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Kresta in the Afternoon – September 5, 2023 – Hour 1

David Scott honors the feast of Teresa of Calcutta and Mark David Hall discusses the Christian foundations of religious liberty. 

 

The Love that Made Mother Teresa

Most of us remember Mother Teresa as the woman who broke death’s stranglehold on the poor of Calcutta and showed us how to conquer the sin and darkness in what she called the slums of the hearts of modern man. But she was also much more than that. David Scott joins us on her feast day with a look at Mother Teresa’s private visions and secret sufferings.

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Lessons on labor, love, and life from St. Teresa of Calcutta

Mother Teresa and the Pain of Joy

The Early Visions of St. Mother Teresa

The Eucharistic Life of St. Teresa of Calcutta

David Scott is a research fellow and editorial director at the St Paul Center for Biblical theology. He’s vice-chancelor of communications for the Archdiocese of LA. He’s the author of the Love that Made Mother Teresa

How has Christianity Advanced Liberty?

Scholars and popular authors regularly claim that Christianity, at least orthodox Christianity, has fostered oppression and intolerance, and that rejecting religion is a key step to advancing liberty and equality. But throughout American history, Christians have been motivated by their faith to create fair and just institutions, fight for political freedom, oppose slavery, and secure religious liberty for all. Mark David Hall joins us with more.

Mark David Hall is the author most recently of Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land: How Christianity Has Advanced Freedom and Equality for All Americans. He is a Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the Honors Program at George Fox University. He is also Associated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. In 2022–2023, he is a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison Program and a Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center. His other books include Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth and Great Christian Jurists in American History. Follow him on Twitter @MDH_GFU
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