The Air We Breathe (with Glen Scrivener)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How did we come to believe virtually universally in concepts such as freedom, equality and compassion? How did those concepts come to be part of the “air we breathe” today? Join Scott and Sean in this fascinating interview with pastor and evangelist Glen Scrivener about his new book The Air We Breathe. Glen Scrivener is an ordained Church of England minister and evangelist who preaches Christ through writing, speaking, and online media. He directs the evangelistic ministry Speak Life. O...

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0:00.0	Where do ideas like freedom, equality, compassion for the vulnerable, consent for sex,
0:08.0	ideas that we take for granted today, where do they come from?
0:11.0	It hasn't always been that way. How do these ideas become so widely
0:15.1	accepted? And how did it become unthinkable to deny them today? We explore these questions
0:20.7	with our guest, Glenn Scrivener, in his new book The Air We Breathe.
0:24.7	I'm your host Scott Ray.
0:26.3	And I'm Sean McDowell.
0:27.5	And this is Think Biblically from Talbot School of Theology, Biola University.
0:32.0	Then when I first saw the title for this I must admit I expected
0:35.1	this to be about the cultural air of secularism that we breathe today but you're
0:39.8	talking about something completely different. What's the main idea you're trying to get across?
0:44.5	Why does it matter so much?
0:46.4	Sure.
0:47.4	Well, thank you so much for having me on.
0:48.4	Yeah, I grew up in Australia, and I never really realized how sweet the air smells in Australia.
0:55.6	There are all these eucalyptus trees and so they kind of mentholate the air.
0:59.2	It's basically like a cold remedy carried upon the breeze 24-7.
1:03.8	I never noticed because I grew up there and then I left and came to the UK where I live now.
1:08.3	And now only when I go back to Australia, when I touch down in Sydney, I noticed the warm sweet air because sometimes you have to leave your
1:16.3	atmosphere in order to recognize what you'd always taken for granted and the idea with this book is
1:35.6	The air stands for the moral intuitions that we have, the assumptions that we hold, the gut instincts that we have about what is the good life. And I identify a number of those gut instincts that we have about the good life.
1:36.8	Equality, compassion, consent, enlightenment, science,
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