{"id":5025,"date":"2023-05-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2023-04-28T15:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:35:20","slug":"episode-22-dwight-schrute-the-matrix-and-the-revival-of-ancient-heresies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/episode-22-dwight-schrute-the-matrix-and-the-revival-of-ancient-heresies","title":{"rendered":"Episode 22: Rainn Wilson&#8217;s Soul Boom and the Revival of Ancient Heresies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Ep22_RTCM.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Recovering the Christian Mind | May 1, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the television sitcom The Office, is out on the circuit promoting his new book, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.soulboom.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.soulboom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Viral reels of Wilson&#8217;s recent appearance on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.richroll.com\/podcast\/rainn-wilson-749\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.richroll.com\/podcast\/rainn-wilson-749\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rich Roll Podcast<\/a> are being shared by Christians (and non-Christians) on their social media platforms because so much of what Rainn and Rich are talking about speaks to what Pascal referenced when he said, <em>&#8220;There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>St. Augustine also famously said, <em>&#8220;You move us to delight in praising You; for You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in You.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the spirituality Rainn and Rich are pedaling as a response to our spiritual longings is not not the spirituality Pascal and Augustine proclaimed. <em>Soul Boom<\/em> offers a revival of ancient heresies which were confronted and refuted by both the Apostles in sacred Scripture and by the church in its infancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On today&#8217;s episode of <em>Recovering the Christian Mind<\/em> we&#8217;ll hear what Rainn is saying and respond with the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the television sitcom The Office, is out on the circuit promoting his new book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution. Viral reels of Wilson&#8217;s recent appearance on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/episode-22-dwight-schrute-the-matrix-and-the-revival-of-ancient-heresies\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}