Batch Forgiveness and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa

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The church of biance is the grace cathedral. It's a kind of playful, joyful sound as we do all this in spite of spite? Right? We're getting wrapped around the axle that in the intersection of meaning and meta-crisis. A cornell who reminds us it is possible to share our grief with someone else can be an artist testifying against injustice. That's where you get lay gaga, right? Like that Tha im survivors, like those kind of like what you don't see in most of our current culture.

What helps you make meaning in challenging times? As you confront COVID, the climate crisis, and all of the challenges we discuss on this show, what helps you avoid nihilism or fundamentalism, and instead access healing, inspiration, and connection?

Today on Your Undivided Attention, we're joined by anthropologist and writer Jamie Wheal. Wheal is the author of Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind. In the book, he makes the case that in order to address the meta-crisis — the interconnected challenges we face, which we talked about in Episode 36 with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we must address the meaning crisis — the need to stay inspired, mended, and bonded in challenging times. Jamie argues that it doesn't matter whether we're staying inspired, mended, and bonded through institutionalized religion or other means as long as meaning-making is inclusively available to everyone.

What we hope you'll walk away with is a humane way to think about how to address the challenges we face, from COVID to climate — by enabling us to make meaning in challenging times.