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Omid Safi on Radical Love

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Omid Safi is one of the leading American public intellectuals. He’s a professor of religious studies at Duke University and for the last seven years, he’s led the Study of Islam section at the American Academy of Religion. His new book is called, Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. There are so many teachings in this interview about what it means and how to know and experience God and healing. Through poetry we receive wisdom and it is transformational. That’a what you’ll get from this episode – as well as a dose of beauty that will touch your soul.

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 In This Interview, Omid Safi and I Discuss…

• His book, Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition

• Love and Justice being so tied together in the Islamic Tradition

• How do we live a life that makes beauty real?

• How do we make “love” something we do towards one another?

• Healing of the world that is also involved in a spiritual transformation

• How he translated the poetry in his book by going back to the words of Mohammad

• Rumi

• Hafez

• The path of love is made up of seekers who are in it for God’s own heart

• How we have to love God’s own people (those around us)

• The connection between knowing God and knowing ourselves

• The false idea of something for nothing in new age spirituality

• God when you’re deep in the valley as well as when you’re on the mountain top

• The question, “Tell me what I need to do to be transformed?”

• How Ritual, Transformation, Sacrifice, and Community are needed in a religion/spirituality

• How only God has the right to say “I”

• The cycles of our spiritual life

• Seeing God wherever we don’t see ourselves

• A valuable spiritual path teaches you how to navigate your own suffering

• People whose heart breaks vs people whose heart breaks open

• Sitting with people who are suffering

• That you own nothing and nothing owns you

• Sticking with your friends through difficult times

Omid Safi Links

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Omid’s Podcast

Omid’s OnBeing Columns

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231: Austin Channing Brown

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Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, nonprofits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. She is passionate about the advancement of racial justice and reconciliation and her words will most certainly move you to action. In her work, she shares her experiences as a black woman who “navigates whiteness on a regular basis”. After listening to this interview and reading her book, your mind and heart will be broadened towards understanding and inclusion – regardless of where you are on that spectrum today.

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In This Interview, Austin Channing Brown and I Discuss…

  • Her book, I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness
  • The importance and value of anger
  • How we can fight the monsters without becoming the monsters
  • That anger reveals something is wrong
  • White fragility – sadness and anger
  • Naming the things that can come in the way of a discussion, before the discussion happens
  • Realising racial bias
  • Transformation comes after a moment of realization
  • The idea of “whiteness being normal”
  • Books to read to gain an understanding of racial injustice
  • How to look for opportunities to talk with others about topics of racial injustice
  • Check out “Be the Bridge”
  • The white confessional being a shortcut to true reconciliation
  • Skipping the confessional story and moving straight to the action step you’ll take next
  • What reconciliation means to her
  • Racial justice and reconciliation
  • Radical Reconciliation
  • How reconciliation should revolutionize the relationships we have with each other
  • The celebration of blackness that is throughout the book
  • Cultural misappropriation

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A grandfather is talking with his grandson and he says there are two wolves inside of us which are always at war with each other. 

One of them is a good wolf which represents things like kindness, bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf, which represents things like greed, hatred and fear.

The grandson stops and thinks about it for a second then he looks up at his grandfather and says, “Grandfather, which one wins?”

The grandfather quietly replies, the one you feed 

The Tale of Two Wolves is often attributed to the Cherokee indians but there seems to be no real proof of this. It has also been attributed to evangelical preacher Billy Graham and Irish Playwright George Bernard Shaw. It appears no one knows for sure but this does not diminish the power of the parable.

This parable goes by many names including:

The Tale of Two Wolves

The Parable of the Two Wolves

Two Wolves

Which Wolf Do You Feed

Which Wolf are You Feeding

Which Wolf Will You Feed

It also often features different animals, mainly two dogs

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