Episode 73: New Year’s resolutions
Should we resolve to resolve? Or be resolute in avoiding resolutions?
It seems wild that it's January 2023, when it was 2019 only three weeks ago. But, if the "Lame Stream Media" are to be believed, the year is, indeed, 2023. Happy New Year!
This episode is all about New Year's resolutions: what we think, as Christians, about their value, and what the right mindset for resolutions might be. Lau-Lau, Malky and Jonts talk about their own resolutions (or non-resolutions, or, you know, to-do lists) and go through a popular set of suggested resolutions from Equipping Godly Women. Honestly, we didn't hate them, which was a surprise (which demonstrates that we are bad people).
Happy New Year from the Beer Christianity crew! Whether your NYE was as rock 'n roll as Laura's, as plague-ridden as Jonty's or as wholesome as Malky's, we hope you enjoyed it.
Here’s the episode to listen, download, share etc, and you can find it on all good podcast platforms:
Here’s some stuff we didn’t cover in the episode that we thought you’d like:
Contemplative New Year’s resolutions
When someone tells me: “invite silence into your life every day”, my natural inclination is to tell them to shut the fuck up, then. But that inclination is wrong. These suggestions for more contemplative resolutions were pretty cool. Check them out! Quietly. In solitude. Obviously.
And here’s the stats about resolutions we mentioned in the show: America’s top resolutions for 2023 and the most popular resolutions in the UK.
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