The Temple at the End of the Universe by Josiah Neufeld
CBC Books | | Posted: May 8, 2023 8:15 PM | Last Updated: May 8, 2023
Lapsed evangelical Christian examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith.
In this journalistic memoir, Josiah Neufeld reflects on his childhood as the son of Chrisitan missionaries based in Burkina Faso. This experience showed him how people's actions are influenced by spiritual and religious convictions and how faith can combat feelings of personal powerlessness. The Temple at the End of the Universe calls for a new spiritual paradigm in the face of the climate crisis.
When you can read it: June 6, 2023
Josiah Neufeld is a journalist who grew up in Burkina Faso. His writing has appeared in the Walrus, Hazlitt, the Globe and Mail, Eighteen Bridges, the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Sun, Utne Reader, Prairie Fire and the New Quarterly. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.