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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.
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
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
Formation and What You Love
These past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to work through the concept of formation with some of my peers. It’s been an interesting journey made even more interesting by the thoughts of James K. A. Smith. Smith’s new book, … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 