Institutions in a time of turmoil
“We're at a time of institutional shaking. Movement shaking. But it's not a difference between anti-institutionalists and pro-institutionalists.”
Russell Moore joins Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk on a new episode of #zealotspod.
🎧 Full episode: https://comment.org/podcasts/the-rise-of-the-secular-evangelicals/
In this episode Conversing, Mark Labberton welcomes Pete Docter, executive producer of Inside Out 2, and the Oscar-winning director of Monsters, Inc., Up, and Inside Out. Pete joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1990 at twenty-one years old as its third animator, and is now Pixar’s chief creative officer.
Mark and Pete discuss the ins and outs of Inside Out 2, including its themes about emotion, psychology, adolescence, and the discovery and acceptance of who we are. Pete reflects on the power of music to convey unconscious meaning, alongside the subtle and sophisticated animation techniques used by Pixar today. We learn about the new emotion characters (including Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Ennui), as well as those that almost made the cut. And Pete comments on the spiritual and moral dimensions that Inside Out 2 is able to explore.
🎧 Link to the full episode is in our bio. Or listen wherever you stream podcasts.
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“If someone wanted to help you really know Jesus and become a Christian, should they try and loosen your grip on Islam in the hopes that you would eventually come to Jesus, or should they encourage you to deepen your walk with Islam?”
Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid on a new episode of Zealots at the Gate.
🎧 Full episode:
https://comment.org/podcasts/do-muslims-and-christians-worship-the-same-god/
Judgment and the fading belief in hell
Does a fading belief in hell increase citizens’ demands for ultimate judgment to be served today?
Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid delve into the politics of hell on a new episode of #zealotspod.
🎧 Full episode: https://comment.org/podcasts/the-politics-of-hell/
Political and religious trauma
“With our various political traumas and our various religious traumas, we become a prisoner of that heartbreak, and then we behave out of that heartbreak.”
Matthew Kaemingk on grief, narrative, and idolatry on a new #zealotspod.
🎧 Full episode: https://comment.org/podcasts/gaza-and-the-gods-of-tribalism/
Zealots at the Gate season premiere
It's time to do pluralism differently.
A new season of Zealots at the Gate with Shadi Hamid and Matthew Kaemingk will premiere on Wednesday, May 29. Be sure to subscribe to the show wherever you stream podcasts. You won't want to miss it. #zealotspod
“If we aren’t even connecting with people in our immediate community, we’re not likely to do so with those of a different race, class, or religion. All of this is connected to the rise in loneliness—which has only grown after the pandemic—and it means fewer people feel they have a place where they belong. A home.
There are efforts to change this growing isolation, of course. Putnam himself visited places where people are investing in their communities in unique ways and trying to renew them. He wrote about it in a follow-up to Bowling Alone, called Better Together, in which he offers ideas for people to connect with others in their neighbourhoods.
This cannot happen passively. As Putnam shows, it requires that people invest in their communities and help build the homes they seek. The Oxford English Dictionary says a homemaker is “a person who spends their time looking after a home and doing housework rather than being employed outside the home.” In a sense, we all need to think of ourselves as homemakers, even if our primary work is outside the home. We should all be people who are “looking after [our] home.”
In our communities—our workplaces, schools, churches, neighbourhoods—we make homes by looking after them. When we take time to know the people in these places and look after them, we will find ourselves at home.”
🖊️ Mary Grace Mangano on why the hard, active work of belonging begins with our neighbour but ends in God. Link in bio.
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“When we grieve, I think we make meaning out of a person’s life.”
@jspark3000 on a new episode of The Whole Person Revolution podcast. 🎧 Link to full episode in bio. And don’t forget to subscribe wherever you stream!
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