Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
The Marginalian
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Our households—our “little kingdoms”—need to be nourished by constant recentering in the body of Christ. Week after week we bring our little kingdoms into the kingdom of God. Communal, congregational worship locates the family in the sweep of God’s story and in the wider web of the people of God.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
No wonder Jesus invites us to follow him by eating and drinking (John 6:53–58). Discipleship doesn’t touch just our head or even just our heart: it reaches into our gut, our splagchna, our affections.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Rituals are not solutions. They don’t “fix” things. They are how we live with what we can’t fix, channels for facing up to our finitude, the way we try to navigate this vale of tears in the meantime. But precisely for that reason they can also be conduits of hope and rhythms of covenant.