How To Keep Caring Amid Endless Crises

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Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes reading our news feeds can feel like getting hit by a semi-truck of devastating information, without really knowing how to respond. We can’t always tune the world out, which means we need to figure out how to be an empathetic person within the chaos. In this episode, Courtney Martin is joined by public theologian and best-selling author, Nadia Bolz-Weber, as well as artist and activist, Jen Bloomer. Together they explore what it means to actually respond to tragedy and injustice. LINKS: Jen Bloomer’s artwork Valerie Kaur’s book See No Strangers If you liked this episode, check out: How To Have a Healthier News Diet: Part 1 and Part 2. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. How To’s executive producer is Derek John. Joel Meyer is our senior editor/producer and our producer is Rosemary Belson. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now at slate.com/howtoplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.7	here visiting and I was asking her, like, does the world feel especially like to be a heartbroken place?
1:05.2	I feel so heartbroken about so many pieces of what's happening right now and especially
1:09.4	in the last months.
1:11.4	It has been really hard to be able to hold you know the joy of my child's 10th birthday and
1:18.6	reading the news of the day and feeling so heartbroken for what's happening
1:23.0	Welcome to how-to.
1:25.0	I'm Courtney Martin.
1:27.0	I'm interested in this moment that we're facing in public life.
1:32.0	There's something about the last few months that have felt like
1:34.4	getting hit by a semi truck of devastating news and we really don't know how to respond.
1:40.7	This is the kind of stuff that goes through my head, maybe it goes through your head.
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