Loneliness has been on the rise for the past few decades and has reached epidemic status. A widespread sense of hopelessness, helplessness, and depression is also pervading today’s culture. We don’t know if anything can be done to save our world, nation, and communities, with many of us wanting to throw our hands in the air and hide from everything.
This episode dives directly into these issues, focusing on the ways that community and group involvement can help alleviate these severe issues and effect both external and internal change. In it, LDF host Dan Wotherspoon is joined in conversation by three wonderful guests, Jordan Harmon, Laura Marre, and Becca Kearl, each of whom are working as activists in these areas. Each share their own journeys with these issues, as well as how their spirituality has aided them in this work and also how this work has returned the favor changing them spiritually in wonderful ways.
It is an episode full of ideas! Learn about resources. Regain hope! Listen in!
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EVENTS:
Act Local Community Night
Monday, March 10, 2025
Bright Building
25 W 400 South
Provo, Utah
Latter-day Faith Retreat
March 14th to 16th
Salt Lake City, Utah
LINKS:
Center for Expanding Compassion
Circles–Community Action, Utah County
“Building Community to End Poverty”
“Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation”
Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects
of Social Connection and Community, 2023
“My Parting Presription for America” (2024)
Vivik H. Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General