Should We Care About Harrison Butker's Speech? (#263)

Religion on the Mind

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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** Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5U0kztmTnxk In response to a listener suggestion, as well as having enjoyed Bonnie Kristian's recent newsletter on the topic, I looked into the recent Harrison Butker commencement address controversy. I had a few thoughts! I talk briefly about the situation, how I largely think of it in terms of protected religious speech, more progressive options within Christianity, the good questions raised by conservative counter-reactions in support of Butker and what one such reaction gets quite wrong, and some insights from the "cultural competency" world of psychotherapy that I think are applicable. Bonnie's newsletter: https://bonniekristian.substack.com/p/that-commencement-speech-didnt-need?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=405918&post_id=144821513&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=42udl&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email James Martin, SJ: https://www.americamagazine.org/voices/james-martin-sj gaychurch.org ParentData on daycare: https://parentdata.org/day-care-bad-children/ ___________________________________________ Get Tickets for Theology Beer Camp 2024 Use Code ReturnofYHP for $50 off your ticket! ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:24.0	So many of you have probably seen the news about this Harrison Butker commencement speech at Benedictine College.
0:32.8	He is the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs.
0:35.4	They won the Super Bowl this year, if you didn't know that.
0:38.9	And he's a conservative Catholic guy. And he was speaking to some conservative Catholic
0:44.0	grads and faculty. And he got into it. And at least one listener has requested on the
0:50.9	Facebook page for me to do some sort of reaction about this speech. I am
0:57.3	sort of reacting to the speech as well as some of the counter reactions with reactions to the
1:02.3	speech and counter reactions to those reactions on the right. And I don't always do these things,
1:07.8	but I found myself thinking about this particular moment this morning as I read the latest substack post from Bonnie Christian, friend of the podcast, and she kind of got my wheels turning.
1:19.2	So I made a YouTube video.
1:21.5	You can go watch that on the YouTube page, your permission YouTube page if you want.
1:26.0	That's probably the best way to experience
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