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50. Good Life
Season 5 Episode 1
COMPETITION!
We’re celebrating our 500,000th download this month - half a million! And so, with the help of our major sponsor, Zondervan, we are giving away a book pack of five of Zondervan’s newest titles. We’ll throw in a copy of my new book Bullies and Saints AND an Undeceptions T-Shirt.
To WIN, all you have to do is leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (what used to be called iTunes), take a pic of the review and send it to Producer Kaley at kaley@undeceptions.com. We'll pick the best-written review on October 25 (and I mean ‘best-written’ not necessarily most glowing). So be quick, you’ve got two weeks!
LINKS
- Read the CNN report about the happiest country in the world for 2021.
- Watch the full report from VICE News on whether Finland is actually that happy. This one's from 2019 - Finland has been the happiest country in the world for four years running.
- Read a little more from 20th Century philosopher Bertrand Russell on the conquest of happiness from Brain Pickings (one of those websites you'll get lost in ... see you next Tuesday).
- Meet our guest, Miroslav Volf.
- Read more about one his courses at Yale, 'Christ and the Good Life' here.
- And check out the centre he helped set up, the Yale Centre of Faith and Culture
- Watch this video chat between Volf and his teacher, Jürgen Moltmann (who John calls "one of the great theologians of the 20th Century)
- Read Flourishing by Miroslav Volf.
- Read this New York Times article, 'The other side of languishing is flourishing. Here's how to get there.'
- Languishing, by the way, is the emotion that the NYT reckons may just be the dominant emotion of 2021. Good thing you've listened to this episode, then.
- If you want to read more about Asceticism, go here.
- Other Undeceptions episodes mentioned in this ep are:
- Everyday Sacred (Ep 47), where we talk to Andrew Wilson and Tish Harrison Warren about finding God in "stuff".
- Guilty Conscience (Ep 39), where we speak to Tyler VanderWeele towards the end about the health benefits of forgiveness.
- Mental Health (Ep 38), where we speak to Tyler VanderWeele on the impact of religious communities on mental health.
- Social Capital (Ep 5), where we to Andrew Leigh about the benefits of religious communities not just on individuals but society more generally.
- More on Francis of Assisi here. Or read his writings for yourself, here<
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