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Shipwrecked! How social isolation can enrich our spiritual lives – like Robinson Crusoe

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Shipwrecked! How social isolation can enrich our spiritual lives – like Robinson CrusoeNearly lost at sea, Robinson Crusoe lands on an island only to reckon with isolation, solitude and his own life. Culture Club/Hulton Archive via Getty Images

He survived the last great plague in London and the city’s Great Fire. He was imprisoned and persecuted for his religious and political views. There was no happy ending for the...

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