Disciples, Apostles, and Saints!
Many of us picked up an idea along the way that pain is something we must avoid — self-preservation, we might call it. Others learned to confront that pain head on. At least when it comes to certain pains. Pains like the human existential crisis of climate change are hard to bear on on the mind and in the heart.
In his newest book, Life After Doom, Brian D. McLaren invites us to face the very question of the end of life as we know it — and what life can spring from this very act of confronting. I have found the book inspiring and relieving. As it invites me to stop such avoidance, I’m able to more engage with the living and my own responsibility for those around me. The book is a revelation to me — in every sense of the word. And I am so grateful for it that I want to invite others on this journey with me.
Starting March 6, please join me for a 13-week journey into life after doom, in which we explore what it means to truly live in this moment, not avoiding our present reality, but in full acknowledgement of it and taking responsibility for living and loving now.
This journey will include online and in-person check-ins as we work our way through the book, starting with the Introduction and Chapter 1 for our first gathering on Zoom (March 6). The book can be found anywhere books are sold. Scholarships for books are available upon request.
With love,
Drew+