A nun on the radical possibilities of Christianity

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🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Co-host Sean Illing talks to Sister Ilia Delio, a Franciscan nun and Catholic theologian, about the power of love and suffering in Christianity. Relevant resources: The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love, Ilia Delio Making All Things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness, Ilia Delio Featuring: Ilia Delio, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and Villanova University theology professor Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), senior interviews writer, Vox More to explore: Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Credits: Producer/Editor: Jackson Bierfeldt Editor: Elbert Ventura Executive Producer: Liz Nelson About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Please consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts. Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.3	Suffering and love are intertwined. That is the Christian past. And I think the best of Christianity.
1:07.2	It's not so much, I'm going to endure here these sufferings because I'll have a better life in heaven.
1:13.4	It is rather that when I embrace my suffering, I can get out of my selfishness because I can open up my
1:23.2	eyes to realize others are suffering too.
1:30.8	Hello, I'm Sean Iling, co-host of The Way Through.
1:34.2	This summer, Sagal Samuel and I are taking turns, talking to spiritual leaders,
1:38.2	philosophers, and occasionally historians who can help us put our biggest questions in a larger
1:42.5	context and hopefully find something meaningful
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