Humility & Repair

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

How can we become more capable of repairing our relationships with ourselves, others, and with God?

In this episode, Dan and Rachael dive into the concept of repair in both personal and larger societal contexts.

They stress the importance of humility in our repair process, introducing the concept of "epistemic humility" as a way to express love by making space for others. It’s a curious approach that acknowledges the limitations of our perspective, which is shaped by our unique experiences.

The conversation becomes personal as they reflect on a past publication that may have caused harm and explore how these experiences can be used for growth and repair.

By practicing repair with justice, mercy, and humility (Micah 6:8) in our day-to-day personal relationships, we can also begin to address broader societal issues with a similar approach. Rachael closes out this episode with this reminder: “Repair is a core part of what it means to love and be loved.”

This episode contains brief explicit language that may be offensive to some listeners; discretion is advised.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:31.6	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Hello, Dan. Hi, Rachel.
0:33.6	Today we want to step into what are often really fraught waters, but I think for us also very familiar waters of what does it mean to be people who are capable of entering repair, interpersonally within ourselves and relationship with God.
0:54.1	It's certainly in like our larger world that we're connected to. interpersonally within ourselves in relationship with God.
0:57.9	It's certainly in like our larger world that we're connected to.
1:02.4	And yeah, I mean laughing because as I said,
1:06.1	this is not a topic that feels like, oh, let's explore this.
1:12.0	It feels very daily and almost mundane, to some extent.
1:14.0	Oh, but real.
1:21.8	So freaking, like, I didn't expect you to use the word waters, but just a conflict yesterday.
1:26.9	We began cold plunging this summer. We bought a $120 little container to fill with water and a few ice cubes.
1:36.2	And Becky, like, she's nuts.
1:40.2	I've known that over many, many, many decades.
1:43.8	But the woman will get in the cold plunge,
1:46.6	and she'll like stay there for nearly forever. And so I was monitoring because I'm the one who
1:52.8	will let her know that she's done four minutes. And I'm like, sweetheart, it's been four.
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