How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
James K. A. Smithamazon.com
How to Inhabit Time: Understanding the Past, Facing the Future, Living Faithfully Now
What are the things you do that do something to you? What are the secular liturgies in your life? What vision of the good life is carried in those liturgies? What Story is embedded in those cultural practices? What kind of person do they want you to become? To what kingdom are these rituals aimed? What does this cultural institution want you to lov
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