Virtues For Living Well with Dr. Alan Noble

What does it mean to live well in morally incoherent times? Alan Noble joins the show to discuss his new book To Live Well: Practical Wisdom for Moving Through Chaotic Times , which uses the four cardinal virtues and three theological virtues as a framework for navigating choice paralysis, the loneliness epidemic, and contemporary anxiety. The conversation covers why courage and temperance feel especially urgent today, the difficulty of writing on justice, hoping all things for political opponents, the sunk cost fallacy in vocational discernment, and why friendship requires intentional cultivation. Grace, not optimization, grounds the virtuous life. Hosted by Derek Rishmawy, Alastair Roberts, and James Wood. — Get the Spiritual Formation for the Family ebook for free at . Mere Fidelity is a podcast from Mere Orthodoxy and is listener-supported. If you would like to support this work, become a Mere Orthodoxy Member today at . Get 30% of the Baker Book of the Month, Classical Theism: A Christian Introduction , by going to: Apply for fall 2026 admission to Beeson Divinity School's MDiv and be considered for a full-tuition scholarship. — Chapter Markers 00:00 - Welcome and introductions 00:52 - The pitch for To Live Well 03:30 - Diagnosis: alienation or anomie? 06:30 - The four cardinal and three theological virtues 08:14 - What is a virtue? 10:11 - Office hours and the paradox of choice 14:54 - Fortitude in an anxious age 18:41 - The sunk cost fallacy and pivoting well 21:40 - The heap of broken images and Christian wholeness 25:07 - Hoping all things for political opponents 29:36 - The hardest chapter to write: justice 32:17 - What pastors and churches can do 34:40 - Grace, virtue, and the Protestant hesitation 38:55 - Friendship as the practice of love 44:31 - Closing thoughts

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This episode is 47:56 long.

This episode was published on May 6, 2026.

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