The Seven Deadly Sins in a Secular Age with Elizabeth Oldfield

[@JohnAtkinson-v5z]

We ALL open our doors for a feeling of timeless empathy.

[@JohnAtkinson-v5z]

The Eternal thinks us ALL worthy of having a timeless empathy. A simple love. The feeling of timeless empathy.

[@JohnAtkinson-v5z]

You have captured the attention and the timeless empathy of The Eternal. PAY ATTENTION to the timeless empathy you have captivated.

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You still have the timeless empathy.

[@1ccTooTall]

Super interview… all of it. It challenges us to open doors to relationships with those around us. In doing so we can have meaningful conversations that are attractive to the non-churched and the anti-church. These conversations, with whispers of good news, may invite them to ask questions or even come to know the God we love. But we should not approach relationships with people with an agenda, but rather with questions and an open heart. Then the conversation dives into a discussion of specific sins. The bottom line? Sin breaks community with those who God loves. These are the people who we are to love as well.

[@josephmiller2276]

I find what Elizabeth is doing beautifully resonant with the Rite of Christian Initiation or RCIA which was the last initiative from Vatican II. It is patterned on Jesus's conversation with 2 disheartened disciples leaving Jerusalem after the crucifixion. Hospitality is the first step. Convivial conversation as Ivan Illich once spoke of it. Elizabeth inspires me to pray more. Thanks

[@donnabunce1639]

I haven't read the book. The 1st 20 minutes she doesn't say much. So-she is saying that sin is traumatizing and results in disconnection. Sin disconnects us from each other and from God. Our true nature is Oneness with God and one another. God is not limited, rather the definition of diversity, as exampled in Jesus' love.