S4E11: Why there is organized religion, according to Exodus

About this episode

The episode discusses the perception of organized religion and its biblical roots as seen in Exodus.

Send us Fan Mail “Organized religion” seems to have a bad rep nowadays. It’s associated with authoritarian hierarchies, dogmatic beliefs and rigid rules. Many of us instead want to identify ourselves as simply “spiritual”; we want to be people connected with some greater reality, some deeper truths and higher ideals, to something Divine, but without the confines of organized religion. Fair enough. And interestingly enough, in the Bible, the first heroes of faith—Abraham, Isaac, and Jaco...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Seungoh Chung

Topics covered

• organized religion
• spirituality
• faith
• Bible
• Divine
• higher ideals

Keywords

• organized religion
• spirituality
• Exodus
• faith
• Bible
• Abraham
• Isaac
• Jacob

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Exodus

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