Welcome to Season 6 of Learning How to See.

If you're with us for the first time, welcome.

And if you've been enjoying this conversation for our first five seasons, welcome back.

Before I introduced the theme for season six and seven, I thought it would be good to look back on our previous seasons and

review their themes. In season one, we began our journey in seeing by trying to identify the

things that keep us from seeing clearly. You might think of it like this. We began by noticing

that our glasses have a lot of cracks and smudges

that make it hard for us to see. We call these glitches biases. And in season one, we looked at

13 common biases, confirmation bias, community bias, competency bias, cash bias, and several others. I was joined by Father Richard

Roar and the Reverend Dr. Jackie Lewis for that season, and they were a delight to think with

and talk with and see with. In season two, I was joined by three delightful colleagues, staff members at the Center for Action and Contemplation, G.G. Ross, Mike Petro, and Paul Swanson.

We dug deeper into the 13 biases of the first season, and in each episode, we led a contemplative practice that aimed to deepen our desire to see.

That desire is really the essence of contemplation, which Father Richard Rohr often defines as meeting all the reality we can bear.

By the way, if you'd like to review those 13 biases, I hope you'll go back to catch up on those seasons.

And if you'd like to read a short e-book, I wrote on the subject, we'll put a link to

why don't they get it, overcoming bias in others and yourself in the show notes.

In season three, we drew from my 2022 book, Do I Stay Christian? And we tried to get a new vantage point to see the Christian faith. A set of wonderful guests helped us in that endeavor. We began by exploring how Christianity is not simply one thing, but many, and we tried to see the Christian faith, both as insiders and outsiders might see it.

We looked at Christianity's complex relationship to race and politics, at Christianity's attitude toward people of other religions.

We looked at Christianity as a cult of

innocence and as a set of questions rather than answers and more. In season four, we telescoped out

from how we see the Christian faith to the question of our own humanity. We explored what kind of

human beings we want to be, whether we identify as

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