Envy: The Anti-Life Sin, and Its Cure, with Michon Matthiesen
About this episode
The episode discusses the sin of envy, its subtlety in modern life, and its classification as an anti-life sin in the Christian tradition.
There is a sin that has learned to survive by not looking like one. We have made room for it—quietly, in the way we work and compete and measure ourselves against the person beside us. We have given it respectable names: ambition, drive, a healthy edge. Everyone feels it, we tell ourselves. So perhaps it cannot be helped. And what cannot be helped, we assume, cannot really be a vice. But the Christian tradition never granted it that cover. It saw this thing as anti-life. It traced it back to ...
People in this episode
Guest: Michon Matthiesen
Topics covered
- envy
- sin
- Christian tradition
- ambition
- competition
- spirituality
Keywords
- envy
- sin
- Christianity
- spirituality
- ambition
- competition
- anti-life
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