Malcolm Guite’s Hope for Hurt Christians
What does hope look like for the American church as political polarization sparks division and many evangelicals are leaving the pews? It might be found in the words of the British “Poet for ‘Bruised Evangelicals,’” Malcolm Guite. The poet, priest, singer-songwriter, and professor joined Russell to talk about truth, imagination, and illumination.
Guite and Moore discuss how they know the Christian story is true, depictions of the gospel in art, and what it means to learn to love. They talk about the power of stories and imagination. Moore asks Guite to share his thoughts on the transfiguration passage in the New Testament, which Guite explores in his book Lifting the Veil. And they talk about how to begin reading poetry for those who don’t know where to start.
00:00 Opening
00:44 How Do You Know the Gospel's True?
11:56 The Power of Imaginative Literature
17:24 How to Cultivate a Better Imagination
23:06 Increase in Christian Astrophysicists
26:53 The Transfiguration
35:03 Defaulting to Abstractions
39:39 How to Read Poetry
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Thanks, really love listening to Malcome
Thanks for having Malcolm Guite. He and his poetry are a treasure that we all should delight in.
Very insightfull...much appreciated
Malcolm - I would not have been able to hear these words and see your face as you said them ...... without technology. How ironic. :) I am so very blessed and en-couraged once more, in the battle against despair. My deepest appreciation, brother - thanking God for you. And thank you too, Russell.
I am going through a dark time and did encounter something awful in a religious institution , it was me !!
Thank you. So glad I came upon this. I'd never heard of Mr. Guite. Truth in Christ❤
Very insight full...much appreciated😂
I cannot thank you enough for this interview. I followed Malcolm Guite's YT channel for the last few years and all I can say is that I have been enriched and blessed by his poetry and thought world. Russel Moore, thank you for being a great listener-interviewer and bringing about such a rich exchange of ideas. I need to watch this video again, this time with pen and paper. Thank you!
Russell Moore is one of my favorite Christian thought leaders. Until today I didn't know that he is also, like me, an unapologetic fanboy of Malcolm Guite. Thanks for a most stimulating conversation with one of the church's, nay, the modern world's, most erudite and accessible Christian "imagineers." 👏
What a lovely surprise! I deeply appreciate Malcolm Guite's work. Thank you for this.
Very fresh and open view of Christian practices not confined by rules and more rules and a wonderful teaching on reading poetry from a truly great poet. (40 min mark)
When he talks how matter isnt solid and the mysterious of it was fantastic. Also i like how he says the different creeds etc wont look that different from gods view in heaven. Christians are set of putting differences between them with their interpretations and rules. Jesus is truth thats all that Matters
Amazing He's everything I imagined David the gnome would be
Great interview! I feel like somebody has to get Malcom Guite and Jordan Peterson in a conversation together! Would be great to listen in on a conversation where their respective intellectual and imaginative angles towards faith intersect.
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Malcom dwarfs Peterson intellectually, not to mention their ideologies are quite different. I don’t really see the value in hearing this conversation. I think a conversation between Guite and William Lane Craig would be much more intersting.
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And I wholly disagree with you, Nash Williams...the "who's intellectually superior" game between those particular two is irrelevant & slightly absurd that's where your mind went with the proposition. Malcolm & Jordan talking at length, regardless of subject matter, would be an amazing conversation to behold.