What does it mean to be human, and who decides the answer to that question? Listen to find out why those questions are so important, and how “…standing at the crossroads and asking for the ancient paths — where the good way lies…” can help us answer them — even if there are a lot of syllables in this episode’s title.

S1E5: Anthropology and Plausibility Structures

Discovering and exploring what it means to be truly known.

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Mental Health

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 started this season on suffering with what necessarily must precede it if hope is what we want. And now that we are near the season’s conclusion, we find ourselves where we started.
 
Come hang out with us to discover how what we first thought would only be painful—our suffering—ultimately, because of Jesus and the way our brains and relationships are made to operate, leads to the joy that enables us to fearless encounter our suffering wherever it will emerge in our lives over the course of them. We can’t wait for you to be with us, and join us in all that God has in store.
 
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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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S9E10: Full Circle

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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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.
 
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.
 
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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!

 
 . . . . .
Stay connected:
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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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.
 
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.
 
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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!

 
 . . . . .
Stay connected:
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YouTube (Unedited videos of each episode AND the Post Show Conversation.)
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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.
 
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:
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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. 
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S1E5: Anthropology and Plausibility Structures

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