What In God's Name Is Going On With College Admissions? Integrity and the Insatiable Spiritual Hunger for Salvation

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Today’s show: The college admissions bribery scheme provides an entry into an examination of the spiritual void, the spiritual hunger, at the heart of American culture.

What does it mean to have integrity?

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

01:31    A quick recap of the college admissions bribery scheme.

02:42    Is this a story about how wealthy people can game the system? Can it also be a story about the desire to fill a bottomless psycho-spiritual hole with worldly idols? Does human nature contain a hunger that the world cannot satisfy?

04:02    Shayna raises the question of entitlement: isn’t this a story about entitlement? Might a sense of entitlement be the ugly face of unfulfilled desires?

06:30    Shayna gives a great definition of integrity. What is the connection between moral/ethical integrity, and spiritual wholeness/health?

09:00    Shayna raises the Michael Cohen House testimony of a couple weeks ago. How does his story and the college admissions story connect?

11:45    Chris reads from David Brooks’ column from the New York Times, in which the columnist connects the Michael Cohen-Donald Trump story to the moral and spiritual voids. How susceptible are we to idols? And how does fear hasten our retreat from integrity?