Undeceptions with John Dickson

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LINKS

  • Read the CNN report about the happiest country in the world for 2021.
  • Watch the full report from VICE News on whether Finland is actually  that happy. This one's from 2019 - Finland has been the happiest country in the world for four years running.
  • Read a little more from 20th Century philosopher Bertrand Russell on the conquest of happiness from Brain Pickings (one of those websites you'll get lost in ... see you next Tuesday).
  • Meet our guest, Miroslav Volf.
    • Read more about one his courses at Yale, 'Christ and the Good Life' here.
    • And check out the centre he helped set up, the Yale Centre of Faith and Culture
  • Watch this video chat between Volf and his teacher, Jürgen Moltmann (who John calls "one of the great theologians of the 20th Century)
  • Read Flourishing by Miroslav Volf.
  • Read this New York Times article, 'The other side of languishing is flourishing. Here's how to get there.'
  • Languishing, by the way, is the emotion that the NYT reckons may just be the dominant emotion of 2021. Good thing you've listened to this episode, then.
  • If you want to read more about Asceticism, go here.
  • Other Undeceptions episodes mentioned in this ep are: 
    • Everyday Sacred (Ep 47), where we talk to Andrew Wilson and Tish Harrison Warren about finding God in "stuff". 
    • Guilty Conscience  (Ep 39), where we speak to Tyler VanderWeele towards the end about the health benefits of forgiveness.
    • Mental Health (Ep 38), where we speak to Tyler VanderWeele on the impact of religious communities on mental health.
    • Social Capital (Ep 5), where we to Andrew Leigh about the benefits of religious communities not just on individuals but society more generally.
  • More on Francis of Assisi here. Or read his writings for yourself, here.
  • The Michel Onfray quote, "Religions' glorification of a fictional beyond prevents full enjoyment of the real here below. They establish death on earth for the sake of eternity in heaven and seek to promote self hatred to the detriment of the body" is from The Atheist Manifesto. 
  • More on Dionysus, here.
  • Meet our next guest, Tyler VanderWeele.
    • Tyler heads up Harvard University's Human Flourishing Program.
    • His latest book was published in 2021, called Measuring Well-Being
    • You can find most of Tyler's research on religion, health and flourishing here.
  • For an introduction on Aristotle, the Oxford Very Short Introduction series is good.
  • Read (or re-read) Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.
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