But the way Paul sees this new realm breaking forth may give those of us in Secular 3 a way to explore divine action in the midst of its implausibility. Paul’s perspective of being “in Christ” as an ontological reality will always seem strange (and improbable) to those of us in Secular 3. But the two ways that this reality is substantiated actually

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When we throw our hands up at religion and flatten its role in our lives, societies, and institutions, we allow hegemonic power to go unchecked.

Jules Evans defined a religion as a system that binds us in religio: a kind of sacredness, obligation, faith and “cosmic certainty” towards a particular set of precepts. Those outside the religio are framed as “existential threats”, with a strong in-out dynamic bound by a common transcendent ideal.

How did we arrive at this strange situation, with traditional religion declining while our politics and ideologies are looking increasingly religious? We believe there are a number of historical, philosophical and psychological forces at play, and that these might tie together phenomena as different as the argument over teaching Critical Race Theor... See more