AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
2min chapter
Prayer Is Political
Zealots at the Gate
The Importance of Recognizing Our Lower Place in the Universe
Christianity and Islam have pretty strong words about that sort of disjuncture between religious performance and political practice, right? Yeah. And maybe I'll just add one more personal thing and then we'll be curious to kind of hear how you respond. So if I start to take prayer more seriously and consciously in this particular way of allowing the physical manifestation of the movements of prayer to translate into a deeper spiritual acknowledgement of my lower place in the broader universe, would there be an expectation of some sort of shift? "I try to be obviously the very fact that I'm saying this means that maybe it's not entirely true," he says.
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode