How We Gather, Five Essays, Angie Thurston
Angie Thurston is creating spiritual formation experiences for the 21st century. She is dedicated to connecting the inner life of spirit to the outer life of action for social change. Convinced that we need each other to become who we’re meant to be, Angie supports an emerging field of leaders who are deepening community and combating our modern-day crisis of isolation.
Angie is a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and the co-author of How We Gather and Care of Souls, two reports profiling new forms of social and spiritual connection.
A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Divinity School, Angie loves helping people come together to co-create something bigger than themselves.
If you want to understand the theology of how and where people are meeting for their spiritual needs, here is a clear understanding of just what is going on in the world, right now.
We want to realize a day in which anyone anywhere who loses someone they love can join a Dinner Party in their area, or with the help of tools and a growing peer community, start a table of their own. We're growing a national network of Dinner Party participants, and are working to collect and share resources on navigating life after loss. We want to generate a broader dialogue among those who have yet to undergo the experience, in order to change the very way in which we conceive of and talk about life after loss.
“Another world to live in — whether we expect ever to pass wholly into it or not — is what we mean by having a religion.”