Stillness In An Agitated Culture: Re-Orienting to Higher Power
Season 3, Episode 315, Dec 10, 2020, 09:44 AM
What is the stillness that is poised, potent, powerful?
How might obedience to a loving authority—either a person, or a high ideal—help create a stillness in us that leads us to fuller living?
How does the dominance of political and economic modes of thinking and acting (what we understand as “culture”) make talk of stillness marginal, if not meaningless? What kind of society do we want to create, where stillness has a place in conversations about human flourishing?
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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