Apathy
Apathy is part of the human experience. But what role should it play in the Christian life? The answer isn't as simple as you'd think.
Explore " acedia" with insightful episodes like "Apathy", "Maybe Evagrius Ponticus Wasn’t All Wrong?", "Osterfolge - Die sieben Häschen", "Jeff Reimer / W.H. Auden's For the Time Being: Post-Christmas Blues, the Darkness of Modernity, and the Human Response to Incarnation" and "Sarah Schnitker / The Psychology of Patience / Patience Part 5" from podcasts like ""The Leaving Church Podcast", "Words That Change You", "Märchenschrottcast", "For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture" and "For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture"" and more!
Apathy is part of the human experience. But what role should it play in the Christian life? The answer isn't as simple as you'd think.
Music: Domenico Zipoli Adagio per oboe, cello, organo e orchestra
Production: Martin Steinbereithner
Recording: Fritz Loewe
Mastering: Harry Kelev
Factchecking: Piroshka Kacsa
Music Selection: Jakob Dubi Baer
Creative Director: Philip Wolff
Nach dem Tod des Osterhasen führen seine sieben Hasenkinder ein Wettrennen durch, um seinen Nachfolger zu finden. Die ersten sechs von ihnen scheitern, jeder auf seine eigene Art, das siebte und jüngste Kind schafft die gestellte Aufgabe überraschend und wird der neue Osterhase.
Zu Ostern wagen wir uns mal ganz weit weg von Märchen und besprechen eine Ostergeschichte aus der Feder von Hagdis Hollriede (Greta Brakenhoff) aus einem Ostersammelband für Kinder. Aber vielmehr als die Geschichte interessieren wir uns für die sieben Todsünden und fragen uns, ob wir gute Tröster sind!
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In the midst of war, the loss of his mother, and the heartbreak of unrequited love, poet W.H. Auden was rediscovering his faith. And the fitting response to the darkness and despair and apathy around him, he thought, was the Christmas event. So he set to work on a Christmas Oratorio called For the Time Being. Originally meant to be performed and sung, what emerged is a much more sobering and stark retelling of the Christmas narrative than you're used to. Auden's modernist poetry becomes a way for a modern humanity—whose resources are spent, whose plans have gone awry, whose hopes have been misplaced, whose sense of time has been unwound—to find redemption amidst the quotidian, the mundane, and the everyday. But also always in an eternally full "moment of decision"—a response to the bare fact of the Incarnation of God in infant Jesus. Evan Rosa is joined by writer Jeff Reimer (Associate Editor, Comment Magazine), who suggests that this modernist retelling of Christmas helps us to diagnose and treat the quintessentially modern vice of acedia, the noonday demon. They discuss the anachronistic cast of characters Auden uses to comment on the human condition. They read and marvel at several passages of the text. And they consider what Auden takes to be the matter of ultimate importance in our experience of Christmas: responding to the audacious claim that God has become human.
About Jeff Reimer
Jeff Reimer is a writer with bylines at Commonweal, Comment, Plough, and Fare Forward. He is Associate Editor for Comment Magazine. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jreimr or check out his website for links to his writing.
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What is the place of patience in a life worth living? Evidence from psychology suggests that it plays an important role in managing life's stresses, contributing to a greater sense of well-being, and is even negatively correlated with depression and suicide risk. Psychologist Sarah Schnitker (Baylor University) explains her research on patience, how psychological methodology integrates with theology and philosophy to define and measure the virtue, and offers an evidence-based intervention for becoming more patient. She also discusses the connection between patience and gratitude, the role of patience in a meaningful life, and how acedia, a forgotten vice to modern people, lurks in the shadows when we are deficient in patience.
Part 5 of a 6-episode series on Patience, hosted by Ryan McAnnally-Linz.
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About Sarah Schnitker
Sarah Schnitker is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University. She holds a PhD and an MA in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and a BA in Psychology from Grove City College. Schnitker studies virtue and character development in adolescents and emerging adults, with a focus on the role of spirituality and religion in virtue formation. She specializes in the study of patience, self-control, gratitude, generosity, and thrift. Schnitker has procured more than $3.5 million in funding as a principle investigator on multiple research grants, and she has published in a variety of scientific journals and edited volumes. Schnitker is a Member-at-Large for APA Division 36 – Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, is a Consulting Editor for the organization’s flagship journal, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, and is the recipient of the Virginia Sexton American Psychological Association’s Division 36 Mentoring Award. Follow her on Twitter @DrSchnitker.
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