Comments on: How Should We Then Live?

By: Jake Belder

Jake Belder — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:49:18 +0000

Luke, that post above this comment is a trackback link from my latest post, the one I thought you might find interesting based on this post you wrote here. Enjoy.

By: café de soirée

café de soirée — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:47:42 +0000

A How-to Guide for Resisting Modernity…

This past semester I took a course entitled “Church and the World,” which was an examination of the relationship between the Church and modern culture, and spent some time dealing with the impact of secularization and modernization on the ministry of…

By: tii

tii — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:51:47 +0000

Grossartig Luke! Love this one. Hätte es besser nicht gelesen. Manche Dinge sind so viel einfacher, wenn man nicht darüber nachdenkt. Leben ist so was. Aber die wahre Schönheit öffnet sich demjenigen, der den Dingen auf den Grund zu gehen wagt. See you on thursday!

By: Jake Belder

Jake Belder — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:42:52 +0000

Awesome. I hope one day we can sit down with a beer and talk about these things. I think we will have some excellent conversations. Until then, if you’re ever online on gmail, and I am too, let’s have a chat then.

By: lukas.buehler

lukas.buehler — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:53:39 +0000

Thanks Jake. Funny how we tick similar. I read The Pilgrims Progress a lot and I like Wendell Berry too. You are dead on with those two sources, they have something to say about our pilgrimage. Chrystal and me just planned to read some Wendell Berry this morning

By: Jake Belder

Jake Belder — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:47:04 +0000

Good stuff, Luke. I was pumped to see you use the word “pilgrim” because that is a notion that is almost entirely lost in our age. But it’s true, we don’t live for the here and now. We are on a journey, part of a much bigger story. I’m glad you’re exploring this. Identity is huge, and our culture and society certainly does suffer from an identity crisis.

I am going to post something on my blog in the next few days that you will find interesting, I think, and hopefully helpful in thinking through these things. Also, if you want to do some reading in relation to this subject, I recommend first, that you read The Pilgrim’s Progress, that old classic, and read it many times. Some have recommended that Christians read it once every year just to help keep us grounded in this idea of being a pilgrim. Second, I recommend that you read some books by Wendell Berry. He’s a small-town American farmer, but an excellent writer and an excellent critic of American (and by extension, Western) culture. It would be well worth your time.

Looking forward to your next posts!