Tag Archives: James K A Smith

“Distill, and Know That I am God”

Posted on June 26, 2018 by awtraughber

Let’s start with this recent classic Calvin and Hobbes strip recently posted to gocomics.com: I’m about to board a plane that will take me to a place I’ve never been that’s also a place where there’s a lot of nothing … Continue reading →

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A Land of Lonely Hunters

Posted on May 11, 2018 by awtraughber

A common theme from the last few weeks of news articles and essays and reading points to the issue of loneliness as a real fruit of our modern era.   I suppose we’ve known this since the release of Bowling … Continue reading →

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Waiting for the King (but not for the book)

Posted on November 4, 2017 by awtraughber

Thanks to the kind folks at Hearts and Minds Books, I was able to get my copy of James K. A Smith’s Awaiting the King a few days before the actual release day.  And so I waited for Thor:Ragnarok by … Continue reading →

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Our Shared Life and the King

Posted on October 26, 2017 by awtraughber

Part of me thinks the stakes are quite high for James K. A. Smith’s Awaiting the King.  That’s partly because of the cultural and political climate in which we find ourselves.  Attached to that is the seeming “attack approach” that … Continue reading →

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The Questions of Pastoral Care

Posted on August 21, 2017 by awtraughber

The folks over at Comment Magazine have posted the first half of a conversation between James K. A. Smith (You Are What You Love) and Tim Keller (recently of Redeemer Presbyterian Church).   A great conversation about the church and … Continue reading →

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Dovetailing Dreher and Smith

Posted on March 16, 2017 by awtraughber

The last couple of weeks have brought a number of reactions to Rod Dreher’s eagerly-awaited book on conservative Christians in contemporary culture, The Benedict Option.  For many, it’s been an interesting litmus test for where particular “personalities” in the Christian … Continue reading →

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2016 and Questions of Habit, Routine, and Ritual

Posted on December 27, 2016 by awtraughber

I suppose the book that most shaped 2016 for me was James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love.  The book, which dropped in the spring, was a recapitulation of Smith’s earlier work on “cultural liturgies” with more practical … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia as Arson

Posted on September 29, 2016 by awtraughber

A couple of months ago I spent a few weeks “reflecting” my way through Yuval Levin’s The Fractured Republic, which suggested that both the political right and the political left were “stuck in the past” when trying to articulate Our … Continue reading →

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Two Things for the Toolbox

Posted on June 21, 2016 by awtraughber

Yesterday I reflected some on a recent article by Alan Jacobs about “dropping clues in our technological society.”  I linked to the article in the hopes that you would take note of the last thing that Jacobs suggests as a … Continue reading →

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Tapping into the Heart

Posted on March 15, 2016 by awtraughber

Here’s a second video from Brazos Press leading up to the release of James K. A. Smith’s You Are What You Love.  Along with its predecessor, the video is a nice taste of what Smith seems to have been thinking … Continue reading →

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