What does it mean to be human (with Anne Snyder Brooks)?

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🗓️ 15 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Curtis tackles this epoch defining question with Comment Editor in Chief, Anne Snyder Brooks. Together they explore the distinctive vision Christians have to offer a world beset by dehumanizing forces. This wide ranging exploration includes both the big ideas and stakes involved in this question, as well as practical steps each one of us can take to embody (in the words of Irenaeus) “the glory of God in a human being fully alive.”

Resources mentioned by Anne:

Comment magazine’s discussion of Christian humanism via an interview between David Brooks and Luke Bretherton (a colleague of Curtis at Duke Divinity School).
The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us by Adam Kirsch
The Congregation in a Secular Age: Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life by Andrew Root.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast on your host, Curtis Chang.
0:22.0	The Good Faith Podcast is a production of redeeming babble, and our mission is to gather a place
0:27.9	where friends who follow Jesus to help each other make sense of the world. And joining me today
0:34.3	is a friend and Snyder Brooks, the editor-in-chief of Comment Magazine. And thank you so much for joining us
0:41.7	here on Good Faith. It's an honor, thanks Curtis. So I've been wanting to have Anon for a number of
0:48.0	reasons which we will explore in today's podcast, both for the content of her ideas and her thinking,
0:54.3	but also for her format. She's the editor-in-chief of a magazine. And I'm well aware that if you're
1:00.0	listening to this, you like the format of a podcast, but you may also like the format of a magazine,
1:06.8	where you can read thoughtful pieces in sort of short form, not quite a book, but something longer
1:12.8	than a short little blog. That's really what a magazine does, or you may have friends or family
1:19.0	who you want to share something of our approach to the world. That's on Good Faith, but they don't
1:25.6	listen to a podcast. And you think, well, what can I share with my family or friend? And what I want
1:30.8	to say is what you can share is Comment Magazine because if Good Faith ever were to grow up,
1:39.4	and we don't have any plans to grow up beyond being a podcast, but we're, I think we're always
1:43.8	going to be our adolescent stage. But if we were to grow up and be a adult, you know, kind of a
1:49.9	grown up, I was going to say adult magazine, that's not what I meant. No, no, no, we're not doing that,
1:56.7	definitely not doing that also. Google, Google, please shut your ears right now, yeah.
2:03.9	I meant if we were to grow up and mature to be a magazine, which we have no plans of being,
2:09.4	I feel like we would grow up to be Comment Magazine or to somebody like Comment Magazine. Because
2:14.8	comment really helps Christians make sense of the world in a way that gets deeper and underneath
2:23.2	the headlines of the day and tries to get underneath at the deeper levels of thought,
2:28.2	belief, culture, being, what's really going on. It's something I've always admired about comment.
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