Faith: The House-Elf Liberation Front (Book 4, Chapter 21)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
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🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of "faith" in chapter twenty-one of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire." This week we discuss Vanessa's first celebrity crush, the separation of church and state in the US, and the internalized oppression of house-elves. Our question this week is: What does faith look like when it's not religious?
Next week we're reading chapter twenty-two, The Unexpected Task, through the theme of Happiness. Thanks this week to Austin Bucholtz for our voicemail.
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| 0:13.6 | like that is a feeling that a lot of you nerds share with me. Where you might |
| 0:19.0 | want to go back to school, but you want to go to a school where you can figure |
| 0:22.8 | out how to live a life with intention and meaning. And so I want to tell you about |
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| 0:42.9 | discussion, spiritual learning, one-on-one chaplain seed, and personal storytelling. |
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| 1:01.8 | about family, friendship, and ambition. We will be asking questions like what do |
| 1:07.8 | I want out of my friendships? Who do you want to be in general to the people who |
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| 1:35.0 | Chapter 21. The How Self Liberation Front. Harry, Ron, and Hermione went up to the |
| 1:41.5 | gallery that evening to find Pigwidgin so that Harry could send serious |
| 1:45.4 | a letter telling him that he had managed to get past his dragon unscathed. On the way, |
| 1:51.1 | Harry filled Ron in on everything series I've told him. I'm Casper Terkyle, |
| 1:55.8 | and I'm Vanessa Zoltan, and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
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