Kate Middleton's Absence and the Quiet Life
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
Grace & Truth with Owen Strachan
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Owen Strachan discusses the public speculation surrounding Kate Middleton's absence from public life and uses it as an opportunity to reflect on how Christians should respond to such events in the age of social media. He emphasizes the need to remember the magnification of things in social media and the danger of magnifying small things.
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| 0:00.0 | Where is Kate Middleton? What is going on with her? In this episode of Grace and Truth, |
| 0:15.8 | I'm going to give you the definitive answer to these questions. Actually, I'm not at all. |
| 0:20.1 | I have no idea what's going on. |
| 0:22.2 | I don't know if this is a personal matter, health, marriage, family. I have no idea what is going on |
| 0:28.1 | with Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Windsor, I believe she's called. But I do want to talk about |
| 0:33.6 | social media culture, fame, and how Christians respond to strange moments like this one. |
| 0:39.8 | This is indeed a strange public moment regarding Kate Middleton. Welcome to Grace and Truth. |
| 0:45.4 | My name is Owen Strand. I will be your host. I am not a Royals expert, but I can point you to |
| 0:50.4 | the grace and truth that is found in Jesus Christ alone, John 117. So here we are. It is |
| 0:55.9 | March 24 and people are talking about Kate Middleton because though she is a royal, as it is |
| 1:03.6 | called in the UK, of the royal family married into it several years ago, she has not been seen |
| 1:09.5 | in public for some months. And there is, |
| 1:12.0 | as I'm guessing, a bunch of you know, a ton of speculation as to why that is so. And as I have |
| 1:17.5 | said already in this podcast, I do not have the faintest clue what is going on with Kate Middleton. |
| 1:23.4 | But I want to take this strange public occurrence and do something spiritual. |
| 1:29.4 | I want to think through Tempest in the teapot moments like this because they occur regularly. |
| 1:36.1 | And I don't hear a whole lot of guidance given to Christians about how to handle such moments or how to think about them. |
| 1:43.0 | And I just want to offer a stab in the dark toward that direction with you on this episode. |
| 1:48.8 | I have four basic thoughts for you, as is so common on grace and truth. |
| 1:52.4 | Four thoughts about how we engage social media events like this. |
| 1:56.9 | First, we need to remember how things get magnified today. |
| 2:03.0 | We need to remember that things get magnified. First, we need to remember how things get magnified today. We need to remember that things get magnified. So in actuality, Kate Middleton not being in public, just so we're clear, does not have a |
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