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Re-Training Days
And so we are people who long and want but who long at want wrongly. And while we long and want sinfully, we sometimes long for and want things for reasons beyond us. How do we learn to long and … Continue reading
“The Glitz and Gleam of New Things”
Yesterday I posted an excerpt from James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love that spoke of how we are shaped, how we are (de)formed by things that work on a level different from and deeper than we are … Continue reading
A Matter of (De)Formation
The first move in James K. A. Smith’s argument in You Are What You Love is to help us understand that longing and desire play a key role in understanding why we do what we do. “Your love or desire– aimed … Continue reading
Long for the Sea with Me
James K. A. Smith’s new book, You Are What You Love, drops today. It’s been available digitally for a couple of weeks, though. The book is a great read, accurately simplifying and building off of Smith’s thesis about “cultural liturgies” … Continue reading
Trading Zootopia for Eutopia
I finally got around to seeing Zootopia over spring break. It had the best trailer of the movies showing before Star Wars- The Force Awakens, but it ended up low on my “need to see” movie list. I’m glad I … Continue reading
Reconnecting Worship and Worldview
I’m about halfway through my (digital) copy of James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love (which releases in print on April 5). Smith’s Desiring the Kingdom has been one of the most formative books on practice that I’ve read … Continue reading
Song for the Weekend
From the July 1997 Cornerstone Festival. Mullins’s The Jesus Record is a good and appropriate album for this weekend.
Benedict Option Debrief
A couple of days ago, I posted a video of Rod Dreher talking about “the Benedict Option.” It’s been both an interesting and controversial topic, a kind of Rorschach test for Christians and their understandings of the relationship between church … Continue reading
Recalibrating the Heart
James K. A. Smith’s newest book, You Are What You Love, drops in a couple of weeks. Brazos Press has been releasing short videos of Smith talking about the book each week. Here’s the most recent video, which ends with … Continue reading
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Understanding the Benedict Option
Yesterday I used the storyline of Kung Fu Panda 3 as a segue into talking about Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option. Here’s a talk that Dreher gave last year at a Q Conference (learn more about that organization here). In the video, … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 