Long (45-70 mins)
Ethics
Unknown
Shiny, Happy People: The Vice of Vainglory
Theologian
Rebecca De Young
Duration
47.56
Uploaded to YouTube
7 July 2016
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
Work in Christian ministry and church leadership often brings a struggle with image, reputation, and audience-pleasing. We live in a world captivated with selfies and social media. The vice of vainglory tempts us to show off a false self. But the Christian tradition has long cultivated spiritual disciplines of resistance to this vice. Philosophy professor Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung explores virtuous practices such as silence and solitude that can help Christians handle the limelight well and show appreciation for each other in ways that glorify God.
