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🗓️ 8 July 2025
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What if our culture’s biggest crisis isn’t political, but spiritual and relational?
New York Times columnist, bestselling author, and Atlantic columnist David Brooks talks about how American culture has changed in our lifetime and why he thinks it's overpoliticized and undermoralized.
Plus, he shares how he became a Christian, his friendship with Tim Keller, and why he writes for 5 hours to get 1200 words each day.
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0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
0:03.0 | We've told generations of kids, come up with your own values, come up with your own truth. |
0:07.9 | And A, unless your name is Aristotle, you probably can't do it. |
0:11.9 | But B, you don't have the, you don't live within a moral order. |
0:17.4 | And a colonist named Walter Libman saw this coming as early as 1955. |
0:21.6 | We read a book called The Public Philosophy. |
0:23.6 | And he wrote that if what is right and wrong is just what each individual gets to decide based on his or her own feelings, |
0:31.6 | we have left the realm of civilization. |
0:34.6 | And I think we've left that realm. |
0:36.6 | We're all sort of in a moral universe of civilization. And I think we've left that realm. We're all sort of in a moral universe of one. |
0:43.6 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership podcast. It's Kerry here. I hope our time together today |
0:47.8 | helps you thrive in life and leadership. Man, I want to welcome all of you who are brand new to the |
0:51.7 | podcast. Welcome. We're so glad that you're here. |
0:55.6 | And man, today we're sitting down with someone that I've read for years. His name's David Brooks. |
1:00.9 | You probably know him from the New York Times or the Atlantic. A great friend of Tim Keller. |
1:05.9 | Actually, Tim was very instrumental in his conversion to Christianity about a decade and a half ago. |
1:11.8 | And David thinks better than almost anybody on issues of church, culture, and, well, we got some inside scoop |
1:19.3 | on being pastored by Tim Keller and a whole lot more. So really interesting conversation. Hey, we had |
1:24.4 | a few tech challenges for the first five minutes. I think we were able to edit most of that through, but the interview kind of sinks up a lot better five minutes in. |
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