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.
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People, Place and Presence (S12 Episode4)
Guest List (S12 E3)
Within (S12 Episode2)
Desperate - Path & Passion (S12 Episode 1)
Tidying Our Junk Drawer (S11 Episode41)
Lightning Falls Upon Us (S11 Episode40)
H P t F t U (S11 Episode39)
Does Forgiveness Have Its Limits? (S11 Episode38)
Lockdown Hospitality (S11 Episode37)
Of Trust and Betrayal (Season11 Episode36)
Of Practices and Potlucks (S11 Episode35)
The Seduction of Segregation (S11 Episode34)
Here I Stand (S11 Episode33)
A Brief History of Walking (S11 Episode32)
The Speed of God (S11 Episode31)
Jaguar Man (S11 Episode30)
A Costly Peace (S11 Episode29)
Dead Man Walking (S11 Episode28)
Prison Break (S11 Episode27)
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