Has Self-Care Replaced Taking Up Your Cross? Part 2 (#226)

Religion on the Mind

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Those of us who grew up with the Gospel's exhortation to “lay down your life” and “take up your cross” find modern culture constantly encouraging “self-care.” Is this helpful, like putting on our own oxygen masks before helping someone else, or mere selfishness in disguise? Are there limits to self-care or self-sacrifice? In today’s episode (Part 2) Matt Wright gets into this topic by way of discussing his diagnosis of Bipolar disorder. Matt's Spotify Artist Page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4B4Remkbm9pHdBjZSeNfGC?si=API5fMyaSPWlBMtmNJI_vQ Matt's Band "Telephone Friends" Artist Page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/765e7kZUsgfGp40uxNCxE9?si=a7KdANkmT5abDEvCcYspfA _____________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:10.8	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.
0:18.0	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as
0:23.0	former Christians and non-religious folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions
0:29.2	about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people
0:42.3	with pure intentions.
0:44.1	I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world
0:49.9	very seriously.
0:51.8	And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across
0:56.5	the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.
1:05.7	Today's episode is unique in that it is basically a two-parter. I had two shorter conversations
1:12.3	with Andy Squires and Matt Wright about a post of Andy's. You might remember him recently
1:19.5	from a worries about progressive Christianity episode that we had, maybe six months ago,
1:25.1	something like that. And he had this really interesting post
1:28.1	about this tension between the idea of self-care and the Christian idea of taking up your
1:33.5	cross to follow Jesus. And I immediately latched on, of course, to some nice psychological
1:40.9	tension, some ideological tension. That's the stuff I live for. And I also talked
1:45.7	about it as I was seeing that with my friend Matt, who has a bipolar 1 diagnosis that he received
1:51.9	just about two years ago. So I wanted to talk with each of them about that. And so part one is
1:57.5	my conversation with Andy, part two with Matt, and I hope you guys enjoy it.
2:01.1	Matt Wright, thank you for joining me.
2:13.6	You are kind of the reason that this shaped up as an episode because we were hanging
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