A Progressive Christian's Reconstruction, with Ian Harber—The Alisa Childers Podcast #73
Timothy J Stoner
6/26/2020 01:58:15 pm
I listened to your podcast, my first, with some trepidation as these conversations can so easily lend themselves to self-congratulation and insider back-slapping. I was grateful for the absence of judgment and that snide, grating spirit of superiority. I was delighted with Ian's admission of the good in the "Progressive" camp, particularly his concession that the God of the Bible, as Liberationist’s insist, does (not his words) demonstrate a preferential option for the oppressed. I concurred strongly with his recipe for parents addressing children in deconstruction. (My eldest son is in process to become an Episcopal priest, my second son is Catholic, and three others are in varying places on the journey). I would underline that the posture of humility is absolutely essential. "Learn to listen as losers". The conversation is not a battle to win but an invitation to learn what the "other" loves, not so you can learn necessarily to love what they love, but, perhaps, to love the other better. He nailed it when he insisted on the priority of the Beauty of orthodoxy for postmodern “apologetics”. To that I would only add the cruciality of beauty incarnated in counter-cultural communities that do not privilege truth over sacrificial love.
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