Tim Keller has been turning up in my field of vision a lot lately.
My friend, Scott, sent me a link to an hour-long video of Tim Keller giving a talk at Google's home office about why God is more likely than not-God. He's also pushing his book, The Reason for God, and he makes a damn good case.
While his thinking is persuasive, what I found most appealing was his ability to be kind and gentle while displaying cirque-level mental agility.
The guy can think. He can think with you, and he can think with you while you're attacking him. During the Q&A portion of the talk, people came out of the audience attempting to tear down his ideas, and Keller listened to them and reasoned with them while they mocked his point.
Intelligent, educated people rarely display humility; the least wise of them actively eschew it. It's edifying to watch someone model humility while keeping pace with Google engineers. In an hour of impressive speaking, this is the part of Tim Keller that I find most fascinating.
The hour passes quickly. It was a good investment for me, maybe for you too.
Link to YouTube video.
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