Nashville L'Abri Conference Podcast

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In July of 2019, there was a gathering in Nashville with lectures, workshops, conversations, and meals together. The theme of the conference was Being Human in a Fragmenting World.  Each episode of this podcast is one of the lectures or workshops.  To receive e-mail updates about the podcast including lecture handouts, articles, books referenced in the lectures and updates about future gatherings, please submit your e-mail address via this link or at nashvillelabriconference.com.  

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The True Object of Human Longing: Re-embracing Dominion and Trust (Ben Keyes)

Jun 01 2020 97 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a lecture by Ben Keyes entitled, The True Object of Human Longing: Re-embracing Dominion and Trust. Ben Keyes grew up in Massachusetts at the Southborough L’Abri with the impression that having crowds of strangers in his home was a normal thing. From an early age he loved to play music. When he was in high school his family joined

Reflecting on the Incarnation with the Help of Poets: Jesus’ Humanity and Ours (Sarah Chestnut)

May 18 2020 89 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Sarah Chestnut entitled, Reflecting on the Incarnation with the Help of Poets: Jesus’ Humanity and Ours.  The incarnation is central both to the revealing of God to the world and the redemption and restoration of true humanness. How might poems by Christian Wiman, Andrew Hudgens, Mary Karr, and Tracy K. Smith g

Early Peacemaking: Can Conflict be Outmaneuvered Before it Starts? (Dick Keyes)

May 11 2020 74 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Dick Keyes called, "Early Peacemaking: Can Conflict be Outmaneuvered Before it Starts?" Much has been well-said and well-written about conflict resolution. But it is, by definition, reactive to conflicts already burning. Christian peacemaking is more proactive, with strategies which can help to avoid conflict altogether. D

T.S. Eliot’s Idea of a Christian Society (Jock McGregor)

May 05 2020 82 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Jock McGregor called, "T.S. Eliot’s Idea of a Christian Society".In our Post-Christian society, as Evangelicals struggle to find their place, a growing number of ‘options’ are being considered – from “Benedict’ to ‘Wilberforce” and everything in between. One voice from the past m

Pursuing Freedom in a Culture of Choice (Phillip Johnston)

Apr 27 2020 79 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Phillip Johnston entitled, The Perfect Lie of Liberty - Pursuing Freedom in a Culture of Choice. An inescapable aspect of life today is a constant sense of FOMO (fear of missing out). We are awash in options, a condition that has led to increased anxiety rather than enduring peace. At the root of this anxiety is a commonpla

Cultivating a Hopeful Imagination in a Pornified Culture (Joshua Chestnut)

Apr 20 2020 89 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Joshua Chestnut entitled, Cultivating a Hopeful Imagination in a Pornified Culture. In this workshop we will consider some of the fragmenting and dehumanizing consequences of pornography with the help of recent neurological and sociological research on the unseen costs of habitually viewing porn. We will then explore the im

The Ark of Speech (Dave Friedrich)

Feb 10 2020 91 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a workshop by Dave Friedrich entitled, The Ark of Speech. “How far does our hospitality go? How far can it go? What can we welcome and gather in, and how? Hospitality is, first and foremost, the hospitality that we give each other, exchanging words and silences, glances and voices. And yet…” These are the opening words of&n

America’s Polarized Politics: Can Christians have a Redemptive Role? (Dick Keyes)

Jan 27 2020 92 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Dick Keyes called, "America’s Polarized Politics: Can Christians have a Redemptive Role?" We live in a society which has created a level of political polarization almost to paralysis. The word “Evangelical” has come to signify a voting block more than a theological or spiritual designation for many people. Wha

Grief and Anger: Appropriate Responses at the Tomb of Lazarus, in Dylan Thomas’ poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, and in Our Own Lives (Anna Friedrich)

Dec 16 2019 70 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a lecture with Anna Friedrich entitled, Grief and Anger: Appropriate Responses at the Tomb of Lazarus, in Dylan Thomas’ poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, and in Our Own Lives. It is easier for some of us to make room for sadness than for anger, especially in the wake of tragedy, or even in the plain old story of

What Does the Bible Have to Tell us About Sexual Harassment and #MeToo? (Mary Frances Giles)

Dec 02 2019 62 mins  
This week's episode features audio from a workshop with Mary Frances Giles called, "What Does the Bible Have to Tell us About Sexual Harassment and #MeToo?" Over the course of the past two years, the #MeToo movement has catapulted sexual harassment and assault, primarily against women, to the forefront of our cultural awareness. There appears to be a shift occurring in our collecti