The Meaning of Holy Week: Two Poets as Our Guides – Isaac Watts & George Herbert
Earl Palmer and Dick Staub look at two poets that, whether known or unknown, have shaped our understanding of the Holy Week. Earl says “the role a poet plays in helping us focus, in helping us understand the huge events of our lives and, also, to see and feel a resonance with great truths" is something we [...]
Love and Truth Together in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Where do Love and Truth exhibit complimentary, generative outcomes in Raskolnikov's life? How did Dostoyevsky come to write the such a compelling story that affirms the oft-resisted truth that joy is found in suffering, redemption found in confession and owning up to our darkness? Earl Palmer and Dick Staub take a thorough look at a [...]
The Reverberating Word: Music as a Language of Faith – The Music of Bach, Handel, Getty, Townend
Earl Palmer trades in books for music for this show, looking at how the music of Bach, Handel, Getty, and Townend are expressions of Faith. Starting with the biographical history of each of these musical talents, Earl then interweaves how their faith shaped and came through in their composition. Podcast: Play in new window | Download [...]
Defining Joy – The Humor of Jesus by Earl Palmer & The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Have you considered the humor and the laughter of God? G.K. Chesterton suspected that Jesus' greatest subtlety was the quite joy that he carried throughout his life. Earl Palmer looks at the humor of Jesus and attempts the difficult task of defining Joy, through his own book - The Humor of Jesus: Sources of Laughter in the Bible - and C.S. Lewis' The [...]
God is Easy to Please: George MacDonald, the Storyteller…
Once a month, Earl Palmer digs through books that every thinking Christian needs to read. On this particular evening we will looked at George Macdonald as Earl talks us through Macdonald's Phantastes. We will also examine how Macdonald influenced C.S.Lewis as we look at Lewis' George MacDonald: An Anthology. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB)
Calm Under Pressure: The Virtue of Dynamic Moderation from Aleksander Solzhenitsyn & Paul
In our first show of the Season with Earl Palmer Ministries, Earl takes us through Russian author and Nobel Prize Winner Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's book From Under the Rubble (University Press of America) Written in 1974, Solzhenitsyn's ethical essay is truly ahead of its time if not simply timeless as he challenges individuals and the world at large [...]
The Legacy of Robert Munger Podcast: Live At Earl Palmer Ministries at First Presbyterian Berkeley 1 of 1
Each month Reverend Earl Palmer selects a book thinking Christians ought to read. In this special episode broadcast from First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, host Dick Staub leads the discussion with Rev Earl Palmer on the legacy of Reverend Robert Munger including his classic book, “My Heart Christ’s Home.” Podcast: Play in new window [...]
What About Miracles? Earl Palmer on C.S. Lewis and Leif Enger Podcast: Live At Earl Palmer Ministries 1 of 1
Each month Reverend Earl Palmer selects a book thinking Christians ought to read. In this episode Dick Staub leads the discussion with Rev. Palmer featuring C.S. Lewis classic Miracles and Leif Enger’s fictional work, Peace Like a River Podcast: Play in new window | Download (70.7MB)
Tim Keller's "The Reason for God"
Each month Reverend Earl Palmer selects a book thinking Christians ought to read. In this episode Dick Staub leads the discussion with Earl on Tim Keller's book, The Reason for God (Belief in an Age of Skepticism). Tim Keller is pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, New York. The Reason for God [...]
James Davison Hunter's "To Change the World"Podcast: Live At Earl Palmer Ministries 1 of 1
Each month Reverend Earl Palmer selects a book every thinking Christian ought to read. In this episode host Dick Staub and Rev. Earl Palmer discuss James Davison Hunter's "To Change the World" Subtitled: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World. Hunter is A Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory [...]