There’s a collective, almost spiritual outcry for more creativity, meaning, and humanity in our lives. We live in a global society so coercively mechanised and commoditised that many of us feel crushed, burnt out, and more disconnected than ever.

The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more

What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust. These are the social practices that hold a community together. They all have a ritual character. They all require a lot of t... See more

As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can enter in celebration do not pass away. Without such temporal structures, time becomes a torrent that tears us apart from each other and away from ourselves.