#511 Consumerism and the Christian Faith - Andrew Petiprin

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Whatever the world might say, Christian moral teaching is about more than sex. Andrew Petiprin joins us for a conversation about the Christian perspective on money, particularly in a consumerist culture. How is a Christian to live when “happiness” is on sale everywhere? …

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and
0:10.5	defending your Catholic faith.
0:12.5	I'm Psy Kell at your host, and today we talk about something that may seem a slightly
0:17.6	tangential to the whole apologetics endeavor, and that is consumerism.
0:24.2	But I don't think it's that maybe as tangential as it seems from the beginning.
0:28.4	One of the great appeals of Christianity, and an appeal we often fail to make, is its
0:34.0	radical nature.
0:35.6	That is, it gets to the very root of what it is to be a human being.
0:39.6	And it's medicine for whatever ails that very, very root.
0:44.0	And so this is our opportunity, consumerism, modern consumerism, talking about it, pointing
0:50.0	out its failure to make happiness where it claims it will make happiness.
0:55.0	These are real opportunities for sharing the faith.
0:57.6	We have a wonderful guest for you, someone I've been really looking forward to speaking
1:02.0	with.
1:03.0	And now I get a chance to speak with him.
1:04.0	Andrew Petaprin is our guest.
1:05.4	He served as the fellow of popular culture, which must be the greatest job in the world,
1:10.4	a fellow of popular culture at the Word on Fire Institute.
1:14.0	He's an author, a former Anglican cleric, came into full communion with the Catholic church
1:17.9	in 2019.
1:18.9	He has his master's in divinity from Yale University, and his master's in philosophy from
1:23.4	Oxford University.
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