The Living In Faith Everyday Podcast

Jeremy R McCandless
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The Regular Weekly Podcast of the Living in Faith Everyday (LIFE) Community. This podcast was launched during the lockdown to create an online Christian community for anyone who was unable to connect with a local church or faith community because of social isolation. Following the pandemic the podcast has now shifted and relaunched as an Bi- Monthly podcast that attempts to react and engage with the world of Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment from a Christian Perspective.

  1. Sep 27

    Aristotle Part 2b: Aristotle’s Logic — How to Think Clearly.

    Send us Fan Mail Second part of a 2 part episode. Aristotle is convinced that clear thinking is the foundation of a clear life. And in a world full of noise, persuasion, rhetoric, half‑truths, and confident people who are wrong with great enthusiasm… Aristotle’s logic feels surprisingly modern. For Aristotle, logic is about clarity, honesty, intellectual humility, the pursuit of truth, and the health of the soul. Logic for him is a type of discipline. It trains the mind the way virtue trains the character. It teaches us to slow down, to examine, to test, to question, to follow the thread of an idea all the way to its conclusion. And in that sense, Aristotle’s logic is not just a tool for philosophers; it’s a tool for life. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  2. Sep 20

    Aristotle Part 2a: Aristotle’s Logic — How to Think Clearly.

    Send us Fan Mail First of a 2 part episode on Aristotle's Logic. Last time, in part one, we met Aristotle the man, but today, we begin where Aristotle himself begins, with logic.  Because Aristotle believes that before you can understand the world, study nature, or even talk about ethics, politics, or the soul, you must first learn how to think. Not what to think, or what to believe, and certainly not what conclusions to reach…. But how to think. Aristotle is convinced that clear thinking is the foundation of a clear life. And in a world full of noise, persuasion, rhetoric, half‑truths, and confident people who are wrong with great enthusiasm… Aristotle’s logic feels surprisingly modern. Logic is not about being clever, winning arguments, or showing off. For Aristotle, logic is about clarity, honesty, intellectual humility, the pursuit of truth, and the health of the soul. Logic for him is a type of discipline. It trains the mind the way virtue trains the character. It teaches us to slow down, to examine, to test, to question, to follow the thread of an idea all the way to its conclusion. And in that sense, Aristotle’s logic is not just a tool for philosophers; it’s a tool for life.  So, what will we explore in this special 2-part epsiode.  Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  3. Sep 5

    Aristotle Part 1 — From the World of Forms to the World of Things.

    Send us Fan Mail Today, we turn a corner, because now we meet Aristotle, Plato’s greatest student, and his most important critic. A man who admired his teacher deeply, learned from him for twenty years, and then quietly said, “Yes… but have you actually looked at the real world?” If Plato taught us to look up, Aristotle teaches us to look around. Plato gave us the heavens and the spiritual; Aristotle gives us the earth and the physical.  Plato gave us ideals; Aristotle gives us the particulars. Plato gave us the Forms. Aristotle gives us form in things. And in doing so, Aristotle becomes one of the most influential thinkers in history, a man who introduced and shaped logic, science, ethics, politics, theology, and the entire intellectual tradition of the West.  This episode is the first of a six-part exploration of his astonishing mind. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  4. Sep 1

    Part Four: The Death of Socrates: A Cup, a Choice, and a Comparison with the Death of Christ.

    Send us Fan Mail  The Death of Socrates: A Cup, a Choice, and a Comparison with the Death of Christ.  Welcome back to my four-part journey through the life and ideas of Socrates.  A journey that has taken us through the streets of Athens, into the marketplace of ideas, and deep into the inner world of a man who believed that the examined life was the only life worth living.  Today, we arrive at the moment when philosophy becomes active. Where ideas become action, and where conviction is seen in acts of courage. Today, we sit with Socrates as he faces the final hours of his life.  This is not just the story of a philosopher’s death. It is the story of a choice, a deliberate, unwavering choice to remain faithful to truth, virtue, even when the cost is everything.  Socrates has been condemned. The hemlock has been prepared, and his friends are urging him to escape. But Socrates remains calm. He refuses to flee, and he refuses to compromise. He refuses to betray the principles he has spent his life teaching. Instead, he takes the cup, not as a victim, not as a martyr for a political cause. But as a man who believes that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, better to die with integrity than to live with a corrupted soul. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  5. Aug 1

    Socrates Part Three. The Ideas of Socrates. Virtue, Knowledge, and the Good Life.

    Send us Fan Mail In our previous conversations, we’ve walked beside him through the streets of Athens, watched him question both generals and working men, poets and politicians, and seen how his gentle, relentless method could unsettle the proud and awaken the humble. We’ve explored the man, the method… and now we finally arrive at the heart of it all: Today we step into the inner world of Socrates, and the world behind the questions.  Because beneath the irony and the cross‑examinations, beneath the birthing of ideas, Socrates held a set of deep, unwavering convictions about virtue, knowledge, and what it means to live a good life. And these ideas didn’t just shape philosophy; they also shaped the moral imagination of the West. Socrates believed that virtue is the key to human flourishing and that all wrongdoing comes from ignorance. He also thought that the soul is our most precious possession, and that the examined life is the only life worth living. Socrates also believed that virtue is not a luxury. It is not an optional thing. It is not a hobby for the spiritually inclined. Virtue is the very condition of a meaningful life, and he believed that knowledge, true knowledge, is not about information, but transformation.  It is the kind of knowing that changes how you live.  So today, we step into these ideas with him. Not as museum pieces, but as living questions. Questions that still challenge, still unsettle, still illuminate.  This is Socrates not as a historical figure, but as a companion on the journey towards wisdom.  Let’s begin…. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  6. Jul 1

    Socrates Part Two— The Socratic Method — How to Win a Soul, Not an Argument.

    Send us Fan Mail Episode Notes:  Socrates Part Two— The Socratic Method — How to Win a Soul, Not an Argument. Welcome to our second step in our four-part journey through the life and legacy of Socrates.   Last time, we met the man himself: the barefoot stonemason who wandered Athens like a holy irritant, waking people up from their moral sleep. We heard about his courage in battle, the simplicity of his life, his strange inner voice, and his relentless devotion to understanding the soul.  But today, we turn to the thing that made Socrates truly unforgettable.  — His method.  Because Socrates didn’t teach the way anyone expected. He didn’t write books, he didn’t give lectures and he didn’t stand on a platform and deliver speeches. He didn’t even claim to have answers. Instead, he asked questions. And those questions had a way of slipping under any layer of pride, exposing contradictions, revealing hidden assumptions, and gently dismantling the illusions some people lived by. His method was not about cleverness; it was about clarity. And that is why the Sophists feared him, but it is also why the young adored him, and it is why the powerful would eventually condemn him. In this episode, we explore the heart of that method, the art of questioning that changed Western thought forever.  We’ll look at:  The Elenchus, the name for Socrates’ gentle but relentless cross‑examination.Socratic irony, his habit of pretending ignorance to reveal ignorance.His midwife metaphor, where he says he tries to help other people “give birth” to ideasSocrates believed that the examined life is the only life worth living. He believed that the soul is shaped through honest questioning. He believed that exposing ignorance is an act of love. He believed that wisdom begins with humility.  So today, we step into the marketplace of Athens, where Socrates stands barefoot, smiling gently, ready to ask the kind of questions that make even the most confident citizen suddenly unsure of his own shoe size. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  7. Jun 13

    Socrates Part One.— The Man Who Changed the Question (A History of Philosophy)

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the life and thinking of Socrates, and this is the moment when everything changes.  Up to now, we’ve wandered through the wild and wonderful world of the Presocratics. Rivers that flow, universes that freeze, cosmic forces that fall in and out of love, atoms dancing in the void, and Sophists who could argue you into believing your own sandals had a life of their own. But when Socrates arrives, philosophy stops being a speculative guessing game about what the universe is made of and becomes a moral and spiritual quest about what we are made of. Socrates is not just another philosopher; he is the beginning of a new way of thinking about being human. He is the man who believed that truth is worth dying for, that virtue is worth living for, and that the soul is the most important thing about us. And because Socrates is too large, too rich, too important to fit into a single episode, we will spend four full episodes exploring his life, his method, his ideas, and his death — a mini‑series within the series. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

  8. Jun 1

    Atoms, Arguments, and the Last Word Before Socrates (My History of Philosophy)

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode Seven—the final episode of my journey through the Presocratic world before we step into the classical era.  It's about the birth of atoms. And it is also about the rise of professional arguers and the philosophical chaos that made Socrates necessary. Because by the time we reach the thinkers in today’s episode, the ancient world is buzzing with questions: What is matter really made of? Is the universe purposeful or mechanical? What is truth? Can truth even be known? And if it can’t be known…, can we at least win the argument and pretend like we know? These are not small questions, because these are the questions that will shape the entire emerging classical world, as we call it today. And the thinkers we will meet today—Leucippus, Democritus, and the Sophists—will push philosophy to its breaking point. Support the show Follow and support me on Patreon. Jeremy McCandless | Creating Podcasts and Bible Study Resources | Patreon To receive my weekly newsletter and keep up to date with all five of my podcasts, subscribe at: Jeremy McCandless | Substack Check out my other Podcasts. The Journey Podcast (A Verse by Verse Study through the whole Bible: https://thebiblejourneydailypodcast.buzzsprout.com History of the Christian Church: https://thehistoryofthechristianchurch.buzzsprout.com The L.I.F.E. Podcast (Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment). https://the-living-in-faith-everyday-podcast.buzzsprout.com The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568891 The Classic Literature Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2568906 To visit my Author page on Amazon and view my entire back catalogue of books on both Amazon and Kindle, and now also on Audible, Visit: Amazon.com: Jeremy R Mccandless: books, biography, latest update

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The Regular Weekly Podcast of the Living in Faith Everyday (LIFE) Community. This podcast was launched during the lockdown to create an online Christian community for anyone who was unable to connect with a local church or faith community because of social isolation. Following the pandemic the podcast has now shifted and relaunched as an Bi- Monthly podcast that attempts to react and engage with the world of Philosophy and current trends in the Arts and Entertainment from a Christian Perspective.

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