An interview with Joshua Mitchell. He quotes Democracy in America: "In the distant future I can imagine a time where we will think of ourselves as greater than kings and less than men." I've been meaning to read that book...
"The more and more isolated you become, the more you have a demonic imagining of who the other person is."
"We’re living in a world of Christian categories without the Christian architecture."
if identity politics doesn’t prove that we’re not living in a secular age, I don’t know what will. We’re using all these theological categories. This is not a secular world. This is a world where we’re searching for answers to the problem of transgression and innocence without God and forgiveness.
and about Bob:
He says, “When I go into a town, I go to the barber shop and I say, “Who do you go to when things are bad?” We’re not saying go down the welfare agency, but who is the person you go to? They’ll invariably, after talking to 10 or 12 people, there’ll be two or three people that you identify and he goes and meets them. He says, “What’s your secret?” He hears these incredible stories, oftentimes of regeneration from alcoholism or prison or whatever, it completely transformed their life, they become the pillars of the community.
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