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The core claim of this book is that liturgies[8]—whether “sacred” or “secular”—shape and constitute our identities by forming our most fundamental desires and our most basic attunement to the world. In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love. They do this because we are the sorts of animals whose orientation to the world is shaped from the body up more than from the head down. Liturgies aim our love to different ends precisely by training our hearts through our bodies.

Desiring the Kingdom

James K. A. Smith

The spiritual disciplines—the “practices of love”—are how we learn to live out the Kuyperian conviction that there is not a single square inch of creation that isn’t claimed by Jesus.

Practices of Love

Kyle David Bennett

In fasting, what begins with experiencing the emptiness of our stomach ends in experiencing the emptiness of the world.

The Common Rule

Justin Whitmel Earley

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