“Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world around us without needing to be assured that our skill and our effort will somehow rid… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share Image
“By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share Image
“As Peter Berger has noted, the strategy of apologizing for Christian faith by trying to demonstrate its social utility is always eventually self-liquidating. Sooner of later people realize that a great many of the supposedly practical and secular benefits of the Christian religion can be had more easily without religion...The logic of practical atheism may well be more deeply ingrained… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share
“The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs' in the larger 'machinery' of industrial civilization; for while the practical rationalization of enterprise does require workers to be consistent, predictable, precise, uniform, and even to a certain extent creative, it does not really require them… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share
“Christian hope frees us to act hopefully in the world. It enables us to act humbly and patiently, tackling visible injustices in the world… — Craig M. Gay Copy Share Image
