Sublime

Religion in a secular age is a private affair. That’s why the courts, media, and other cultural gatekeepers respond with incredulity when believers claim constitutional protection for their right to practice religion in the public square.

Augustine might make Christianity plausible again for those who’ve been burned—who suspect that the “Christianity” they’ve seen is just a cover for power plays and self-interest, or a tired moralism that seems angry all the time, or a version of middle-class comfort too often confused with the so-called American Dream.

Andy Stanley, Johnny Carson, Howard Hendricks, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham,

maudlin,

newsworthiness rarely brings destroyed White bodies to the front page of the newspaper.