The Separation of Church and Mob

We re-ask Shayna’s question from two weeks ago: is the church in a particularly good position to be a model for building community? Are the spiritual resources available to faith communities especially helpful in creating healthy connections between people?

What does the parable of the Good Samaritan have to do with countering the impersonal forces that reduce humans to commodities?

Is there an aloneness before God that can help individuals form communities that don’t victimize?

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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