Matthew McConaughey Opens Up About His Faith Journey and Spiritual Habits
By Movieguide® Staff
Matthew McConaughey became more vocal about politics and religion since Hollywood essentially shut down due to the coronavirus. Most recently, McConaughey called out the tendency to adopt the extremes of any given issue.
The actor appeared on SiriusXM’s Joel Osteen Radio and called for people to start building back trust.
“We are screaming at each other from across the chasm. It’s not going to work. We all know that’s not going to work,” McConaughey told radio host Victoria Osteen.
“I get it. COVID, unemployment, cultural revolution, things being politicized, an election year. We needed identity and we were looking for purpose and our purpose had been pulled from us so we’ve latched on to certain extremes,” McConaughey said.
McConaughey pointed people to a middle ground — an idea echoed from a previous interview with Russell Brand on the UNDER THE SKIN podcast.
“I think that’s a good thing because I’m daring everyone to go, ‘Hey, we got to come back and meet in the middle a little bit here. We got to look each other in the eye and at least agree on a common denominator, set of shared values that we can agree on even if we vote on two different sides of the political aisle,'” McConaughey said.
He continued: “Even if we go to a different church, and different dominant denomination, there’s a common set of values that we can agree on to at least bind our basic social contracts and expectations for ourselves and each other.”
McConaughey said that to rebuild trust between citizens and leaders, we need to rely on shared faith and values.
“Those things that we can all agree on,” McConaughey said. “And that’s what I hope for myself and everybody.”
McConaughey also opened up about his journey of faith and how he learned true humility.
“I also, in my faith journey have struggled or been always sort of hands in the clay with the definition of words, like humility and the value of that,” McConaughey explained. “I always had trouble with humility because I would lose confidence when I was humble or I would be falsely modest. And then I heard a definition of humility being, knowing that you have more to learn and something about that definition, I was able to stand tall, keep my shoulders back my head up and still be humble and my heart high with that.”
McConaughey said that although people want to be the center of the universe, true humility comes from faith.
“This is where what I really love to do in my spiritual journey is, when something’s going on, either great success or great strife, we feel like we’re the center of the universe. Like it’s all just revolving around us. Just us. Nobody else. Completely original and it’s all me,” McConaughey explained. “[But] being in a vulnerable spot where you don’t matter is where actually the ultimate power, the greatest power comes from.”
“That for me, is that definition of humility that is clear when my faith is clear,” McConaughey added.
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