Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we're sharing a really

beautiful conversation between writer and thinker Elizabeth Oldfield and

Zach Davis. Elizabeth is the author of Foley Alive tending to the soul in times, and the host of the podcast Sacred.

Elizabeth grew up in a faintly Christian home that rarely if ever spoke about God, but as a young

teen she had a powerful and unmistakable answer to prayer that made her a believer.

She then turned to the Bible to learn more about her newfound Christian faith and was blindsided

by ideas in the text that she found troubling.

So in this conversation, Elizabeth talks about her complex

faith and how she's learned to lean into the messy paradoxes of life since then.

And she explores the concept of sin and the seven Deadly Sins. She asks,

what can envy teach us about having a stable sense of self,

especially in this age of social media?

And isn't Acidia or Sloth, the Eighth Deadly Sin, really about attention? how can we continually recall our attention to the things that we hope will shape our souls.

She points out that at the end of the day this is not a legalistic list of ways that we can be in debt to God,

but really a loving guide for how to be in right relationship

with the people around us

and should be inseparably connected

with ideas like compassion, forgiveness, and restoration.

We really hope that you enjoyed this episode as much as we did,

and we have really exciting news to share.

Elizabeth Oldfield will be coming to Utah

as one of our featured speakers at Restore.

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