Jean Vanier & Students roundtable discussion

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🗓️ 26 June 2015

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Philosopher and theologian Jean Vanier recently won the Templeton prize for his 50 years as founder of L'Arche, an international network of Christian communities for people with and without intellectual disablities. After the ceremony Justin Brierley hosted a roundtable discussion between Vanier and a group of students, and we hear their conversation on spirituality, disability and human value. For videos of the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/user/TempletonPrize/videos For Justin's interview in Premier Christianity magazine with Jean Vanier http://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2015/June-2015/Profile-Jean-Vanier For more faith debates visit www.premierchristianradio.com/unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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1:15.0	Well today on the program you're going to hear the audio of a recent roundtable discussion I had
1:21.0	between Jean Vanier and a number of students.
1:24.0	In May, Jean Vanier was awarded the Templeton Prize.
1:27.5	The Templeton Prize was established in 1972 by Christian billionaire and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, currently stands at 1.1
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