Episodes

June 30, 2023

A New England Painter’s Exhibit on Masks & Lockdowns w/ Watercolorist Jonalyn Fincher of Exeter, New Hampshire (TRP Episode 134)

Jonalyn Fincher is a New England-based painter who has taken on the challenge of commenting on Covid-19 and the response to it as a way to process grief and trauma. Jonalyn invites dialogue as a part of the exhibit for her Exeter, New Hampshire Community.

She uses carefully thought-out , expertly crafted watercolor to prompt reflection, healing, and dialogue. She’s aiming for a deeper community solidarity than existed prior to the lock-downs and mask mandates.

Jonalyn is a gentle soul attentive to the power of beauty to bring healing and community out of trauma and destruction.

Check her out at her website, https://jonalynfincher.com/ or on Instagram at @Jonalyn_Fincher and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JonalynFincherArtStudio .

The free show starts in July so if you’re in or near Exeter, New Hampshire, take a look in person. No matter what your experience , you’re welcome there for dialogue.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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June 27, 2023

Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: Obergefell 101 w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 133)

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This is Part 4 of The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics.

Dr. Mather presents parts from his paper “Two Types of Marriage Equality: A Normative Analysis of Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)”.

It takes a look at Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) and Reynolds v. United States (1879). Specifically, Dr. Mather provides a theoretical framework by which to understand the essence of Obergefell, including a distillation of the legal rule the Court relied on but never explicitly stated: what Dr. Mather calls “the contemporary ‘marriage’ equality assumption”: The Essence of Marriage must become malleable to allow for the expression of minority sexual orientations within marriage.

At the time of the decision, according to friend of the Court briefs, Bisexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Homosexuality is a minority sexual orientation. Therefore, according to this legal rule, both must be expressible in a marriage definition, and any necessary condition of marriage from classical marriage equality must give way.

Prior to this set of cases leading up to Obergefell, marriage was like the Rock of Gibraltar, unchanging in its essence, and against it, the waves of sexual orientation were dashed. That essence was protected and recognized in law for millenia as a natural-law relationship, accorded respect in the Common Law and before, a special, univocal, coherent, sui generis definition of a type of relationship that not everyone was interested in or wanted to participate in: A union between a man and a woman, typically recognized by Law, by which a they become husband and wife for life. That concept matured into seven necessary conditions (discussed here), what Dr. Mather calls the necessary essence of Classical Marriage Equality.

But no one was punished for not being married.

Marriage took on a famous status recognized in the Goodrich Court (Massachusetts, 2003), as we saw in prior episodes, as “a vital social institution.” And not by accident. Not arbitrarily. (How could something so vital be at the same time arbitrary ? The Goodrich Court (and Obergefell) never seemed to see that question was posable but not answerable by their analyses.)

But some wanted the fame associated with the mere spelling and were willing to shank the lexical essence to get that spelling to apply to something they were interested in. The secondary definition of the same spelling, what Dr. Mather calls M2, “any close union,” is in very old dictionaries right along side what he calls M1 (classical marriage equality), has now replaced M1 in law across the nation in Obergefell. That’s because the Court invented, and then used the legal rule, what Dr. Mather calls “the contemporary marriage (M2, not M1, equivocating on the spelling “marriage”, begging the question against M1) assumption.” Now the Rock of Gibraltar isn’t marriage, the concept or the mere spelling of the syllables. The Rock of Gibraltar, according to Goodrich through Obergefell, is Sexual Orientation, and upon that Rock, the definition of marriage is dashed.

The Republican Professor is a pro-True-Marriage-Equality podcast.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 23, 2023

Adoption and Foster Care In the Wake of Roe’s Reversal w/ Herbie Newell, Lifeline Children Services, Birmingham, Alabama (TRP Episode 131)

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It’s been one year since Roe v. Wade has been overturned, and so alternatives to abortion, such as adoption, is on our minds here at The Republican Professor podcast.

Today’s special guest is Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children Services in Alabama. He has seen young women in blue states, not just red states, reach out for support in choosing continued Life for their unborn children. It’s a great time to reflect on the importance of the support young, vulnerable families face now that abortion has become, thankfully, unthinkable for so many.

We discuss the importance and historical, classically understood design of the family and how we can best match that in the United States when vulnerable young women are faced with the tremendous stress and challenge of seeking care for her unexpected, precious child.

Mr. Newell takes us through some of the options available through his organization, including other options as well by comparison, for any families that sense the call for care and concern for children in need.

Check out
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@LifelineChild on
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The Republican Professor is a pro-life, pro-Roe-reconciliation, pro-healthy-family podcast

Therefore, welcome Herbie Newell, President of Lifeline Children Services, Birmingham, Alabama

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 20, 2023

Part 3 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: The Analogy Between Racially Desegregating Marriage & Inventing a Brand New Definition w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D

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This is Part 3 of a multipart series on The Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics, Dr. Lucas J. Mather takes us through criteria for evaluating arguments by analogy in Iriving Copi’s Introduction to Logic, 10th ed., chapter 13.

We look at the analogy between between inventing a new definition of marriage under the guise of progress and desegregating marriage .

The Republican Professor is a pro-defining-marriage-correctly, pro-analogies, pro-comparing-things, anti-alethophobia podcast.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 16, 2023

Part 2 of The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics: Intro to Logical Fallacies w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 130)

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This is part 2 of the series on The Definition of Marriage in Public Law & American Politics.

Dr. Mather provides introductory instruction on the concept of a logical fallacy. Professor Mather then focuses on specific instruction in 3 informal logical fallacies from Irving Copi’s 10th Edition of Introduction to Logic:

1) Ad Hominem, Abusive
2) Begging the Question
3) Equivocation

He provides a brief introduction on their relevance to the legal materials (e.g., judicial opinions) in the definition of marriage in public law and American politics.

The Republican Professor is a pro-nailing the Definition of Marriage in Public Law and American Politics podcast.

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Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

June 12, 2023

Introduction to The Definition of Marriage in Law & Politics w/ Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. (TRP Episode 129)

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In this first episode of a multi-part series, Professor Mather introduces us to the nature of definitions as he covers it in Introductory Logic courses, and their theoretical and practical relevance to the legal materials in the so-called “marriage equality” debate in American Law and Politics.

Dr. Mather takes us through several dictionary definitions of marriage, and through Irving Copi’s “Introduction to Logic” section on criteria for lexical definitions, covering some technical terminology. He also answers some preliminary objections students and faculty have had to his covering this material at all in any depth, detail, or rigor . Throughout, Dr. Mather cites his sources and illustrates how students can follow along in the legal materials as they seek to find their own well-thought-out positions on the matters related to this topic of The Definition of Marriage in American Law and Politics.

Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. is producer and host of The Republican Professor Podcast. Dr. Mather has designed and taught 188 college and university courses as a professor from Malibu to Gangland, USA over nearly 20 years, a huge portion of which have been Logic courses applied to public policy and Constitutional Law. He holds 7 earned degrees, including 4 masters degrees in disciplines as diverse as Chinese Mandarin to Bio-Medical Ethics, culminating in a Ph.D. in Public Law & American Politics from The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.

Before he spent 6 years in seminary, he served in the United States Navy for seven years as a Naval Aircrewman, Linguist, Analyst, Special Operations intel operator, and later support staff for foreign language education and training for the National Security Agency.

He serves on staff at his local church in Orange County, California.

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May 31, 2023

Two Types of Students with Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., Associates Degree Holder and Real-Kine Student

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In this very special episode, we have with us today a non-special non-guest, me, Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D., holder of an Associates Degree as well.

The brief topic today at the end of the academic year: Two Types of Students.

There are some brief remarks about the progress of the podcast and the courses I taught this past year.

I’d love to hear your comments if they’re the kind I’d love to hear.

Thanks for listening and watching,

See you in June

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

May 12, 2023

Combating Over-Criminalization w/ Jason Pye of Due Process Institute (TRP Episode 124)

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Jason Pye joins us from Due Process Institute. It’s is a nonpartisan organization that works toward the goal of criminal justice reform, specifically in lobbying Congress against over-criminalization and for very specific improvements in sentencing and rehabilitation of drug crimes like simple possession, among other things.

The Republican Professor thought it would be good to get a conversation going on these issues, as there is probably a lot of common ground . Republicans might learn a lot by hearing how the opposition to irrational gun control (rooted in a healthy understanding of the police power) may intersect with issues in due process and rehabilitation. Folks who think there is over-criminalization in regulation of tools of personal protection might find there are connections to other aspects of Constitutional law and common decency.

Take a look at Due Process Institute’s website at https://idueprocess.org/
Their Substack at https://dueprocess.substack.com/

You can also follow Jason on Twitter at @pye .

The Republican Professor is a pro-getting-the-police-power-right, pro-anti-overcriminalization podcast.

Therefore, welcome Jason Pye of Due Process Institute !

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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May 6, 2023

Republicans & the So-Called “New Apostolic Reformation” w/ Dr. Doug Geivett, Ph.D. & Mrs. Holly Pivec (TRP Ep. 126)

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They’ve done many podcast interviews but never yet with a host who has had cigars with Rick Joyner and Lance Wallnau, two people referenced in their books. I know people on both sides of this issue here, so I add what I can by way of eye-witness testimony and personal anecdote.

My old (extremely old !) (j/k, Doug) Epistemology professor Dr. R. Douglas Geivett (I was his TA for a while, and had 3 courses with him at Biola — my favorite professor during my time there) and his co-author/spearhead researcher on this project, Mrs. Holly Pivec (former editor of Biola Magazine) join The Republican Professor podcast today to discuss their latest work, “Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church (Broadman & Holman Press, 2022).

Strap in for over 2 hours discussing prophecies of Trump, Bethel & Hillsong Music, and Christian anti-intellectualism more generally in this contemporary church history episode.

If you’d like to connect with the author, you’re invited to connect with Holly at her popular blog , https://www.hollypivec.com/

Other TRP episodes referenced in this episode include

1) The one on Trump and the Law of Presidential Power with UC Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo, available here : https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/03/23/episode-29-trump-presidential-power-prof-john-yoo-u-c-berkeley-school-of-law/

2) The one on the newest, most insidious dangers of the Administrative State with Columbia University (New York City) School of Law professor Philip Hamburger available here : https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/2022/06/26/new-insidious-types-of-regulatory-control-w-columbia-university-law-prof-philip-hamburger/

3) And the one with Lance Wallnau, which the Democrats on YouTube censored, threatening to take down this entire channel, documented and backed up on Rumble, here : https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/p/trps-first-rumble-video-what-youtube and here : https://rumble.com/v2cb5kw-trp-interviews-lance-wallnau-sr..html\

The Republican Professor is an anti-anti-intellectual, pro-getting-church-history-right podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. R. Douglas Geivett, Ph.D. (my former boss and professor) and Mrs. Holly Pivec, apologetics journalist and contemporary church history researcher.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

Warmly,

Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

April 29, 2023

The Historical Reliability of the Gospels w/ Dr. Craig Blomberg, Ph.D., Emeritus Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, Littleton Colorado

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Dr. Craig Blomberg, Ph.D., is the author of numerous books, one of the earliest of which is his monumental The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (IVP, 1987).

Dr. Blomberg shares with us how he developed the goal to become a serious biblical scholar who would do quality work at the very top of the discipline, and help students and other scholars sort through the issues of history in the Bible.

Craig wrote the first chapter of this book, Jesus Under Fire (eds. Wilkins and Moreland) which was also mentioned.

Dr. Blomberg taught for 37 years at Denver Seminary and joins us from his “retirement,” which is as he says, retirement in name only (RINO).

I myself took 5 graduate courses from him and he was my thesis advisor for my first Masters degree (which was in Biblical Studies).

The Republican Professor is a pro-contemplating-history-and-theology podcast.

Therefore, welcome Dr. Craig Blomberg, Ph.D., Emeritus Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Denver Seminary, where he taught for 37 years.

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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