At the Intersection with Doug Newton
How can you engage our culture with influential wisdom, character and grace? In each episode Doug Newton offers one observation about our contemporary culture, one biblical insight that speaks to that issue and one creative take-away to help listeners pursue and practice character traits that help them make a positive impact in their corner of the world. He's a 45-year pastor, national award-winning magazine editor and author of 24 books. In this podcast he puts all that experience and communication skill together with one goal: helping good people become better.
At the Intersection with Doug Newton
Need Intimacy? Be Vulnerable?
Buzzwords from psychobabble swarm around our culture and into our minds providing the illusion of sound diagnoses and vague one-size-fits-all advice:
- “I’m hardwired for risky behavior.”
- “You’re a Type A.”
- “I need to get closure and move on.”
- “You’re so sensitive; you must be an empath.”
Buzzwords are dangerous, because they usually stifle the very thing we need: careful thinking. In this episode Doug Newton uses the popular remedy for lack of intimacy (“be more vulnerable”) as a perfect example. But he doesn’t stop there.
As long as he’s at it, he shows the limitations of buzzword thinking by giving another path to intimacy that doesn’t require the popular path of self-disclosure. So whether you’ll enjoy busting a couple buzzwords or need some help finding intimacy in some of your relationships, this is an important episode for you.
In this episode Doug Newton refers to the importance of four character traits. If you want to work on improving those traits, here are the links to specific character improvement modules from his course "Ways to Improve Your Character... and Everything Else"
RESPECT ---- https://www.fresh-impact.com/practice-respect
DILIGENCE---- https://www.fresh-impact.com/practice-diligence
HONESTY---- https://www.fresh-impact.com/practice-honesty
HUMILITY ---- https://www.fresh-impact.com/practice-humility
Check out the course and the whole series of 12 traits here:
https://www.fresh-impact.com/character
Doug also referred to the Crosswalk guide to give you more opportunity to reflect on the insights he presented. To download this free resource go to:
https://fresh-impact.com/crosswalk-episode19
To watch on YouTube go to:
https://youtu.be/IjSkRFIoksM
To see the "At the Intersection..." library go to:
https://bit.ly/fresh-impact-channel