“Indeed, the telos for a Christian is Christ: Jesus Christ is the very embodiment of what we're made for, of the end… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“We have created youth ministry that confuses extroversion with faithfulness. We have effectively communicated to young people that sincerely following Jesus is… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the shalom he desires for creation--in a… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The body of Christ is that unique community of practice whose members own up to the fact that we don’t always love… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“But should we accept this negative view of power? Is power all bad? Specifically, can Christians share in this devaluation of power… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Jesus is a teacher who doesn’t just inform our intellect but forms our very loves. He isn’t content to simply deposit new ideas into… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“So it is precisely our allergy to repetition in worship that has undercut the counterformative power of Christian worship—because all kinds of secular liturgies… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“too often we look for the Spirit in the extraordinary when God has promised to be present in the ordinary.5” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Formative Christian worship paints a picture of the beauty of the Lord--and a vision of the shalom he desires for creation--in a way that… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Too much of our cultural analysis is rooted in thinking-thingism: we scan culture, listening for “messages,” bent on rooting out “false” teachings. But if… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting seekers into… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Discipleship, we might say, is a way to curate your heart, to be attentive to and intentional about what you love.” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Your deepest desire,” he observes, “is the one manifested by your daily life and habits.”6 This is because our action—our doing—bubbles up from our… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Foucault. The seemingly disturbing, even Nietzschean claim that “power is knowledge” should push us to realize what MTV learned long ago: (a) the cultural… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“The doubter’s doubt is faith; his temptation is belief, and it is a temptation that has not been entirely quelled, even in a secular… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Worship works from the top down, you might say. In worship we don’t just come to show God our devotion and give him our… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“While formally or structurally speaking, there are mechanisms of discipline operative in both the convent and the prison, in both the factory and the… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Antoine de Saint-Exupéry captures this well: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
“Because of this Christian materialism, a catholic postmodernism (or postmodern catholicity) affirms sacramentality on two levels. On the one hand, it affirms a general… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share
