Understanding the Moment We Are In
We are in a time. Long before the pandemic, separation and polarization had come to characterize American society—the result of many factors, not least being the media-/now-social-media landscape of the past thirty years. But surely our physical separation from one another since March 2020 has accelerated divisions and suspicions. How on earth did we get here?
As an “everyday theologian,” I try to wrap my head around what I see, to give contour to a problem in order to understand, especially from an inner-life or spiritual perspective. What I notice most is that people are looking for meaning, looking for answers—even as our old ways of constructing meaning and answers fade. In the vacuum created by the fading of the old ways, and the vacuum created by people’s disconnection from and distrust of institutions, various movements gain ascendancy…. {Read the remainder of the article on Patheos HERE.}