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This podcast is his most recent teaching, given live before a mixed audience of Christians, Atheists, Agnostics, Pantheists, Buddhists, Taoists, and persons of just about any religious or anti-religious perspective. Worth bearing in mind, perhaps, is the fact that his audience assembled themselves in a small building, located in Austin’s northern Wells Branch suburb, called St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, where justice advocate and often controversial Dr. Rigby has taught for more than twenty years, for the specific purpose of hearing him [Reverend Dr. Jim Rigby] speak on his chosen topic.
His teachings have brought him oftentimes, harsh criticism from theologians…
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Another Rigby Podcast: As Great As We Are America…God Likes Other People Too!
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The last in Dr. Rigby’s series of coupling the writings of Eastern Taoism together with the texts of Western Christianity, managing to unravel the mysteries of life in under twenty minutes.
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