Lauren Jackson

They want a meal train.

They want to give and receive really tactile, meaningful care.

And they're looking for spaces that can offer that.

realizing that the High Holidays offers a good structure for thinking about the way I live my life, especially in relationships.

I think the secular world doesn't have a good... There's no Hallmark card for I'm Sorry Day, and Kipper offers that card.

And I, and I think many people, feel lost without having to be accountable to something.

And many people have said they're reassessing the value of religion with all of its built-in community, ritual, and set of existential and spiritual answers to the meaning and purpose of life.

They're revisiting that whole package in the process, even if that comes with the baggage of what are sometimes deeply flawed institutions.

And every time, pretty cathartic.

I would love to find a way to have what I had then without compromising who I feel I am.

I couldn't do it then.

And I don't know where to do it now.

Like, I still want more.

Like, I still want something to believe in.

So in addition to the pandemic and this widespread sense of dissatisfaction, there's another theme that has really stuck out to me, and it comes back to our politics.

We all know that Trumpism has injected a renewed energy and even sense of ascendancy into conservative Christianity over the past decade.

But what surprised me was I started talking to and hearing from more and more people on the left who said that this political moment had also sparked a renewed interest in their own faith.

Hey, I'm doing well.

Is now still a good time?

And there's one person I spoke to who really stood out to me, and his name was Nick Woomer Dieters.