Sin-Based Economics with Benjamin Wiker
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: Muslim Persecution of Christians in the Middle East (4:00); Islam, The Reformation and a call for Mere Christianity (8:00); In Defense of Nature--Environmental and Ethical Ecological Systems (15:30); Recycling as a distraction from our consumerist behavior (27:00); The danger of building economies around our vices (35:00); Correlating the empire of waste with the 7 deadly sins (41:00); The addiction driven by hyperpalatability in food, pornography and technology (44:00); Misleading food labels revealing the importance of a local economy (56:00); The need for wider, deeper talk about global warming (1:06:00); Wiker’s Book 10 Books that Screwed Up The World revealing how ideas have consequences (1:14:30); Do we live in a meaningful world?(1:18:30).
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| 1:24.3 | This is the podcast, not the broadcast. |
| 1:26.6 | I've been doing broadcast for 30 years. |
| 1:29.6 | I've only dipped my toe into podcasting, but this has been one of the most fruitful endeavors in my 30 years at the Christian Research Institute, |
| 1:40.7 | because I've been able to bring some of the most interesting people in the world, |
| 1:46.2 | some of the brightest people in the world to you as we just have a conversation and you have |
| 1:52.4 | the opportunity to listen in. One of the things that you can do as a listener to the podcast |
| 1:59.3 | is to tell people about it, share with people the significance of the |
| 2:05.2 | podcast, let people know where you're listening to the podcast. Obviously, you can subscribe on iTunes, |
| 2:10.9 | you can listen to the podcast at equip.org or wherever you consume your favorite podcast. |
| 2:19.3 | I don't know how we can keep upping the ante, but that's precisely what we're doing. |
| 2:25.5 | Every single week, we're talking to someone more interesting than the last week. |
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