What Part of You Has Come Here to Die? Recovering a Wild Christianity | Martin Shaw

About this episode

Martin Shaw discusses recovering a wild Christianity in a domesticated world with host Dave Hanegraaff.

“What part of you has come here to die?” It’s a question that Martin Shaw—one of our great living storytellers—is famous for asking. Shaw offers these kinds of provocations to a Western world where Christianity has largely been domesticated and desperately needs to recover its wildness. Prayer doesn’t feel real to you? Rip up a twenty-dollar bill every time you pray. On your phone too much? Smash it with a hammer. Have something you need to confess but are afraid to tell another living soul? Dig a “confessional hole” in the ground with your bare hands and shout it into the earth. In this episode of A Commitment to Reality , Shaw joins Dave Hanegraaff to explore how to recover a wild Christianity in a world where faith for many has become cold, abstract, and domesticated. Thank you for joining A Commitment to Reality , hosted by Dave Hanegraaff. Follow A Commitment to Reality wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube for full episodes + clips: https://www.youtube.com/@ACommitmenttoReality (Timestamps below.) 0:00 — Intro / Friends in Common Recovering Wild Christianity 2:20 — Belief is cool again—Atheism is for old people 3:45 — Aesthetic Arrest 6:45 — You don’t want persona…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Hanegraaff

Guest: Martin Shaw

Topics covered

• wild Christianity
• faith
• storytelling
• confession
• spirituality
• cultural critique

Keywords

• Christianity
• spirituality
• confession
• storytelling
• faith
• cultural critique

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Christian Research Institute

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