Ep. 58: How to Repent

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

What happened to the lovers of the French Revolution after it dissolved into terror? Some never changed their minds. But others—like the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth—reconsidered. Reading through Wordsworth's great poem "The Prelude" in this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan discusses how we can all turn around after a wrong turn.

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0:00.0	Today, I want to talk about how to admit when you're wrong.
0:08.7	That sounds like a pretty simple thing.
0:11.0	I mean, we'd also talk about changing your mind
0:13.6	or being wrong, fair bit in regular life.
0:16.7	But it's actually not simple.
0:19.0	It's one of the hardest and best things to do.
0:22.9	It is the thing you want least to do in the moment
0:25.8	when you need most to do it.
0:28.4	And in the Christian tradition, of course,
0:30.2	we call this repentance or metanoia.
0:32.6	And metanoia is this Greek word, meaning kind of reconsidering,
0:36.2	shifting your view.
0:37.6	And so instead of this kind of groveling idea
0:39.6	that you sometimes get, if you've been to churches
0:42.7	that misrepresent this, what repentance really is,
0:46.4	is it's recovering yourself.
0:48.0	It's returning to the things that you know in your heart
0:51.1	to be true when maybe you've made, you know,
0:54.5	you've zigged when you should have zacked, right?
0:56.1	You turn right when you should have turned left
0:57.8	or in fact, you were too naive to really know
1:00.5	what the right move was and you've ended up down a path
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