In this inbetween series, we want to ask some hard hitting questions about Christian identity. What is a person's identity? Why are identities so contested? Why is it that my own identity so often seems so hard to find?

This episode, our seventh, we get to some of the deepest questions that humanity has pondered about our own existence. What is memory? What is time?

These questions have haunted many of the great thinkers and artists. They press up against our sense of being small and finite. They point to our existence in a universe simultaneously vast and intimately personal all at the same time. They will define us: our memory and our time. Yet they also always seem to escape easy mastery.

No wonder a filmmaker like Christopher Nolan has repeatedly turned to time and memory as key concepts in his own exploration of storytelling. No wonder they will become central themes in Augustine's own reflections as he attempts to move beyond his own story into a Confession of what it means to live as a human before God. This episode, I hope to press in to these complex and vast questions asking what it would look like if Christopher Nolan had a chance to discuss identity with St. Augustine.

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