updated 13d ago
Why I am Christian again
sari added
- 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.
from Is Religion Coming Back? by Alexander Beiner
Stuart Evans and added
- It feels implausible to imagine we will return to religion in its current form en masse, so we are in this curious post-secular state where socially and politically we need the emphasis on solidarity, practice and experience previously found in religion to defend the integrity of the public realm, but culturally and intellectually we can’t go back ... See more
from Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges by Dr Jonathan Rowson
Stuart Evans added
At that point, I began to observe that our politics and culture had changed. I began to feel differently about our surrounding secular culture, and noticed that its attitude toward Christianity was not what it once had been. Aaron Renn’s account represents well my thinking and the thinking of many: There was a “neutral world” roughly between 1994–2
... See morefrom How I Evolved on Tim Keller | James R. Wood by firstthings.com
Jonathan Simcoe added
There are so many assumptions baked into his model for if and how our country and politics have changed.- What kinds of power did we relinquish when we assumed that religion could be relegated to the private sector? How did our belief in this universalist claim—that there’s a separation of church and state—lead us to our current moment of religious resurgence?
from The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State by Religiously Blonde
Keely Adler added
I began to feel like the sort of Christianity that I gravitated toward only required my brain.
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren