Modern Religions For A Lonely World

In addressing the meaning crisis — the vacuum left by the failures of religion, modernism, postmodernism, and today’s online alternatives — it takes a return to what bona fide religion really captures. The communitas. The ecstasy. The ritual.

I grew up believing what all modern people are taught: that freedom meant lack of constraint. Orthodoxy taught me that this freedom was no freedom at all, but enslavement to the passions: a neat description of the first thirty years of my life. True freedom, it turns out, is to give up your will and follow God’s. To deny yourself. To let it come. I... See more

The prevailing materialistic culture has created a divided world where the sacred is relegated to churches and temples, the body to the gym, mental health to pills from the pharmacy. Economic growth is pursued as if it had nothing to do with the environment and ignorance, racism, and warfare continue to separate people and nations. These divisions

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on my mind: modern spirituality encourages us to DIY our own world of life signifiers, to come up with our own spiritual frameworks involving special diets, meditation schedules, intermittent fasts, escapes to nature, and more. but to go down this path, we have to really believe, like @antoniogm says that we can improve on a bar mitzvah as a comi... See more