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In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick weaves together theology, literature, history, and cultural analysis to explore what happens when wisdom disappears from public life. Drawing on John 15, Isaiah 11, and a powerful sermon by Charles Spurgeon, he reflects on awe, reverence, and the fear of the Lord as foundations for spiritual maturity.

The conversation moves through classic works like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Abolition of Man, examining moral authority, suffering, and the consequences of a world that lives as if God does not exist.

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In this short but thought-provoking episode, Dr. John Patrick invites listeners into a deeper way of reading, thinking, and understanding the modern world. He introduces a new online reading group and reflects on C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, a book he believes is more relevant today than when it was written.

Dr. Patrick explores Lewis’s critique of modern education, contrasting the wisdom of the medieval world—where the soul was shaped to conform to objective reality—with the modern impulse to reshape reality according to our own ideas. He warns that when technique replaces wisdom, societies lose moral clarity, humility, and truth

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Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/

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Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/

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Dr. John Patrick reflects on two contemporary articles that illuminate a central moral crisis of our time: the replacement of truth with loyalty. Drawing on First Things’ essay “Suicide of the Liberals” and recent reporting on alleged daycare fraud in Minnesota, Dr. Patrick explores how intellectual elites, political institutions, and communities unravel when allegiance to ideology, group identity, or narrative outweighs commitment to objective truth.

The discussion highlights how liberalism historically collapsed when it refused to confront evil in the name of tolerance, and how modern societies repeat this mistake through tribal thinking, moral relativism, and fear of honest judgment.

https://firstthings.com/suicide-of-the-liberals/

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/us/minnesota-daycare-fraud-allegations-somali

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Biblical Literate Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/

Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/

Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/