This week for some Revisionist History, we start with a very controversial Tweet by the notoriously adored, and reviled, atheist, Richard Dawkins. What he tweeted sounds controversial to our ears, but what Dawkins had done is merely parrot an ancient story, one that has been rehashed and retold down through the generations: from Plato and Aristotle, to Nietzsche and Himmler, to the greatest of documentary filmmakers, Werner Herzog. Dawkins was telling the story of “nature.”
In contrast to that story, something new seemed to emerge in the first century. A radically different story that highlighted an experience and emotion centered in the bowels, of all places. And this very unfamiliar emotional response in the ancient world would start a movement that, over time, would launch universal healthcare, as well as end infanticide and the gladiatorial games forever. How could such a thing happen?
Trigger warning to all, this Sunday we will be talking about some sensitive subjects like abortion and infanticide. My goal is not to explore the ethical debate around those issues, but to showcase how radically some things have changed over time. Of course, I will also need to tell you about a young boy I met this summer. A boy named Hudson, and how my response to him left me thinking God often works in our lives in the most obvious of ways...we just don’t see it.
Finding God On Vacation? (S9 Episode 39)
Weak Ties (S9 Episode 38)
The Science of Love (S9 Episode 37)
The Little Way (S9 Episode 36)
Loneliness and the Search for a Tribe (S9 Episode 35)
I Can't. I'm Tired. (S9 Episode 34)
Incognito (S9 Episode 33)
A Divine Parlour Trick (S9 Episode 32)
A Funeral for Death (S9 Episode 31)
Facing Death (S9 Episode 30)
The Mousetrap is Set (S9 Episode 29)
Thirsty (S9 Episode 28)
Abandoned Into Darkness (S9 Episode 27)
Virtue By Conscription (S9 Episode 26)
The Crucifixion Landscape & The Rope Around My Waist (Season 9 Episode 25)
Let Us Hoist Our Jolly Roger (Season 9 Episode 24)
Body Objects - March 3, 2019
Of Piracy and Power Moves (Season 9 Episode 23)
Confession Booth (Season 9 Episode 22)
...He Stinketh (Season 9 Episode 21)
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