Sublime

To the ‘right’ he shows the consequences of a love of money and markets, of government by corporation, of an economic growth unmoored from place, which eats through nature and culture and leaves ruins. To the ‘left’ he shows the consequences of a rootless individualism, of rights without rites, of the rejection of family and tradition, of the champ

University of Texas sociologist Bill Bishop, in his recent book The Big Sort: Why Clustering of Like-Minded Americans Is Tearing Us Apart, claims that Americans over the last three decades have “been reshaping the way they lived. . . . In every corner of society, people were creating new, more homgenous groups. . . . Churches filled with people who

Future America Is Reactionary Against Bible-Believing Christianity

to be both pressed and stretched, located at the intersection of church and world, past and future, ancient and modern, memory and hope.

It’s not sustainable. God continues to haunt this secular age with our desire for goodness.

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To be before we do, to follow the crucified—not the “Americanized”—Jesus, to embrace God’s gift of limits, to discover the treasures buried in grief and loss, to make love the core measure of maturity, to break the power of the past, and to lead out of weakness and vulnerability.

When faced with a tension between competing values, they do what any smart privileged person bursting with cultural capital would do. They find a way to have both. They reconcile opposites.