Four Things on Friday
October 11, 2019
An Interesting
Article/Podcast
Virtue in the Wasteland: Narcissism
and Sociology
I don’t normally like to return to the same podcast two
weeks in a row, but it seems to me that one of the other major maladies of our
culture, along with nihilism, is narcissism. The hosts of this show are joined
by a friend (and former Gloria Dei member!), Dr. Kristen Koenig to discuss
narcissism and how it plays out in sociology.
A little backstory might help: The hosts of the show took
an online inventory that showed that one was way more narcissistic than the
other. In previous episodes they discuss narcissism with a classics professor
and a psychology professor, but behind much of the conversation is the fact
that the host scored much higher for narcissism than the others who took the
online inventory.
Quote I’m
Pondering
“The Christian cannot simply take for granted the
privilege of living among other Christians.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life
Together
One Good Thing
This Week
There are bulldozers in front of the church. At a meeting
with the city engineer last week they gave us approval to install the silt
fence, and that was done yesterday. So, it is exciting to see some activity!
There is a lot of activity that you can’t see, too. There
have been multiple emails and phone calls with city officials, the builder,
architect, engineers. Ryan and Dave are hard at work to keep on top of all the
activity.
Our Scripture
readings for the 18th Sunday after Pentecost are:
Over the years I have learned that those who read the
Scripture lessons and spend a little time thinking about them before church on
Sunday get more out of the service.
The sermon is: Family
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