'All That’s Good,' with Hannah Anderson - Mere Fidelity: a podcast from Mere Orthodoxy

How do we find ‘the good’ in a world of bad hot takes? Here to help the crew pan for gold is Hannah Anderson. She joins Andrew, Alastair, and Derek to discuss her new book, All That’s Good: Recovering The Lost Art of Discernment, and shares how, through discernment, we can not only survive the world but enjoy it.

Resources mentioned:

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

Timestamps

0:00

Intro

2:40

Why write a book on discernment?

4:40

Why “discernment” is often used in a negative sense

10:00

How to assess the online context, and engage/comment on issues virtuously

15:20

How to exercise wisdom in choosing one good thing, or opportunity, and another

23:45

Where/when discernment is the most difficult to use

27:40

Which voices we should listen to, in a world where everyone is telling us to follow them?

33:55

How to limit the online voices/figures on our newsfeed

40:13

Conclusion

Follow Derek, Andrew, and Alastair for more tweet-sized brilliance. Thanks to Caleb Wait for keeping us organized. Special thanks to Tim Motte for sound editing. And thanks to The Joy Eternal for lending us their music, which everybody should download out of gratitude for their kindness.

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