Brian McLaren returns to Nomad to talk about The Great Rift, the second novel in his science-fiction trilogy. The inhabitants of Mars may have escaped a dying Earth, but they soon discover that humanity’s deeper problems have travelled with them.
That opens up a bigger question about spirituality itself. If ritual, belonging and spiritual practice help create healthier people and communities, what makes them spiritual rather than simply good psychology? Can spirituality become another thing we try to master or engineer? And what happens when we borrow practices from traditions we no longer fully inhabit?
Along the way we also explore belonging, disagreement, restorative justice, mortality, and what kind of people we may need to become if we’re going to live well together.
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