About the Speakers:
Paul Kingsnorth is the author of nine books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including the Booker-longlisted novel The Wake. He is co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, an international network of writers and artists in search of new stories for an age of upheaval. After years of searching through different spiritual traditions in pursuit of truth, including Wicca and Chan Buddhism, he was baptised into the Orthodox church in 2021. He lives on a smallholding in Ireland.
Dr Martin Shaw is an award-winning writer, oral storyteller and mythologist. A wilderness rites of passage guide, Shaw spent four years living in a tent. He founded the Oral Tradition and Living Myth courses at Stanford University and is described by the Irish Times as an “interloper from the medieval”. An Eastern Orthodox Christian, Shaw has introduced thousands of people to myth and how it speaks to our age.
This talk is a part of our Faith and Moral Courage series, where we are exploring how we can reconnect people with their faith or deepest values, so they can meet the many crises we face with courage.
To find out more about our Faith and Moral Courage project, visit: stethelburgas.org/projects/mo...
16 июн 2024
