Episodi

  • The Blessings of Growing Up Poor

    The Blessings of Growing Up Poor
    Aug 12 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick draws on childhood memories to explore how faith, poverty, and family shaped his lifelong love of learning. He discusses DNA as a sophisticated language, the tacit knowledge children absorb through immersion rather than instruction, and how his uneducated but devout parents instilled truthfulness, biblical literacy, and a love of reading without formal effort. Dr. John Patrick reflects on the loss of Bible reading in schools, the decline of sustained concentration among students raised on screens, and the growing anxiety among young people, particularly women, in modern education. He also touches on the global spiritual revival, including reports of people meeting Jesus in dreams across the Islamic world, and references thinkers such as John Lennox, Michael Polanyi, C.S. Lewis, and Jonathan Haidt throughout the conversation. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/jp5LbMZm1Co // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    50 min
  • Hungry and Thirsting for Righteousness

    Hungry and Thirsting for Righteousness
    Aug 19 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick continues his series on the Beatitudes, exploring what it means to hunger and thirst for righteousness and how real conversion changes lives from the inside out. He recounts stories of transformation, including a Falklands War veteran freed instantly from alcoholism and the miners converted under the preaching of George Whitfield, and traces how the eighteenth century revival in Britain reshaped a nation through figures like Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery. Dr. John Patrick also reflects on Paul's thorn in the flesh, N.T. Wright's book on the Psalms, and an article by Sebastian Milbank in First Things on the true meaning of Christian hospitality. He closes with reflections on sexual ethics, Rosaria Butterfield's conversion story, and an essay by Ephraim Radner on how little we truly understand of other cultures and hearts. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/GxgV0CL-KbQ // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    40 min
  • Why Bureaucrats Don’t Understand Farms

    Why Bureaucrats Don’t Understand Farms
    Aug 26 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on rural education, drawing on a true story of city officials misjudging a farmer's land to illustrate the tacit, hard-won knowledge that farmers possess and bureaucrats lack. He argues that modern education, shaped by academics and faculties of education, fails rural boys who long to work rather than sit in class absorbing what he calls propaganda. Dr. John Patrick discusses Mangal Wadi's book The Third Education Revolution, the Judeo-Christian foundations of Western science through figures like Faraday and Newton, and the erosion of trust and moral culture in modern society. He closes with a case for memorization, poetry, and reading George Herbert, urging a return to church-based education grounded in Scripture and character rather than bureaucratic procedure. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/h3bMsgz_R5I // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    49 min
  • Why Ethics Is Really Theology

    Why Ethics Is Really Theology
    Sep 2 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick explains why he came to believe, through the work of Oliver O'Donovan, that ethics is not fundamentally a branch of philosophy but of theology, and why Aristotle's brilliant system was built on a flawed foundation. Dr. John Patrick reflects on his own upbringing, the preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and Augustine's Confessions to argue that culture and character, not mere technical knowledge, determine whether societies flourish. He draws on decades of medical work in the Caribbean and Africa to show how cultural and spiritual foundations shape everything from nutrition science to national development, and he critiques modern scientism, climate alarmism, and the collapse of classical education. The episode closes with an extended reflection on Psalm 73 as a model for wrestling honestly with doubt while holding onto faith. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/l26QvD7BICM // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    52 min
  • Why Ethics Class Can’t Make You Good

    Why Ethics Class Can’t Make You Good
    Sep 9 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick returns to the Beatitude 'blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,' arguing that true ethics cannot be taught through philosophy but only through a theological encounter with God. He draws on O'Donovan's claim that ethics lectures produce ethicists, not ethical people, and critiques a recent Canadian military directive removing references to God from enlistment procedures. Dr. John Patrick traces the failure of secular philosophy's 'physics envy' and reflects on figures such as James Clerk Maxwell, Malcolm Muggeridge, Thomas Sowell, Annie Dillard, and legal philosopher Leff to show why justice and morality require transcendence. He also shares personal reflections from his medical career, including his early support for abortion, to illustrate how empathy divorced from truth leads societies astray. The episode closes with a call to recognize that repentance, not mere sentiment, is the path to the righteousness Christ both demands and provides. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/V4Gy3yH4ar4 // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    41 min
  • The 9 Questions Every Life Must Answer

    The 9 Questions Every Life Must Answer
    Sep 16 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on Augustine's Confessions and the discipline of ordering our priorities around truth rather than distraction. He introduces nine foundational questions that thoughtful people throughout history, Christian and non-Christian alike, have asked about origin, meaning, destiny, morality, and justice, and argues that the church has largely stopped teaching people how to wrestle with them seriously. Drawing on Nehemiah 8, Thomas Aquinas, C.S. Lewis, Jordan Peterson, Mary Harrington, and Oliver O'Donovan's The Disappearance of Ethics, Dr. John Patrick contends that a culture severed from transcendence collapses into raw power and moral confusion. He closes with the parable of the wise and foolish builders, urging listeners to root their lives on the rock of Christ's words rather than the shifting sand of secular assumptions. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/PrcoFbwhbOQ // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    45 min
  • What Happened to Feminism?

    What Happened to Feminism?
    Sep 23 2026
    Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick examines the growing number of women publicly criticizing the outcomes of modern feminism, drawing on the work of Helen Andrews, Kate Willett, and Roni Falk. He traces how feminism, wokeness, and critical theory have combined to produce what he calls the loneliest generation on record, and revisits the 1850s philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, whose utilitarian defense of traditional male-female roles Kate Willett has recently popularized. Dr. John Patrick discusses observed differences between boys and girls, the decline of statistical literacy in the social sciences, and the collapse of trust and honor codes in relationships since the sexual revolution. He also connects these themes to broader cultural failures, including the Cambridge academic scandal and the handling of the George Floyd case, arguing that without God, objective moral truth disappears and society is left with power struggles and cancel culture. The episode opens, as always, with a brief reflection on the Sermon on the Mount and meekness. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/2cFp3QrJtYg // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy 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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    41 min