Welcome, this is the space for all things nerd and hip-hop as we talk shit and dissect my favorite mediums and pop culture. From the ugly to fantastical , and co host lotto lit 🔥 Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-god-gray/support
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God’s word is black & white, straight forward. He doesn’t have any gray areas! On this podcast I will speak God’s truth and keep it black and white. The purpose is to glorify Jesus Christ while sharing my testimony!
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Diatribe is a discussion site about news, politics, sports, and anything that I feel like we need to discuss at the time. Diatribe will try to bring different insights on some of the most controversial topics of today… Speckled with a little humor! Enjoy
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The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday.
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k6224jXaKAIPIbbt1TrR We invite people of all backgrounds to share their stories through nuanced conversations and forward thinking... and not taking ourselves too seriously. Everyone’s story matters, every voice is important. Life is polarizing but not everything is black and white. Come join us as we Fade to Gray.
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Welcome to the Educated A$$holes podcast – where Dane and Rob, two self-proclaimed geniuses (and definite a$$holes), dive into everything with a mix of smarts and a whole lot of laughs. Meet your hosts: Dane, the king of clever comebacks, and Rob, the sultan of snark. We're on a mission to prove that intelligence and insanity aren't just compatibly connected, they're downright entertaining. On the docket? Anything and everything. From deep philosophical discussions to the downright ridiculou ...
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OTTplay Now You Know is one podcast that brings you up to speed with film trivia, anecdotes, lesser-known facts and all the info that you had not known about your favourite films and shows. Aaj kya dekhoge OTTplay se poocho! This is an OTTplay production, brought to you HT Smartcast.
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To my sisters who are overwhelmed with life and have no time for self care. I will share some tips the Lord has given me to care for myself so that I am a better person all around. 💞
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Sharing the positive and negative parts of celibacy.
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In part three of our series on creativity, guest host Oshan Jarow speaks with philosopher of neuroscience Mark Miller about how our minds actually work. They discuss the brain as a predictive engine that builds our conscious experience for us. We’re not seeing what we see. We’re predicting what we should see. Miller says that depression, opioid use…
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The Reason They Can’t Love You Back..
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We try so hard to get the ones we love to love us back. But there is a reason why it’s been difficult. Something isn’t right if we have to work hard to get one to love us …
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Musician Laraaji on the origin of creativity
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Sean revisits his interview with musician Laraaji, a pioneer of new age music who has recorded more than 50 albums since he was discovered busking in a park by Brian Eno. Laraaji and Sean discuss inspiration, flow states, and what moves us to create. This is the second conversation in our three shows in three days three-part series about creativity…
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What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? Creativity feels innately human, but is it? Can a machine be creative? Are we still being creative if we use machines to assist in our creative output? To help answer those questions, Sean speaks with Meghan O'Gieblyn, the author of the book "God, Human, Animal, Machine: Techn…
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Some of us are holding on to things and it’s weighing on our bodies LITERALLY. God is wanting us to let it go today!
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You will have a brand new life! The life God always wanted for you! Get excited 🥂
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Diddy indictment, Chris brown history of violence, Iran launches middles at Israel, Green Party hypocrisy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/black-god-gray/support
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Children live with a beginner’s mind. Every day is full of new discoveries, powerful emotions, and often unrealistically positive assumptions about the future. As adults, beginner’s mind gives way to the mundane drudgeries of existence — and our brains seem to make it much harder for us to be happy. Should we be cool with that? We wrap up our three…
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Leaving Them Behind is 100% Necessary ✌🏾
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God is waiting on us. We hear this all the time and still won’t do what’s necessary because it’s uncomfortable. When prayers aren’t answered it’s never God, it’s us. Let’s do our part so God can do His ✨
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Set Your Expectations on God Alone
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Sometimes we expect those to be there for us and they fail us. It’s not their fault more than it is ours for not setting those expectations on God. It’s all good though because when you know better you do better.
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Sean Illing has a special message for all you listeners: Look at me! We’ve made our first-ever video episode. See Sean in conversation with Yuval Noah Harari. Watch it with your friends and family and your friend’s families and their family friends. It’s on YouTube right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhx1sdX2bow Learn more about your ad choi…
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God wants us to stop rejecting ourselves and taking it out on the other person. We are all created by God and He has done His best work on us all. It’s up to us to maintain the body He gave us and to appreciate the beauty in others.
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God is preparing a lot of us for our new season, our new lives. Sometimes if not all the time it will require getting rid of the old. The sooner we are obedient the sooner we can receive the promises. 🤲🏾
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What if we get climate change right?
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Climate change has become synonymous with doomsday, as though everyone is waiting for the worst to happen. But what is this mindset doing to us? Is climate anxiety keeping us from confronting the challenge? Ayana Elizabeth Johnson thinks so. In part two of our “Reasons to Be Cheerful” series, she talks to Sean Illing about her new book, What If We …
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Yuval Noah Harari on the eclipsing of human intelligence
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Humans are good learners and teachers, constantly gathering information, archiving, and sharing knowledge. So why, after building the most sophisticated information technology in history, are we on the verge of destroying ourselves? We know more than ever before. But are we any wiser? Bestselling author of Sapiens and historian Yuval Noah Harari do…
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I forgot to mention I didn’t open the box like God said. I want the grade A! 😉
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They Will Reap What They Have Sown 💯
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How frustrating is it to be tried and not retaliate because you desire to please God? The Lord has some truth that may help you navigate through the trials.
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Everything is telling you that you heard God wrong and on top of that you are just tired of doing the work and seeing nothing. God knows how you feel but He wants you to know this entire process was designed to get you to lose your faith. Will you believe God or the enemy?
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There’s a certain glamor to cynicism. As a culture, we’ve turned cynicism into a symbol of hard-earned wisdom, assuming that those who are cynical are the only ones with the courage to tell us the truth and prepare us for an uncertain future. Psychologist Jamil Zaki challenges that assumption. In part one of The Gray Area’s new three-part series, “…
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It’s looking more like “wash, rinse, repeat” but God wants you to look deeper. You will see that you are basically at the end of this season. Any day now will be you’re the breakthrough you’re waiting on if you do not give up.
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Just want things to be very clear. I will always promote walking with Christ and how it’s better than walking in the world. 🫶🏾
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“You Are Her” | Now You Are Ready Pt 2
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Breakdown of Proverb 31 Of course not every wife has to clean and cook. However as a Godly wife there are expectations we must meet to help our husbands.
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Sean Illing speaks with poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht, whose book The Wonder Paradox asks: If we don't have God or religion, what — if anything — do we lose? They discuss how religion accesses meaning — through things like prayer, ceremony, and ritual — and Jennifer speaks on the ways that poetry can play similar roles in a secular way.…
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It’s been a long time coming. Finally things are about to take off in your life. God is ready to change your life forever BUT first we must completely let go of the past. Let’s talk about it.
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The jazz musician’s guide to the universe
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How is the origin of our universe like an improvised saxophone solo? This week, Sean Illing talks to Stephon Alexander, a theoretical physicist and world-class jazz musician. Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics and his most recent book, Fear of a Black Universe. This episode features music by Stephon Alexander throughout, from his latest…
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“You Are HER” Now You’re Ready Pt. 1
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You have done the work! You are a Proverbs 31 woman and NOW you are ready! 👑👗💍
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Revisiting the "father of capitalism"
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Sean Illing talks with Glory Liu, the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism. Smith is most well-known for being the “father of capitalism,” but as Liu points out in her book, his legacy has been misappropriated — especially in America. They discuss his original intentions and what we can ta…
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Forgiveness is mostly a perspective thing from what I’ve learned. When you partner with God He will literally give you a new way of seeing the pain you’ve experienced and it will free you 💯
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Why Did God Show Me Just To Have Me Wait?
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Sometimes God will make a promise to you that won’t come to pass until later down the line. It can be frustrating to be still when you’re so excited about it. But it’s necessary for where He’s taking you.
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Breaking our family patterns
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Sean Illing speaks with marriage and family therapist Vienna Pharaon, whose book 'The Origins of You' aims to help us identify and heal the wounds that originated from our family, which shape our patterns of behavior in relationships and throughout our lives. Sean and Vienna talk about how we can spot and name our "origin wounds," discuss practical…
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They have been lying on you for a while but now it will be exposed. Every lie they told they will have to eat.
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Letting go of offense is not only freeing but it makes room for your blessings. It’s not worth it to hold a grudge. We have worked too hard to let what they did stop us from answered prayers. Just let it go today!
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We need men to get into their godly positions so that everything else can be in line. When the head is not in order everything else falls out of place.
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In an Orwellian twist, the word “Orwellian” has been misused so much over the decades that it’s essentially lost its meaning. But George Orwell, author of the classics Animal Farm and 1984, was very clear in his beliefs. While he was progressive and prescient in many ways, he wasn’t without his flaws. This week, Sean Illing explores the real George…
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You are beautiful just the way you are. You don’t need to compare to the next because the way God made you is enough!
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Today, we’re diving into the highly-anticipated showdown that’s been on every Marvel fan’s radar—Deadpool vs Wolverine, which premiered on the 26th of July. This film has set the comic book world on fire, uniting two of Marvel's most beloved antiheroes the wisecracking mercenary and the gruff mutant – in an epic battle. Buckle up, in today’s episod…
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You chose them to love but they didn’t choose you back. It hurts but we never really needed them. We had God the entire time. ✨
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Do not delay any longer. God is getting ready to do what He told you He would. But did you do what God told you to do?
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God is giving His last warning before His judgement. Repent now says God. 🙏🏾
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The timebomb the founding fathers left us
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The US Constitution is a brilliant political document, but it’s far from perfect. This week’s guest, Erwin Chemerinsky, argues that many of today’s threats to democracy are a direct result of compromises made by the Founding Fathers centuries ago. Those mistakes have come back to haunt us, and they might destroy our democracy. Erwin Chemerinsky’s l…
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I was afraid that God would be angry with me for wanting to leave my marriage. (for great reasons). But God was so understanding and supportive.
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They Can’t Partake In The Blessings ✨
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What God has for you is for YOU! That sat and watched you suffered and will turn around expecting to celebrate your victory. But God says NO
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You can’t drop an f-bomb on the radio, but fortunately for our guest, you can say anything you want in a podcast. This week, host Sean Illing talks to philosopher Rebecca Roache, author of For F*ck’s Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun about the philosophy and linguistics of swearing, and why certain four-letter words hold the magical pow…
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Sean Illing talks with political science professor Matt McManus about the political thought of Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th-century German philosopher with a complicated legacy, despite his crossover into popular culture. They discuss how Nietzsche's work has been interpreted — and misinterpreted — since his death in 1900, how his radical politica…
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Mad That They Can’t Get Any Credit
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They didn’t know abandoning you and betraying you would cause you to flourish in ways they never could imagine. God knew who you were. You knew who you were but God kept that from them for this very reason! It’s your turn 🥂 God is taking you higher
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What India teaches us about liberalism — and its decline
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Authoritarian tendencies have been on the rise globally and the liberal world order is on the decline. One hotspot of this tension lies in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi employs autocratic language and tactics to maintain power. But a recent election may indicate that voters are losing interest in this style of rule. Guest host Zack Beau…
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