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.
Life is Difficult (S12 Episode28)
We Forget (S12 Episode27)
The Final Chapter of the Story (S12 Episode26)
Of Armageddon and Advertising (S12 Episode25)
Of Fugu, Lions and Lambs (S12 Episode24)
Jesus You’re Scaring Me (S12 Episode23)
Where is the Wine? (Season12 Episode22)
Scratch That - Jesus Edits the Old Testament (S12 Episode21)
The Ghost of Jonathan Edwards (S12 Episode20)
Wonder (S12 Episode19)
The Gift of Presence (S12 Episode 18)
Waiting for Fire (S12 Episode17)
Mary Comforts Eve (Season 12 Episode16)
The War of Pregnancy (S12 Episode15)
The Age of Secularism - Part 2 (S12 Episode14)
The Age of Secularism - Part 1 (S12 Episode13)
Stay in the Flow (S12 Episode9)
Game Play (S12 Episode8)
Skin in the Game (S12 Episode7)
Squeezed (S12 Episode6)
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