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Curt Thompson, MD and Pepper Sweeney host a series of conversations on the mind and how we interact with our faith, communities, and ourselves.

Being Known Podcast Being Known Podcast

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Curt Thompson, MD and Pepper Sweeney host a series of conversations on the mind and how we interact with our faith, communities, and ourselves.

    S9E9: Hope

    S9E9: Hope

    Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
     
    Hope is one thing. Durable hope—that’s something different altogether. What is hope, after all? Is it something that merely happens to fall in our laps? Something that we can only hope to have?
     
    The world of interpersonal neurobiology has some things to say about hope that are, well, very, very hopeful. And at the same time, shed light on where Paul is going, as he has come all the way from suffering, through perseverance and character to bring us to where we are.
     
    Join the conversation this week as we walk together into the hope that is more than just a word. More than what we merely hope we will have. And we’re far more than hopeful that you will agree with us when you do.
     
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    Episode Links and References
    The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
    Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
    Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!

     
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    • 29 min
    S9E8: Character

    S9E8: Character

    Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
     
    We deeply long to be persons of character; we would much rather not, however, have to persevere through suffering to get there. But it turns out that that is exactly how character is formed. Moreover, the formation of character is the necessary prerequisite for hope that lasts, not the flimsy kind that so much or our lives are used to. And therein lies the good news. The resilience of character, something that others see in us but that we often do not see in ourselves, brings us ever closer to the hope we long to form and maintain.
     
    Listen in to these two characters (Pepper and Curt, that is. Well, maybe just Pepper) as we learn what we can do to develop the character that we so long to have.
     
    . . . .
    Episode Links and References
    The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
    Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
    Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!

     
     . . . . .
    Stay connected:
    Instagram, Facebook
    YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
    Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 
    Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

    • 46 min
    S9E7: Perseverance

    S9E7: Perseverance

    Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
     
    Who hasn’t felt like giving up when the going got, not only tough, but tough for a really long time. We love the idea of what perseverance can ultimately lead to; we would often rather arrive at what we want without having to persevere. Because to be sure: perseverance is not easy. But as we have said on this podcast before, the brain can do a lot of really hard things for a long time, as long as it doesn’t have to do it by itself.
     
    Tune in to hear Pepper persevere in having to be in conversation with Curt yet one more time, and discover again what it means to SNAG the brain while we form durable hope in the process.
     
    . . . .
    Episode Links and References
    The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
    Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
    Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!

     
     . . . . .
    Stay connected:
    Instagram, Facebook
    YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
    Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 
    Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

    • 38 min
    S9E6: Suffering: The Story of the Present Age

    S9E6: Suffering: The Story of the Present Age

    Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
     
    Finally, we’re here. We’ve reached the topic that this series is about. It’s just that, now that we’ve arrived, we don’t want to be here. Nobody wants to suffer. We want less of it, or none of it at all, not just some tired old story of how to grin and bear it.
     
    The good news is that, there are some things we can learn about suffering from what we know of the brain and relationships, things that, once we are aware of them, begin to shed even brighter light on the hope that we are durably forming on our journey through this part of Paul’s letter.
     
    This week we talk about why we suffer, and how we can begin to reframe it in our first steps toward suffering differently.
     
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    Episode Links and References
    The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
    S2E6: What's Your Story - episode on the narrative domain
    S2E9: It's Only a Matter of Time - episode on the temporal domain
    Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
    Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!

     
     . . . . .
    Stay connected:
    Instagram, Facebook
    YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
    Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 
    Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

    • 31 min
    S9E5: Glory

    S9E5: Glory

    Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
     
    Who would ever imagine that glory and suffering would have anything to do with each other? As it turns out, a great deal. So much so, in fact, that when we consider a particular aspect of God’s glory (one that we rarely do), we see how, when we take it seriously, it utterly transforms and prepares us for the suffering we will inevitably encounter. But we can’t encounter it alone. It requires community.
     
    This week you are invited to draw close to God’s glory, even as we draw close to our suffering.
     
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    Episode Links and References
    The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
    Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-25, 2024
    Use code KNOWN to save $25 off conference registration!

    Bonus conversation on GLORY with the Being Known Podcast team.
     
     . . . . .
    Stay connected:
    Instagram, Facebook
    YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
    Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 
    Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

    • 30 min
    S9E4: A Wide Place to Stand

    S9E4: A Wide Place to Stand

    Welcome to Being Known Podcast. This season we are discussing Curt's latest book, The Deepest Place as we carefully cover each chapter to deepen your understanding of suffering and the formation of hope.
     
    For Jesus followers, as we approach the topic of suffering, we can’t bypass the body. Fortunately, neither does Paul in Romans 5, or what we know from neuroscience. For indeed, the more we pay attention to how the body works, the more the texts of scripture make sense in our world, a world which has somehow over many centuries found a way to separate the body from the spirit in ways that they simply are not.
     
    Come along this week as we learn how “grace in which we now stand” is no mere metaphor—and shapes our response to suffering in ways we might never imagine.
     
    . . . .
    Episode Links and References
    The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope
    Connections Conference 2024 - Oct. 24-26, 2024 (save the date for more information coming soon)
     
     . . . . .
    Stay connected:
    Instagram, Facebook
    YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
    Please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode and we always welcome your reviews on Apple Podcasts. 
    Sign up to access the Being Known Podcast applications, the weekly exercises that connect what you are learning to your life in a practical way. 

    • 42 min

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