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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.
Carl Trueman • Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
Existential ideas and attitudes have embedded themselves so deeply into modern culture that we hardly think of them as existentialist at all. People (at least in relatively prosperous countries where more urgent needs don’t intervene) talk about anxiety, dishonesty and the fear of commitment. They worry about being in bad faith, even if they don’t
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
teenagers adhered to a mushy pseudoreligion the researchers deemed Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD).3
Rod Dreher • The Benedict Option
One group is trapped by works-righteousness, the other by a more conventional idolatry.
Timothy Keller, Daniel Strange, Gabriel Salguero, • Center Church
AMERICAN CHRISTIANS AND CULTURE
Tish Harrison Warren • Culture Making
religion and irreligion;