Episode 481
Vice & Virtue — Sloth
30 October 2025
1 hr 15 mins 49 secs
Season 9
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About this Episode
Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé talk about the capital vice known as sloth—or rather, acedia.
David Hume’s Moral Philosophy: The Natural Virtues — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Making All Things New by Henri Nouwen
Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Acedia & Me by Kathleen Norris
The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy
BEMA 2: Knowing When to Say “Enough”
1 Corinthians 3 — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship
BEMA 400: Talmudic Matthew — Salt
BEMA 401: Talmudic Matthew — Light
BEMA 402: Talmudic Matthew — Lightly Salted
Mark 11 (aroma reference) — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
“Patient Trust” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Followers, Not Admirers” by Søren Kierkegaard in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter
Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila — Catholic Health Association of the United States
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Canada Geese and Diet Dr. Pepper — The Anthropocene Reviewed
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