We do not live in a godless world. Rather, we live in a profoundly anti-institutional one, where the proliferation of Internet creative culture and consumer capitalism have rendered us all simultaneously parishioner, high priest, and deity. America is not secular but simply spiritually self-focused.

You take into your mouth part of a magical being who does magical things. In this enchanted world the pastor knew exactly what he was doing by giving his people Jesus. He was taking them into the arcane mystery of deep enchantment. He was ushering them into the sacred place where they were protected from haunting evil spirits and where white magic

In summary: several developments needed to take place within Christianity if it were to survive: 1) evil and darkness needed to be incorporated in a new way; 2) the feminine needed to be given more credence by Christianity, which in its historical form is patriarchal and masculinist; 3) the scriptures needed to be delit-eralised and read as metapho

The enchantment of spirits and demons is upended and can never work itself to the center of our meaning system again, because now mystery is no longer that which escapes being but is just a riddle that has yet to be solved. It is mysterious that the universe is made up mostly of dark matter, particles that we cannot identify. But this is no reason