Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read
A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
Institutions are our beliefs and ethics enfleshed. They bring ideas down from the ether and ensure that they are operating within the actual life of a community. They are creedal in nature.
Disappearing Church
Mark Sayers
Or perhaps we take seriously the act of going to bed and asking, How am I going to end this thing? Shall we lie awake in bed, letting all the replay tapes run? Shall we browse our phones for some recent celebrity scandal to bounce meaninglessly around our brain? Or shall we walk intentionally toward the rest we know we need? No one can sleep while believing that she needs to keep the world spinning. But real rest comes when we thank God that we don’t need to, because he does. Thus we kneel by the bed and place the period of God’s mercy and care for us at the end of the day.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
In short, we will only adequately “read” our culture to the extent that we recognize operative there an array of liturgies that function as pedagogies of desire.
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
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