This week Jennifer Richmond and Angel Eduardo continue their conversation on faith and liberalism. The main question we tackle in this conversation is: do we need religion? Jennifer credits her faith to her “upward aim” and “striving” and doubts that she would approach life with such a conviction without her faith. Angel says that he can accomplish this same quest for moral “goodness” without the “baggage” of religion. Instead of “systematizing” his moral objectives to the Bible or Christian principles, Angel takes the good from innumerable stories that span history. What we both know, albeit from different perspectives, is that we are all a collection of miracles. We end the conversation promising to continue the discussion and will do so in our live March Liberalism in Practice Panel Discussion on March 27 at 7pm ET.
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Podcast Resources:
Jesus and Superman: A Faith and Liberalism Series with Angel Eduardo
Join us live on Tuesday, March 4 at 7pm ET with Ildi Tillmann. In March’s Liberal Values lab, Ildi, engages us in a conversation about ideology, propaganda, and cultural paradigms, and how they influence art and education in the contemporary United States.
She will also be talking about a related, multimedia project she is working on, entitled Captured Landscapes: Cuba, New York. The project combines the storytelling power of music and photography to reflect on the nature of ideology, propaganda, and slogan-driven communication to explore their influence on human life in two contexts: Cuba and New York.
Her project partner is a composer and jazz pianist, Elio Villafranca. Once completed, Captured Landscapes will encourage the audience to ask a few important questions: What is true, and what is it that is being marketed to us? How shall we know the difference? How can we, human beings, find ways to connect with each other? How can we turn off the blinding lights of commercial marketing and political activism to start feeling personal empathy? Is light always useful for knowledge, or do we sometimes need to walk in darkness so we can learn to see and understand?
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