Glen Scrivener: Why Christianity made us believe in Kindness, Equality & Progress

Glen Scrivener is an author, speaker, filmmaker and director of the charity Speak Life. His most recent book ’The Air We Breathe’ has been widely praised as a guide to ‘how we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress and equality’.
Glen’s book is a whistle stop tour of 2,000 years of history showing why it was the Christian revolution that gave the West its moral instincts on compassion, equality, consent, freedom and progress.
For The Air We Breathe: speaklife.org.uk/books/
For Re-Enchanting: www.seenandunseen.com/podcast
There’s more to life than the world we can see. Re-Enchanting is a podcast from Seen & Unseen recorded at Lambeth Palace Library, the home of the Centre for Cultural Witness. Justin Brierley and Belle Tindall engage faith and spirituality with leading figures in science, history, politics, art and education. Can our culture be re-enchanted by the vision of Christianity?

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My friend Fr Martin Whelan (no relation) kindly forwarded on Glenn's superb analysis of Alex O'Connor's encounter with Richard Dawkins-- a must see. I'd not heard of Glenn until this morning but have just signed-up up to weekly updates from Speak Life. Thanks too for this - keep up the good work; like Glenn and indeed all people of faith you are truly instruments of God's loving grace.

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Love it

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Loved this. Great listening. Just discovered you.

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Another reason science may have stalled in the east relative to the west is because the eastern philosophies tend strongly towards resignation and world-denial. There's a much stronger dualism (even within the supposed nondual teachings) around the idea that the material world is inherently worthless -- like an illusion, empty, without inherent value. The more nihilistic forms of eastern thought expand that valuelessness even to the 'spiritual', but either way, the world as such is seen as not worthy of concern, because all of it is 'tainted' in some way, or even not 'real'. The answer is supposed to be through detachment from the world rather than engagement with it. So the idea of working with material existence as if it was valuable in some real sense is anathema to much of eastern philosophy. Christianity rejected this interpretation quite early on (at least the Church did), which has meant the world is seen as God's Creation, and therefore worthy of concern. This doesn't mean Christians have been especially good at honouring this idea, but at least their 'philosophy' leaves room for and encourages this kind of concern.

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It is finished to die with Christ to live with Christ when you acknowlege what your sin is to allow God to pay the price and loyalty to God when punished by God Imagine killing someone who is a true Hero Jesus?

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Begone bot

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Genesis 1 is Lucifer and the fallen angels. They made man in their image. Man is an idol, a trap to hunt angels. Only one Gospel: The Gospel of Reconciliation. Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself. We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness. If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever. Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods). REPENT FALLEN ANGELS.

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Struggling to get past 'from Genesis to George Floyd', sort of wonder whether this guy knows who George Floyd really was 😅

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Christian compassion is in danger of being blind to the woke antichrist spirit

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It is finished to die with Christ to live with Christ when you acknowlege what your sin is to allow God to pay the price and loyalty to God when punished by God Imagine killing someone who is a true Hero Jesus?