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Season 16: Reimagining and Remapping the Religious Landscape | Episode 5

After Unbundling: How We Rebuild Community

Overview

How do we rebuild deep belonging in an age of fragmentation?

In this episode of Igniting Imagination, Casper ter Kuile, Co-Founder and Principal of Sacred Design Lab, Rev. Lisa Greenwood, and Rev. Dr. Gil Rendle invite us to rethink how meaning, connection, and spirituality take shape in modern life. Drawing from Gil's monograph Reimagining and Remapping the Religious Landscape, Casper explores how spiritual practices are being “unbundled” from institutions and “rebundled” into new forms of community, in homes, workplaces, and online spaces.

Perhaps the work of spiritual leadership today is not to preserve what was, but to imagine what might yet become.

Meet Our Guest

Rahel Billups

Casper ter Kuile

Casper ter Kuile is a speaker, author, and community innovator whose work explores how we make meaning, deepen relationships, and experience beauty in the 21st century. As the Co-founder of Sacred Design Lab, Nearness, and the hit podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Casper brings together tradition and innovation to create projects that ennoble the everyday and foster joyful belonging.

Casper holds Masters of Divinity and Public Policy degrees from Harvard University, where he also served as a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. His book, The Power of Ritual, invites readers to reimagine spiritual life through everyday practices.

Show Notes

Casper ter Kuile is a speaker, author, and community innovator whose work explores how we make meaning, deepen relationships, and experience beauty in the 21st century. As the Co-founder of Sacred Design Lab, Nearness, and the hit podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Casper brings together tradition and innovation to create projects that ennoble the everyday and foster joyful belonging.

Casper holds Masters of Divinity and Public Policy degrees from Harvard University, where he also served as a Ministry Innovation Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. His book, The Power of Ritual, invites readers to reimagine spiritual life through everyday practices.

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