Latest Episode: The Neighbor in the Turn Lane
Shores of Ignorance is a weekly conversation between Matt McCloskey and Michael Vaclav. Each week they wade into the questions that sit at the edge of what they understand — faith, culture, philosophy, and the ordinary mysteries of being human.
No experts. No tidy answers. Just two friends trying to think out loud.
“As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance.”
“As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance – the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn’t lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries.”
— Marcelo Gleiser
Conversations on theology, philosophy, culture, and the questions we keep returning to.
Riding together on the way to dinner before recording, we passed a stalled car in a turn lane. We had the same thought about stopping to push it, and we kept on driving. After a week of missile launchers and prepper panic, that moment…
Michael sent Matt a song he loved, with a music video that looked completely real, so Matt went looking for the singer and found an Instagram account for someone who doesn't exist. That got us asking what happens when…
300 shores visited. Our starting point is still ignorance. We don't even know what we're ignorant of. But we have a feel for how to get to the shore. Eight years in, has all this talking made us braver? We talk about…
Once you name a thing, it judges you. So we'd rather not look. This week Michael poured a cup of water on his windshield instead of buying washer fluid. The problems never run out. There is no arrival. So where does hope
Matt and Michael start with ACL weekend and the arrival of fall. But the conversation quickly turns to something deeper. What are our artists telling us? Matt shares his observation from watching ACL clips on Instagram.…
Michael opens with a question that has been rattling around his soul. What actually changes when someone goes from not knowing God to knowing God? Is it just semantics, or does something real happen? He traces the…
Shores of Ignorance is a weekly podcast hosted by Matt McCloskey and Michael Vaclav. Each week we wade into the questions that sit at the edge of what we understand — faith, culture, philosophy, and the ordinary mysteries of being human.
No experts. No tidy answers. Just two friends trying to think out loud.
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