Sojourners
For readers, writers, travelers, and TLCs (teachers, leaders, and coaches), Sojourners is a community of practice for lifelong learning. We're trying to be good humans in the Anthropocene.
Many people have never heard of the term Anthropocene. It’s an easy way to characterize the new historical era we’re living in. Between human population growth into the billions, the rise of life-transforming technologies, and previously unheard of economic prosperity, we’re living in an age of unprecedented opportunity. And yet humans have made an enormous impact on the planet to get where we are. This is why the new era is called the Anthropocene -- “anthropos” is Greek for “human."
Along with massive environmental impact on a planetary scale, there’s no guarantee that the material prosperity and political freedoms we've attained – such as we have them – will continue. There are real risks of backsliding.
The question becomes: how can any human being alive today hope to live a good life – morally, politically, culturally speaking?
The Sojourners community helps people living in the Anthropocene become better humans by establishing a practice of lifelong learning.
It’s not enough to get a high school diploma or a college or grad school degree any more, even if you go on “up-skilling” throughout your career. Deeply humanistic kinds of ongoing self-education are called for.
Sojourners read and study history, philosophy, geography, and the arts, along with science, economics, political thought, and many other subjects.
Sojourners become autodidacts, able to direct their own future learning by establishing practices of lifelong learning. They read, write, study, build a base of personal knowledge, cultivate habits and virtues, and travel, as well as heed the vocation to teach and coach other aspiring learners.