Rest for the Weary: Working through anger, apathy, and exhaustion towards radical love

Attend this student workshop with author, activist, and Lama (Buddhist Teacher) Rod Owens is an author, activist, and Lama (Buddhist Teacher). Stevie Wonder once sang, “Love’s in need of love today.” His words couldn’t be more true as we face a global community struggling with war, poverty, illness, climate instability, and the rise of political authorities and governments who do not seem to be grounded in compassion or kindness. We speak about love and attempt to practice love but some of us are losing faith in the transformative power of the wish for ourselves and others to be happy. Our practice of love is in need of our renewed faith in love. In this talk, we will be exploring the question of how practicing love can become a strategy that resists and undoes our experiences fear, apathy, and numbness as we attempt to live and love in a challenging world. Sign up at go/lamarod

Sponsored by Anderson Freeman Resource Center, Center for Community Engagement, Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Office of the Provost, Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life