How What We Believe Might Affect Our Well-Being

The Table Winnipeg

Hey folks. This Sunday launches us into a season in our life together that I would love to see people take full advantage of. Over the next month or so we will experience a combination of having the Talky Bit facilitated by people we don’t often get to hear from, interspersed with long weekends with no gatherings. When I say “take full advantage of”, what I’m imagining is taking in those Talky Bits (in person if possible, but many of them will also be available as podcasts / livestreams), and then letting them simmer over the long weekends. It’s almost like we built the possibility of the balance between deliberate engagement and purposeful disengagement right into the schedule.

This Sunday we’ll enjoy some music and Judi will be leading the Talky Bit. Following is some info from her about what she’ll be exploring.

I’ll be looking at the ideas in the book “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff and thinking of how these ideas might relate to our spiritual endeavours. The book talks about the negative changes to mental health in younger generations, especially as the authors were seeing this on college campuses. They hypothesize what might be the influences on these generations and show how cognitive behavioural therapy can make sense of these mental health problems. I am taking these observations into the realm of our faith, exploring how the ideas and beliefs we form could affect our well-being. (Judi)

You can check out the livestream here and the podcast archive here.

And just a reminder – there will be no in-person gathering on June 30th (the long weekend) but we’ll be back in action on July 7th.

Peace,

Tim Plett