The ‘raw-dogging’ TikTok travel trend helped me understand the importance of spiritual practices

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Jo Acharya shares how a new trend reminded her of the importance of silence and solitude in our Christian walk, but says, ‘Unlike raw-dogging, spiritual practices are not a one-time endurance challenge, but a way of building healthy rhythms into our lives.’

Could you stay awake for eight hours on a plane with no food and no entertainment, just staring straight ahead at the flight map? That’s the new challenge currently taking social media by storm. The trend is called ‘raw-dogging’ - originally slang for unprotected sex but now meaning to travel ‘the hard way’, unshielded by creature comforts: no book, no phone, no snacks.

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