“Metamodern Religion is Just Getting Started”

Inspiration from Brendan Graham Dempsey, caretaker of the Sky Meadow retreat center and principal of the Sky Meadow Institute:

Despite the recent uptick of high-profile conversions to traditional Christianity, metamodern spirituality remains centered in progressive developments of and radically novel innovations to religion. Here I foreground and recall these efforts in the desire to reconnect our community to its essential insights about the nature and role of religion in this time between worlds. Metamodern interpretations of legacy religions remains an important and vital aspect of the work, but we shouldn’t lose sight of what has characterized the movement to date. We are only beginning to see the emergence of metamodern religion…