Habit, Virtue, Prayer & Science (#83)

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Bradley Wright is a Protestant professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut where he studies American Christianity, spirituality, and well-being. Sofia Corozza is a Catholic phd student at Cambridge studying child neurodevelopment. Also, she is Brad’s goddaughter, which makes for a lovely interplay between the two of them. So why care about habits and virtue? Aren’t these old fashioned notions? Well, habits are very closely linked to positive change of all sorts, and if there is one thing missing at least in our *public* life these days, virtue might top that list. Prayer seems to interact with both of these concepts regularly, and I am always asking: what is the science behind each of these? What do we know and with how much confidence?Sofia’s Blog: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/synapsesofthesoul/Bradley’s Site: http://bradleywrightphd.com/Follow Dan on IG: https://www.instagram.com/dancoke/Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia@gmail.com -- he is accepting more work!)Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankochEmail about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.comYHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98Website: youhavepermissionpod.comJoin Dan's email list: dankochwords.comArtwork by http://sprungle.co/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.1	My name is Dan Koch.
0:26.1	Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:30.9	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make
0:36.3	liberal converts.
0:39.7	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former Christians and non-religious folks,
0:45.9	anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given
0:58.8	bad answers to those good questions, often by people with pure intentions. I want to say that you
1:05.7	have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very seriously.
1:11.8	And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across the Christian
1:17.0	spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways.
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1:23.9	To briefly introduce my two guests this week, Brad is a Protestant professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, where he studies American Christianity, spirituality, and well-being.
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