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Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

In today’s world we have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? For thousands of years, artists, sages, philosophers, and theologians have connected the beautiful and the sacred and identified art with our longing for God. Now we live in a day when convenience and practicality have largely displaced beauty as a value. The church is no exception....

We are not the architects of the faith; we are the trustees. Again, this is like an ancient cathedral—we didn’t build it; we can only reverence it and preserve it. So before we attempt to explain the Trinity or Incarnation or Baptism or Communion, we must first reverence these holy mysteries by being astonished at them. Astonished silence precedes apostolic preaching. Without astonishment we lack reverence, and without reverence we are reckless. And we have been reckless with the received faith.