Welcome to Fire On Your Head, the podcast designed to "kick you out of the upper room". We're a discussion and interview-styled show hosted by me, Steve Bremner, a blogger, author, and missionary to Peru. Join me as I interview authors and other interesting people, and sometimes post shows just by myself getting something out of my system. Sometimes I'm funny, sometimes serious, but hopefully you'll find it always worthwhile.
Aug 31, 2018
Derek Snook, self-described son of a Baptist minister and
entrepeneur joins me to discuss his recent book, The
Definition of Success: What Living Homeless Can Teach
You.
He tells me what was intended as a one-night experiment lasted a
year, and years later he has decided to publish a book about how
this experience had an impact on him and what he learned from it,
including a well-paying temp agency he started and recently
sold.
Definitely a different take on "loving your neighbor as yourself" if I ever heard one!
A few interesting points that came up in our discussion:
- While Derek could have quit this experiment at any given momenty and gone back home, most homeless and less fortunate don't have that option
- How living in bubbles in our culture is destructive to indviduals and groups, including the toll isolation is taking on mental health in general
- The intriguing way a city's layout is actually important to society
- What can we do to erase the barrier between wealthy and poor churches, as well as the racial divide, even in the church, between black and white congregations
Relevant Links:
Derek's website at dereksnook.net
Follow Derek on Instagram.
Get a copy of his book from Amazon.
Check out Derek's 2015 TedX talk at this link: https://youtu.be/haoTlVcg0PE
