Ep #22 - 'How Can We Find Meaning & Belonging Online?' - with Chris Stedman

We’re so excited to bring you a brilliant guest Chris Stedman, who is the ideal interviewee for a podcast about adapting spiritual practices and ideas in a way that is secular.

Primo: Chris is a humanist chaplain and community builder who is not religious but whose work is informed by religious questions. He's driven by the specific ways that spirituality answers fundamental human needs. This has led him to being the humanist chaplain at Yale, before becoming a University lecturer.

Secundo: He’s just written a great book that brings this sensibility to a huge question how can we be human online? And how can online help us be more human? 

Chris' Book is 'Finding Realness, Meaning and Belonging In Our Digital Lives' - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Irl-Finding-Realness-Meaning-Belonging/dp/1506463517

These are three things this conversation made us think about:

1. How we can think about our digital lives are in some ways just as “real” as the rest of our lives - and equally important.
2. How vulnerability and honesty can be liberating, especially at a time when we are encouraged to always put on a facade.
3. How we can think deeply about religion and what it might offer us without actually being religious.

The LIfefulness Community

Obviously we don't just talk about creating meaning and belonging online we also bloody do it. These are two ways you can get involved.

Lifefulness 101 - this is our 12 week collective learning experience, which starts in January - https://www.lifefulness.io/lifefulness-101

Lifefulness Small Groups - we also gather in online small groups and you can apply to join here - https://www.lifefulness.io/membership

Thanks so much for listening!

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