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Podcast: For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
Episode: Desire: How Avarice and Acquisition Distort Our Longing for the Sacred / Micheal O'Siadhail
Description: "Having lost a sense of the sacred, the only thing we want is acquisitiveness—more of everything. How can we break this vicious cycle of avarice? It seems to me that the only way we can possibly reign this in on ourselves is some retrieval of the sense of the sacred, something beyond ourselves. And I think that relearning humility—realizing that a parasitic pathogen can spread across the globe and wreak havoc as it did—brings us to the question again of the sacred.Dare we speak of a God who is worthy of all our...