A Near-Death Story, a Bright Light, and a Hope for the Resurrection of Democracy

Two weeks ago, I sent a newsletter about cultivating a “Resurrection Imagination.” There, I argued the world was in an unrelenting cycle, one that’s “all spinning negative.” This, of course, was before the Hindenburgian experience that was the Presidential debate and before President Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19. It was before whatever melodramatic event unfolds this week.

2020—It’s can’t catch a break, man.

While walking the dog, I found myself waxing melancholic about near-death experience...