Meaning in the Middle

Religion

Episode Summary

In this episode, we discuss the baby in the bathwater of religion and explore how religion might be the best answer we have to the modern meaning crisis...if it can undergo the necessary evolution.

Episode Notes

Is there a way to engage with religion, to benefit from its value and sacredness, even if we don't consider ourselves religiously ideological? Is modern religion up to the task of responding to our ever-changing world or do we need something new? 

This is one of our favorite conversations so far and we're really excited to share it with you! 

Useful references from the discussion: 

• John Vervaeke - is a professor of cognitive science at the University of Toronto, who has published a series on Youtube, called "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis"
• Paul Johannes Tillich - was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century
• Slavoj Žižek - is a Slovenian philosopher, a researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London.
• Robert Webber - Ancient Future Faith
• Richard Rohr -  is an American Franciscan priest and writer on spirituality
• Phyllis Tickle  - was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues.
   

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Cheers!