Ep43: Money, Power, Glory, and Vans with Dr. Jeff Mallinson

Dr. Jeff Mallinson joins Andy and Aaron in this jam-packed episode to discuss his family financial history, the dangerous combination of power and money, Christian schools and communities, the organism-like behavior of systems, cryptocurrency, financial tendencies of cult victims, Dave Ramsey, the ethics of debt, living a minimalist lifestyle, selling an underwater-mortgage house in the 2008 real estate crash, traveling and camping in a van, the dream van/vehicle, and more.

Note: The campsite mentioned in the show (which we couldn’t think of in real time) is called Streeter Park in Aurora, Nebraska, and features free camping, free electrical hookups, and more.

Audio intro: Lana Del Rey, “Money Power Glory”
Audio outro: David von Kampen, “Aurora” (feat. Andrea von Kampen)

Links:
Jeff Mallinson.com
Dr. Mallinson on Twitter
Protect Your Noggin website
Protect Your Noggin podcast
The Christian Difference: An Explanation & Comparison of World Religions
Virtue in the Wasteland podcast
ViW: Antiwisdom episode
Boondockers Welcome: Boondocking and Free RV Camping
RV Camping with Harvest Hosts
Mitsubishi Delica

Bio (lightly edited):
Dr. Mallinson is the Professor & Chair of History and Political Thought at Concordia University, Irvine. He has a D. Phil. from Oxford University and is a speaker, podcaster, and writer. He specializes in the history of ideas, especially as they shed light on the ways in which religious and philosophical ideas can both emancipate and enslave people. In addition to several scholarly book chapters and articles, he is author of Sexy: The Quest for Erotic Virtue in Perplexing Times (New Reformation Press, 2017), Faith, Reason, and Revelation in Theodore Beza: 1519-1605 (Oxford University Press, 2003), and associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Luther and the Reformation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). He is focused these days on rethinking the methods of religious education and outfoxing religious wolves, which is the mission of his podcast and curriculum called Protect Your Noggin, co-hosted with his wife Stacie. He is the faculty in residence for Concordia's Honors Living and Learning Community. For fun, he enjoys writing poetry and long-term boondocking in a truck bed camper, and developing a small off-grid farm in rural San Diego County.