Radio – Joshua Graves: Exploring the Collision of Culture & Faith

Radio

November 19, 2009

Listen to my interview with Cleveland radio host, Glen Mertz today at 10am CST as I discuss my new book, The Feast. Radio interviews are interesting. I recorded this interview a few weeks back. Now it’s been edited for radio . . .it will be interesting to see which parts they use and which parts get cut.

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I’m working on a teaching about having no invisible in our lives. Asking God to give us eyes that see “image of God” in every person we meet–from the C.E.O. of our companies to the person who cleans our facilities; from our spouses to the persons in our lives that create a constant headache. What would it look if you had no invisible people in your life? “The true atheist,” we’re reminded by Dorothy Day, “is the one who fails to see the image of God in the least of these,” (a great rabbinic commentary on Matthew 25 and the parable of the sheep and the goats).

Labels: The Feast

4 Comments

Wow, I really like that Day quote…

by Phil W. (Nov 19 2009, 7:24 am)

And just as a point of note, Matthew 25 is a very interesting chapter to me with the stories of the virgins and the talents and then moving to the sheep and goats, in that all the people talked about in the stories (virgins, workers, sheep and goats) are believers. They all believe that the groom/master/Lord is returning. These aren’t unbelievers who Jesus is talking about. It’s believers who have this responsibility.

I don’t know how all this works into grace vs. works, but it does seem that our salvation brings a responsibility onto us.

by Phil W. (Nov 19 2009, 8:45 am)

I’m glad you didn’t say “down to” the people who clean our facilities, though your statement seems to represent a spectrum, at least in the popular view.

by Phillip (Nov 19 2009, 10:15 am)

Phillip,

I was playing off of the social “norms” and how we give into them too easily.

Phil–agreed, Mt. 25 is deep.

by Josh (Nov 19 2009, 12:52 pm)