Love Your Enemies: Cancel Culture, Suffering & Faith | Ep. 24 Featuring Dr. Cornel West

In this episode of Cornerstone University’s Wisdom & Influence Podcast, President Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño welcomes Dr. Cornel West, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary, philosopher, author of “Race Matters,” “Democracy Matters” and the memoir “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud,” and a recent distinguished panelist at Cornerstone’s Wisdom Conversations. Dr. West reflects on the moral formation and “soulcraft” shaped by his parents, Irene and Clifton West, and Shiloh Baptist Church in Sacramento long before his studies at Harvard and Princeton. The conversation explores cancel culture within families and the Christian imperative to cancel canceling by loving neighbor and enemy; the enduring power and proper use of Scripture amid human limitations; a theology of suffering that refuses to let pain have the last word; and the courage of conviction illustrated by prisoners of faith in the gulag. Drs. West and Moreno-Riaño also discuss how to engage the past with both historical humility and timeless insight into the human condition, the protective role of the Imago Dei against the excesses of artificial intelligence, the lifelong cultivation of a hunger for wisdom, and the spiritual depth found in blues, jazz and other forms of popular culture that wrestle honestly with wounds and hope. This episode offers rich Christian insight into formation, faith, suffering and the pursuit of wisdom for a culture of comfort that often forgets the cost of discipleship. Cornerstone University is a private Christian university located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, committed to developing bold influencers for Jesus Christ. Click the subscribe button to see more videos from Cornerstone University! Learn more at https://www.cornerstone.edu/ Visit us: https://www.cornerstone.edu/schedule-... Apply today: https://www.cornerstone.edu/admission... #WisdomAndInfluencePodcast #CornerstoneUniversity #CornelWest #ChristianPodcast #MoralFormation #TheologyOfSuffering #ImagoDei #ChristianWisdom #Soulcraft #ChristianEducation