
Why I am Christian again

transcendent. But this door is no longer culturally open, and walking into it is no longer culturally assumed. This door has not been subtracted or removed but rather has been blocked by a pile of additions (like scientific positivism, materialism, expressive individualism, and more).
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
But just as strong was my feeling of weariness, and now astonishment too, that all this earnest talk about faith and its formation had not once included God or transcendence or even mystery. What had happened to us? How have we become a people who so often talk of faith as almost completely coated in a sociological shell, bound almost entirely in m
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
But for us, living in the gravitational pull of Secular 3, the thought of “in Christ” as a distinct realm of being seems unbelievable.