“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 political peccadillo, it is implicitly affirming the larger social and political structure that makes both the… — 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
