James Talarico

That's Christmas, right, when God takes human form.

Incarnation, by the way, is not just limited to Jesus.

It's everybody, right?

Everybody bears the image of the sacred, right?

Joe Rogan does.

James Salarica does.

Every listener to this podcast bears the image of the sacred, made in the image of God.

A radical view, right?

So that's incarnation.

The second is crucifixion, right?

That's Good Friday, where Jesus, because he confronts the powerful, is executed on a cross, a humiliating death, along with other criminals.

And then the last step is resurrection.

That something new and beautiful rises from those ashes.

So those three things, incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, that's the pattern of the universe.

Again, just take religion out of it for a second.

Let's just think like a physicist or a biologist.

Creation, destruction, recreation.

I mean, that is the story of the physical universe.

It's the story of our lives, right?

That we are all headed toward a brick wall at the end of this, right?