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In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the cultural, educational, and moral foundations that once sustained Western civilization and what happens when those foundations are forgotten.

Beginning with the importance of serious reading and shared intellectual life, Dr. Patrick explores the enduring relevance of C. S. Lewis and his book The Abolition of Man, arguing that modern education has abandoned the moral formation that once shaped character, judgment, and social cohesion.

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

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

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In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the collapse of shared meaning in modern culture and asks what is lost when societies abandon objective moral truth, historical memory, and transcendent ideals. Dr. Patrick reflects on his years in academia, the fading of a unifying cultural narrative, and the role universities once played in forming character rather than merely transmitting information.

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Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/

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/

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In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick looks back on a life shaped by medicine, family, literature, and faith, asking a timeless question: what gives life meaning?

Drawing on personal memories, historical change, and the writings of Walker Percy, Dr. Patrick explores how modern life often reduces human beings to consumers and functionaries leaving many affluent, educated people profoundly dissatisfied. He reflects on work made obsolete by technology, the loss of vocational purpose, and why the most meaningful moments in life are rarely the most comfortable or efficient.

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Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/

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/

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In this wide-ranging and deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the disappearance of wisdom from modern ethical discourse particularly in medicine, public policy, and crisis response. Drawing on personal experience, medical history, and wartime stories, he contrasts today’s legalistic, self-protective ethics with an earlier moral framework rooted in responsibility, courage, and historical memory.

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Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/

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/

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In this deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick examines what the modern West has forgotten about its greatest resource, not minerals, markets, or military power, but spiritual, moral, and cultural capital. Drawing on global events, personal medical experience, and powerful conversion stories emerging from Iran and Africa, Dr. Patrick reflects on the disappearance of wisdom from public life, the limits of scientific and technological thinking, and the consequences of abandoning moral truth for tribal loyalty.

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Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/

Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/

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/

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In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick explores what modern reductionist and instrumentalist worldviews fail to understand about human life, meaning, and transformation. Drawing on David Wootton’s Power, Pleasure, and Profit, classical medicine, and the biblical wisdom of Ecclesiastes, Dr. Patrick contrasts cost-benefit thinking with a richer moral and spiritual vision of reality.

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Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/

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/

LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick

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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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Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/

Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/

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/

LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick