“the Christian doctrine of incarnation means that bodily life is good, something to be embraced and enjoyed. Our hope in Christ is not that we can finally escape the limitations of bodiliness for the freedom of a purely mental or… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“So we must ask how widely disparate entertainments shape our sensibilities, cultivate our desires, form our feelings, discipline our bodies, pattern our actions, and… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“First radio, then television, and now the World Wide Web have migrated entertainment’s public from the social community to the domestic sphere, where further… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“Christians who play sports, especially the ones who win a lot, would do well to remember Jesus’s caution not to pray like the hypocrites… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“the Christian doctrine of incarnation means that bodily life is good, something to be embraced and enjoyed. Our hope in Christ is not that… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“anthropologist Victor Turner’s point about satire more generally: it is essentially conservative in effect, because even as it skewers a particular social folly or… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“we, the church, are the embodiment of Christ’s compassion, and that he has poured out God’s Spirit on us precisely to activate our just… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“Gnostic Christianity depreciates our bodiliness, demeans creation and materiality; it sees salvation as release from embodiment. Identified and refuted as a heresy by the… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“On this side of Easter, our playing embodies faith that the crucial work—the work of the cross—has already been done. Play is utterly unnecessary,… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“Disciples are learners who submit to regimens (like worship and service) and disciplines (like prayer and fasting) for the long haul, as much to… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“Sherry Turkle offers wise counsel: “We have to love our technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“disciples need something far more substantial than advice from experts; they require ongoing immersion in Scripture and conversation with the saints, ideally saints of… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
“To play is, in some sense, actively to make your own fun. Players are entertaining themselves, whether the play is peekaboo, cards, tennis, or… — D. Brent Laytham Copy Share Image
