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On Culture - A Common Flourishing
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On Culture - A Common Flourishing

Susan and I talk about shalom and why we don't have a lot of it. (We would have more if we all shared Hot Cocoa)
If only we could all share hot cocoa …

The main source for this podcast is dispatch from The Embassy titled A Common Flourishing. Subtitled: Reflecting on Marx, Tolkien, Shakespeare, Dr. King, Heschel, the prophet Isaiah, and Ricky Bobby, I attempt to answer the question - what might a common flourishing look like? And would we want it?

And would we want it is the first question here …

Links

What is Your Life’s Blueprint? - an address to a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Mythopoeia - a poem contained in the book Tree and Leaf (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Who is Man? - (Abraham Heschel)

Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be - A Breviary of Sin (Cornelius Plantinga)

Resources for the local church - Embassy Equipping

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