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I’ve described how we can re-enchant our faith in this skeptical age. We can pay closer attention to the “strange sights,” the many ways God speaks to us, every day, through religious experiences. We can pray prayers of Thanks, Help, and Wow to recover a sacramental ontology, where God is everywhere present in our one-story universe. And we can make the outward turns of hope, joy, gratitude, and mattering to receive the grace that comes to us as a gift.
Hunting Magic Eels
Richard Beck
The critical issue, then, for both the religious and the spiritual alike, is this:
Can your enchantment judge, criticize, and unsettle you?
Can your enchantment point out your selfishness and self-indulgence?
Can your enchantment, be it burning sage for your spell or singing “God Bless America” in your pew, hold a mirror up to your hypocrisy?
Can your enchantment weigh your nation or political party on the scales and find it wanting?
Does your enchantment create sacrificial obligations and duties in your life that you cannot avoid or ignore?
Does your enchantment call you to extend grace to people you’d prefer to hate?
Does your enchantment bust up your cozy self-satisfaction and dogmatic self-righteousness?
Hunting Magic Eels
Richard Beck
Today, the new universal religion that demands subservience is not really Marxism or capitalism but the entity both of these ideologies serve so well—the omnipotent state.
Resident Aliens
Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon
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