To call the church and its leaders to be disruptive innovators is simply to adopt Silicon Valley’s vision of the good life.

To move from religion to secularism is not so much a loss of faith as a shift into a new set of beliefs and into a new community of faith, one that draws the lines between orthodoxy and heresy in different places.

Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. may have understood American Protestantism better than anyone. By staging resistance at the center of ordinary life (again on buses and at diners), he revealed an overwhelming lack of flourishing.

so Barth had to start all over, seeking a way to speak of the coming of a transcendent God into the immanent frame of modern life.