You know you’re listening to something pretty magnificent when both Ira Glass and St. Augustine get a nod. Kathyrn Schulz’s TED talk from last year is precisely such an instance. Her subject is one that we know well: human fallibility and the art of being wrong. Up until a year or so ago, she chronicled her findings over on the Slate “Wrong Stuff” blog (which is where her interview with Ira Glass first appeared). Suffice it to say, her insights could not be more relevant to our project here. Very much worth the 17 minutes, ht DT:
The book she references in the talk is Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, which came out last year.
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2 comments
John Zahl says:
Jan 17, 2012
What a great talk! It helped me with my sermon this week, in thinking about whether or not anything good can come from Nazareth. Her point about “what it feels like to be wrong” is inspired, and it’s no wonder that she finds affirmation for her position in the work of Augustine. What’s especially fantastic is that she is the one connecting those dots, and not Mockingbird in this instance. I didn’t think I would enjoy her talk at all,…but I was wrong.
jason says:
Jan 20, 2012
Enjoyed the talk as well. Spot on with the human condition and her reverence for God’s creation, mystery, and how little we really know. Struggling though with the end and the conclusion I think she’s making (and maybe I’m wrong too… John) that sounds like it’s coming close Relativism. “To step out of trying to be right because we’ve been wrong so many times.” This is something so many Church struggle with together or separate over… finding absolute Truth in Scripture. Just listening to Horton on WHI debating Calvinism vs. Arminianism. So how do we proclaim the absolute Truth(with tons of Christian denominations, this has to be confusing for non-believers) and stand in confidence that Christ is who He said He is while the world proclaims relativism and finding your own personal truth? Would love to hear anyone’s thoughts on this. thanks