#2: God Is Change
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In This Episode:
Welcome back to The Say The Word podcast!
In this episode of The Say The Word Podcast, we’re talking about:
the power of story & why we shouldn’t disregard fiction as “a waste of time”
an excerpt from Octavia Butler’s masterpiece, Parable of the Sower
what it looks like to examine fear and change and the search to understand what we believe
We’ll get into all this and more in today’s episode:
[00:46] - welcome
[01:21] - “a waste of time”
[02:01] - reason #1 it’s not true
[03:47] - reason #2 it’s not true
[04:43] - reason #3 it’s not true
[08:08] - excerpt from Parable of the Sower
[13:02] - revisions and rewrites
[15:24] - God is Change
[19:46] - how many things I’ve got to learn
[22:09] - a member of my community shares how a quote from Little Women has stayed with her over her life
[23:07] - what’s coming up next week
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower is a masterpiece— truly— and uncanny in its prescience. I highly recommend it!
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I referenced Jonathan Gottschall’s Tedx Talk in the show— you can find that HERE.
NOTE: I mistakenly referenced him as “Jonathan Gottman” at the end of the episode— my apologies!
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