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David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

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three cultural tools that white evangelical Christians use to interpret their world. Those cultural tools are (1) accountable free-will individualism (individuals are the only true reality in a society, each individual has choice, and will be held accountable—they shall reap what they sow—for those choices); (2) relationalism (all of life happens w

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Before they dechurched, cultural Christians needed authentic friendship and sincere community. They also needed to be ministered to and discipled earlier and with greater substance, especially in their teens and early twenties.

It grew beautifully and powerfully inside of colonialism and colonial Christianity, took hold inside the educational foundations of the modern West, and now constantly flashes across the cognitive landscape of the educated imagination. The formation of the self-sufficient man has always been the greatest temptation for Christian formation because C

Because now that the whole world has been disenchanted and we have been encased in a flattened “nature,” I expect it will be forms of reenchanted Christianity that will actually have a future.

The point of all this is to try to appreciate how a worldview—or better, what philosopher Charles Taylor calls a “social imaginary”19—is “carried” in everyday rituals and practices.