Sublime

Or, if we are immersed in what Augustine describes as the “civic rituals” of various outposts of the “earthly city,” we will be formed to pursue domination as our telos and to live accordingly.

Perhaps this is what pastoral ministry is supposed to look like? Maybe applying the gospel to those in the holes they keep falling into is the mission. Or part of it, anyway. Jesus says, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23), so we should expect that every day feels like death an