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The way that this modern moral order takes shape around chosen identity makes it complicated for pastors. If the church or the pastor tries too hard to shape a person’s life, it will be a violation of the modern moral order.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
three foundational metanarratives in the world: historic Christianity, Western Naturalism, and traditional religion.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
the Minister of Loneliness.
Kelly M. Kapic • Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn't the American Dream
and buffered the self toward an exclusive humanism in which human flourishing is the only goal and immanence the only frame.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Ministry Design Principle 11:
Kelly M. Kapic • A Field Guide to Becoming Whole: Principles for Poverty Alleviation Ministries
It’s to enter into the same logic that accelerates the decay rate of social norms, which often still have some connection to the Christian tradition. To call the church to innovate without considering the consequences is a big problem, because when social norms rapidly decay, many people are inevitably left behind.