meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

Listener Questions: Community

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8748 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What does community look like when our faith shifts? “If I support my grandson who is gay, what do I do with my Catholic faith?” Brian, and the team from the Center for Action and Contemplation reflect on questions that came in around community. Resources: A transcript for this episode can be found here.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Center for Action and Contemplation, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Center for Action and Contemplation and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.