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Henry shifted the pastoral identity from learned, serious professional to your beloved uncle. The point was no longer to show your difference but to show your sameness—living at the very same speed.

Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God

Maybe for this reason, Gabe’s parents, Joe and Barbara, had become important to Nishad. “They were the first grown-ups who took me seriously,” he said. “And it made me take myself seriously.” Gabe’s older brother, on the other hand, might as well have not existed. In high school, Sam didn’t seem to have much to do with Gabe or anyone else; he seldo

Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

beach. A system that existed only because everyone believed they were among people like themselves.

Emma Cline • The Guest: ‘The tension never wavers’ (GUARDIAN)

Parents, especially those as distracted as her father, desperately needed things to run smoothly and were so inclined to believe the system they had created was working fine that they assumed a normality even when surrounded by clues to the contrary.

Elif Shafak • The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel

This looks less like a process of secularization and more like a paradigmatic shift from an institutional to a personal understanding of spirituality. In a qualitative study of a 100 teenagers in five major cities, Richard Flory and Donald Miller found that millennials are not “the spiritual consumers of their parents’ gener... See more

Casper ter Kuile • How we gather

In its celebration of self-discipline, secular Sabbatarianism has a surface resemblance to the Orthodox and Puritan Sabbaths, but it has a deeper affinity to other, recent movements in which Americans take themselves off the grid: the voluntary simplicity movement, the green or sustainability movement, the frugality movement.

Judith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time

Millennials are less religiously affiliated than ever before. Churches are just one of many institutionalcasualties of the internet age in which young people are both more globally connected and more locallyisolated than ever before. Though many millennials are atheists or agnostics, the majority are less able to articulate their sense of spi... See more

Casper ter Kuile • How we gather

To DIY your own world of life signifiers, you have to think you can improve on a

bar mitzvah

as a coming-of-age ritual, on shabbat as a form of digital detox, and as

teshuvah

as a way to grapple with your guilt (or analogs in other religious traditions). Many do of course, and every trendy San Franciscan has their personal regimen of special diets, ... See more

Antonio García Martínez • Why Judaism?

in a post-Durkheimian age religion would be completely severed from people’s conceived history, fading into one’s individualized and completely buffered sense of the self as a completely self-chosen identity.