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Spiritual renewal in a post-Christian society

The Sunday Pages is a weekly newsletter for paid subscribers that rounds up five interesting links for the week, recommends a book with highlights of about a dozen meaningful quotes from the book, and includes occasional updates on personal projects.

It’s 2019. I’m a few years into my “reconstruction,” and I’m still sorting through the last few bits of my progressive-by-default worldview at the time. Enter this book. It gave words to a lot of the feelings and intuitions I was having but wasn’t able to articulate. It helped me see the emptiness of progressivism and grow a heart for spiritual renewal—beginning in my own heart.

I read this book at a time in my life that involved a significant amount of transition, which was perfect because this book is all about transition. Transitions from secularism to renewal, from withering to flourishing, from dead orthodoxy and cultural Christianity to a vital faith. It provided a sort of model for what a faithful like could look like in a post-Christian age that still influences me today.

Links Included: The Calvinist debates are dead, good small church websites, denominational jingoism, bad mental health for spiritual but not religious.

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