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Today, the pastor’s education is not to discipline the will but to qualify her for the profession.

A teacher of students with special needs, Sara had observed that the children she worked with seemed better able to navigate their lives the more they knew about their family’s history.

the Minister of Loneliness.

because of our overexposure to youthfulness, our conception of faith formation has too often followed this expressive (even instrumental) individualism.

What made Warren’s perspective both genius and problematic is that he offered Jesus at the level of the nova effect. Jesus was another third option amongst the thousands of others. Of course Warren was not shy in claiming that Jesus was the best option, a third way that could actually deliver in providing purpose and individual flourishing. But onc

But this prodding would no longer come from a set-apart holy man, consecrated by enchanted oil or a Yale degree. Rather, Henry’s prodding was done as “one of us.” Henry threw off any sense that he was a class above or beyond, as so many clergy embodied.

With a school, who are the customers? Is it the parents? Is it the teachers? No. It is the child.

The pastor’s job was to give order and protection from the constant flood of enchantment. It was a world drowning with meaning because it was a world soaked in divine action.