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The pace and rate of technological change over the last few decades has been extraordinary. We have the potential to be \xa0and do things faster, better and more efficiently in ways previous generations could never have dreamed possible.
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\nBut there is also a sense that there has to be something more than just what we see around us. One writer, Tom Wright puts it in terms of four areas of concern in our culture. In these areas just being or doing faster, better or more efficiently is inadequate:
\n- the quest for spirituality
\n- the longing for justice
\n- the hunger for relationships
\n- a delight in beauty.
\nThere is a way in which all of them point beyond themselves and we hear them as if they are echoes of a voice coming from just around the corner out of sight.
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\nOn this podcast we have our final conversation with Andy Parnham on his book \u201cLasting Happiness: In Search Of Deeper Meaning and Fulfilment.\u201d
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\nDo join us as we explore:
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\nThe limitations of a materialistic worldview when we have such deep longings for meaning.
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\nWhy secular health experts like Allan McNaught come to the conclusion that trying to define wellbeing is "fruitless. frustrating and ultimately impossible."
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\nThe hunger for meaning in our lives. As the writer Dostoyevsky poetically said,
\n\u201cEvery ant knows the formula of its anthill,
\nEvery bee knows the formula of its beehive.
\nThey know it in their way, not in our way.
\nOnly humankind does not know its own formula.\u201d
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\nOur thirst for story.\xa0 (Also see Podcast #022: The Stories We Tell Ourselves)
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\nThe power of understanding the Hebrew concept of shalom as "wholeness for the whole person in the whole of life extending to the whole of the cosmos!"
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\nAfter listening to our conversation what questions, comments and reflections on finding meaning and purpose do you have?
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