Together with Ainsley Hawthorn
Together
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 25 minutes
Jack Eason speaks with Ainsley Hawthorn, PhD about an article she wrote about what she recognized in her friends living through the global pandemic. The shocking realization was that social isolation was already entrenched in our society long before the coronavirus broke out.
Ainsley Hawthorn, PhD, is an author, cultural historian, and multidisciplinary artist based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
She earned her doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University, and her academic expertise includes sensory studies, Mesopotamian literature and religion, Middle Eastern dance, word origins, and the history of writing. Hawthorn is a past fellow of Distant Worlds (Munich) and the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities (Venice), and she has been invited to lecture on her research at universities in Germany, Austria, Italy, Canada, and the United States. Distant Impressions, which she co-edited with Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel, is the first academic volume on sensory studies in the ancient Near East,
Hawthorn uses her academic knowledge to bring groundbreaking new ideas about the senses, history, and religion out of the ivory tower and to the general public. She blogs for Psychology Today, writes columns for the CBC, has contributed to The Globe and Mail, the National Post, The Dance Current, TheIndependent.ca, and the Newfoundland Quarterly, and is currently finishing her first non-fiction book, The Other Five Senses (represented by The Margret McBride Literary Agency).
Hawthorn is also a Middle Eastern and international folk dancer with extensive teaching and performance experience. Her latest performance project is the short film Calamus by Kenneth J. Harvey, in which she is co-starring alongside Darren Ivany.
In her spare time, she creates textile art. Her first solo exhibition of fine embroidery was held at the gallery of the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador in March 2019.
Grab your copy of Jack Eason's latest book TOGETHER: Abandoning Loneliness for the Power of Community at https://www.jackeason.org/books/#loneliness
Statistics show that, despite our connected world--and partly because of it--we are lonelier than ever. Social media tricks us into thinking that we are engaged in genuine friendships, except we never quite get beyond that feeling of being outside someone else's life and looking in every so often at what they choose to show the world. Instead of intimacy we get little more than what amounts to digital small talk. But there is a solution.
With plenty of good humor and practical advice, Jack Eason invites you to discover the benefits of doing life together with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Grounding his message in Scripture, Eason helps you
- learn the obstacles to real community
- reimagine what real friendship looks like
- discover a place of true belonging
- and more
If you're tired of feeling lonely, this encouraging and community-building book is just what you need.
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