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Youth Ministry and Liberating Ritual
One of the things that I like most about James K. A. Smith’s approach to Christian faith and practice in You Are What You Love is how well he turns certain concepts and principles upside-down. Consider the language of ritual … Continue reading
Children’s Author, Time’s Author
I’m almost halfway through N. D. Wilson’s Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle. It’s a great read. On some level, it’s comfortable. On another level, though, it is different and engaging with a great open-ended feel. Last week, … Continue reading
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Building a Story for the Home
Bravos Press has about three more videos based on James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love. And they are based on the parts of the book that are more about “implications for life.” Here’s the one for the … Continue reading
Name the Darkness to Rise Above It
Got my copy of N. D. Wilson’s Outlaws of Time: The Legend of Sam Miracle yesterday, and I’m looking forward to spending some quality time with it this weekend. Wilson has had at least one article and one interview pop … Continue reading
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No Formation Without Repetition
Soon after finishing up my final post on the topic, I found out that Brazos Press had released one more video of James K. A. Smith talking about his new book, You Are What You Love. The video, appropriately enough, … Continue reading
When Going Forward Means Looking Back
I’ve been trying to think of some way forward for some time now. Forward in lots of ways really: faith, work, relationships, the rhythms of life. I get bits and pieces here and there, often from what I read, sometimes … Continue reading
Entertainment and Formation
One of the greater challenges for churches at this point in the 21st century (and perhaps in any century) is how to work and worship for the formation of young people. For years, it seemed like youth work was the … Continue reading
The Household Hum
One of the ways that You Are What You Love moves beyond James K. A. Smith’s other books on “cultural liturgies” is how it approaches the implications for daily life. Smith spends one solid chapter on marriage and “household life.” … Continue reading
A Way of Re-Enchanting the World
One of the odd gifts of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is the way that it enchants the world for the reader . . . only to see that enchantment end as the story draws to a close. A compounded … Continue reading
Worship as a Kind of Training
Yesterday’s excerpt from Smith’s You Are What You Love pointed to the possibility of the Church as being the (re)training ground for loving well. Here’s Smith talking more about that in the context of worship.
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