Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into your mind; he is after nothing less than your wants, your loves, your longings. His “teaching” doesn’t just touch the calm, cool, collected space of reflection and…
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
then appeal to the culture.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Everything in this book is animated by the conviction that the tradition of Christian orthodoxy is a gift, not a liability—a resource for the future, not an embarrassment that we should be trying to sweep under the carpet or tuck away in a back room like a crazy uncle.
James K. A. Smith • Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
And you might not love what you think. Which raises an important question. Let’s dare to ask it.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
a crucial part of Christian ministry is clarifying the antithesis between Christianity and every other system.
Owen Strachan • Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement Is Hijacking the Gospel - and the Way to Stop It
apologetic; it is an apologetic.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
You will begin to appreciate that all sorts of things we do are, when seen in this light, doing something to us. It’s not just the messages or ideas or information being disseminated by these cultural institutions that have import for discipleship; it is the very form of the practices themselves, their liturgical power to (de)form. Liturgies work a
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