In this fifth episode of Season Two of More Than Politics, host Julie Varner Walsh turns to the problems we face when it comes to today’s politics. She describes how she sees these problems as coming from our human tendency to idolize, to become unhealthily attached to things.

And in particular, in this episode Julie discusses our tendency to idolize people – both groups and individuals. Julie believes that this idol has lead us into a culture war, and that we vastly underestimate the role this culture war has come to play in our lives.

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In the first three episodes of this season, host Julie Varner Walsh has described some ideas that she sees as timeless – applicable to all humans, whenever and wherever they live.

In this episode and those that follow, she begins to orient us to our moment, to our place – to the problems we face, the solutions we need, and the ideas that might help us move forward. She explores how she sees her ideas of the human physics and the spiritual physics playing out in our moment, and how we might use the ideas to guide us.

Here, she begins with some thoughts on time, and change, and our idea of the possible.

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In this episode, host Julie Varner Walsh explores her idea of the “spiritual physics” – a concept through which she tries to make sense of the mess in the world – especially in politics, and in the way politics has come to affect our relationships with one another.

She believes there is a truth to human relationship that is both deeper than and counter to our basic human inclinations, and that this truth applies to both small-scale human relationships (like family, friendship, and community) and large-scale relationships (like politics, society, and international affairs).

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In Season Two of More Than Politics, host Julie Varner Walsh aims to lay a groundwork for how we, as individuals, might consider the political issues and dynamics of our day. And she aims to go as wide and deep as she is able: into history, into faith, into how humans relate to one another, into complicated messes and simple truths.

Here in this second episode of Season Two, she’ll begin with the most personal, essential elements of her view on the world: her faith, and how she understands reality itself.

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Welcome to Season Two of More Than Politics – to this new beginning. In the first episode of the season, host Julie Varner Walsh reintroduces herself, lays out what she hopes to accomplish in this season, and challenges listeners to consider how they might work to improve their communities, their country, and even politics itself.

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