Thank you so much for this articulation. I feel like these concepts sync so directly with elements we’re engaging constantly in trying to be humans in an exhausted world of parenting, the church, and the, uh, world in general.
Also *thank you* for the footnote on the class difference impacting these choices. Childcare is so wildly expensive, as are “good schools.” It feels this way with eating healthy, too—fresh fruit is more expensive and far less shelf stable than fruit-by-the-foot.
I long for the church to develop awareness for those systemic and socioeconomic realities that so many face (and don’t choose).
Came here to say similar - the footnote on class distinctions could be its own post. The challenge for the marginalized in divesting from digital overload is the way digital channels are conduits to resources that upper classes can get through wealth and connections.
Oh wow, loved this! This jumped out at me this morning - "So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts." Ephesians 4:16-18
"The life of God"! How remarkable that the higher we build this "new" technological Tower of Babel the further we are cut off from the "life of God". Gosh, Tolkien was prescient. Treebeard says of Saruman, "He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for living things." That this is spoken by a talking tree I cannot pass by.
Your comments on communion are wonderful, truly, full of wonder. When we drink the blood and eat the body we are reminded that love wins - love of the creation, love of the incarnation, love of the real for who was and is and will be more real than The Son of God?
Thank you brother. Great piece, great insights. My only remaining question is, do I read "End of the Affair" or "The Uncontrollability of the World" first?
Thank you Alan. The observation of a sight tempted society is solid, you pick up on cultural things so well. And, I instantly thought of Wise Blood (yea, I am on a Flannery kick); talk about a book about sight even the main characters name, Hazel Motes, screams of it. We as Christians must be sinners with sight...
Thank you so much for this articulation. I feel like these concepts sync so directly with elements we’re engaging constantly in trying to be humans in an exhausted world of parenting, the church, and the, uh, world in general.
Also *thank you* for the footnote on the class difference impacting these choices. Childcare is so wildly expensive, as are “good schools.” It feels this way with eating healthy, too—fresh fruit is more expensive and far less shelf stable than fruit-by-the-foot.
I long for the church to develop awareness for those systemic and socioeconomic realities that so many face (and don’t choose).
Came here to say similar - the footnote on class distinctions could be its own post. The challenge for the marginalized in divesting from digital overload is the way digital channels are conduits to resources that upper classes can get through wealth and connections.
Oh wow, loved this! This jumped out at me this morning - "So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts." Ephesians 4:16-18
"The life of God"! How remarkable that the higher we build this "new" technological Tower of Babel the further we are cut off from the "life of God". Gosh, Tolkien was prescient. Treebeard says of Saruman, "He has a mind of metal and wheels; and he does not care for living things." That this is spoken by a talking tree I cannot pass by.
Your comments on communion are wonderful, truly, full of wonder. When we drink the blood and eat the body we are reminded that love wins - love of the creation, love of the incarnation, love of the real for who was and is and will be more real than The Son of God?
Thank you brother. Great piece, great insights. My only remaining question is, do I read "End of the Affair" or "The Uncontrollability of the World" first?
Thank you Alan. The observation of a sight tempted society is solid, you pick up on cultural things so well. And, I instantly thought of Wise Blood (yea, I am on a Flannery kick); talk about a book about sight even the main characters name, Hazel Motes, screams of it. We as Christians must be sinners with sight...