Sometimes it is hard to tap into our spiritual selves or find time to nurture our intellectual curiosity. Here is a section that reflects on some nourishing materials from around the web and related media channels in order to get us thinking, get us feeling, and get us reflecting on the lives we are living in this big, beautiful world. **Some Adult/Mature Themes May Appear in Links and Other Attached Material**

The Good Place

I was able to allude to a piece of popular media this week that is so good, so relevant, so timely and so specifically appropriate to a UU audience that I had to come back to it. Because if you haven’t watched The Good Place, as a UU, you are missing an affirming exercise of all of the questions that rattle around our tradition. 

Based on a comedic take on the afterlife, the whole show turns out to be an exploration of basic religious and philosophical questions: what is “good,” what is “bad,” what ought we to be as humans and what we owe to one another. 

The show is four seasons, readibly available on Netflix. But here is a conversation with the show’s creator and one of the philosophical experts who helped in the production–part of the Ezra Klein podcast. Its worth a listen either before or after the show. And it is a refreshing moment in which pop culture wanders into the deep end and chews on some more consequential issues than, maybe, it usually does. You can listen here. 

Allan T. Georgia, M.Div., M.T.S., PhD

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