Our New Religion Isn't Enough

And maybe there never was. But at least we maintained the illusion better before. We used to be told how to live, provided lore that outlined where the lines were drawn between right and wrong, and granted something resembling safety and stability in exchange.** Yes, I’m talking about the glue of society: religion. **“Literally false but metaphoric... See more

THERE IS A GOD SHAPED HOLE IN OUR HEART, AND (THIS IS THE HERETICAL MOMENT) IN OUR ECONOMY

We know the millennial core answers to this God shaped hole. It's "Soul Cycle" and the like. But we can't reach God pedaling and not going anywhere.

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

What puts the local congregation in a crisis, I believe, is not necessarily that congregations are losing pace to dynamic stabilization (which is often how consultants and denominational officials frame it). Rather, the deeper issue is not only that people lack the time and energy for community, practice, and substantive moral traditions but that t

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In the West, the sources of religion, family, clan, and even country could no longer tell you who you are. You decide. But once you decide, to truly have chosen, you can’t just sit on your hands, resting quietly in the glow of your chosen identity. That’s not how this “freedom” works. This “freedom” calls for constant motion. And this need for cons

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Been meeting a lot of young people recently who are spiritual and live their lives according to some value system and yearn for a community of likeminded people but don't subscribe to any traditional religion. Feels like we are all on the same page but don't have a place to gather or a structure. Not sure if all of these people want this or if they... See more