Make Saints
Because (eternal) life is hard. We all need help; with life, work, love, and everything else. Make Saints is a podcast about that side of life. The part that's hard but seems like it's supposed to be easy. And that moment when we realize that none of us is perfect.
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The words we aren’t just their definitions. Emotions ride their coattails and the truth can be obscured by the political truths we avoid.
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Some treat the word “controversial” as neutral. But it is anything but. It is entirely based on the common act of determining what’s right.
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When we think there is only one thing (solution, answer, problem, thing to focus on) we miss exactly what is causing our frustration.
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In the US, we treat every issue as being in need of simplifying—through this we can uncover an essential truth. We couldn’t be more wrong.
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In which I talk about the way we talk and define what it means to be Christian and who wants to silence and disappear its diversity.
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In a bishop’s sermon, the unhinged response, and the completely normal need to make things normal (we’re normal, right?) we might squeeze a glimpse of truth.
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In the person of William Temple, we have the example of courage, vision, and the wisdom to shape the world after World War II.
The text of the reflection can be found here.
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In the celebration of All Saints Day, we are given the chance to demystify the the life and work of the people we lift up, to see what we too are capable of.
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When we treat a portion of Christians as speaking for all Christians and their rhetoric is of domination and certainty, we all become its victims.
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When we misunderstand each other, is it always a mistake? Or something to fix? Sometimes we work hard to keep misunderstanding each other. On purpose.
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When the public is chilled by an assassination attempt, our responses can be reactionary, ill-conceived, and quite dangerous.
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The thing about being literal is that we think we’re being accurate, but we’re often being pedantic. And refuse to see it.
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We have to start preparing ourselves to proactively adapt for the future to put less pressure on our future selves.
Here’s what I mean about the struggle we have with recognizing things haven’t always been this way.
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Our brains have a natural capacity to adapt. But we often use this natural capacity to refuse to learn, or pretend we were always right.
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We’re driving the very concept of “literal” to such an extreme that it is becoming meaningless. And we’re all actually avoiding the truth.
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The way we see the world is full of optimism and pessimism. It is also full of blindspots and assumptions for how things will be.
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The long, strange history of the call to being different is now mostly found in chicken-little cries of oppression and demands for hegemonic culture.
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Many of us have become so disconnected from what it means for the state to respond to protest—for we cannot kill for peace, or for safety.
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When we give so much of our time and attention to evaluating, judging, and rating the stuff in our lives, can we actually like things?
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Revelation is the most misunderstood and abused book in the Bible. It is frequently used to abuse or to ignore rather than read it as it was intended.
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