A Conversation With Bishop Mariann Budde About How We Learn To Be Brave

Diane Rehm: On My Mind

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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A note from Diane:

For my last interview of 2023, I bring you a special conversation with Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington -- and my faith leader. She joined me for the December edition of the Diane Rehm Book Club to discuss her work titled "How We Learn to Be Brave."

In it, Bishop Budde explores the decisive moments in life when we are called to push past our fears and act with strength. Using examples from literature, her own life, the gospel, and the lives of others, she writes that being brave is not a singular occurrence, but a journey that we can choose to undertake every day.

I thought this was a perfect message to share as we say goodbye to one year and welcome the next. I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

Wishes for peace and joy in 2024!

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0:00.0	Hi it's Diane on my mind a reflection for the new year.
0:10.5	Should we come across another person or should we ourselves feel like all is lost?
0:16.7	Look around for those sources of light and goodness that can carry us through those darker
0:22.3	times.
0:23.0	Today, a special conversation with Mary Ann Edgar Buddy,
0:29.0	Episcopal Bishop of Washington and my faith leader.
0:34.0	She joined me for the December book club to talk about her reason work titled
0:41.5	How We Learn to Be Brave.
0:44.4	She explores the decisive moments in life
0:48.2	when we're called on to push past our fears
0:51.9	and act with strength. She uses example from the gospel, from literature,
0:58.6	from her own life and the lives of others to show that being brave is not a singular act, but a journey we can
1:09.3	choose to undertake every day.
1:15.9	Bishop Mary Anton, you quote from one of my very favorite hymns at the start of your book.
1:25.7	Just a couple of lines,
1:28.2	grant us wisdom, grant us courage
1:32.4	for the facing this hour by Harry Emerson Plansdick.
1:40.0	Tell me how those words reached out to you on June 1st, 2020.
1:50.0	Well, first of all, Diane, let me tell you, I'm so honored to be in conversation with you.
1:55.0	And I would say on June 1st, 2020, in Allkander, I didn't have a lot of time to think. This was, it was a moment of response to a crisis in which, and I think all of us can relate to this, in which something adrenaline like or beyond thought takes over. we I simply had to respond.
2:26.4	Remind us what happened on that day.
2:30.3	Thank you.
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