Our readings in this series are from the book, Understanding the Times Here is a brief excerpt from pages 5 and 6:
“In his book, A Secular Age, Charles Taylor argues that one of the defining characteristics of our generation is that it has become ‘disenchanted.’ What Taylor means is that, increasingly, most people today have become convinced that spiritual realities don’t exist, or, if they do, they’re not worth fussing about. The idea of God is still there, but merely as a kind of intellectual or cultural construct, or some carryover from childhood experience. On the ground, in the day-to-day realities of existence, God and spiritual matters aren’t a factor for a growing number of our contemporaries.
“Only strange people believe such things.
“Which means that, when we come along with our message about a risen Christ, faith in God, and life everlasting, this will strike many of our contemporaries as strange truth, indeed, and us as strange to believe it.”
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