Lighthouse Faith with Lauren Green
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: the role music plays in our world (1:30); the power of hymns to glorify God (8:00); links between mathematics and music (11:30); the significance of overtones (17:30); why did Green make music a key aspect of Lighthouse Faith? (23:45); Green’s role as chief religion correspondent for Fox News (29:25); why does the media tend to be hostile toward Christianity? (33:00); the absurdity of atheist clergy Sweden and other European issues (38:00); spiritual brokenness bringing us closer to God (43:00); The Great Commission to spread the gospel (52:30); a moment of renewal in Ethiopia (58:30); how sickness and suffering can bring us closer to God (1:02:30); aesthetic practices such as Lent and the importance of developing disciplines (1:12:00); lessons learned from the vineyard (1:20:00); and finding union with God through worship (1:24:00).
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to another edition of Hank Unplugged, the podcast that brings some of the most inspirational, informative, interesting people on the planet direct to your ears. |
| 0:34.8 | And remember, this is a podcast that's making a difference all over the world, |
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| 0:51.0 | step of sharing this with friends so that they can enjoy the people that I enjoy. |
| 0:57.0 | These are people that are really significant people in our epoch of time. |
| 1:03.0 | And this is no exception. |
| 1:05.0 | Lauren Green is an accomplished concert pianist. |
| 1:09.0 | She was third runner-up in the 1985 Miss America Beauty |
| 1:14.8 | pageant. She's an incredibly gifted writer, and she serves as chief religion correspondent for |
| 1:22.3 | Fox News. Lauren, great to have you with us. Oh my goodness. Thank you for that wonderful introduction. |
| 1:29.1 | Well, I mean, you've done so many things. When I read your book, I found out so many things about you that I just |
| 1:34.6 | didn't know. I've met you and I've hung out with you, but I just did not know. For example, that you're a |
| 1:40.7 | concert pianist. Oh, you know, piano is my first love. It is the way that for a very long time I saw the world, I see the world for music. |
| 1:50.1 | In fact, when I began as an intern at a station in Minneapolis and trying to write, it was |
| 1:57.8 | as if I was trying to translate from one language to another. |
| 2:00.9 | I knew what I wanted to say. I knew the emotions I wanted to say. I knew the rhythm of what |
| 2:04.6 | I wanted to say. I could not find the words. And so I spent a long time being very, very |
| 2:08.9 | frustrated of trying to find the right phrasing that would mean exactly what I knew the music |
| 2:14.9 | meant. I spoke another language, basically, and had to translate. |
| 2:19.3 | One of the most powerful parts of a book that I really, really love, and I hope a lot of people will get your book titled Lighthouse Faith. |
| 2:28.3 | God is a living reality in a world immersed in fog. In that book, you have a quote, and it is my favorite. |
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