The Principal Uncertainty

What happens when the path you've followed stops making sense—when achievement delivers everything it promised except meaning?

The Principal Uncertainty is a series of conversations about navigating the unmapped territory between who you've become and who you might be. Host George Laufenberg—a former wilderness educator, political operative, and cultural anthropologist—talks with people who've sat with uncertainty long enough to learn something from it: ministers and therapists, writers and researchers, anyone who's discovered that the questions matter more than the answers.

These aren't interviews. They're thinking-out-loud sessions about presence, purpose, and the courage to stay in the not-knowing.

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Guest

Lynn Casteel Harper

Lynn Casteel Harper is an essayist, minister, and chaplain. Her debut book, On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear (Catapult, 2020), was named a New York Times Book ReviewEditors’ Choice and a Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection for 2021. On Vanishing appeared on the Gold Foundation’s 2021 Reading List for Compassionate Clinicians. Lynn’s essays and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review Online, Salon, The Paris Review, North American Review, The Christian Science Monitor, NPR’s Think, The Sun Magazine, and elsewhere. Lynn has served as the Minister of Older Adults at The Riverside Church in the City of New York and as a nursing home chaplain. An ordained Baptist minister (Alliance of Baptists), Lynn lives and writes in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where she is the pastor of Olivet Congregational Church UCC.

https://lynncasteelharper.com

Guest appearance on:

Companionable Silence | Lynn Casteel Harper