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I just listened to this podcast from A Thoughtful Faith and thought it was fantastic! I’d recommend it to anyone working through a faith crisis. It helped me look at things from a different perspective and I hope that this perspective will be helpful to me to get more joy out of life and feel more fulfilled. The whole idea is about finding the right balance of truth, beauty, and goodness. http://athoughtfulfaith.org/jon-ogden/ 
[img]https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*l0g3QlFVUIuU8m7Y7Bt7dA.png [/img] If you don’t want to take the time to listen to the podcast, read Jon’s blog post. It contains the same ideas, but is a short read:
Thank you for sharing this. I have seen similar thoughts expressed in different ways. Essentially that things that are beautiful but not true (like artistic expression for example) still have value. Things that are good but not true (like acts of service) are also of value. There are things that are true (like math) that may be neither beautiful or necessarily good. There is some overlap in all these categories and a well balanced person should be able to see the worth of each category alone and the complex interplay of the whole diagram. Thank you for posting this. I’ve only read, but I will listen to the podcast. This helped clarify for me:
Quote:We might say that the quality life sits in the center of a Venn diagram with three overlapping circles — one for truth, one for beauty, and one for goodness. Pursuing only one of these ideals pushes us away from the center, while pursuing all the three pushes us toward it, toward a life well lived. As the semi-Mormon scholar Wayne Booth said, these three ideals “rival one another at the fringe, but in the center they join.”
But I guess the question I ask myself is how connected I am or will remain to the LDS church since the institution isn’t Truth, Goodness and Beauty themselves. And just because I’m disillusioned and cynical about truth claims (like the woman in his example) doesn’t mean I’ve stopped searching and praying.
For any that are interested, you can pre-order Jon’s Kindle book on Amazon.com for $2.99 (delivered Jun 19, 2016): http://amazon.com/Truth-Beauty-Goodness-Bridging-Differences-ebook/dp/B01D7T93CQ
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