620: Applying the 7 Deadly Sins in a Secular Age with Elizabeth Oldfield
The Holy Post
Phil Vischer
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Lord Acton famously said, “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Was he right? Mike Erre is back to discuss the way Christians think about power, and why he believes our pursuit of power over the world is not the way of Jesus. Then, author Elizabeth Oldfield talks with Kaitlyn about her new book, “Fully Alive,” which uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a bridge for introducing secular people to the wisdom of Christianity. Also this week—the verdict in the Trump trail, a very unique fossil museum opens in Arizona, and Phil creates a fun new game for Christians called “Is It Persecution?”
0:00 - Intro
2:09 - Show Starts
4:15 - Theme Song
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7:09 - Wearing Cicadas
9:13 - News of the Pooseum
13:11 - New Game: Am I Being Persecuted?
18:55 - Donald Trump Martyr Complex
29:15 - Mike on Politically-Driven Spiritual-Malformation
34:13 - Fitch and The Ontologically-Rooted Corruption of Power
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54:55- Interview
56:26 - Elizabeth Oldfield’s Faith Background
1:00:39 - Writing with a Secular Audience in Mind
1:03:48 - What Radicalized the Republican Voter Base?
1:12:13 - PLM Syndrome
1:18:53 - Attention vs. The Deadly Sin of Sloth
1:24:17 - Why Save God for the End of the Book?
1:29:39 - End Credits
Links Mentioned in the News Segment:
Pooseum: https://pooseum.com.au/
Reckoning with Power: Why the Church Fails When It’s on the Wrong Side of Power by David Fitch: https://a.co/d/e1NdqoZ
Other resources:
Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times by Elizabeth Oldfield: https://a.co/d/iYZICBv
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Holy Post. |
| 0:02.0 | Lord Acton famously said, |
| 0:03.5 | Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
| 0:07.5 | Was he right? |
| 0:08.5 | Mike Erie is back this week to discuss the way Christians think about power and why he thinks the pursuit of power |
| 0:15.1 | over the world is completely opposed to the way of Jesus. |
| 0:19.4 | Then author Elizabeth Oldfield talks with Caitlin about her new book fully alive, which uses the seven |
| 0:25.4 | deadly sins as a bridge for introducing secular people to the wisdom of Christianity. Also this week, the verdict in the Trump trial a very unique fossil museum opens in Arizona and |
| 0:36.6 | Phil creates a fun new game for Christians. Before we get started let me ask you |
| 0:42.3 | something do you subscribe to Netflix or Before we get started, let me ask you something. |
| 0:43.0 | Do you subscribe to Netflix or Disney Plus or The New York Times or Spotify? |
| 0:48.0 | You probably have any number of online subscriptions. |
| 0:51.0 | Now, do you actually watch or read or listen to everything on those streaming services? |
| 0:56.0 | Of course not. There's way too much, but that doesn't stop you from subscribing because |
| 1:01.3 | you know that amid all the options you're going to find some show or |
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| 1:08.0 | Well Holy Post Plus is kind of like that too. |
| 1:10.6 | We've heard from some of our listeners that they're not subscribers because they can't keep up with all the content that we're creating for Holy Post Plus. |
| 1:18.0 | But that's kind of ridiculous. Of course you can't consume everything we're creating, but that's not the point. The point is |
| 1:24.4 | that you'll find something there that you will love that's exactly what you need in |
| 1:28.5 | your faith and in your community right now. It might be our quarterly book club, a monthly live stream, a bonus episode or |
| 1:35.2 | interview, a special sub-series or video, or a topic on a recent episode of Getting Schooled |
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