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.
The Kingdom of God Is Like…A Pirate (S9 Episode 1)
Pick A Plot Line: Part 2 (S8 Episode 37)
Pick A Plot Line: Part 1 (S8 Episode 36)
Huckleberry Finn, Choices & Developing Your Character (S8 Episode 35)
Architecture of Story (S8 Episode 34)
Golf Ball (S8 Episode 33)
Wrestling with Thoughts and Prayers (S8 Episode 32)
Four Things to Wrestle With (S8 Episode 31)
"Let's Get Ready to Rumble" (S8 Episode 30)
An Ugly Love Story (S8 Episode 29)
Life on the Run (S8 Episode 28)
The Wrestler (S8 Episode 27)
In Horus We Trust (S8 Episode 26)
Special Speaker Dawn Hill (S8 Episode 25)
Hornet Nests, Dear Deer, and Pinky Toes (S8 Episode 24)
Embarrassment Whispers (S8 Episode 23)
This is Your Brain on Fear (S8 Episode 22)
To Fear Or Not To Fear (S8 Episode 21)
Abraham's Curtain Call (S8 Episode 20)
Melmastia (S8 Episode 19)
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