Sublime
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A religion of emotive intuition, of aestheticized and commodified experience, of self-creation and self-improvement and, yes, selfies. A religion for a new generation of Americans raised to think of themselves both as capitalist consumers and as content creators. A religion decoupled from institutions, from creeds, from metaphysical truth-claims ab
... See moreTara Isabella Burton • Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
This will be a theme of my book: modern theologies of the New Testament were failures from a Christian point of view precisely because what they ended up offering was bad history, bad theology, or both.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
What I wanted was the part where people were asked to get together once a week to talk about how to be a good person and, like, hang out with their neighbors. It’s pretty amazing that apparently the only way to get people to do that is to invent an all-seeing, kindhearted sky dad who will be super disappointed/burn you for eternity if you don’t sho
... See moreHank Green • A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel (The Carls Book 2)
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
Roger Olson, a Baptist theologian who opposed the Calvinist insurgency, compared the “young, restless, and Reformed” movement to Gothard’s Basic Youth Conflicts seminar, observing that there was “a certain kind of personality that craves the comfort of absolute certainty as an escape from ambiguity and risk and they find it in religion or politics
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