Contemplations

Contemplations Episode 0008

Chapter 3 moves us into considerations of the central focus of our lives. How do we choose what core principles to build our lives around? Do we actually choose, or does it just 'happen' to us as life's experiences push us this way and that? Also, what approach do we take toward building platforms for the next generations' benefit? What should those platforms consist of? How do we help them preserve, improve and pass these platforms onward, for years to come?

Contemplations Episode 0007

Graduation season brings opportunities for new roads, directions and communities. My guest, newly graduated Lucas Brunson, joins me to reflect on how his life experiences so far have prepared him for the journey ahead.

Contemplations Episode 0006

It's graduation season! We skip to end of the book, to The Exhortation, a speech given to young men and women who have successfully completed their village's Maturity Trials. Be bold, and take changes, says Kwabena. Growth comes from choices.

Contemplations Episode 0005

Host Marlon Johnson dives deeper into Chapter 2 in a conversation with guest Eusi Fraser - suffering makes up a great part of the human condition. Can we get closer to understanding why this is so, and possibly find how suffering fits into our Creator's plans for mankind?

Contemplations Episode 0004

We continue on to Chapter 2 of the book, where a confused Kwabena repeatedly laments: "I do not understand the Creator".