The Vast Dechurching and the Paradox of Christianity’s Decline
Firmin DeBrabander
Christians will soon be a minority here, which was for most of this nation’s history unthinkable.
Christians will soon be a minority here, which was for most of this nation’s history unthinkable.
Were the signs and wonders of the early modern mystics divine or diabolical?
Instead of satire, which aims at improvement, we have snark.
When we communicate using little data, we’re speaking the language of robots.
Food is a strong proof of our animality; it is equally strong evidence of how we transcend it.
We are living through a time, however, when we cannot take our shared identity—and therefore our shared stories—for granted.
What Pleasants found in the Afro-American idiom was a body of music intended to comfort the afflicted.
The democratic story added the following to the idea of civic order: Through pledges and promises—a social contract or covenant—persons throw in their fortunes with one another. They seek not a perfect world, but a better one. And authority is necessary to its realization.