Last Sunday, David Brooks gave a remarkable sermon (or talk) at the National Cathedral in DC. There’s a lot of wonderful stuff in here, addressing both our “moment”–the attenuation, the loneliness, the over-politicization, the blandness of religion, the emotional avoidance–but more than that as well. If you stick with it til the end (and you can get past some of the agency language), you may even find he follows a bit of a familiar scheme, ht TB:
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Kept waiting to hear about Jesus,who died for our sins.He beat around the right bushes and dropped the right names in theology and wisdom,but never proclaimed who is this savior and what he did for mankind.Woe to me unless I proclaim the Gospel.Finally, when he stated that the current “regime” will collapse on its own…SIN well I just had say to myself ,What a shame that His god is too small to handle such Big Sin.
As a card-carrying Christian, I look at it the other way: he, like me, knows he is too small in his confidence in the specifics of Grace to know how big his God is: – Brooks is still Jewish, at least culturally – and his imperfect faith, his questioning, rings very true to me…