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Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, inventor, and theologian — helped shape the modern world while offering one of its most penetrating critiques of it. In this episode, Travis Jamieson sits down with Graham Tomlin (Bishop of Kensington, author of Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World) to explore why a 17th-century genius feels urgently relevant today.

From the wristwatch to the computer to public transportation, Pascal's fingerprints are everywhere in modern life. But his deeper legacy may be his unflinching diagnosis of the human heart — our restlessness, our addiction to distraction, and our longing for something no screen or success can fill.

In this episode:

• Why Pascal is called "the first modern Christian"
• Pascal's Night of Fire — the hidden document sewn into his coat
• Faith vs. reason: what Pascal really believed
• Why Descartes' God was "uncertain and useless" to Pascal
• The hidden God of Jesus Christ vs. the God of the philosophers
• Pascal's diagnosis of distraction — and why it hits harder in 2025
• The infinite abyss and what can actually fill it

Keywords: Blaise Pascal, Christian apologetics, faith and reason, Pascal's Wager, Pascal's Night of Fire, Pensées, Graham Tomlin, Christian philosophy, theology podcast, distraction and the soul, hiddenness of God, Jansenism, modern Christianity, apologetics podcast, Christian faith podcast

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