Episode 4: We’ve Lost Track of Time

Everything about our lives these days is fast. We measure time in fractions of a second. We prize efficiency and good time management more than just about anything else. But this puts pressure on us that ultimately degrades our humanity. When so much of life and growth happens slowly, being in a hurry can wear you down. Why are we so restless? Because we've lost track of time.   

At the conclusion of John’s talk, co-hosts Center for Public Christianity Executive Director Josh Chatraw and New City Fellows alumnus Micah Vandegrift are joined by Jimmy Doster, also a New City Fellows alumnus, to reflect on John’s teaching and discuss how it applies to daily life. So, keep listening! 

Additional Resources

From John’s Talks

• A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by Ephraim Radner
• Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Pensées by Blaise Pascal
• Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News by Jeffrey Bilbro
• The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
• The Power of Place: Choosing Stability in a Rootless Age by Daniel Grothe
• You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News by Kelly M. Kapic
• You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World by Alan Noble
• Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey

From the Discussion

• He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art by Christian Wiman
• How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now by James K. A. Smith
• The Sacrament of the Present Moment by Andrew Fellows

Websites

https://htcraleigh.org/

https://centerforpublicchristianity.org/