Ep 3: Practical Steps
In this episode, Micah Redding and Amy Gaskin start talking about practicality, and then end up discussing Joseph Campbell, Harry Potter, transcendence, and speculative theology. Don't worry, it's all connected.
- Is death evil?
- Do we have a deathist culture?
- Death and all his friends
- The mission of God is to undo death and to replace it with life
- The connection between sin, death, and fear (Hebrews 2:14-15)
- Walter Wink, Rene Girard, and how death creates human evil
- Cautionary tales and apocalyptic thrillers
- Harry Potter vs Voldemort
- Joseph Campbell & Darth Vader
- Why is it always a ragtag band of misfits?
- Divergent and what always lies beyond the wall
- What Jesus' greatest commands and Galatians 3:28 say about the meaning of humanity
- Effective Altruism
- #thirdworldproblems
- Why going to the movies is necessary to survival
- Paul's vision of resurrection flowing out into the world
- And how we participate in that process
- The Embrace Project