"Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled": Good Words in These Days of Covid-19 Trials
Season 2, Episode 231, Mar 19, 2020, 08:44 AM
How do we respond to anxiety and uncertainty? Some practices and perspectives for life at this time of a novel coronavirus.
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 create a community that is grounded in curiosity, going deep, and shining light.
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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:
02:16 Shayna offers some pastoral care in a time of anxiety. “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” What is the truth that this teaching is aiming at? What wisdom can come from near-death experiences, or other contacts with death, in our life?
07:06 Does faith make us immune to anxiety? What is the difference between having fear, and fear having us?
08:52 What does the practice of sitting quietly do for us? Can people of faith and people of no faith find commonality in this practice?
12:45 Fear, and the desire to have some sense of control, can drive over-the-top buying. How is the run on toilet paper a modern, non-religious purity practice? Shayna believes in the fundamental goodness of people. Do you? In what ways do we need to watch out for judging people as “clean” and “unclean?”
18:00 How does Jesus give us a new teaching on what is clean and unclean?
19:36 Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Was that easy for Jesus to say? Is that easy for us to say?