Conclavecore and Ego Scrolling

Honestly, I see very little difference between Church and a Beyoncé concert. Maybe that’s the core of my theology: if it makes you feel something ineffable, if it’s bigger than you and yet deeply personal, if it sometimes involves a fog machine, it’s Church. Jesus is in there somewhere, swaying to the music, saving you a dance. What a pal.

When a congregation’s identity is in its resources, it is on an accelerating pace that alienates it from the world, making it excarnate in thought and practice.

A religion of emotive intuition, of aestheticized and commodified experience, of self-creation and self-improvement and, yes, selfies. A religion for a new generation of Americans raised to think of themselves both as capitalist consumers and as content creators. A religion decoupled from institutions, from creeds, from metaphysical truth-claims ab

The congregation seeking change through innovation risks opening our social lives to a moral horizon that may deliver a false sense of fullness, a warped conception of humanity, and a flat notion of the yearning of the human spirit.