My Latest Substack: Meat and Potatoes Christianity

“Spiritual darkness is exceptionally content to lure us with the modern idols that have kept us fat and sated but clogged with spiritual cholesterol. But once we see the need to get fit again, once we see that what modernity is offering cannot bring life, spiritual darkness is more than happy to up its game.

And it is upping its game by luring Westerners into the thirst traps of spiritual power plays and spiritual curiosities, that the majority world knows all too well. If the devil’s greatest trick – according to many a wise sage, but especially Keyser Soze in The Usual Suspects – was to convince us that he did not exist, those days may be on the wane.

The devil’s greatest trick in sub-Saharan Africa is not to convince people that he does. not exist. It is to convince people that his powers are all-powerful, when they are not. It’s not just people that migrate from the majority world, it’s ideas also…”

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In my latest Substack I explore the assertion by James Wood that we have moved beyond having to appeal to a world committed to finding meaning and purpose in the modern secular project, and towards a world increasingly seeking wonder in a re-enchanted sphere.

You can find that here, and if you’d like to sign up to my Substack (a (generally) weekly long form essay that supplements my ongoing free material on this blog), it’s the cost of a coffee per month. For that you will get upwards of fifty long form pieces dealing with church and culture and their intersections in this rapidly changing world.  I’d love you to partner with me in this important work.

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