About this episode

Brandon explores how religious rigidity can blind us to grace and the importance of surrender for freedom.

In this episode, Brandon explores religious rigidity as the attempt to manage anxiety through certainty, purity, and control. Through Jesus' warnings, the older brother, and the rise of politicized faith, he asks how purity codes can blind us to grace—and how surrender opens the way to freedom.

People in this episode

Host: Brandon Cook

Topics covered

• religious rigidity
• anxiety
• certainty
• purity
• grace
• surrender
• freedom

Keywords

• religion
• spirituality
• purity codes
• politicized faith
• anxiety management

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