People are not less religious than before. They are religiously invested in more things that offer no mercy.

Modern Americans removed death from ordinary domestic life, turning the room where bodies were…

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Knowing someone once meant knowing their favorite food. Now it often means knowing what they…

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Politics can absorb a person’s vocational life, but politics cannot love anyone back.

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A church beside a graveyard makes death harder to sentimentalize and mortality harder to avoid.

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Every login, wager, purchase, and effort promises relief from inadequacy. The cycle keeps…

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Secular ideologies become laws of justification: eat, vote, or love correctly enough, and perhaps…

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Churches and Alcoholics Anonymous offer community, identity, and service instead of another…

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Parenting becomes idolatrous when a child’s performance carries the parent’s self-worth, turning…

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