Second, singing is a mode of expression that seems to reside in our imagination more than other forms of discourse.
Our essential embodiment will keep interrupting our Platonic desire to do away with the body, will keep insinuating itself into our dualistic discourses to remind us that the triune God of creation tr...
Mark Hamilton is surely right when he points out that we allow athletics to dictate to us what school districts we will live in, what jobs to hold, how to spend our leisure time, whom we marry, what a...
Jennings cites Jean-François Lyotard: Contemporary society no longer speaks of fraternity at all, whether Christian or republican. It only speaks of the sharing of the wealth and benefits of ‘developm...
Instead of the bottom-up emphasis on worship as our expression of devotion and praise, historic Christian worship is rooted in the conviction that God is the primary actor or agent in the worship enco...
In other words, codes are inadequate as moral sources precisely because they do not touch on the dynamics of moral motivation.
Habitus, then, is a kind of compatibilism. As a social being acting in the world, I’m not an unconstrained free creature without inertia; neither am I the passive victim of external causes and determi...
The distorted understanding of worldview that dominates current models assumes a rationalist, intellectualist, cognitivist model of the human person; as a result, it fails to honor the fact that we ar...
So too we extend mutual greetings because God has welcomed us. As recipients of God’s greeting, we become imitators of God by extending welcome to our neighbors and brothers and sisters.
Like the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, baptism is a microcosm of the entirety of Christian worship and the story of God, in Christ, reconciling the world to himself.
Learning what seems insignificant can be training us for (and about) what’s essential—that what’s ultimate can unwittingly be at stake in what appears to be innocuous.
Hoping to find a language for death. In his hands, the language of death is democratic — which makes good sense since death is quite impartial (talk about e pluribus unum!).
Education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the gut) by means of...
Classical apologetics operates with a very modern notion of reason; presuppositional apologetics, on the other hand, is postmodern (and Augustinian!) insofar as it recognizes the role of presuppositio...
When the Scriptures are read in the context of gathered worship, they are, in a sense, enacted at the same time.
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?
What draws people away from traditional, institutional religion is largely the success of consumer culture — the stronger form of magic found in the ever-new glow of consumer products
We learn to love, then, not primarily by acquiring information about what we should love but rather through practices that form the habits of how we love.
We have already seen how modernity does away with higher times, leaving us to the merely chronological tick-tock of secular time. However, our own experience suggests that the unstoppable homogeneity...
Too much of our cultural analysis is rooted in thinking-thingism: we scan culture, listening for messages, bent on rooting out false teachings. But if we are first and foremost lovers, and if our acti...