Gird Your Loins: It's Time to Tuck Your Tunic into Your Belt for the Coming Darker Nights
Season 3, Episode 301, Aug 27, 2020, 11:10 AM
What In God’s Name begins Season Three!
Chris and Shayna update what it means “to gird one’s loins” for today. What In God’s Name isn’t usually in the prediction business, but we foresee added stress and strain in the upcoming months: people are tired from months of pandemic uncertainties, and an upcoming presidential election will heighten people’s anxieties.
How does hyper-individualism manifest in our society? Where do we see it? What good and healthy human impulse is hyper-individualism a corruption of? Why does staying connected in community the way to “gird our loins” for oncoming difficulties?
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 movement 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.
In short, we want to foster conversations, develop habits, and create communities that are grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.
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