The fundamental issue in my classroom was a split between profane (how one uses cell phone) and sacred (God-stuff).
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Category: Secularism
Rituals for Secular People
The Atlantic has a piece that discusses the “Ritual Design Lab” in Silicon valley that will design rituals for births, deaths, and everything in between.
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At Night There Are Tears, but Joy Comes with Dawn: Lord’s Day Reflections on a Shrinking Church
Where will we be in 10 years if this continues??
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Our Catholic Future Lies Within the Secular
The future of the Catholic Church doesn’t only lie in the walls the church, we must learn from our secular society how to love God outside of the chapel.
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Liturgy and Secularism: Utterly Human
Attempts to revise liturgy to address a given issue can redirect Liturgy and send the assembly to another place other than the Kingdom of God, when the assembly’s destiny is Christ’s table.
Read moreWedding Officiating for “Nones”
What to do when your non-religiously-affiliated friends ask you to officiate at their wedding.
Read moreMore beauty, less God?
“Cathedrals don’t bang on about God in cathedrals but they bang on about beauty and that’s why I love them.” –Simon Jenkins
Read moreScientific Research: Worship Is Healthy
“Our findings support the overall hypothesis that increased religiosity – as determined by attendance at worship services – is associated with less stress and enhanced longevity.”
Read moreLiturgy as Evangelization
If liturgy isn’t for the unchurched at some level, then whom are we evangelizing?
Read moreAlternative Facts on Vatican II
After the Second Vatican Council, church attendance numbers in Germany declined. It is frequently maintained that there is a causal connection between the two. But is this really true?
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