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Organized religious communities have seen steep declines in participation in recent decades and the rise of the “nones,” those who have no particular religious affiliation, is a well-rehearsed story. But that story isn't just about loss and lack. New forms of spiritual life and meaning-making are emerging that seek to fill the universal longings of the human heart: belonging, transformation, and love. Casper ter Kuile has studied this horizon of spiritual frontier for many years. 10 years ago, he and fellow Harvard Divinity School classmate Angie Thurston wrote a report called "How We Gather", which looked at how millennials were seeking spirituality in seemingly secular communities like crossfit, soul-cycle or social justice movements.Since that report, Casper has continued to explore the changing spiritual practices of young people. He started a very beloved podcast called Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, wrote a book called "The Power of Ritual" and has recently launched a new project called The Nearness, which is an online space to explore life's big questions in small communities.In this conversation, Zach Davis talks with Casper about what he's learned in his years studying and working on the edge of America's evolving spiritual landscape.

Work is becoming a “religion” for many people these days. It's worship of the efficient, productive, and almighty dollar. But that doesn't make people very happy. And organizations filled with miserable employees aren't ideal for making the world a better place either. Can anything be done to fix it? We'll talk to Sacred Design Lab co-founder Angie Thurston about how to make workplaces more spiritually nourishing, and to theologian and consultant Curtis Chang about what it means to align the values of a business with a spiritual tradition. We'll also talk to business professor Subi Rangan about how CEOs and managers can balance profit with doing good.  Visit the Sacred Design Lab website to find out more about Angie Thurston's work, including publications on how secular spaces are fulfilling spiritual functions, and how to design more soulful workplaces. Visit this link for more information on the Harvard Business course The Spiritual Lives of Leaders. Learn more about Curtis Chang's faith-based consulting work here, and check out the podcast he co-hosts: Good Faith. To find out more about Subi Rangan's work, visit his website and check out the group he initiated, The Society for Progress.

Join us for a conversation with Angie Thurston, co-founder of Sacred Design Lab and a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.

Join us for a conversation with Angie Thurston, co-founder of Sacred Design Lab and a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.

February 1, 2021 - Contemporary Issues Topic: Religion for a New Generation What does the future hold for religious communities? Most churches, other religious congregations, and secular organizations have found younger generations are simply not joining in the same numbers we saw from older generations. Instead, Millennials (now ages 25-40) are forming meaningful community in new and perhaps unfamiliar ways. Casper ter Kuile and Angie Thurston have studied "How We Gather." They find p [...]

We all have the basic human needs of meaning, connection and purpose. While in the past, these needs were often met through religious institutions, the reality is we’re seeing less and less participation in organized religion. But those basic human needs built around community remain. Enter Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile, co-founders of the Sacred Design Lab, a “soul-centered research and development lab.” Angie and Casper work with various organizations to “develop products, programs, and experiences that ground people’s social and spiritual lives.” They joined Erica on the show to talk about their work and how it’s evolved in Covid times. If you’re struggling with how to bring deeper meaning and purpose to your organization, this one’s for you! Please Subscribe, Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts You can also listen to the show on: StitcherOvercast GoogleSpotify Resources:QuotesCasper4:20 – “We’re spending more and more with the people at the very heart of our circle—the people we live with most predominantly—and a lot of those outer circles have fallen away—acquaintances, maybe even strangers we share a sweet moment with. So some of the relational needs we have right now in the pandemic, in order to stay safe, are new things to do with the people we spend all our time with and unstructured serendipitous ways in which we can interact with strangers, obviously at a safe distance or digitally. And you can’t schedule that. So that’s quite a tricky thing in terms of gathering. I think we’re really missing that sense of connecting to others in these kind of sweet, serendipitous moments.”15:29 –  “How are people already congregating? What are the moments in which, you know, could be as small as celebrating birthdays or milestones or coming together to mourn something that’s gone horribly wrong, and then to develop that and give it some structure and formality.”Angie9:37 –  “That’s a big feature of what ritual can do, right, is to help mark experience, to give it a beginning and an end and to allow us to each have our own personal experience but to externalize it together.”10:42 –  “We talk about these needs for meaning and connection and purpose as soul needs. We often use three B’s to describe them. We call them belonging, becoming and beyond. So belonging has to do with knowing and being known, loving and being loved. Becoming has to do with growing into the people we’re called to be. And beyond is that connection to something greater than ourselves.” Sacred Design LabCasper’s websiteCasper’s book, The Power of RitualErica’s websitePreorder Erica’s forthcoming book, Rituals RoadmapErica’s book, Bring Your Human to WorkText ‘human’ to 66866 to sign up for Erica’s newsletter where she shares how to honor relationships well and how to bring your human to work and life. Connect with Angie:InstagramLinkedIn Connect with Casper:InstagramTwitterLinkedIn Connect with Erica: InstagramTwitterLinkedInFacebook

Sign up for the newsletter.We're at part 3 of our series about community at work.Today's guest is one of the most respected community thinkers in the world, Casper ter Kuile, Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School and author of The Power of Ritual. His book is a practical guide to the way that communities come to life, not only is it practical it's also brilliantly written. I found myself annotating a lot of it and it's impossible not to learn from his wisdom on the topic.“Disconnection sours the sweet things in life and makes them nearly unbearable”Casper previously wrote a free book with Angie Thurston is at Harvard Divinity School called How We Gather which was a wonderful exploration of how post religious (secular) groups were creating get togethers that seemed to be inspired by the religious communities that went before them. Casper's perspective is wonderful, so respectful of religion even though he sits outside of it.This series of episodes has been about understanding how our organisations can shape a sense of belonging in us, especially when we're no longer physically together.I feel like the episodes are a journey. No one has professed to know the answers and there's plenty of cautionary notes. I'm certain anyone trying to shape community in their work will come away with plenty of thoughts after this. Not least that Casper says that it goes strongly against the spirit of community that someone in a community can fire someone else. Community is built on safety. In the podcast I also talk about a previous episode on rituals and you can find that here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Organizational leaders more and more feel responsible for their team members and employees as whole-personed participants in vocational community. But spiritual insecurity abounds. Angie Thurston and her colleagues at the Sacred Design Lab have some counsel.

Casper Ter Kuile is the author of “The Power of Ritual: How to Turn Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices” and an innovation fellow at Harvard Divinity School. He is the Cofounder of research and design consultancy Sacred Designs Lab and the co-host of the podcast “Harry Potter and the Sacred Texts.” In this episode of the One Away Podcast, Casper relives through his experience of being a climate activist and how that led him to begin questioning the implications of change, leading him to go to Divinity School. In Divinity School Casper makes huge realizations about culture, meanings, rituals, and practices that connect humans to one another. Casper explains how his journey allowed him to meet Angie Thurston and eventually find Sacred Designs Lab. You can read more about this episode here: https://bwmissions.com/blog/casper-ter-kuile-podcast Follow Bryan Wish on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/bryanwish/ Follow Bryan Wish on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bryanwish_?s=11 Follow Bryan Wish on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryanwish_/ Join our Mission: bwmissions.com/join/ Join our Community: my.community.com/bwmissions

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Casper ter Kuile, MDiv '16, MPP '16, and Angie Thurston, MDiv '16, map and convene the Millennial leaders of spiritual communities at the forefront of religious change. From CrossFit to dinner churchers, Muslim small groups, and maker spaces, their work illuminates the rapidly shifting generational patterns in American religious life today. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at https://hds.harvard.edu/.

About Angie: Angie Thurston is sounding a call for the soul. Moved by the plight of isolation and despair, she is dedicated to connecting the inner life of spirit to the outer life of action for social change. Angie is the co-creator of the Formation Project, a startup designed for spiritual deepening among people who don't live in the same place or share a set of religious beliefs. A spiritual nerd to the core, Angie spends as much time as possible meditating, reading the Urantia Book, and volunteering at Recovery Café DC. She is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Divinity School, where she is a Ministry Innovation Fellow. Angie lives in Alexandria, VA with her husband Vipin Thekk. In this episode of the Community Builder Show, she joins me to discuss: The Formation Project human connection common ground brand identity divinity school and more Where to connect with Angie: https://sacred.design/ (Sacred Design) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What does it mean to be good? What does it mean if we aren’t good? Whose fault is it? These are just some of the questions that animate Amadeus, a fictional portrayal of famed composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his musical rival Antionio Salieri. These questions also inspire Sue Phillips, a Unitarian Universalist minister. She first watched the movie in the late ’80s, just as she was coming out and understanding her place in the world.Sue Phillips is the co-founder of Sacred Design Lab. She was also the first Director of Strategy as part of the Impact Lab here at the On Being Project. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, Sue is the co-author, with colleagues Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile, of “Design for the Human Soul.”

Along with Angie Thurston, Casper produced a seminal report with the Harvard Divinity School called How We Gather. It's well worth a look, as it speaks to the root causes driving much of what's caused coworking to become a big deal in recent years. Find it here: https://howwegather.org Casper is currently working as the Director of Possibility of the Impact Lab at the On Being project, which among other things produces some amazing podcasts: https://onbeing.org He's a brilliant mind. Don't miss this episode and check out all of the great things he's produced!

The fastest growing religion in America, is no religion at all! Religious disassociation is a trend being led by Millennials - the most plugged-in, racially diverse, and (apparently) least religiously affiliated generation in American history. So if they aren't showing up in churches, then where are they gathering? To answer these questions, we talk to Angie Thurston, the Director of Formation at the On Being Impact Lab about “How We Gather,” a groundbreaking report she co-authored profiling new forms of social and spiritual connection. Learn more about Commune courses and events at onecommune.com.

The fastest growing religion in America, is no religion at all! Religious disassociation is a trend being led by Millennials - the most plugged-in, racially diverse, and (apparently) least religiously affiliated generation in American history. So if they aren’t showing up in churches, then where are they gathering? To answer these questions, we talk to Angie Thurston, the Director of Formation at the On Being Impact Lab about “How We Gather,” a groundbreaking report she co-authored profiling new forms of social and spiritual connection. Learn more about Commune courses and events at onecommune.com.

In this revisiting of a favorite episode from 2016, Angie Thurston--a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the Director of Formation at On Being Impact Lab--co-wrote 2 groundbreaking studies of how millennials are gathering together to find purpose and meaning and what that looks like in spiritual settings. She fills Dave Schmelzer, Val Snekvik, and Tom Wassink in on what the spiritual landscape looks like today. Mentioned in Today's Episode: Websites: How We Gather - https://www.howwegather.org/ On Being - https://onbeing.org/author/angie-thurston/ What I'm Into: The Hero's Journey -  Joseph Campbell :https://amzn.to/2HGNpvl

Jesse talks with Harris Rollinger, senior program and development officer at CJP, and InterfaithFamily's Rabbi Jillian Cameron, about the Boston Community Leaders Cohort, a new program that supports innovative leaders who are re-imagining community for rising generations. Designed and led in partnership with CJP and Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile of Harvard Divinity School, this cohort of 20 leaders spans the secular-sacred divide and brings people into soulful, transformative relationships at a time of crisis-level isolation. Applications for the program will be accepted through Friday, July 28, 2017: http://www.bostoncommunityfellowship.com

Angie Thurston, a friend of the podcast, is a Ministry Innovation Specialist at Harvard Divinity School and a fellow with On Being. She gathers innovative millennial community leaders and spiritual leaders to connect and swap ideas. For many of these people, talking about Jesus would seem fundamentalist or arrogant. And yet Angie dreams of actual connection with Jesus offering real hope and power to the world. How can these two things intersect?

What you illustrated with your frustration at a service in a religious context is that it's not doing the job it's supposed to do in your life. We come at this whole question from the perspective that religion is really about the tools that we use to make meaning of our lives and help us live flourishing lives. That means all sorts of things. It means giving you a sense of connection to other people around you, to your deepest self, to the natural world the moments of transcendence or the experiences that some people might call God, to a sense of time to history. Really it helps you find a place in the world, it gives you a sense of who you are. A ritual, a set of words, chant, or song, all the tools or religion were right at one point in time. To be honest, someone could still sit in that service and find something. But it's not working for you, and you're not alone in that question. The fastest growing religious group in the US is “none of the above.” – Angie ThurstonAngie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile are Ministry Innovation Fellows at Harvard Divinity School and On Being Fellows. They are the co-authors of How We Gather and Something More, two reports profiling new forms of meaningful community in America. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Casper Ter Kuile is co-author (along with Angie Thurston) of the How We Gather report and its sequel, Something More, which map a landscape of life-giving organizations that are emerging even as religious affiliation declines, such as Crossfit and The Dinner Party. Casper is training to be a minister for non-religious people to build a world of joyful belonging. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity and Kennedy Schools, the co-host of the hugely popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, named of one of iTunes best podcasts in 2016, and a fellow and contributor with Krista Tippet's On Being. In this episode of the RePlacing Church Podcast, he joins me to discuss: How the religiously unaffiliated are finding and forming spiritual community What new expressions of spiritual community are emerging How accountability is making a comeback Why covenants are important in community and how to craft them How to engage Harry Potter like a sacred text and why that's connecting with so many people. *Originally posted at theV3movement.org *Get your free RePlacing Church Resource List, a guide to being and becoming the church in the neighborhood. SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW the RePlacing Church Podcast on iTunes, or listen on Stitcher, Google Play, or Podbean. Sign up for RePlacing Church updates at www.replacingchurch.org. Like on Facebook, Follow on Instagram. Episode Song Credits: "Another Wrong to Right" and "You Won't Walk Alone" by Mercir. "Closed" by Zadok Wartes. Used with Permission.

What happens to the world's religions as we become a global and multi-cultural civilization? Worldwide, traditional boundaries of all kinds are obviously breaking down. In this episode, prominent voices from across the world's religious and spiritual traditions discuss this uncertain future. First, Doug King of Presence.tv and Angie Thurston of Harvard Divinity School discuss the future “trans-narrative” that could eventually emerge from our worldwide mix of thousands of historical traditions. The conversation is then joined by Drs. Andrew Vidich, Darrol Bryant, and Kabir Helminski--prominent interfaith leaders and writers. They assess the possibilities of an emergent global consensus about religion based on shared principles, both in concepts and behavior. Together again, the commentators then discuss current global trends toward religious disaffiliation, emerging interfaith and interspiritual spirituality, and the pervasive yearning today for meaningful and authentic community.

Angie Thurston--an "innovation fellow" at Harvard Divinity School--co-wrote 2 groundbreaking studies of how millennials are gathering together to find purpose and meaning and what that looks like in spiritual settings. She fills Val, Tom and Dave in on what the spiritual landscape looks like today.

When does a spin class go from an excuse to lose a few pounds to a transformative shared experience? The answer might lie in what kind of community it creates. Among young people, 1 in 3 do not belong to a faith community according to the Pew Research Center. And yet, within this group, many are searching for forms of relationship related to their spiritual beliefs. We speak with Ryan Lewis, a SoulCycle instructor, about how he creates values-based relationships for his classes. We also talk with Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile, recent graduates from Harvard Divinity School, about similar groups that are serving these unaffiliated individuals.

Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile, experts on the emerging group of Americans known as the religious "nones," join Judaism Unbound for Episode 18. Thurston and ter Kuile are co-authors of two monographs, entitled How We Gather and Something More, respectively, and they serve as Ministry Innovation Fellows at Harvard Divinity School. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here. To access full shownotes for this episode, click here!

HDS students Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile and HDS alumnus Derek van Bever discussed the growing numbers of the religiously unaffiliated in America, and innovations in spiritual practice both within and beyond traditional religious institutions. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

The church is integrating... People everywhere are waking up to the presence and activity of God in all aspects of their lives: in the places they live, work, and play. In this episode, the third of a four part series on the idea of RePlacing church, I talk about adjectival modifiers, Bowe Bergdahl, and Jacob’s ladder as I explore how this integration is impacting conventional and institutional church, inspired by Jesus the Integrator, and expressing itself in neighborhoods, workplaces, and third places. You can now Subscribe to the RePLACING CHURCH Podcast on iTunes!  Please leave a review, give it some stars, and share it with a friend! Resources: “The Innovating Church” (RePlacing Church, 2 of 4) “The Scattering Church” (RePlacing Church, 1 of 4) The New Parish by Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, and Dwight Friesen "How We Gather" by Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World by Alan Roxburgh

Musicians Pato Banton and Antoinette Hall lead attendees in songs about the power of love. Angie Thurston, MDiv '16, gave the introduction.