Join Josiah Neufeld for the launch of The Temple at the End of the Universe: A Search for Spirituality in the Anthropocene (House of Anansi), a journalistic memoir by a lapsed evangelical Christian that examines how the ecological crisis is shifting the ground of religious faith. This event will feature a reading and a conversation hosted by author Joan Thomas, followed by a book signing.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

Our species is leaving scars on the earth that will last for millennia. How has religious ideology helped bring humanity to the brink of catastrophe? What new expressions of faith might help us respond with grace, self-sacrifice, and love? What will spark our compassion, transcend our divisions, and spur us to action?

Josiah Neufeld explores how the interlocking crises of climate change have shifted the ground of religious faith on a quest that is both philosophical and deeply personal. The Temple at the End of the Universe is the rallying cry for a new spiritual paradigm for the Anthropocene.

Josiah Neufeld is an award-winning journalist who grew up as an expatriate in Burkina Faso and returned to Canada as a young adult. His essays, journalism, and short fiction have been published in the Walrus, Hazlitt, the Globe and Mail, Eighteen Bridges, the Ottawa Citizen, the Vancouver Sun, Utne Reader, Prairie Fire, and the New Quarterly. He lives in Winnipeg.

Host Joan Thomas’s fourth novel, Five Wives, was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in 2019. Her fifth, Wild Hope, will be released in September.