Reconstructing a World: Reentry After the Pandemic
For many of us, the pandemic has shrunk our worlds to the size of a few rooms or a few relationships. As society gradually opens up, we may be anxious about what comes next, not just for our planet but for ourselves.
How can we navigate our fear, our awkwardness, our uncertainty as we begin the next chapter of our lives? How can we reconstruct a world of meaning and social connection as we come blinking back, as it were, into the light of day?
Nicholas Collura earned a Master of Divinity and trained as a spiritual director at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He is a board-certified healthcare chaplain, having completed his clinical pastoral education at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, and he serves as a visiting retreat director at St. Raphaela Center in Haverford, PA. A former Jesuit, he has also ministered on several college campuses, at a L'Arche community in the Pacific Northwest, and at juvenile halls and adult state prisons in California.