Hauerwas, Stanley

Stanley Hauerwas on medicine and limits

Stanley Hauerwas on why the elimination of suffering is an inadequate (and unrealistic) goal for medicine

Authority, argues David Koyzis, is an aspect of the image of God, exercised to fulfill human vocations. (30 minutes)

Jessica Hooten Wilson asserts that reading stories of holiness in the lives of “literary saints” helps to cultivate Christian character in us. (25 minutes)

Stanley Hauerwas asks how the fear of death shapes the practice of medicine

In the first in a projected series of Features, Stanley Hauerwas shares some thoughts about lessons to be learned while living under quarantine. (13 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Stanley Hauerwas, Perry L. Glanzer, Nathan F. Alleman, Jeffrey Bishop, Alan Jacobs, D. C. Schindler, and Marianne Wright

Stanley Hauerwas on why “freedom of religion” carries subtle temptations

Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon on democracy, desire, and freedom

FEATURED GUESTS: Nicholas M. Healy, Christian Smith, James K. A. Smith, Esther Lightcap Meek, Richard Viladesau, and Jeremy Begbie

Stanley Hauerwas on how many modern Christians offered atheists less and less in which to disbelieve.

Stanley Hauerwas: “Protestant churches in America lost the ability to maintain the disciplines necessary to sustain a people capable of being an alternative to the world.”

Roger Kimball introduces listeners to Josef Pieper’s arguments about the nature of leisure, which are claims about the nature of philosophy and of human well-being. (34 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Stanley Hauerwas, Clarke Forsythe, Gilbert Meilaender, Jeanne Murray Walker, Roger Lundin, and David Bentley Hart