Meaningful Conversations With Delicious Beverages
This week, AJ and Brandon build out from the idea of ought into obligations. So often, we think of obligations as limitations and restrictions. Is it possible, though, that our obligations could actually serve to make us more free?
Why would anyone boast of themselves as a slave? It seems counterintuitive that making ourselves slaves would even be in keeping with what God wants of us. After all, free will was His idea. Why in the world we be giving that up?
I find myself wanting to shout at my students about the love of God for them, but then, almost immediately, I realize that I need to shout it at myself, too.
This week, AJ and Brandon continue their conversations about the virtues with Prudence. Specifically, we use the conversation around the freedom of speech and social media censorship to discuss prudent use of speech and authority.
This week, AJ and Brandon move from the theological virtues into the cardinal virtues, starting with justice. We talk about the relationship between justice and freedom, how the just consequences make our freedom more real, and how we give ourselves and others what we are due.
Kelly joins us for a second live event and a discussion about the relationship between freedom and rules. This go around, we really got into some audience participation. Unfortunately, not all of it got picked up on the mics, but hopefully we restated them well enough to avoid confusion. Give us a listen, let us know what you think of the role of rules in freedom on Facebook, and hopefully join us next month for the final of the three part series!
Discipline as Freedom The way we talk about freedom in general focusses almost exclusively on the freedom from, without ever asking what that freedom is for. What is it, exactly that our freedom is for?