Listener Questions: Actions and Beliefs, and God's Intervention

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The topic of questions related to this listener questions episode is on actions and beliefs, and if God intervenes. Listeners wrote in with questions such as: “Does God intervene? Does Jesus heal? What am I doing when I pray for people? What precisely is the gospel? If I only had more faith, prayed the right prayer, and believed the Bible literally, maybe these awful things like the death of my young sister-in-law may not have happened.” Brian, and the team from the Center for Action and Contemplation reflect on these questions. Resources: A transcript for this episode can be found here.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, to this special few episodes of learning how to see where we're going to respond to the questions that listeners have sent in.
0:12.5	What amazing questions.
0:15.0	And what a wonderful team of people from the CAC who are joining me to listen to, take to heart these questions and then
0:23.1	try to offer some sort of response. I'm going to invite all of my partners here to introduce
0:30.5	themselves one by one. Let's start with you, Dawson. Could you tell everybody a bit about yourself,
0:36.6	what you do? And yeah, that'd be great. Thanks, Brian. My name is Dawson. Could you tell everybody a bit about yourself, what you do? And yeah, that'd be great.
0:39.4	Thanks, Brian. My name is Dawson, and I'm the Movement Partnerships Coordinator at the CAC.
0:45.8	I sort of came to this work by way of activist burnout. That's sort of how I was introduced to
0:51.9	the contemplative Christian path.
0:55.9	I'm really excited to be with you all today.
0:59.8	Thanks so much, Dawson Allen and Gigi.
1:01.8	Hi, I'm Gigi Ross. I manage the living school student experience,
1:05.6	which means for me to sort of look at how the container of the living school
1:10.5	is serving the transformation of the living school is serving
1:11.0	the transformation of the students. And I'm also happy to be here. And Gigi, would you know
1:16.9	off the top of your head how many years you've been outworking here at CAC? In July, it'll be
1:22.0	eight years. That's great. That's great. And Mike. Hi. Good to see you again, Brian, and everyone. I'm Mike Petro. I am the
1:31.3	director of formation strategy, faculty relations, and theological foundations. And it's the longest
1:38.1	job title in the world. So we just call it F3 for short here at the Center for Action and
1:43.0	Contemplation.
1:47.1	That sounds kind of exactly like what it is.
1:52.6	So I get to have fun helping us continue to try and offer good transformational learning opportunities.
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