S3E05-4 One King Too Many “This Thing Became a Sin” from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. *originally broadcast September 2023* Today on Something’s Happening Here, we look once again to history – and Scripture – to see definitively how God can be involved in these phenomena of rival kings and leaders. And surprise! It’s not in …
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S3E05-3 One King Too Many “The Extra Pope” from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. *originally broadcast September 2023* Once upon a time, the Catholic Church had rival sitting popes. For a long time, in fact. The “Great Western Schism” lasted from 1378 to 1417: 39 years. An entire generation of believers lived under opposing ecclesiastical leadership. …
S3E05-2 One King Too Many “The Rebel President” from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. *originally broadcast September 2023* When I was in 11th grade I studied American History. My teacher categorized the entire class according to the presidents in office at the time we were studying. To my surprise, when we got to 1861, she acknowledged …
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S3E05-1 One King Too Many "Trump Redux?" from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. *originally broadcast September 2023* After the recent arrest of former President Donald Trump, and what instantly became the world’s most famous mugshot of all time, we at Something’s Happening Here figured there must be a spiritual dimension to this high-profile story. But instead …
S2E06-5 The Counterfeit Messiah "Give Us a King Like All the Nations!" from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. For the rebroadcast of our final show before our big summer relocation break, we look prophetically at the day when the devil will resurrect another old trick – one that misled nearly the entire Jewish nation of old, …
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S2E06-4 The Counterfeit Messiah "The Imposter Strikes Back" from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. Take a look outside right now. Look around. You see the world, right? The only world you’ve ever known. Many people – myself included, at one time – find it difficult to link the world they see with their own eyes with …
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S2E06-3 The Counterfeit Messiah "Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss" from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. It’s been said that in order to be able to spot a counterfeit bill, you need only to be familiar with the qualities and details of a real bill, rather than gaining a knowledge of all the …
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S2E06-2 The Counterfeit Messiah "Regaining Eden" from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. I was once a course assistant at a State University, and one semester the professor assigned only one textbook. Every lesson and extra reading came from that one textbook. On the final exam, many questions asked the students to identify the author of the …
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S2E06-1 The Counterfeit Messiah "Apocalypse Soon" from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. This week we are re-broadcasting our Season Two finale. Today we’ll define what it means to be a counterfeit messiah, and turn to the book of Revelation to see the consequences of following one. Throughout the week, we’ll see surprising ways that false christs …
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S2E2-5 Welcome to the Real World "Enemy of the State" part 5 from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. Once again we’re discussing the problem of A.I. – artificial intelligence. I promise, we didn’t intend to keep banging this one drum, but we believe it is potentially too great a problem to ignore. Today we look at …
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S2E2-4 Paranoia Paranoia Everybody’s Coming to Get Me. "Enemy of the State" part 4 from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you, right? But perhaps it’s really as it says in the movie Strange Days: it’s not whether you’re paranoid; it’s whether you’re paranoid enough. Well, like it …
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S2E2-3 Fear is a Liar. "Enemy of the State" part 3 from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. Digital technology has brought the problem of the surveillance state to a whole new level, but the problem was here under inferior technologies too. So what, then, is the real reason that this surveillance monster keeps rearing its ugly …
S2E02-2 "Who’s Watching You Today?" Enemy of the State from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. Growing up, we were told that everyone would get his or her “15 minutes of fame” at some point in life. Little did we realize that some day strangers would amass storehouses of data on every one of us, and know …
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S2E02-1 " Nice Constitution You Got There. Be a Shame if Something Happened to It." Enemy of the State from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. The American government has a long history of pushing the boundaries of our Constitutional freedoms, but the advent of the supercomputer in everyone’s pocket has turned this problem up to 11. …
S1E05-5 Ho Ho Holy Night.mov from Talking Donkey on Vimeo. As we conclude this rebroadcast of our Christmas episode 2022, we ask the simple question: Is it okay for Christans to celebrate Christmas? Resources Are Christians supposed to celebrate Christmas? Is it okay for Christians to celebrate Christmas?