• Thinking Things Through with Ron Choong

  • By: Ron Choong
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Thinking Things Through with Ron Choong

By: Ron Choong
  • Summary

  • Thoughts shape Beliefs, which influence Decisions

    I have always been a curious kid. I wanted to believe what I learned. But I got tired of not getting straight answers to some of the Big Questions of Life

    My quest led me to earn an interdisciplinary PhD in paleoanthropology, neuroscience and theology.

    As a boots-on-the-ground field explorer to over 100 countries, I seek first-hand confirmation to check the facts of truth claims and to verify evidence for my own inherited beliefs.

    I will share insights drawn from over 30 years of interdisciplinary scholarship and field exploration to liberate my listeners from bogus claims or inaccurate assumptions.

    I will offer data mined from a lifetime of travel and investigation as well as insights into inherited, adopted and adapted beliefs. All of the topics will be controversial, and that is okay.

    Join me on my journey to think things through, as I venture to places beyond my comfort zone, to meet people whose beliefs I do not share, and to learn as well as unlearn what I think I know.

    Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Perhaps this podcast may change how you see the world and help make this planet a better place to live in.

    Connect with me:

    Facebook: ACT - Ron Choong

    Instagram: @ron_choong

    Website: Academy for Christian Thought

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Episodes
  • When Faith Seeks Understanding: Paul in Malta
    Dec 18 2023

    I have heard of Malta but knew very little about this speck of rock between Europe and Africa. Until I visited this crossroads of Afro-Euro maritime civilization.

    Western civilization is inextricably linked to Christianity. Although Jesus never left Israel and did not leave us any writings, Paul wrote half of the New Testament and traveled across the Roman Empire covering three sides of the Mediterranean Sea. Both Christianity and western civilization were shaped by Paul. It is impossible to understand Europe, the Americas, Australasia as well as much of Africa and Asia without a basic knowledge of Paul’s travels and thoughts.

    In AD 60, Paul was shipwrecked and imprisoned in Malta. But his 3 month stay led to Malta becoming the first European community to embrace Christianity. Modern archaeology affirms this account. Today, Malta has 360 churches for a population of just 500,000 residents.

    In October, I traced the Footsteps of Paul in Malta and visited St Paul’s Grotto, the cave where the Apostle was under arrest.

    St. Augustine wrote that Christianity is FAITH SEEKING UNDERSTANDING.

    With the benefit of the science and technology of archaeology, we can separate the facts from fictions of faith. This is how Thinking Things Through leads to a Faith that Seeks Understanding.

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    4 mins
  • Samuel Moffett and The Story of Christianity in Asia
    Sep 23 2023

    This episode features a tribute to one of Ron’s mentors, Samuel H. Moffett of Princeton. Moffett was born inPyongyang, Korea to a missionary family. He was a pioneer in documenting the story of Christianity east of Jerusalem, in Asia. Sam passed away in 2015 at the age of 99.

    This 10-minute episode captures Sam Moffett’s influence on Ron’s thought.

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    12 mins
  • A Tribute to My Teacher, Lamin Sanneh: Learning to Disagree with Grace
    Jun 7 2023

    This episode features a tribute to one of Ron's teachers, Lamin Sanneh of Yale. Prof. Sanneh was born into a Muslim family in West Africa, converted to Christianity and spent his entire academic life investigating Christian-Muslim relations.

    Ron was among his students at Yale from 2000-2002. He died suddenly in 2019. This 10-minute episode recalls Sanneh’s deep influence of Ron's thinking.

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    10 mins

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