television (as well as the Internet) to reach multiple countries in the Middle East for Christ; one such country is the Northern African nation of Algeria, where there is a crisis among Christian churches. You can learn more at sat7usa.org.
2024-02-0820 minFaith Radio PodcastRogers, Rex - SAT-7 USA (churches challenged in Algeria) The President for SAT-7 USA, Rex Rogers, shared about the overall ministry, which concentrates on using satellite television (as well as the Internet) to reach multiple countries in the Middle East for Christ; one such country is the Northern African nation of Algeria, where there is a crisis among Christian churches. You can learn more at sat7usa.org.
2024-02-0820 min
You Gonna Eat That Crust?Bizarre collectionsThe crusty boys are back and this week Ryan gets roasted at home and work.
How many humans a day in an average T-Rex’s diet?
We talk about the man who collects penis’ and we play a game of Would Your Rather…
2023-11-2840 minEncouragement LiveAn Update from Dr. Rex Rogers on Christians Working in IsraelDr. Rex Rogers of Sat-7 gives us an update on Israel
2023-11-1154 minEncouragement LiveEncouragement Live | Dr. Rex RogersDr. Hawkins and Dr. Rex Rogers discuss the situation in Israel
2023-10-2854 min
Serialously with Annie EliseSuzanne Morphew's Remains Found, Crystal Rogers Arrest, & Take Care of Maya TrialWelcome back to this week’s Headline Highlights! In today’s episode, we are going to discuss the latest news on everything going on in the true crime world. There are some breaking news updates in a few cases we’ve been covering and some new cases that have made headlines this week. In this episode, we’re talking about a manhunt underway for an ‘extremely dangerous’ convicted felon suspected of killing a 26-year-old female tech CEO, Suzanne Morphew Major Case Update, Rex Heuermann, the alleged Long Island Serial Killer’s court appearance and new information released, Rachel Morin, the Maryland woman...
2023-09-2827 minJurassic Park CastEpisode 57 - ControlWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 57 - Control.
In this episode, my terrific guest Mike from Mike's Book Reviews joins the show to chat with me about:
I open with a joke that flops, how he started his YouTube channel, BookTube, finding time to read, his video on Jurassic Park, re-reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's voice clearly portrayed through Malcolm, our favourite characters like Hammond, Nedry, Grant, Malcolm, Sattler, and Muldoon, Jumanji (1995), Steph...
2023-06-221h 19Jurassic Park CastEpisode 54 - Return Part 3Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 54 - Return Pt. 3.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Tom R. Holtz Jr. joins the show to chat with me about:
field work, Jane the teenaged T. rex, Bob Dylan's birthday, Jurassic Park's (1993) has its 30th anniversary coming out, Crichton and Speilberg's efforts to produce an authentic dinosaur experience, introducing velociraptors to the public, Jurassic Park's lasting power, depicting dinosaurs in the Jurassic World fran...
2023-05-251h 30Jurassic Park CastEpisode 50 - TyrannosaurWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 50 - Tyrannosaur.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jim Kirkland joins the show to chat with me about:
Excavating dinosaurs, traversing the badlands, volunteers on the site, extracting soft tissues (but not DNA) from fossils, ankylosaurs, studying fossils, Utahraptor Megablock, 3D printing fossils, naming dinosaurs after people, like: Nedcolbertia justinhoffmani, Martharaptor, Gastonia; dromaeosaurs, velociraptor, utahraptor, not naming a dinosaur after Steven Spielberg, Super Slasher, the...
2023-04-131h 54Jurassic Park CastEpisode 48 - SearchWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 48 - Search.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Elizabeth D. Jones joins the show to chat with me about:
My cat's name, the SECU DinoLab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, how Jurassic Park introduced ancient DNA research to the world, Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science, the embarrassing story of when she met paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, Schweitzer's paper: Soft tissue...
2023-03-301h 19Jurassic Park CastEpisode 47 - The ParkWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 47 - The Park.
In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Bradley joins the show to chat with me about:
Living in Edmonton, paleontology in Alberta, Dinosaur Park the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ireland, prospecting for fossils, the dinosaur paleofauna of Alberta, publishing academic papers, estimating body mass with dollar-store dinosaur figures, the connectivity in paleofauna between North America and Asia, gregarious Gorgosaurs, Dino 101 at the U of...
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Inside Commerce: Ecommerce Strategy, CX and Technology PodcastEP171: How Boohoo Took A Leading Retailer Online Only In 8 Weeks With Cabiri's Commercetools AcceleratorCabiri specialises in helping businesses through technology change and they have a lot of experience building composable solutions, which seems to be everyone's current architectural obsession. The project that caught our eye was the relaunch of Debenhams.com on a composable stack in an 8-week project, so we decided to find out how this was possible.
The term composable is used a lot in the industry but there’s still a lack of knowledge in many organisations regarding the operational, technical and financial implications of this approach, and it’s not right for everyone. Indeed, amongst the succ...
2023-03-2142 minJurassic Park CastEpisode 45 - The ParkWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 45 - The Park.
In this episode, my terrific guest Robbie Dorman returns to the show to chat with me about:
living all over the place, the Edmonton Oilers, how cold is it!?, Underneath, Killer Hockey Mascot, Gritty, Cocaine Bear, Burial, Fallout, ReGrowth, Akira, developing characters, The Simpsons, The Simopsons Show Podcast, Jurassic Park references in The Simpsons, lamenting over Lex in the second half of the novel...
2023-03-091h 52Jurassic Park CastEpisode 40 - ControlWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 40 - Control.
In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. W. Scott Persons IV joins the show to chat with me about:
field trips, othnielia vertebrae, splitting and lumping, The Lance Formation of Wyoming, nodosaurs, ichnofossils, ankylosaur osteoderms, hair-pulling and cringey moments in Jurassic Park, Nedry holding his own entrails, dinosaurs in media, The Land Before Time, incredible technology in the novel, like the fax machine!, studying din...
2022-12-151h 13Jurassic Park CastEpisode 34 - The Main RoadWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 34 - The Main Road.
In this episode, my terrific guest ReBecca Hunt-Foster joins the show to chat with me about:
State nomenclature, grade school dinosaur units, paleontologist origins stories, Arkansaurus fridayi, ornithomimids, Dr. James H. Quinn, Dinosaur National Monument and its history, deinocheirus, Kimmeridgian Morrison Formation, Moab and Nedcolbertia, all the famous dinosaurs: stegosaurus, apatosaurus, allosaurs, and more!, reading Jurassic Park, Colorado State Fossil Stegosaurus, a baby...
2022-11-031h 29
Encouragement for YouStewardship with Dr. Rex Rogers || Healthy Relationships with John
ReddStewardship is more than just dealing with money. On this episode host Don Hawkins and Dr. Rex Rogers, president of SAT-7, define and discuss stewardship in all aspects of life. Then, how can we solve conflict in relationships? What about improving our communication with those we love? Life coach John Redd joins host Don Hawkins to talk about relationships. Discover more Christian podcasts at lifeaudio.com and inquire about advertising opportunities at lifeaudio.com/contact-us.
2022-11-0223 minJurassic Park CastEpisode 29 - Big RexWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 29 - Big Rex
In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley returns to chat with me about:
How, long after Jurassic Park in 1993, elements of the novel continue to reappear in subsequent films in the franchise! How much of Jurssic Park: The Lost World is from Crichton's 1990 novel? How about Jurassic Park III? Lots!
Yeah, but how about the Jurassic World installments, what pa...
2022-09-291h 56Jurassic Park CastEpisode 26 - ControlWelcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 26 - Control
In this episode (stream it here), my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon returns to chat with me about:
Tyrannosaurus imperator, T-regina, and T-rex, amorphous reptile bones, lumping and splitting, species diversity, extinctions, Triceratops trivia, big dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous North America, the bias in the fossil record towards large dinosaurs, naming dinosaurs like Spiclypeus, dinosaur names based on the Jurassic Park film, dinosaurs name...
2022-09-081h 24Jurassic Park CastEpisode 25 - Version 4.4Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 25 - Version 4.4
In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs returns to chat with me about:
COVID-19, extending sequels beyond their limits, SNALE, the new album, making music videos, the Shrek 2 Soundtrack, naming your kids, song title origins, geek rock, Cat in the Brain, Atom Age Vampire, creative restrictions, The Chronicles of Riddick, Tammy and the T-Rex, synopsis, charades, Denise Richards, Bernie Lomax, Paul Wal...
2022-09-011h 22Encouragement LiveEncouragement Live with guest Dr. Rex Rogers: StewardshipDr. Don Hawkins talks with guest, Dr. Rex Rogers, president of SAT-7 USA, on the topic of stewardship
2022-08-2054 minEncouragement LiveEncouragement Live with guest Dr. Rex Rogers: We May Have Filters That Affect Our Ability To Share The Gospel With The WorldDr. Don Hawkins welcomes guest Dr. Rex Rogers, President of SAT-7 USA
2022-07-3054 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPublic Education First RespondersPublic education from kindergarten to graduate school is in serious trouble, primarily because it has lost its way, given to political ideology more than the dispensing of knowable truth and no longer knowing how or why to educate. Our educational system is teaching our next generations ambiguity and anxious anger.Some teachers, professors, staff members within public institutions of learning are still standing for truth, First Amendment freedoms, and morality. These are our new First Responders, people courageously standing in the gap on behalf of our children, our youth, and our future. I salute them, for their...
2022-07-2209 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPraise God for AnimalsAnimals are a gift from God. Likely you agree even if you are not a pet person, for animals directly or indirectly contribute to the well-being, health, and flourishing of human life and civilization. When they become pets, our experience with them becomes more personal and enjoyable. In their zeal to protect animals, animal rights activists make the mistake of equating animals and human life, something God did not intend and something we need not do in a Christian worldview of the stewardship of creation. I for one have loved animals in all my memory. For more Christian commentary...
2022-07-1910 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSurging Anti-Christian Feeling Post Dobbs v JacksonIn the wake of Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization, the SCOTUS case reversing Roe v Wade, there has been an uptick in anti-Christian blame. Abortion advocates, chilled to their bone by the decision, are incensed and looking for people and groups to blame, and one of the key culprits has been Christians or even Christianity. The vitriol and vehemence are raging. But there are also a lot of pushback tactics like deception, exaggeration, and cancel culture. Christians need to respond properly, to step up in this difficult moment, and to stand firm. For more Christian commentary, see my...
2022-07-1108 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDisney's Decline and DemoralizationThe Walt Disney Company, known for a century for family entertainment and excellence, has in recent days taken a hard left turn. In its full on embrace of "woke" philosophy and an unfettered sexual revolution, Disney is the latest and perhaps highest profile casualty of the worldview civil war. Once the go-to place for children's imagination, "wishing upon a star," now Disney is an aggressive promoter of LGBTQ+ orthodoxy. And sadly, Disney is no longer a safe place for children. For more Christian commentary on current issues, see rexmrogers.com.
2022-07-0709 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLiving In The Last DaysThe Bible speaks a lot about "the Last Days," the End Times when in the providence of God history comes to a chaotic then ultimately peaceful resolution . Scripture tells us not to try to set dates, but it also gives us many indicators that tell us the Last Days are coming soon. Are we in the Last Days now? Certainly the worsening decline of our culture seems to suggest this. But either way, what is our Christian responsibility and How shall we then live?
2022-07-0507 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersAs Moral Issue, Abortion Knows No PeerAbortion is the profound moral issue of our times. It trumps all others because it involves taking the life of innocent unborn children. The Supreme Court of the United States moments decision Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, June 24, 2022, overruled or reversed Roe v Wade (1973). Reactions since have been intense and will continue to be. Abortion has not gone away.
2022-06-2908 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLiving In A Less Patriotic AgePatriotism is an incredibly powerful emotion common to all people groups throughout time. But it can ebb and flow, including in the United States of America, once considered one of the most patriotic nations on earth. In recent years, it is ebbing. Can we be patriotic? The Greatest Generation thought so, for this is one motive that powered them to victory in WWII, thus preserving freedom for Americans today. But patriotism in recent days is considered passe by some, not worthy of our best thoughts and efforts. This is sad and potentially threatening to the future of our free...
2022-06-2806 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersChristian Colleges and Universities Under PressureGiven a continuing decline in college age students, given a rapidly secularizing culture, or at least one that is marginalizing religion, and given a declining number of Christian families that actually want their children to learn a Christian worldview, Christian colleges and universities are experiencing considerable pressures threatening their survival. In addition, in the past few decades, American culture, especially in education, has embraced moral relativism and more recently, critical race theory and woke philosophies, along with the continuing sexual revolution. None of this bodes well for usually smaller, private avowedly Christian colleges and universities. With LGBTQ+ now...
2022-06-2109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersGuns and Christian LibertyGuns and gun control are a topic each time a misguided soul enters a school, mall, or church and shoots several people, including children. The public understandably wants to do something, anything, to fix the problem, make this nightmare go away, and guns are usually the focus of discussion.The point here is not to argue for or against gun control but to consider how we approach the discussion, discern, and make decisions as Christians. It is also to think again about this wonderful blessing of God called Christian liberty.
2022-06-1408 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat About Pride Month?June is Pride Month, designated by President Clinton in 1999 as a time to celebrate, affirm, and advance the interests of LGBTQ+ individuals. While there is no room or moral justification for any negative action toward other individual citizens, for Christians who question the morality of these behaviors this presents an opportunity to speak the truth in love, sharing our faith and the message of God's reconciliation and hope. For more Christian commentary, see my website at www.rexmrogers.com.
2022-06-0708 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersWhat the Left BelievesThe Left, as opposed to the political Right or Conservative, is often still equated with Liberalism. But the Left, or now Progressives, and Liberals embrace entirely different values. In fact, Liberals were and are closer to Conservatives or the Right than many think. The Left now offers a witches brew of false ideas, anti-American and anti-free society perspectives, biblically immoral views of sexuality, and a long list of other values that stand in direct contradiction to the Judeo-Christian moral consensus that made Western Civilization and America possible as free and flourishing societies.The Left is s...
2022-06-0309 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersUvalde, How Should We Respond?Uvlade, Texas, Robb Elementary School, is the site of another mass school shooting in which 19 children, ages 6-10, and 2 teachers lost their lives, victims of a lone gunman. To say this event is tragic does not come close to the gut-wrenching, senselessness of this attack on innocent children. What does our Christian faith speak to such an event? How should believers respond?
2022-05-3008 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDon't Trust YourselfWe often hear, Just believe in yourself. This is how Western Culture has functioned for some time. The self or self-fulfillment have been the primary focus of most people's lives. We feed the self. Many of us have come to believe that happiness is defined by what we own, how we look, who we impress, and how much entertainment we can enjoy.Perhaps believing in ourselves is not a bad affirmation as far as it goes. But if that is all we do, we're in trouble, because, well, our self is untrustworthy. We each have a sinful...
2022-05-2410 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEvangelism and Social ConcernChristians often seem to set up evangelism and social concern in opposition to one another, or at least to arrange them on separate tracks. Yet the Word of God is holistic. It shares God's moral will for all humanity, and it provides us with a Christian philosophy of life or worldview wherein we are to carry the message of reconciliation and redemption to the world even as we are charged with caring for the world. Jesus said to be not of the world, but in the same chapter he said to go into the world. We don't get raptured...
2022-05-1707 minJurassic Park CastEpisode 9 - Skeleton0:00 - Introduction
Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 9 - Skeleton.
9:46 - Guest interview with Jamie Reaume
25:00 - The Shining's influence on Jurassic Park
37:00 - Foreign Film Star sample music
43:00 - Jurassic Park trivia
In this episode, my terrific guest Jamie Reaume chats with me about:
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls, Christmas Cards, The Chatham Capitol Theatre, Dune, special effects, Michael Keaton's Batm...
2022-05-121h 21Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSocial Justice Is Not What You ThinkPopularly known as "Woke" philosophy, social justice ideology is literally taking American culture at a blitzkrieg pace. Some pushback has occurred and some is occurring now, but so far, social justice ideology advocates have won most battles in the name of "diversity, equity, inclusion." The problem is, social justice is not the same as biblical justice. While American culture, indeed Western culture, was built upon Judeo-Christian values, these are rapidly being jettisoned in favor of a vague agnosticism, one in which everyone does what's right in their own eyes. The points of the spear of this social justice ideology...
2022-05-1008 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersClimate Change--The Sky Is FallingClimate Change is the doomsayer topic du jour. Countless articles have been written, innumerable media people have breathlessly reported, and politicians and environmental activists alike proclaim the end of the world in 12, 10, 6-8 years. Why? Because human beings alone are responsible and the primary culprit is our use of coal, oil, gas. End the use of fossil fuel today and maybe we won't all burn in a fiery inferno tomorrow. Problem with all this is, it does not match evidence, is hyperbolic, is highly politically biased, and is a tool of the Left to gain money and p...
2022-05-0310 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Second American Civil WarIt sounds like hyperbole, but it's really not: America is at war with itself, a kind of second civil war, this one a Cold War involving religious worldview. Our second civil war involves those on the one hand who believe the Bible is the divinely inspired, authoritative and trustworthy Word of God, and those on the other hand who reject the Bible, reject the idea of moral or absolute truth, and seek to live life governed by their preferences and feelings. This civil war is well under way, and it is far more influential and far-reaching in i...
2022-04-2608 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersBombarded By Anxiety--Youth Without HopeAmerican teens and young adults are experiencing a full-on mental health crisis rooted in apocalyptic fears they are mainlining everyday from media and especially social media. Consequently, youth evidence disillusionment, dread, despair, and a nihilistic purposelessness. Youth are not going to church and do not possess a biblically Christian worldview. So. one reason for this catastrophic generational development is that youth have no fall back, nothing solid to believe in, no safety net. Subjective remedies offered by counselors do not help because these basically ask youth to change themselves, something they cannot do. What youth need is faith in...
2022-04-2109 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersTattoos Perplex MeTattoos, body art, have been around since ancient times, but in the past decade they've gone mainstream in Western culture. While tattoos, in general, were frowned upon when I was kid, no more. Half of millennials report at least one tattoo. Why do people get tattoos? Should they? At least some tattoos I can understand, though most perplex me. Piercings, now that's another matter. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com .
2022-04-1509 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersForgiveness UnlimitedUnforgiveness may be the number one sin in the Christian Church. In any event, it is a deadly cancer to the soul. Forgiveness liberates, blesses, refreshes, enlivens. Jesus told his disciples to forgive seventy times seven, in other words, without limit.Find more Christian commentary see the website rexrogers.com.
2022-04-1308 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersOpening Floodgates of Sports BettingWith the US Supreme Court's Murphy decision in 2018, sports wagering went mainstream. It is now everywhere marketed and available.But gambling, in particular sports gambling, not only threatens the social health of those who participate in it, sports wagering can also be a direct hit on the very idea of competitive athletics and fair play. If athletes, coaches, or referees are influenced by their gambling interests or the pressures of others involved in betting large sums on the outcome of athletic events, they may be induced to throw the game. Point shaving, “taking a fall” in a boxing...
2022-04-0510 minJurassic Park CastEpisode 3 - Almost Paradise0:00 - Intro
Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.
Find the episode webpage at: Episode 3 - Almost Paradise
3:19 - A new South African dimosauromorph
4:49 - What's the newest species of Kritosaurus from Patagonia?
5:52 - Why the new names for Tyrannosaurus rex?
7:59 - Special guest interview with Kristoph Ochs of SNALE
18:33 - What's the movie Carnosaur about?
46:00 - Was Godzilla (1999) under pressure to immitate Jurassic Park?
51:37 - The o...
2022-03-311h 33Discerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPersecution PrimerMore than 360 million Christians live in places around the world where they experience high levels of persecution. That’s more than the population of the United States.Persecution can be considered in at least two ways: persecution of others, personal persecution, and persecution intersects with freedom of religion and belief.I hear someone claim the American Church or Christians are experiencing “persecution.” But I don’t use “persecution” to refer to incidents in the US. Frankly, while churches in the US have been harassed by government or other entities, and while genuine persecution will likely someday come...
2022-03-2909 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersContemporary Culture: Celebrating IrrationalityMuch of what we now say and do in contemporary culture actually makes no sense. It defies reason and rationality, which is to say, it is irrational, and we celebrate this. We want freedom to act with a moral compass of our own devising, freedom to do what’s right in our own eyes, and we’re chasing after this wind with all we’re worth: abortion, gambling, unfettered debt, immoral sexuality, idea of God an unnecessary hypothesis, there is not truth, we could go on. Celebrating irrationality is our mode of existence, but it is unsustainable. For more Christi...
2022-03-2210 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersResponding To BetrayalBetrayal is part of life in a sinful world. It comes to us all. And it hurts. Plus, though hard to admit and consider, we have likely betrayed others. Most of us likely would agree that betrayal on the face of it is not a good thing, so how should we respond to betrayal in a manner that hopefully heals, but above all, honors the Lord? It's not easy, not the natural response, but then again, God wants us to be not natural but spiritual. So he provided us with ways to deal wit...
2022-03-1609 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersCostfree Healthcare 2Healthcare is increasingly expensive, particularly when we require professional medical, health, and insurance support. But there are a number of ways we can assume responsibility, taking steps that preserve or improve our health in ways that cost us very little. Better health, and especially the avoidance of self-induced health problems, is just a choice or two away. Deciding to live healthy is a matter of God honoring stewardship. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com.
2022-03-1507 min
Kickin' PodcastKickin' Episode 18: Faith, Mentorship, and Strength with RexVicar Rex Rogers is a non-traditional student in Seminary. At age 65 he is beginning a new career, one of purpose and in the service of others. He is working to become a pastor as a retired professional. Listen to his story where he shares his own spiritual journey and how he found strength when he faced a cancer diagnosis, surgery, and extensive rehabilitation.
2022-03-1429 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersCostfree Healthcare 1Healthcare is by any measure an expensive proposition, maybe more so when government gets involved. In any event, free or in our example "costfree" healthcare is available to us all, but these initiatives require our personal responsibility, decisiveness, and commitment. This is the first of two podcasts suggesting a list of behaviors available to all of us anywhere, anytime at little or no financial cost. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com.
2022-03-1108 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDiversity and Inclusiveness in Culture and ChurchDiversity and inclusion, often along with equity, have become tripwires in American culture. But the words mean different things to different groups and much of what activists currently promote is at odds with a biblically Christian worldview. This is even more philosophically and practically threatening to wellbeing when these terms and the associated goals they represent are brought into the Church. The Word of God has not changed and Christians dare not set aside God's definition of morality and, actually, reality. Standing firm for truth, which is to day disagreeing with or rejecting certain non-biblical ideas and values, can...
2022-03-0808 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLittering, Selfishness with No Redeeming Social ValueLittering is one the most common irresponsible acts people commit every day. Cigarette butts are the number one form of litter worldwide. Litter offers no positive side-effects. Littering is damaging, destructive, and dangerous. It violates God's command to human beings made in his image to develop and care for his creation. This command in Gen. 1:26-28 is sometimes called the Cultural Mandate.
2022-03-0106 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEven Methuselah Died—Wills and Trusts Are for EveryoneThe Old Testament patriarch Methuselah lived to be 969 years old, the oldest human being on record. But after that remarkable life, still, Scripture says, "and he died." Everyone, no matter their station in life, eventually dies. Death is indeed a fact of life. For Christians this is not something to fear, for we will join the Lord in heaven, but it is something for which God expects us to prepare: spiritually - have we trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation from sin? and practically - have we taken steps to be good stewards of the assets--time, talent, treasure--with whi...
2022-02-2807 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersEverything Is Politics But Politics Is Not EverythingPolitics, government and public policy, partisanship and ideology, now dominate our culture. Everything is reduced to a political calculus. But there is more to life than politics. Indeed the greatest challenges and issues we face are spiritual, not political. And the most important circumstances of life involve family and friends, education and employment or calling, not politics. For more Christian commentary see rexmrogers.com.
2022-02-2306 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersBurial, Cremation, and the AfterlifePrior to 1930, cremation was virtually unheard of in the U.S., and even as late as 1975 cremation was chosen for body disposal in only 6% of deaths in the U.S. Not anymore. Cremation is now available and regularly practiced in every state, such that by year 2025 the Cremation Association projects 57.27% of American deaths will be administered via cremation. Yet Christians have historically opposed cremation, equating it with pagan ritual and superstition and preferring burial's symbolism of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection and the hope of believers' resurrection at the Second Coming. But nowhere in Scripture is cremation c...
2022-02-2207 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersThe Death of DiscussionWith increased politicization of virtually every topic, with growing hyper-partisanship, with now super-sized ideological positions ranging across Left-Liberal-Moderate-Conservative-Right, and the polarization these trends have caused, it seems now almost impossible to hold a discussion, much less a debate, about any social-political issue. People meltdown quickly into opposing camps that look upon the other as not simply different but wrong...and a threat. So now, the answer to differing point of views is not more debate upon the merits of the viewpoints in a free and open setting but silencing. Even the hallowed status of the First Amendment of the...
2022-02-1906 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersPresent-Day False Prophets: Celebrities? Influencers?False prophets and teachers in the Scripture seemed to be religious leaders, sort of like preachers today. But while some preachers today might indeed be false prophets, for the most part, American culture no longer listens. Today we watch and listen and follow celebrities, online influencers, ideologues and activists, maybe intellectuals/professors, many of whom come to us "in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." Their message is a moral relativism that undermines believers, the Church, and American culture's ongoing potential to maintain itself as a free society.
2022-02-1807 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersLosing a Language of the FaithWith the increasing availability of multiple versions of the Bible, and an explosion of choruses, churchgoers now carry a diverse set of Bibles to church, if they carry any at all, and churchgoers in different churches typically reference or memorize verses from different Bible versions and also usually sing a different set of choruses. The unintended result: the Body of Christ may very well be losing a common language of the faith. If we're learning verses from different versions and singing different choruses, what biblical vocabulary is readily available to us? When this trend is combined with increasing bi...
2022-02-1607 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersSex Week and the Degeneration of Higher EducationAmerican universities, the envy of the world, once stood for truth and the pursuit of truth, free inquiry, the best and the betterment of human civilization. Now, many have become woke caricatures of their past, dominated by fear, race and gender consciousness, sexual hedonism, and the latest secular rejection of religious, particularly Christian, morality and ideals. Sex Week, the debasement of Valentines Day, is simply further evidence of a tragic degeneration of the "higher" in higher education. Check rexmrogers.com for more Christian commentary.
2022-02-1607 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersMartin Luther, Plague, PandemicThe great reformer and theologian Martin Luther lived through the Bubonic Plague, Black Death, and later wrote about how Christians should respond to such a challenge. His Christian worldview is instructive, emphasizing faith not fear, learning and reason, then responsible decision making and actions regarding healthcare, and trust in the Sovereign God. Check rexmrogers.com for more Christian commentary.
2022-02-1509 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex RogersEpisode 1 of Discerning What Is Best with Rex Rogers. "Discerning what is best" drawn from Phil. 1:9-11, i.e., spiritual discernment or Christian critical thinking wherein Christians are charged with applying unchanging biblical principles in a rapidly changing world. Doing this allows Christians to make decisions and live their lives in a manner that honors God, stewards the earth and everything in it, and blesses those who affirm and live out the Creator's defined reality.
2022-02-1406 minDiscerning What Is Best with Dr Rex M RogersDiscerning What Is Best TrailerTrailer introducing new free podcast, Discerning What Is Best with Dr. Rex Rogers, applying unchanging biblical principles in this rapidly changing world.Learn more at rexmrogers.com.
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Lone ValleyEp8 - Dawn FM Is ScaryThis week we ride off into the sunset with Oliver Tree as our tears blow in the wind to his new song "Cowboys Don't Cry." Also, we have some new releases coming this week from Rex Orange County and XXXTentacion. Apparently it's cool to propose and then drink your significant others blood, idk? The Weeknd is back with Dawn FM and honestly...it scares me. As always, follow us on IG @lonevalleypodcast
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