Chats with Larry Episode 9

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On today’s RABBI BRIAN’S CHATS WITH LARRY

While Today’s Rabbi Brian Chats With Larry has great audio quality (an improvement over last time), but that’s because I TOLD Larry I was recording it. He  was really stiff at the start, which I’ve skipped. 

Enjoy the good quality` and fast start as Larry and I talk about:

    1. Will power and God’s will. (God’s will =) “Love people, use things”
    2. Will power, Won’t power, and how we don’t always do what we know we should do
    3. Satan, good and evil
    4. Larry’s imposter syndrome and Brian’s childlike playful spirit
    5. The paradox of pride
    6. Explaining religion without the religious words

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Wastefully

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  Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong would answer the question “how shall we express love?” with a single word: “Wastefully.”    ✧✧✧   We don’t express love wastefully. A story and then some thinking about why.   ✧✧✧   It’s 2006. I’m in NYC to—among other things—celebrate the fifth birthday of my first niece, Maya.  I wait outside her school

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