We Made Ourselves Mad: Book Club on The Generosity Crisis (Chapters 4–7)

This week's Book Club edition of the Breakout covers the middle of The Generosity Crisis by Nathan Chappell and his co-authors, chapters four through seven, with Ryan Catherwood, Dave Hail, and Courtney Stombock. Chapters four and five dig into the why behind the generosity crisis, from the social distance of COVID to political polarization and the pull of screens, while six and seven turn to what to do about it, built around the book's idea of radical connection. The panel works through atomization, transactional versus relational giving, the crisis-of-love framing, and the argument that the gift is less the goal than the proof of a relationship. Back in two weeks with the final chapters.