Note dell’episodio
Making Meaning by Making Enemies:
Tribes, Mimetic Rivals, & Gospel Peace
With John Houmes and Brad Edwards
Why do we need enemies to feel like we belong?
In this conversation, John and Brad unpack Trevin Wax's article "When the Tribe Eats the Church" through the lens of René Girard's scapegoat mechanism—revealing why communities (left and right) use the same tribal pattern to maintain unity.
From mimetic desire to mythological justification, from McCarthyism to cancel culture, we're watching the same mechanism play out in real-time: communities make meaning by making enemies.
But the…
