Reminder: Zoom Conversation with Author Uche Anizor TONIGHT!

Join me for a lively discussion of his book, Overcoming Apathy

I’m speaking with Dr. Uche Anizor tonight at 7pm EST/4pm PST. We’ll be discussing his 2023 Christianity Today Book of the Year Winner, Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care. You can join us live on Zoom (information below). A recording will also be made available after our conversation though you won’t get to ask Dr. Anizor your burning acedia questions. (I know you have them!)

Here are some of the questions I’m hoping to ask him tonight:

1.     We have a Toronto connection! Tell us a little bit about your background, where you grew up, and where you’re living and working now.

2.     What motivated you to write Overcoming Apathy? Is it connected in any way to your academic work, or was this a problem you were diagnosing more personally, either in yourself or your students?

3.     Give us a working definition of the vice you’re talking about in this book. Why use apathy in the title, rather than acedia?

4.     You outline 7 deadly causes of apathy in the book. Can you run through this, explaining each briefly?

5.     Say more about the role of emotion in acedia. Are we guilty of apathy if we don’t feel that we care, even if we maintain involvement?

6.     What do we must misunderstand about acedia?

7.     What is the relationship between entertainment and acedia? What are the characteristics of a spiritually healthy relationship to entertainment?

8.     If acedia is the failure to care, how do we mind our limits in a digital world, when it is not possible to care for every need that crosses our field of vision? How do we nurture the willingness to care and act alongside an embodied sense of our creatureliness?

9.     Tell us why belonging in community is so important in our fight against apathy?

10.  Do you have a rule of life? I couldn’t help but feel that your final exhortations coalesced around this spiritual practice.

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