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What have you come to understand about what it means to be human?

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Krista Tippett, to her guests, On Being

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Kate Bowler Historian of American Christianity; professor at Duke Divinity School
The movement has perfected a rarefied form of America’s addiction to self-rule, which denies much of our humanity: our fragile bodies, our finitude, our need to stare down our deaths (at least once in a while) and be filled with dread and wonder. At some point, we must say to ourselves, I’m going to need to let go.
Recorded The New York Times, Sunday Review, 13 February 2016 source ↗

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