This is a special episode. It is brought to you by the Lilly Endowment as part of our series on Christian spirituality.

And it's a chance to have a moment to reflect on life and faith in the service of knowing and loving God.

I'm Kate Bowler, and this is Everything Happens.

We all want to be part of something real, not just the Netflix of it all, but the

feeling that we've connected to this bigger, lovelier story of who we are as people,

who we are as communities and countries and a world. Like,

how do we align our regular, ordinary, dumb lives with that feeling of the really real?

Every now and then, I meet somebody who I feel like opens the door and just says,

come right in. My guest

today is someone who has done just that his whole life. He has been in a pursuit for what is

the really real. The questions on his mind are things like, what if everyone mattered? What if

dignity isn't just something you earned? What if it's something that

you already have? What if instead of just the go, go, go of our culture, the earn, earn, earn, win, win,

shop, shop, what if we actually believed emotionally, intellectually, spiritually in the deep belovedness of other people?

How would that change how we spend our time, who we decide to argue with, how we show up for other people,

whether we are going to continue to have a relationship with our neighbor who makes us a little bit

bananas. If you're not sure how to connect with that deep place, I just want you to know

this conversation is going to be an absolute delight that will inspire you and challenge you,

I think, in the very best way. I can't wait for you to meet him.

Tim Schreiber is an educator, best-selling author, an all-round champion for dignity.

He serves as chairman of the Special Olympics, a global movement his mother, Eunice Kennedy

Shriver, began in their backyard in 1962. As chairman, Tim has grown the movement to over six million athletes

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