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How can we live in a time of poly-crisis and hyper-connectivity?

Effective Living Centre

26 King William Road, Wayville SA 5034


6 February 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm


Event details

The overarching theme for Progressive Christianity Forum 2025 is Challenges, Questions and Values we face in engaging with the Church and the World.

Kym Bills will start the 2025 series off with his discussion of how we can live in a time of poly-crisis and hyper-connectivity.

‘Poly-crisis’ is a label for the simultaneous major and potentially existential threats we face as a result, among other things, of: global warming and climate change; pollution, environmental degradation; pandemics; the rise of autocrats; wars and weapons of mass destruction; population growth; rising inequality and lack of access to food, water and shelter; and misuse of artificial intelligence and robotics.

‘Hyper-connectivity’ is a label that emphasises the close linkages between crisis-causing factors and many others including nationalism, ideology, consumerism, and religious fundamentalism and extremism. This is magnified by the internet, and both traditional and social media that promote alt-truth and alt-facts.

Systems Thinking is necessary but not sufficient to address the wicked combination. Poly-crisis and hyper-connectivity cannot be wished away, so the question arises as to how we can and perhaps should live in such a perilous time. Acclaimed Progressive Christian writer Brian McLaren offers some important recent insights for our consideration led by Kym Bills.

Kym Bills, B.A. (Hons), B.Ec., B.Litt., M.Sc., M.Min. is the former head of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and is a member of the PCNet SA Task Group. His most recent book reviews(https://pcnetsa.org/book-reviews/) provide background for the topic.

General admission $15, Concession $12, Live stream $5
Full year subscription $90

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