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.
Shipwrecked (S11 Episode26)
Of Place and Prison (S11 Episode25)
A Modest Proposal for Ending the Marriage Wars (S11 Episode 24)
Death of the Couple (S11 Episode23)
Questions of Marriage (S11 Episode22)
Howling: When God, Wolves & Humans Laugh (S11 Episode21)
Tongues of Fire (S11 Episode20)
The Girls with the Red Balloon (S11 Episode19)
A Failure of Imagination (S11 Episode18)
Pablo Escobar's Hippopotamuses (S11 Episode17)
What We Have Lost (S11 Episode16)
Of Caves and Christmas (S11 Episode15) CHRISTMAS EVE
Shock & Awe (S11 Episode14)
Home But Never Home (S11 Episode13)
Wilderness Exile (S11 Episode12)
Life in Exile (S11 Episode11)
Strengthening our Eyes - Part 2 (S11 Episode10)
Strengthening Our Eyes (S11 Episode9)
Your Own Personal Jesus (S11 Episode8)
Vision Over Visibility (S11 Episode7)
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