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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
Ever since returning from China, I’ve had an abiding interest in asking this question: “How is it that the West can be re-evangelized?”4 One of the reasons I’m so compelled by the life of habit is that I see habits as a way of light in an age of darkness. Cultivating a life of transcendent habits means that our ordinary ways of living should stand out in our culture, dancing like candles on a dark mantle. As Madeleine L’Engle once wrote, “We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe . . . but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”5
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
It’s not just that I “know” some end or “believe” in some telos. More than that, I long for some end. I want something, and want it ultimately. It is my desires that define me. In short, you are what you love.
You Are What You Love
James K. A. Smith
Yes, the cross puts our human brutality on full display, but it also reveals something greater: the love of the Father.
The Pursuing God
Joshua Ryan Butler
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