Series
Long conversations with Eric Capaci, Rick Green, and Nathan Jacobs.
Eric Capaci on the offering that built a college, Rick Green on civic education, and the three-part crossover with Nathan Jacobs on modern philosophy, Orthodoxy, and a life in art, scholarship, and film, released as episodes 43 to 45 and filmed for The Nathan Jacobs Podcast.
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1:14:53Pastor Eric Capaci of Gospel Light Church and president of Champion Christian College tells the story of the offering (wedding rings, car titles, $750,000) that made the college possible, and the two discuss the friendship that brought Dr. Firestone to Hot Springs and the Turning Point Education partnership.
Lecture-style series build on themselves. Numbered so you can follow the thread.
1:14:53Pastor Eric Capaci of Gospel Light Church and president of Champion Christian College tells the story of the offering (wedding rings, car titles, $750,000) that made the college possible, and the two discuss the friendship that brought Dr. Firestone to Hot Springs and the Turning Point Education partnership.
49:16Rick Green, founder of Patriot Academy and former Texas legislator, talks with Dr. Firestone about wanting his work to matter, COVID as a wake-up call, the polarization it produced, and why some ideas are poisonous enough to warrant a return to Greek-style ostracism.
4:30A programming note explaining that the dream series is paused so three long-form interviews of Dr. Firestone's former student Nathan Jacobs, shot during a week in the Midwest, can be co-released with The Nathan Jacobs Podcast as a dialogue between Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism.
1:34:36Crossover episode one (also released as Firestone Files audio episode 'The LIE about Modern Philosophy'): the two trace 27 years of collaboration from Jacobs as Firestone's undergraduate, the conference-going tradition, co-writing In Defense of Kant's Religion, faculty politics at Trinity, and why Firestone left the ivory tower for podcasting and Turning Point USA.
2:01:10Crossover episode two (Firestone Files audio Ep 44): prompted by the Ortlund–Pageau debate, Firestone presses Jacobs on whether an evangelical with orthodox beliefs is 'saved' outside the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Jacobs explains communion, the non-Chalcedonians, the ecumenical councils, and why he made the East–West series to translate between the two worlds.
2:14:12Crossover episode three (Firestone Files audio Ep 45): Jacobs tells his own story, from art school and a bad LSD trip that reoriented him, through philosophy under Firestone, to writing, directing and producing feature films and his pilgrimages to Mount Athos and Cyprus as an Orthodox convert.
9 episodesLetters to my grandchildren, starting with the family they come from.
4 episodesThree short lectures on what it means to live a whole human life.
7 episodesA Kant scholar on why he joined Turning Point, and what Charlie Kirk got right.
