God in the Wasteland

waters. Religious commitment, or even God, hasn’t simply been subtracted from our culture, like taking one picket out of the backyard fence; with a little action and persistence, we think, the picket can be replaced in the whole. Rather, the whole of our social imaginary has shifted. Charles Taylor says it this way: “Modernity is defined not just b

Soon enough, the most central question for both mainline and evangelical pastors was, How can we reach more and more people? They did not ask how they could testify to God’s eternity breaking into time. They asked how they could keep from losing pace up against the threat of secular 2.