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Learning How to See with Brian McLaren
Center for Action and Contemplation
4.8 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone, to a special bonus episode of Season 4 of Learning How to See. |
| 0:09.8 | I'd like to begin with a prayer that I include in the book, Do I Stay Christian? |
| 0:14.7 | It's from page 210. |
| 0:17.2 | And it just feels like this prayer is really appropriate for this spirit behind so many of the questions |
| 0:24.2 | that came in through this season. So let me read it as a prayer for us right now. |
| 0:30.2 | I do not know everything. I do not even know how much I do not know. |
| 0:38.6 | Nor do I know how much of what I know is impartial, faulty, or false. |
| 0:44.4 | So I pray. |
| 0:46.7 | Source of all truth. |
| 0:49.2 | Help me to hunger for truth. |
| 0:52.4 | Even if it upsets, modifies, or overturns what I already think is true. |
| 0:58.6 | Guide me into all the truth I can bear, and stretch me to bear even more, so that I may always |
| 1:07.3 | choose the whole truth, even with disruption, over half-truths with self-deception. |
| 1:14.5 | Grant me passion to follow wisdom wherever it leads. |
| 1:20.9 | Well, in that spirit, seeking for truth that stretches us beyond what we may already think. |
| 1:28.2 | First, let me welcome my colleagues Dawson Allen, Michael Petro, and Gigi Ross |
| 1:34.7 | for an engagement with some of the amazing and beautiful and powerful and touching questions |
| 1:40.7 | that came in from season four. |
| 1:43.7 | And, Dawson, will you start us with a question |
| 1:46.4 | for today? Yeah, absolutely. I'm not sure if this is the right place to email my question for |
| 1:53.3 | your final episode, but trust that if it's meant to be, it'll find the right landing spot. |
| 1:59.3 | I'm a 62-year-old, cradle Catholic, who has been questioning Catholic for several years, |
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