05/31/2015: The Idolatry of Reason

Rev. Dr. Matthew Johnson

Allen Penticoff won the right to choose a sermon topic at last fall's Auction, and selected a book by George Lakoff. Lakoff, a linguist, argues that different political perspectives have not just different opinions, but different ways of thinking. How, then, can we convince each other? To the dismay of liberal rationalists, the answer ins't reason and evidence. But there is another way.