We Will Not Accomplish All There Is To Be Done In One Lifetime: Kathleen McTigue, Part Three

Do we have the discipline to play the long game that making a more moral, more fair, more humane society requires?

 

Our show pushes back against the unexamined, often unconscious ways that we frame public questions using political or economic modes of thinking. We aim to be part of a growing association of people who are critical of the narrowness of political and economic categories, and who want to revive a vision of human flourishing that is grounded in the wisdoms of theological and moral philosophical tradition. We see these habits and ways of thinking as being pre-political, and foundational to a healthy and civil shared life in families, communities, economies, and polities.

 

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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:

 

03:38     What are the three elements that make some activity more than just that activity, but a spiritual practice? What spiritual practices do you engage in? How do these practices form you?

 

07:46     How do spiritual practices set us up to be able to persevere, or demonstrate steadfastness? What are the grounding perspectives that spiritual practice give us?

 

12:50     Ta Nehisi Coates identifies himself as someone who does not believe in God, but Kathleen relates her experience of Ta Nehisi talking about a view of history and struggle, and a view of a person’s work, that are readily translatable into Christian spiritual categories and language. What are the implications of this for a secular (that is, neutral with regard to different worldviews) society? 

 

16:08     Virtue: is virtue for the individual, or for the community? 

 

19:32     Is tilling our own acre enough?

 

21:51     “We will not accomplish all there is to be done, in one lifetime.” Discuss.