The Crisis of Meaning: John Vervaeke and Malcolm Guite hosted by John Nelson
April 9, 2026
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as posted by the channelIn this episode of Unbelievable?, host John Nelson explores the “meaning crisis” with John Vervaeke and Malcolm Guite. Together, they examine the deeper forces behind rising loneliness, anxiety, addiction and cultural fragmentation, and consider why so many people today are searching for depth, belonging and transcendence.
John Vervaeke (University of Toronto) argues that modern life suffers from a “propositional tyranny”, over-privileging facts and analysis while neglecting other ways of knowing procedural, perspectival and participatory that bind us to reality, one another, and ourselves.
Poet and priest Malcolm Guite agrees, tracing the crisis to modernity’s split between mind and world, and making a passionate case for imagination, myth and poetry as truth-bearing, meaning-making faculties. Together they explore logos, “religio” as binding, the limits of “spiritual but not religious”, and why practices, community and pilgrimage may be part of the way back.
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