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This is the Think, Question, Believe podcast where we look at the Christian faith from a progressive and inclusive perspective - and that means taking the Bible seriously but not literally, honouring the past, but looking to today and into the future, and seeking to build an…
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Our own 'Road to Emmaus' (opens the original)
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What’s the expression, ‘There are none so blind as those who will not see’? We see it in those who won’t even have a conversation about faith, and we can see it in ourselves. It is a situation familiar to psychologists: We tend to trust information more if it agrees with things that we already believe. It’s called ‘confirmation bias’; we screen out challenges to our beliefs, anything that makes us uncomfortable and uncertain, and more readily let in news and ideas that fit neatly alongside what
Being honest with ourselves (opens the original)
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Recent studies have found that the national and cultural stereotypes, that we hold of ourselves can be pretty wide of the mark. And if we portray, even to each other, an inaccurate and dishonest image of our shared culture, are we any more honest in the way that we represent ourselves? For in many ways it is true to say that we are all strangers, strangers to each other, but also to ourselves. There is always something held back, something in reserve, something behind the mask that we have creat
Committing to the journey (opens the original)
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The supreme error of Palm Sunday, the critical failing of the crowd, and us too if we fall prey to the same temptation, is to look for the wrong kind of Christ, the wrong kind of God. There is the great danger that we can worship a God of power and greatness, that we crown Jesus as Lord and King, but we actually want a God that conforms with our own egos, a glorious God to give us the glory. Hubris. He is so great, because we are so worth it. Look at how popular certain forms of religion can be,
Our own wilderness experience (opens the original)
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Jewish tradition saw the wilderness as a place of transition, of fundamental changes and intense physical and spiritual experiences - of stark need for food and water, of isolation, of danger and divine deliverance, of renewal, of encounters with God. So, there is a psychology and spirituality as well as a geography of wilderness, of faith and courage and devotion fired in the crucible of the wilderness experience. In the story of Jesus's temptation in the desert, all that evil could offer, can
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