The 9 Questions Every Life Must Answer

Join our monthly book club and keep thinking deeply about faith, culture, and truth: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/bookclubpod Considering college? Explore Augustine College, a one-year classical Christian program in Ottawa that prepares students to think and live faithfully in a secular age: 🔗 https://pxllnk.co/augustinepodcast In this episode, Dr. John Patrick reflects on Augustine's Confessions and the discipline of ordering our priorities around truth rather than distraction. He introduces nine foundational questions that thoughtful people throughout history, Christian and non-Christian alike, have asked about origin, meaning, destiny, morality, and justice, and argues that the church has largely stopped teaching people how to wrestle with them seriously. Drawing on Nehemiah 8, Thomas Aquinas, C.S. Lewis, Jordan Peterson, Mary Harrington, and Oliver O'Donovan's The Disappearance of Ethics, Dr. John Patrick contends that a culture severed from transcendence collapses into raw power and moral confusion. He closes with the parable of the wise and foolish builders, urging listeners to root their lives on the rock of Christ's words rather than the shifting sand of secular assumptions. 🎬 Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/PrcoFbwhbOQ // LINKS // Website: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ Podcast: https://doctorjohnpatrick.podbean.com/ Biblical Literacy Quiz: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/meaning-metaphor-and-allusion/ Recommended Reading list: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/book-list/ Ask Doctor John: https://www.johnpatrick.ca/ask/ LINKS: https://beacons.ai/doctorjohnpatrick