The author I read most this past year had to be James K. A. Smith.  His How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor is probably the best book about a book I’ve ever read.  After that, I moved on to his recent books on postmodernism and relativism.  I often find myself coming back to his thinking on social imaginaries (as presented in his Cultural Liturgies series) and am glad when I find nice snippets of his thinking to share.  Here’s a presentation given by Smith for a Q conference.  Q focuses on Christian work for the common good.  It’s a video worth 18 minutes of your time.  I especially like what he has to say around the fifteen-minute mark.  A real challenge for us all.