Just this evening I got the opportunity to sit in on the Matt Friedeman Show on AFR. For those of you who were able to catch the broadcast there’s no doubt that you don’t want to hear it again, but for the rest of you I’m going to provide a link to an MP3 download. Feel free to download and listen to my first attempt at talk radio.
Be gentle.
Dude,
I already acknowledged your achievement on our blog. Nice work!
Zig
Sean,
Good job on the radio, except I think you need to work on the deep, sexy, radio-voice.
Just one comment on the whole Mother Teresa discussion (you know I’m a big Mother T. fan). I don’t have any problems with the fact that she struggled so much with doubt. In fact, it makes me even a little more ashamed at how much of a sissy I am in my own faith. It was a lot easier for me to think that Mother T. was able to do so much good because she had such an intimate experience of God. The fact that she exercised so much faith through her works while feeling so much doubt blows my mind.
The caller that called in who was a former Catholic said “Works without faith is dead,” but she’s totally wrong. “Faith without works is dead.” She said it pretty quickly, so I’m not surprised that none of you picked up on her mistake. Faith does not equal feeling! Faith is manifest through works, and Mother T.’s was made manifest despite the trials of doubt. I think so many evangelicals are just plain naïve to think that their “feelings of faith” are some great virtue.
While your co-host was o.k. I thought you did good.
. Take Care
Jack and Heath, thanks for the compliments. Glad you tuned in, even if it was only on the recording.
Tristan, I knew you would be tuned up by the MT conversation. You have an incredibly insightful take on the story. You said, “The fact that she exercised so much faith through her works while feeling so much doubt blows my mind.” I only wish I had thought of that while on the radio. (The truth is I was too nervous to really think very well on my toes.)
Your other thought is right on the mark too. You’re right, I missed what the caller said. Many evangelicals and others have made faith nothing more than a subjective feeling — a warm fuzzy — at the expense of outward, objective works of grace with our hands and feet. It’s easy to “do” good things for others when we have the warm and fuzzy. But what about when we go through the valleys of shadow?
Good thoughts. Sorry for my delayed response.
Sean, The thing about mother Teresa seems to become the talk of many churches around where I am at. It seems that some have taken this and made it their personal license to bash our Catholic brothers and sisters.
I was talking to a local Hispanic women who said that she is made fun of because she takes her kids to the Catholic Church.
I am like Lohrstorfer I would love to have the guy who was Catholic to come to my church. He seemed to have a better understanding of salvation than most protestants I know.
We wonder why the Church is not that effective in the world…I not sure it going to be until we have a “catholic spirit” and stop this thinking that one specific group of people have it all together. It would do us all good to pick up something by a catholic and read it. As you know we have more in common than most think…especially those in Holiness circles.