Ideas Matter
by Dr. Everett Piper
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Description
OKWU's President, Dr. Everett Piper broadcasts each week about why our worldview affects how we think and act. He speaks about timely issues and events in light of understanding why ideas matter and have consequences.
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December 20, 2010 | -- | 12/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christ's Mass | -- | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Holy Days | -- | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 23, 2010 | -- | 12/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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If Eating Broccoli is Bad for You Does it Make You a Minority for Doing So? | -- | 12/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Committed Christianity + Honest Questions = Good Education | -- | 12/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Big Brother and Broccoli | -- | 12/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Broccophobia | -- | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Q and A | -- | 12/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Vacuum of Values = Equals Muslim Rage | -- | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ducks and Decadence | -- | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 6, 2011 | -- | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Double Minded With No True North | -- | 1/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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PC Pabulum on Behavior and Being | -- | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 11, 2011 | -- | 1/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 12, 2011 | -- | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 13, 2011 | -- | 1/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 14, 2011 | -- | 1/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 17, 2011 | -- | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Islam and Desperate Housewives | -- | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Whispers of Men | -- | 1/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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To Selma or Auschwitz? | -- | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Free at Last! | -- | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Progressivism and the Ruling Class | -- | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Progress but Toward What? | -- | 1/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 27, 2011 | -- | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investing in Education | -- | 1/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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De-Recognition | -- | 1/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 31, 2011 | -- | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Lesson in Ethics | -- | 2/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Academic Freedom? Well - Not Really | -- | 2/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just Go Home | -- | 2/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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College Shopping | -- | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Moving the Target | -- | 2/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Laughed Out of The Room | -- | 2/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Buck Stops Here | -- | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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First Amendment - Bah Humbug | -- | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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February 17, 2011 | -- | 2/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Selling Sex at the Super Bowl | Just a little over a week ago, as we all hunkered down in the midst of an Oklahoma blizzard, many of us were also enjoying watching the Super Bowl. But did you know that at the same time this football game was being played there was also another game in town, one of the ugliest of all games: the trafficking of underage prostitutes—a game otherwise known as modern-day slavery. | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why a Republic? | If "democracy" resulted in the election of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Hamas in Lebanon, would that be a good thing? How about Al-Qaeda rising to power by the will of the people in Yemen or Saudi Arabia? | 2/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wishing for Democracy - Be Careful What You Wish For | Have you felt uncomfortable as you watched the recent news in the Middle East unfold? | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Despot in the End | John Adams warned us that a "democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy" where "every man will do what is right in his own eyes…" | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pledging Allegiance to a Republic | So why do we pledge allegiance to a "republic" and not a "democracy"? | 2/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Monkeys are Running the Circus | Winston Churchill once said, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter," and Herman Melville added, "Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage." | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Train Wreck | -- | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Constitution or King? | -- | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Qualified Freedom | Did you know that in a free society people have only a “qualified” right to their religion and that if a person in observing his faith engages in behavior or expresses a belief that is in conflict with the State, that that person has now forfeited his legal protection and his rights can be withheld? | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fools | -- | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Playing Monopoly | Movie producer and left-wing activist Michael Moore recently told a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin, “Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe… America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.” He went further: “The truth is, there’s lots of money to go around. LOTS.” | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Good for You - BYU! | This past week Brigham Young University announced a decision that made headlines across the nation. They suspended Brandon Davies, a starting player on their nationally ranked basketball team, for the rest of the season. The reason for the discipline: Brandon Davies admitted to having sex with his girlfriend, which is a violation of the university’s honor code—a code that calls for all students attending BYU to live a “chaste and virtuous” life. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Rogues are Storming | Economist Walter E. Williams recently said this: "Contrast the framers' vision of a republic with that of a democracy. Webster defines a democracy as “government by the people; especially: rule of the majority.” In a democracy, the majority rules... | 3/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lord Save Us from Your Followers | I was recently invited to fly to Hollywood to be on a panel to view the premiere of a new documentary film titled Lord, Save Us From Your Followers. Here is my quick take on this movie. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rob Bell's Ideas | In our pluralistic postmodern culture it is commonly said that all religions are the same—that all faiths call for the same values, foster the same freedoms, create the same cultures, and lead to the same God. | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Which Road? | Robert Frost’s famous poem "The Road Not Taken" says… | 3/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Breach of Trust | In Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders into Insiders Senator Tom Coburn candidly tells us why so many elected officials fail to live up to their campaign promises and eventually betray the very people who entrusted them to lead in the first place. In a word, it’s careerism. Or another way to say it is the pathology of power. | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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March Madness | Every March for the past four years I’ve been blessed as few people ever are – I have been privileged to join my basketball team from Oklahoma Wesleyan at the national tournament and watch my students represent my university. | 3/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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America's Prophet | f someone asked you who the one person was that most influenced the values and ideals of the American way of life – of freedom and justice – of liberty and law – what would you say? | 4/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I'm No Birther - But - | Ok I know this one’s going to get me in trouble but I’m going to cover it anyway. This week Donald Trump came out on The View and said something that has come to be considered completely unacceptable: He had the audacity to suggest that Barak Obama should be required to release his official birth certificate. | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who Cares About Race | This past week, my son sent me a YouTube clip produced by one of his classmates at his university in CA. The video is a short documentary by a young woman who finds her college objectionable basically for one reason and one reason alone: it’s racial identity | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Orientation and Preference | David Epstein, a professor at Columbia University, who is now being prosecuted for having incestuous sex with his daughter, was recently defended on ABC News by his attorney who said this: "It’s okay for [those of other sexual orientations] to do whatever they want in their own home. How is this so different?” | 4/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Killing and Eating the Goose | -- | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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America's Most Influential Writer- Moses | -- | 4/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Best Basketball | -- | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jumping Off a Cliff | This past weekend I was watching Fox News Watch with Jon Scott. On his panel were Jim Pinkerton, Juan Williams, and Alan Colmes. | 4/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just Be Quiet | Someone recently challenged me, “You speak about almost every other sin, so why don’t you confront Christians on the one they seem to enjoy the most—gossip?” Well, this is an excellent point, so here goes... | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Children of God and not a King | Did you know that, as early as the first days of the American Revolution, the story of Moses provided the justification for the very existence of the United States? | 4/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Love and Legislation | One of my students recently told me she had come to realize that legislating morality is not the solution and that Christians should avoid political positions on matters such as abortion and gay marriage. “We have to operate within the framework we’re in,” she said. “The answer is love, not legislation.” | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why I'm a Liberal | As Martin Luther King, Jr. told us in his letter from the Birmingham jail, our strongest justification for the ongoing struggle for freedom, liberation, and liberty is the conservation of the immutable virtues given to us by the laws of nature and nature’s God. Without such conservative ideas I’m not sure anyone can truly call themselves a liberal. | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Questions | Do we want to learn or do we hope to lecture? Are we willing to work to find answers even at the possibility of being wrong or are we too easily satisfied and, thus, resting passively in our own personal ideologies or political agendas? | 5/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honest Questions and Truthful Answers | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqIBCQur5E0 | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Half a Baby | Are we willing to let the king cut the baby in half or do we step forward and cry “no”? | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liberty and Liberal Arts | If truth sets us free then disavowing it (i.e., lying) likely brings bondage. Unfortunately, many of us seem blind to the fact that our kids are getting an education that enslaves them to, rather than liberates them from, such lies. | 5/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In God We Trust | I can’t for the life of me understand why our president would forget our nation’s motto or why he would conflate the virtues of America with the vices of Indonesia but perhaps he would do well to pick up the nearest dollar bill and remind himself that the inscription on it does not say “out of many, one” but rather we trust in the only One who gives freedom to the many. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Have A Dream | I dream of a day when our leaders will say that they were wrong, that they lied to us, and that they are ashamed. I dream that they will ask for forgiveness from the people they harmed and from the God they ignored. | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sins of Omissions and Comission | The evidence of respect for the Bible and for Christianity is so pervasive in our nation’s history that any denial thereof seems at best to be a sin of omission and sadly ignorant, or at worst a sin of commission and strategically dishonest. | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freedom for Fido | Professor Andrew Linzey, director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, says we shouldn’t use the word “pet” anymore to describe our dogs because the phrase is demeaning to them | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contradictions | Either Jesus was right, or He was wrong. Either He was telling the truth or He was lying. We can’t have it both ways. | 5/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Everest Real? | If I told you that Mount Everest doesn’t exist and that it’s just a fairy tale, what would you say? If I said, “I know it’s not real because I’ve never been there and neither have you,” how would you respond? How would you “prove” that the world’s tallest mountain actually does exist? | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Investigating Ethics | Do we really need an "investigation" to decide if twittering lewd photos of yourself to unsuspecting coeds is unethical? | 6/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Frogs in the Kettle | Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that our nation was in danger of “defining deviancy down” and becoming desensitized to “alarming levels” of aberrant behavior. Isn’t it sadly ironic that Anthony Weiner, the congressman from the late Senator’s own state of New York, now serves as the poster-child for Moynihan's warning? | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honor your Father | Wisdom from an earthly father and a heavenly one. | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Like Father, Like Son | It’s been said that we all eventually become carbon copies of our parents. Sons become but mirror images of what they see and hear in the example of their fathers. As the saying goes: Like father, like son. | 6/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stupid is as Stupid Does | Who would have thought -- Co-ed dorms actually lead to more students having sex? | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Deception and Deviancy | Is this uptick in our perception of our country’s moral health merely evidence that we have dumbed down deviancy to the point where we don’t even know what is right and wrong any more? | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 84 Episodes |
