Wisdom from Babylon: Leadership for the Church in a Secular Age (Biblia.com)

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What does it mean to provide leadership for the church in an increasingly secular context? When religion is privatized and secularism reigns in the public square, Christians are often drawn toward either individualist escapism or constant cultural warfare. But might this context instead offer a fresh invitation for the church to adapt and thrive? Gordon Smith is passionate about the need for...

inevitably creates, but this is worth the pain and discomfort because it opens up the possibility of an experience like what Augustine had in the garden. It must be stressed that the interior life we seek is a very Christian interior life. Anyone attending to the wisdom of the ancient church needs to read books 1–9 of the Confessions, but it is books 10–13 that locate Augustine’s experience in the context of the work of God in creation. We must hear the call of Augustine to a trinitarian interiority

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