---
title: "Vice & Virtue — Sloth"
description: "Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé talk about the capital vice known as sloth—or rather, acedia."
canonical: https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/481
published: 2025-10-30
---

# Vice & Virtue — Sloth

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- Published: 2025-10-30T08:00:00.000Z
- Episode slug: `481`
- Episode number: 481
- Session: 9
- People: Brent Billings, Reed Dent, Josh Bossé

## Description

Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé talk about the capital vice known as sloth—or rather, acedia.

## Show notes

Brent Billings, Reed Dent, and Josh Bossé talk about the capital vice known as sloth—or rather, acedia. David Hume’s Moral Philosophy: The Natural Virtues — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Making All Things New by Henri Nouwen Inside Out 2 (2024 film) Glittering Vices by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung Acedia & Me by Kathleen Norris The Message in the Bottle by Walker Percy BEMA 2: Knowing When to Say “Enough” 1 Corinthians 3 — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship BEMA 400: Talmudic Matthew — Salt BEMA 401: Talmudic Matthew — Light BEMA 402: Talmudic Matthew — Lightly Salted Mark 11 (aroma reference) — Reed Dent, Campus Christian Fellowship Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak BEMA 136: Each One The Book of Delights by Ross Gay “Patient Trust” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “Followers, Not Admirers” by Søren Kierkegaard in Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila — Catholic Health Association of the United States Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis Calorie — Wikipedia Canada Geese and Diet Dr. Pepper — The Anthropocene Reviewed

## Sources and machine-readable records

- [BEMA Podcast Explorer episode page](https://bema.jpamorgan.com/episodes/481)
- [Official BEMA source page](https://www.bemadiscipleship.com/481)
- [Episode JSON](https://api.bema.jpamorgan.com/v1/episodes/481)
- [Audio](https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/7d8cc2be-fe66-43fb-ada4-e62e2f8c00e7/a8fd83ba-78ba-494b-96b0-1facb519fff7.mp3)