{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"A Life Worth Living with Miroslav Volf","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1990,"description":"A Life Worth Living\nWhat makes a good life? What habits of attention, reflection, and action orient us towards knowing, desiring, and doing what is good, true, and beautiful? Such “big questions” may seem unanswerable and intimidating — but their exploration is at the heart of the human quest for meaning.\nDrawing on his popular Yale course, theologian Miroslav Volf joined us to reflect on what makes for a flourishing life in our times:\n“You realize that there are things that are much more important. I mean this is the life of fullness. This is his life of weight. [It is the] arduous life that is, in fact, the truly happy life.\nDespite the real challenge of human suffering and pain, Volf argues that happiness is possible and that an examined life that grapples with the good in our emotions, circumstances, and actions is a life worth living.\nThis podcast is an edited version of an online conversation recorded in early 2024. Watch the full video of the conversation here, and learn more about Miroslav Volf.\nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nExclusion and Embrace, by Miroslav Volf\nLife Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz\nFriedrich Nietzsche\nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nMan's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl\nOn Happiness, by Thomas Aquinas\nBrave New World, by Aldous Huxley\nHow Much Land Does a Man Need, by Leo Tolstoy\nWrestling with God, by Simone Weil\nRelated Conversations:\nA New Year With The Word with Malcolm Guite\nMusic, Creativity & Justice with Ruth Naomi Floyd\nPursuing Humility with Richard Foster and Brenda Quinn\nReading as a Spiritual Practice with Jessica Hooten Wilson\nWalking as a Spiritual Practice with Mark Buchanan\nMaking as a Spiritual Practice with Makoto Fujimura\nConnecting Spiritual Formation & Public Life with Michael Wear\nThe Kingdom, the Power & The Glory with Tim Alberta\nTo listen to this or any of our episodes in full, visit ttf.org/podcast and to join the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}