Season 4: Learning How to See: Christianity (How)

Learning How to See with Brian McLaren

Center for Action and Contemplation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

On this Season 4 of Learning How to See, we continue to grapple with the question "do I stay Christian?" In Season 3, we looked at the "yes" and the "no" answer to that question. This season, we're asking: if you do decide to stay Christian without accepting the harmful elements of the Christian faith -- how are you going to do it? Join Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, and others to explore ways we all can live good and full, meaningful, and just lives--whether we continue to identify as Christian or not. We'd love to hear from you throughout this season. We'll be doing an episode responding to what arises for you. Contact us by leaving a voicemail or emailing us at podcasts@cac.org

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0:00.0	On this fourth season of learning how to see, we're grappling again with a question,
0:07.8	do I stay Christian? We've looked at a yes and a no answer to that question. But in this season,
0:16.4	we're saying if you say yes to the best things about being Christian and you say no to the
0:22.6	elements of the Christian faith that have been harmful, or if you say, no, I can't stay a Christian,
0:28.7	but I still want to say yes to those best features of the Christian faith and best treasures
0:33.4	of the Christian faith, how are you going to do it? How are you going to integrate these things?
0:38.3	How are you going to find a way forward?
0:40.3	To leave a stage means to leave a whole language often. To leave a whole community often.
0:47.3	Anyone listening will know already that when one leaves a stage that can be taken as criticism to those who are still
0:56.2	comfortable or being nourished at that stage. So there's the built-in grief of growth.
1:03.6	How are you going to live a good and full and meaningful and generous and just life?
1:10.4	I don't know that I'm Christian in the traditional sense anymore.
1:14.0	I feel like I've found my way to say that I follow Jesus on the way.
1:18.8	And I love feeling that identity.
1:21.3	I think that the power of stories that remind us of what it means to follow on any of the ways that are the ways of love.
1:28.3	Learning how to see the beauty of our ability to love each other hard fiercely.
1:34.0	That's our path. Learning how to see that, right?
1:38.3	I'll be joined this season by Barbara Brown Taylor, by Jackie Lewis, by Todd Winward,
1:44.5	and I hope we'll be joined by you as well.

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