#2228 - When Time is Short: Timothy K. Beal

Our guest, Timothy K. Beal, tells a story of when his daughter was four years old. Looking out the window as they were driving, she said, Someday, all this will be gone. This simple observation forms the jumping-off point for Beal’s masterful When Time Is Short: Finding Our Way in the Anthropocene.

What if it's too late to save ourselves from climate crisis? When Time is Short is a meditation for what may be a finite human future that asks how we got here to help us imagine a different relationship to the natural world.

Professor Beal has appeared on our program before. If you enjoy this conversation, please check out our 2012 episode, “The Bible Does Not Exist.”

Timothy Beal is Distinguished University Professor and Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. He has published essays on religion and culture for the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, and Washington Post, and is the author of several books, including Roadside Religion and The Rise and Fall of the Bible.