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Usapang podcasting: How Podcasts gave Trump the presidency

"How Trump used podcasts to become president", 'yan ang title ng YouTube video na nakainspire sa episode na ito. In a changing media landscape, podcasting is becoming more relevant especially after the 2024 US elections. Why is it? Why is the credibility of the...

Anak ng EDSA

Inatake nila at pilit na niyurakan ang kasaysayan at saysay ng nangyari sa EDSA noong 1986. ‘Di raw totoo, marami raw ang nauto. Bunga ito ng pag-usbong ng mga online channels at plataporma na nagpapakalat ng maling impormasyon at nagtatangkang baluktutin ang naratibo...

Usapang eschatology: the Four Last Things

The Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell. O tinatawag ding "novissimas", ay nasa centro ng eskatolohiya o ng study of the "end of history" or "end of times". Pero, more than these things being somewhere faraway from us, they are already ever present in...

How to lose an election (or at least, not to win it)

10 easy steps Have you been selected to run for office against your will? Or maybe you were running but were betrayed by your party mates who forced you to give way to their handpicked candidate so you want to stick it up to the bosses? Fear no more, here are ten easy...

Usapang pilosopo: Thomas Aquinas

Dahil World Philosophy Day (before the day of the original upload of this episode), we present to you our new series, "Usapang pilosopo", where we will be introducing and talking about the great thinkers, their lives and their ideas. In this episode, ang pag-uusapan...

Usapang wokeism: Go woke go broke?

Social analysis tayo this week. In this episode we will discuss the so-called "woke culture" and how it is, in its origin, a reaction that history has always seen. What is its limits? Bakit parang nahuhurt niya ang sarili niyang adhikain? Yan ang usapan natin this...

Usapang Roman Empire: The Ancient and Modern Rome

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? Maniwala ka man o hindi, the influence of the ancient Roman civilization can still be felt today kahit saan ka man sa mundo: in politics, legal system, architecture, trade, military, international relations, etc. In this...

Notes from the reliquary

Relics, in their quiet presence, serve as markers of our shared faith journey. They remind us that faith, though it may dim, can be reignited. The relics I once pursued are now relics of my past, yet they remain beacons of continuity—a reminder that, even in seasons...

Defining human through the non-human: an anthropology through the lens of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis

Last year, after reading Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians by Alison Milbank (Bloomsbury, 2009; I read the Spanish translation titled La teología de Chesterton y Tolkien, Granada: Editorial Nuevo Inicio, 2022), I fell into the rabbit hole of devouring every Lord...

Usapang santo: the communion of saints

Happy halloween! "Hallow" which means "holy". Sa episode na ito pinagusapan nina Lennon at Russel ang mga santo: ano ba ang sanctity? Sino ba ang pwedeng maging santo? Ano ang canonization? Bakit kailangan ng miracles? Makinig na at tuklasin ang universal call to...

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