Mar
23
11:00pm
Sarah Krasnostein: The Believer
By TPLCulture
Best-selling and award-winning author, Sarah Krasnostein shares insights from her new book The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle with host Anupa Mistry.
As the divides among us deepen over time, finding commonalities within our species is increasingly challenging. At the core of our humanity there still remains a need for belief, whether faith based or fact based, we still need to believe in order to anchor ourselves.
In her new book, The Believer Sarah Krasnostein draws upon real people who are exploring our most sacred of shared human experiences, life and death. Some of the people Krasnostein interviews believe in things many people do not: ghosts, UFOs, the literal creation of the universe in six days. Some believe in things most people would like to: dying with dignity and autonomy; facing up to our transgressions with truthfulness; living with integrity and compassion.
Sarah Krasnostein shares her new book The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle and discusses how deep and abiding commonalities can be found within the greatest differences.
About this event's guests:
Sarah Krasnostein
Anupa Mistry
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TPL’s On Civil Society series is generously supported in part by Chris M. Reid.
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