In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross talk to Mary Poplin about her book Is Reality Secular?: Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews.

About Mary Poplin https://a315.co/3IcprrW

0:26 - Intro to Mary Poplin’s book 5:00 - About Mary and her work 7:00 - Mary’s radical conversion to Christianity 10:00 - What was Mary’s worldview like before becoming a Christian? 11:00 - A dream that impacted Mary’s journey 13:32 - Why write a book about worldviews? 15:56 - What do we mean when we say “secular”? 18:39 - Why take a “worldview” approach? 22:27 - Exploring secular humanism 26:06 - How do we address secular humanism? 27:11 - Material naturalism 30:58 - Pantheism and Western Pantheism 32:57 - How Christianity is different 37:28 - What was most impactful during Mary’s time in Calcutta 41:08 - What was Mother Theresa like? And reflections on Christopher Hitchens

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