This past weekend I had the opportunity to sit around a breakfast table and talk about James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love.  It was an interesting conversation for me, as I’ve been pretty invested in Smith’s thinking for a good while.  It was interesting to see what concepts and comments people grabbed onto.

One of the things that I take for granted when reading Smith’s newer work is the significance of his thinking on what is now called “our secular age.”  He talked about it a lot through the lens of Charles Taylor’s book, which is named for that age.  And while You Are What You Love stands well on its own (and even hints at Smith’s other work), it’s good to get a solid dose of “thinking about the secular.”  Here’s a recent video of Smith talking at a Q Conference about the back-drop for the age we live in, this secular age.