Sunday Gathering: A Useful Waste of Time

This Sunday, we’re doing something wildly irresponsible: nothing useful.

Modern life has us turning every hobby into a side hustle, every walk into a step count, and every idle moment waiting in line into an opportunity to check our phones. Even rest is expected to make us better at work.

In this standalone talk, we’ll make the case for loafing, lingering, daydreaming, and doing things with no measurable outcome. Not because they’ll secretly make us more productive, but because a life valued only by its output confuses being busy with being alive.

Come celebrate unhurried attention, simple pleasures, and idle moments that don’t need to justify their existence. You may leave with absolutely nothing to show for it. And maybe that’s ok.

Music: Hannah Laine          Meditation: Nelleke Knarr