{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Echoes Podcast","title":"Start Now: Practices for Flourishing in the Third Third | with Mark D. Roberts","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7a9dba41\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2163,"description":"“I love being old.” That comment from a woman in her late 80s stuck with Mark D. Roberts. Today he helps people think about how to flourish in the “third third” of life. In this episode of The Echoes Podcast, we cover why relationships at 20–50 shape our health at 80, what the U.S. Surgeon General calls the loneliness epidemic, how churches can foster intergenerational community, when moving in your 60s+ helps—or hurts—your social fabric, and why “it’s all about you” is a terrible retirement story. Practical, hopeful, and unapologetically positive about how to age well. \nNOTES: \n “Third Third of Life” work from the De Pree Center Third Third Flourishing - De Pree Center \nCan We Trust the Gospels? by Mark D. Roberts  \nEphesians Commentary by Mark D. Roberts \nMaking It Work podcast (co-hosted by Roberts) \nHarvard Second Generation Study \nOur Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation U.S. Surgeon General Advisory on the “15 cigarettes a day” stat \nLaity Lodge (Texas) \nChristina Rossetti’s Up-Hill | The Poetry Foundation \nPsalm 103 \nOn Thinking Institutionally (On Politics) by Hugh Heclo \nEchoes Magazine (free subscription) \nH. E. Butt Foundation (mission/vision) ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6Eotx3BgFj8dDshzTJrinC8ofahO8kcvqmuHPfEVOF8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYTRj/Nzk1YjQ2YjkwZDYy/MDhiYzJjNGFlZTQy/NjU0Zi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}