Reimagining the Good Life: What's Coming This Season

What really makes life worth living? This season on Reimagining the Good Life, Amy Julia Becker dives into the ideas, assumptions, and cultural narratives that shape how we live. Upcoming conversations include:

• Karen Swallow Prior on calling
• Sharon Hodde Miller on self-forgetfulness
• Kelly Kapic on human limitations
• Leah Libresco Sargeant on the dignity of dependence 

If you’re curious about culture, disability, family, and faith—and how big ideas can change everyday life—this season is for you.

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Amy Julia Becker (00:05.464)
friends, it's been a few months since we've been here together at Reimagining the Good Life. I do enjoy taking a break from all sorts of things in the summer, but I also love returning to the rhythms of the fall. This is Amy Julia Becker, and I am really excited to return to this podcast and tell you what we have in store for the next couple of months. Some of you might remember that we changed the name of this podcast last year, and it is now called Reimagining the Good Life.

When we went through that process of renaming, was really helpful because it gave me a way to consider who we wanted to invite on the show. And this season, we've looked for guests who will help us think about where our ideas of the good life comes from, what might be problematic about those ideas, and also how we can understand the good life and really live into it. The good life is a concept in philosophy that's been around for thousands of years.

But it's also right now in a set of assumptions that we have about what we want in our lives. And sometimes those assumptions are not helpful to us and they don't lead us where we want them to. And sometimes they can help us envision something different. And those ideas can help us live into something more hopeful and human and freeing and good. So we are gonna ask those types of big questions together this season.

I'm going to start by talking with Karen Swallow Prior about her most recent book, You Have a Calling. What does our sense of calling have to do with the good life? I'm also really looking forward to a conversation with Sharon Hottie Miller about the idea of self-forgetfulness as a pathway to the good life. I'm excited about my conversation with Kelly Kaepke about the ways our human limitations are a crucial part of who we are.

And with Leah Labresco Sargent, she has an upcoming book called The Dignity of Dependence that has really challenged and enhanced my understanding of the good life. So if you are someone who likes big ideas that can make a big difference in our everyday lives, these conversations are for you. My hope is that this show challenges the assumptions about what makes life good, proclaims the inherent belovedness of every human being,

Amy Julia Becker (02:26.54)
and envisions a world of belonging where everyone matters. Not every guest will speak to all of those things, but as we look at disability and family and faith and culture together, we will start to, together, explore this idea of the good life and how we can live in it. So get ready for that first conversation with Karen Swallow-Pryor about our calling to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

That conversation will drop into this podcast feed on October 7th. If you haven't already, you can follow this show and let other people know the good things that are in store. Thank you so much for listening. I'm excited for the chance to reimagine the good life with you.