For my own sanity and to help with the dryness of my soul, I’ve been slowly reading Richard Lovelace’s Dynamics of Spiritual Renewal. It’s good. One of the secondary elements of spiritual renewal (in communities, within individuals) is what he coins “disenculturation”. It’s not where you burn all your “secular music” or build a bunker to […]
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Father Thomas McKenzie died on Monday, August 23rd, along with his 22-year-old daughter. They were just out of Nashville, headed southwest with an aim to stay the night in Shamrock, TX when they collided with a tractor-trailer. The finality and the suddenness of it hit me deeply. I remembered that when I was struggling in […]
A Little Magic Now and Then is Relished By the Wisest Men My brother-and-sister-in-law recently got me into on N.D. Wilson’s podcast. If you’ve ever read his non-fiction, you know that he’s something of a Christian Platonist. He sees (rightly) that the grass in your backyard or the crumbling brick buildings downtown are imbued with […]
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