Doctor John Patrick

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the collapse of shared meaning in modern culture and asks what is lost when societies abandon objective moral truth, historical memory, and transcendent ideals. Dr. Patrick reflects on his years in academia, the fading of a unifying cultural narrative, and the role universities once played in forming character rather than merely transmitting information. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick looks back on a life shaped by medicine, family, literature, and faith, asking a timeless question: what gives life meaning? Drawing on personal memories, historical change, and the writings of Walker Percy, Dr. Patrick explores how modern life often reduces human beings to consumers and functionaries leaving many affluent, educated people profoundly dissatisfied. He reflects on work made obsolete by technology, the loss of vocational purpose, and why the most meaningful moments in life are rarely the most comfortable or efficient. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this wide-ranging and deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the disappearance of wisdom from modern ethical discourse particularly in medicine, public policy, and crisis response. Drawing on personal experience, medical history, and wartime stories, he contrasts today’s legalistic, self-protective ethics with an earlier moral framework rooted in responsibility, courage, and historical memory. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick examines what the modern West has forgotten about its greatest resource, not minerals, markets, or military power, but spiritual, moral, and cultural capital. Drawing on global events, personal medical experience, and powerful conversion stories emerging from Iran and Africa, Dr. Patrick reflects on the disappearance of wisdom from public life, the limits of scientific and technological thinking, and the consequences of abandoning moral truth for tribal loyalty. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick explores what modern reductionist and instrumentalist worldviews fail to understand about human life, meaning, and transformation. Drawing on David Wootton’s Power, Pleasure, and Profit, classical medicine, and the biblical wisdom of Ecclesiastes, Dr. Patrick contrasts cost-benefit thinking with a richer moral and spiritual vision of reality. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick weaves together theology, literature, history, and cultural analysis to explore what happens when wisdom disappears from public life. Drawing on John 15, Isaiah 11, and a powerful sermon by Charles Spurgeon, he reflects on awe, reverence, and the fear of the Lord as foundations for spiritual maturity. The conversation moves through classic works like The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Abolition of Man, examining moral authority, suffering, and the consequences of a world that lives as if God does not exist. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this short but thought-provoking episode, Dr. John Patrick invites listeners into a deeper way of reading, thinking, and understanding the modern world. He introduces a new online reading group and reflects on C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, a book he believes is more relevant today than when it was written. Dr. Patrick explores Lewis’s critique of modern education, contrasting the wisdom of the medieval world—where the soul was shaped to conform to objective reality—with the modern impulse to reshape reality according to our own ideas. He warns that when technique replaces wisdom, societies lose moral clarity, humility, and truth // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. John Patrick reflects on two contemporary articles that illuminate a central moral crisis of our time: the replacement of truth with loyalty. Drawing on First Things’ essay “Suicide of the Liberals” and recent reporting on alleged daycare fraud in Minnesota, Dr. Patrick explores how intellectual elites, political institutions, and communities unravel when allegiance to ideology, group identity, or narrative outweighs commitment to objective truth. The discussion highlights how liberalism historically collapsed when it refused to confront evil in the name of tolerance, and how modern societies repeat this mistake through tribal thinking, moral relativism, and fear of honest judgment. https://firstthings.com/suicide-of-the-liberals/ https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/us/minnesota-daycare-fraud-allegations-somali // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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/

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this wide-ranging and deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the modern crisis of authority and its profound consequences for culture, medicine, education, and moral life. Drawing on philosophy, theology, literature, and personal experience, Dr. Patrick critiques naturalism and the loss of transcendence in Western society, arguing that without objective moral truth, concepts like courage, love, duty, and honor lose their meaning. He reflects on conversion experiences, including the Apostle Paul’s Damascus Road encounter, and highlights contemporary examples of faith transforming lives across cultures. Turning to medicine, Dr. Patrick contrasts modern evaluation frameworks with a richer, older vision rooted in character, responsibility, and humility—drawing from figures like Thomas Sydenham and W.H. Auden. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick reads and meditates on a deeply moving passage from God So Loved the World by Elizabeth Goudge, offering one of the most beautiful literary portrayals of Mary and the Annunciation. This episode is a meditation on vocation, surrender, and the profound truth that God often chooses the humble and unseen to accomplish His greatest work. It is an invitation to reflect on what it means to say “yes” to God even when the cost is great. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this wide-ranging and reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the deep connections between trust, wisdom, culture, and the Judeo-Christian foundations of Western civilization. He reflects on family life, aging, and the quiet satisfaction of generational continuity, contrasting this with modern narratives that separate pleasure from responsibility. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this reflective and wide-ranging Christmas episode, Dr. John Patrick explores one of the most urgent yet misunderstood issues of our time: the role of culture, fear, wisdom, and trust in sustaining civilization. From biblical economics and the Year of Jubilee to the modern crisis of debt and regulation, Dr. Patrick shows how trust is the invisible infrastructure of civilization and why its erosion threatens everything we depend on. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the role of curiosity, narrative, and careful thinking in education and how modern systems have quietly undermined all three. The episode concludes with reflections on reading scripture aloud, musical interpretation, and the deep difference between recognizing words and understanding meaning offering a powerful reminder that education, like faith, is about formation, not mere information. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick contrasts Christianity and Islam on questions of trust, sacrificial love, and moral consequence, highlighting the centrality of the cross in shaping Western civilization. Referencing thinkers such as Tristan Harris, John Lennox, and Tom Holland, Dr. Patrick warns that a society without metaphysics without an understanding of truth, holiness, and moral accountability cannot sustain justice, trust, or human dignity. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this reflective and wide-ranging episode, Dr. John Patrick begins with the beauty and symbolism of the Christmas season and Psalm 85’s powerful vision of mercy and truth meeting together. From this biblical foundation, he explores how modern culture has sentimentalized Christmas while losing its moral and spiritual center. This episode challenges listeners to think deeply about what it truly means to be human in a technological age—and why mercy, truth, and wisdom must never be separated. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on how Christianity is often presented today and why this approach fails to persuade thoughtful people. Drawing on poetry, Scripture, history, and lived experience, he argues that faith must be spoken with clarity, beauty, and intellectual seriousness if it is to be heard. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode of the Doctor John Patrick Podcast, Dr. Patrick explores the profound importance of wisdom at the end of life—wisdom in medical decision-making, in reconciliation, and in discerning truth in a culture that often rejects it. He begins by addressing the realities of aging, medical interventions, and the crucial role of having a power of attorney who shares your moral and spiritual framework. Dr. Patrick emphasizes that the final weeks of life are a sacred window for reconciliation—where grudges must give way to forgiveness, a principle deeply embedded in the Christian tradition. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick explores one of the most urgent issues facing modern society: the collapse of wisdom in an age drowning in information. Drawing from T.S. Eliot, Leo Strauss, Lord Acton, and Michael Polanyi, he outlines how Western culture has replaced deep, lived knowledge with shallow data and why this shift is leaving institutions, families, and churches without the foundations they once relied on. // 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick joins Pastor Ryan for a deep examination of the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual challenges facing the modern church. Together, they explore how reductionist thinking, declining biblical literacy, weakened liturgical formation, and a cultural shift toward emotionalism have reshaped faith in North America. This episode challenges leaders and believers to think deeply about what Christian discipleship should look like not just in theory, but in practice. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this compelling episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the moral foundations that shaped Western culture and how their removal has led to widespread societal decay. Drawing from Isaiah 11 and personal experiences growing up in post-war Britain, Dr. Patrick explores the crucial role of the fear of the Lord in forming character, integrity, and cultural stability. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on how Western education and culture have shifted from moral and biblical foundations toward secular and bureaucratic systems shaped by ideology. Dr. Patrick examines how the “feminization” of education and institutions driven by empathy and safety over principle and truth has reshaped society. He contrasts these modern trends with the Judeo-Christian moral framework that once sustained Western civilization. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the nature of faith, grace, and the lived experience of belief. He contrasts knowing in whom we believe an intellectual acknowledgment with knowing whom we believe a deeply personal relationship with Christ that transforms the heart and gives meaning to life. This episode challenges listeners to reflect on what it truly means to know God, not just through doctrine, but through relationship—and how that knowledge shapes the way we live, age, and serve the next generation. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. Patrick explores how education has shifted from forming virtue to producing information, how “evidence-based” medicine often becomes “authority-based,” and why true learning requires humility, diligent study, and a willingness to repent. He also discusses the consequences of identity politics and the loss of honest dialogue in universities, touching on the cultural impacts of feminism, competence, and gender differences in learning and vocation. This thought-provoking discussion reminds us that wisdom begins with truth, and truth begins with character. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick discusses the nature of truth and Christian living through the lens of faith in Jesus Christ. He shares a bit of his background, offering life lessons and tranquility wisdom to those who are interested in the bible and Christianity. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the mystery and reality of God’s work in history and in human lives. Drawing from Scripture, the story of Nicodemus, and the powerful transformation of John Wesley, Dr. Patrick shows how encounters with the Spirit awaken true understanding and change. With insights from his medical and global experiences, Dr. Patrick explores the cultural consequences of faith, the dangers of neglecting history, and the promise of what God has prepared for those who love Him. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the foundations of culture, the moral nature of humanity, and the challenges of navigating a post-Christian, secular age. Drawing from personal encounters, historical examples, and biblical insights, he explores why “neutral” environments don’t exist, why multiculturalism often distorts reality, and how our shared flaws shape the human experience. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick examines the erosion of virtue and cultural stability in the modern West. Drawing on Dorothy Sayers, James Hankins, and Terry Eagleton, he examines how societies flourish through rooted values, moral education, and a reverence for history. Dr. Patrick reflects on England’s current cultural tensions, the importance of freedom of speech, and the perils of utopian ideologies divorced from historical wisdom. He also highlights a growing hunger for meaning among young people—particularly young men—who are rediscovering the richness of faith, literature, and moral tradition. This episode challenges listeners to nurture virtue, recover historical literacy, and engage in conversations that restore depth and purpose to public life. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the transformative power of reading and the enduring influence of C.S. Lewis. From Lewis’s reluctant yet profound conversion to the imaginative world of Narnia, Dr. Patrick explores how stories shape children’s understanding of truth, faith, and beauty. He emphasizes the importance of parents and grandparents reading aloud, the decline of deep reading in today’s screen-driven world, and the significance of literature in spiritual formation. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on culture, faith, and science with his trademark clarity and depth. Beginning with stories of teaching medical students in Jamaica and John Lennox’s powerful apologetics, Dr. Patrick discusses the loss of literacy and the importance of reading works that have stood the test of time, from fairy tales to C.S. Lewis. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick explores the silent erosion of literacy in our modern age—how students, despite being constantly exposed to screens, are no longer truly reading. Dr. John Patrick reflects on his own upbringing immersed in classic literature, the influence of educators who loved both their subjects and students, and the vital role the Bible once played in shaping moral consciousness. This is a powerful reminder that real education is not just about acquiring information but about forming the soul. This episode is both a lament and a call to rediscover the transformative power of reading. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. John Patrick delivers a provocative critique of modern education and worldview in this intellectually rich episode. From challenging Bertrand Russell’s idea that knowledge only comes from science, to explaining why reading Dante or Pascal feeds the soul more than media ever could, Dr. Patrick urges listeners to think deeply and live wisely. He explores how language is corrupted, why universities have abandoned truth, and how God’s revelation through the Bible offers a foundation for meaning, value, and beauty. This is not just a philosophical discussion. It’s a wake-up call for parents, teachers, students, and Christians to seek wisdom, pass on truth, and live lives of consequence. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick delivers a compelling critique of modern education and a passionate plea to recover the practices that once formed resilient, literate, and thoughtful children. Drawing from decades of experience and historical insight, he explains why true education must begin with memorization, storytelling, and love—not screens, competition, or so-called “educational science.” // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. John Patrick explores the depth behind Blaise Pascal’s famous wager and why it remains deeply relevant in today’s skeptical world. He reflects on the nature of belief—not merely as a rational conclusion, but as a matter of the heart. He also shares moving stories of hospitality, the strength of early Christians in suffering, and how Christian joy can still transform lives. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick What can I know? What should I believe? What should I do? Dr. Patrick critiques the rise of reductive science and its inadequacy in addressing suffering, justice, and the human condition—issues laid bare during the COVID-19 pandemic. He highlights the dangers of scientism, institutional overreach, and the neglect of narrative, moral tradition, and historical wisdom. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick If you're concerned about the future of the church, the state of education, and the moral decline in Western society, this episode offers urgent insights and hopeful direction. Dr. John Patrick reflects on a cultural crisis within the modern church: the decline of serious reading and critical thinking. With urgency and wisdom, he explores how the loss of deep intellectual engagement is leading to spiritual and societal erosion. Drawing from history, literature, and science, he challenges listeners to reclaim the Christian mind through disciplined reading, moral formation, and intellectual curiosity. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. John Patrick discusses how starting from **false beliefs** leads to wrong conclusions, especially regarding the **sin nature** of humanity. He touches upon the importance of understanding our inherent **depravity** and need for **repentance**, referencing the idea that humans are **carnal man**. Consider the consequences of building beliefs on flawed foundations. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Drawing from the remarkable legacy of theologian Jonathan Edwards, Dr. Patrick highlights the lasting impact of faith-informed living and contrasts it with the moral confusion of modern materialism. He challenges listeners to question the basis of moral obligation in a secular world and critiques the cultural decay resulting from losing touch with biblical foundations. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this episode, Dr. John Patrick addresses the critical issue of infant malnutrition, sharing insights from his experience. He discusses how malnutrition was first identified and emphasizes the importance of humanitarian aid in addressing this global issue. He also touches on the role of international rescue committee in providing nutrition solutions to affected children. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this brief reflection, John Patrick expresses his concern over the current state of the world, particularly the decline of what he terms metaphysics. He offers a heartfelt prayer, seeking guidance, and understanding as a form of daily devotional. He hopes to foster spiritual growth in his audience, providing a moment of contemplation. Through poignant reflections and historical insights, this episode challenges listeners to re-engage with the transcendent and recognize the divine fingerprints in culture, conscience, and creation. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. Patrick discusses natural law, cultural confusion, the crisis among young people seeking meaning, and how modern autonomy and behavior-driven illnesses highlight a deeper spiritual void. He also revisits classic works like The Hound of Heaven and What We Can't Not Know, linking literature, theology, and medical ethics in a rich, interdisciplinary reflection. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick Dr. John Patrick explores the disintegration of ethical clarity in modern society, contrasting timeless Judeo-Christian values with today’s subjective moral landscape. He challenges listeners to recognize the consequences of abandoning objective truth, especially in matters of ethics, justice, identity, and religion. Listeners are encouraged to consider how cultural decay and philosophical confusion can be countered by a return to virtue, tradition, and Christian truth. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this deeply reflective episode, Dr. John Patrick delivers a stirring commentary on the current moral crisis in modern medicine. With the rise of euthanasia in Canada, euphemistically termed "Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAiD), he critiques the bureaucratic and secular detachment now pervasive in healthcare. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this compelling episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on the deeper meaning of Easter, the transformative power of the Sermon on the Mount, and the enduring relevance of Jesus’ call to the narrow way. He contrasts the rich moral foundation of past generations with the current cultural and educational decline in the West, examining the consequences of secularism and the abandonment of biblical literacy. Drawing from personal memories, global experiences, and timeless literature, Dr. Patrick challenges listeners to live lives rooted in truth, obedience, and reflection. He also highlights the critical role of education, storytelling, and character formation, while offering historical and cultural insights from Churchill's Britain to present-day South Africa and North America. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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

🎓 Join the Book Club with Dr. John Patrick Learn how to read, think, and wrestle with the big ideas alongside Dr. John Patrick and a private community. → https://pxllnk.co/johnpatrick In this powerful episode, Dr. John Patrick delves into the cultural and spiritual crisis facing today's younger generation. Drawing from decades of academic and clinical experience, he explores the consequences of losing delayed gratification, biblical literacy, and objective moral values. With insights from C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, this talk challenges listeners to rediscover the value of meaning, virtue, and truth rooted in the Judeo-Christian worldview. // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literate 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