We often hear of brand loyalty, even brand devotion. But do people really worship brands? Is consumerism really such a liturgical experience? It may not be as far fetched as you think. In a recent stu...
We aren’t really motivated by abstract ideas or pushed by rules and duties. Instead some panoramic tableau of what looks like flourishing has an alluring power that attracts
Unlike sermon-centric congregations that profess high views of Scripture but leave the reading of the Bible to the preacher’s whim and circumscribe it within sermon time, in catholic Christian worship...
Thus each household and family does well to take an audit of its daily routines, looking at them through a liturgical lens. What Story is carried in those rhythms? What vision of the good life is carr...
This is why Luther and Calvin still understood themselves to be catholics. While they might have been railing against the abuses of Roman Catholicism, they also understood themselves to be heirs of th...
This is not a book about Augustine. In a way, it’s a book Augustine has written about you. It’s a journey with Augustine as a journey into oneself. It’s a travelogue of the heart. It’s a road trip wit...
This dependence and lack of self-sufficiency is then often affirmed horizontally, as it were, by encouraging the congregation to greet one another, expressing welcome
This coupling of market forces and the crowd’s demand for publicity means that everyone dreams of monetizing their Instagram feed. And that effectively becomes the ethos of a society.
The state does not take a merely temporal regulatory role and leave salvation in the hands of the church; rather, the modern state seeks to replace the church by itself becoming a soteriological insti...
The soul therefore needs three things: eyes which it can use aright, looking, and seeing.
The place we unconsciously strive toward is what ancient philosophers of habit called our telos—our goal, our end. But the telos we live toward is not something that we primarily know or believe or th...
The liturgy is a hearts and minds strategy, a pedagogy that trains us as disciples precisely by putting our bodies through a regimen of repeated practices that get a hold of our heart and aim or love...
The core claim of this book is that liturgies[ 8]—whether sacred or secular—shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world. In s...
The core claim of this book is that liturgies8—whether sacred or secular—shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world. In shor...
The Supper is a gracious communion with a forgiving God; but it is also a supper we eat with one another, and that too will require forgiveness.
The Godfather amounts to a visual parable of a challenge and critique that dogs the Cultural Liturgies project: while I extol the formative power of historic Christian worship practices, it would seem...
The Eucharist is our model of the eschatological order, a microcosm of the way things really ought to be.[105] Thus it is a normative meal: by showing us a foretaste of how things ought to be, the pra...
Taylor is not only interested in understanding how the secular emerged; he is also an acute observer of how we’re all secular now. The secular touches everything. It not only makes unbelief possible;...
Our most revolutionary political act is to hope
One of the responsibilities of the pastor as political theologian, then, is to help the people of God read the festivals of their own polis, whether the annual militarized Thanksgiving festivals that...