The Importance of Living in a World of Goodness and Beauty

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"We live in a world that was formed by a God who is wildly crazy in love with this community," she says. "There's just lots of stuff about the world that we seem to indicate that the world of goodness and beauty that we really want is not right immediately in our fingertips."

Scholars, journalists, practitioners, and other thought leaders all agree — we’re facing a loneliness epidemic that’s as grave a threat to public health as obesity or substance abuse. Where do we go from here?

In this Forum from 2019 at the University of Minnesota, psychiatrist Curt Thompson discusses human flourishing and community. When it comes to mental health, he says, don’t go it alone.

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