252 | Everything's Spiritual
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan discuss spirituality, evolving beliefs, and the impermanence of everything with author, podcaster, and theologian Rob Bell, and they answer the following questions:
What does it mean to ‘own your story’? (02:10)
How has Rob’s faith evolved? (04:40)
What is the origin of the book title, Everything Is Spiritual? (07:09)
What is the ‘wordlessness of grace’? (09:02)
What does it mean to ‘hold a place for God’? (10:31)
Do you believe in a higher power that can provide comfort and guidance? (14:25)
What causes a negative reaction to practices considered fringe? (14:45)
What is our language problem? (19:00)
How do religion and minimalism align? (21:33)
How do you define religion? (22:14)
How important is order? (25:20)
What are the polarities of feasting and fasting? (27:23)
How do you define spirituality? (33:33)
Is Rob Bell still a Christian? (36:49)
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Minimalist is brought to you by... |
| 0:02.8 | Nobody. |
| 0:03.8 | Because advertisements suck. |
| 0:05.8 | It's focused on backwards. |
| 0:30.0 | It's just feeding your greed. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast, where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful |
| 0:44.0 | life with less. |
| 0:45.0 | My name is Joshua Fields-Millburn. |
| 0:46.0 | And I'm Ryan Nicodemus, and together we are the Minimalists. |
| 0:49.2 | We're here with our returning champion, Rob Bell, as a studio. |
| 0:53.0 | This is his victory lap. |
| 0:56.6 | You know, there were earlier laps. |
| 0:59.6 | You are our first ever guest on The Minimalist before then. |
| 1:02.8 | I think we did like 100 episodes alone. |
| 1:05.0 | And then we did a live event with you in Los Angeles. |
| 1:08.6 | And we put that up and you were the first guest on The Minimalist. |
| 1:13.2 | Seriously? |
| 1:14.2 | And now you're the last guest. |
| 1:15.2 | I was just going to make that joke. |
| 1:20.2 | Anyway, we're here on the occasion of Rob's new book. |
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