
The idea of Broken Signposts implies that many people in our world know the right
Jesus and the Woman at the Well: John 4:4-24
27% of people today claim to be
Jesus told the woman that those who come to God rightly do so in
Christian spirituality is ultimately an experience of meaningful
Shane Claiborne: “The church is a lot like Noah’s Ark. Yeah, it stinks sometimes, but if you jump off it, you’ll drown.”
Here then is the rest of the story behind organized religion’s decline. Here is the loss of faith, not as weakening belief in the supernatural, not as diminished salience of the transcendent in a secularized world, not as the loss of the church’s social welfare functions, but rather as loss of trust — of confidence, of attachment, of belonging. The acid bath of romantic hyper-individualism has degraded all the connections of contemporary society — connections to one’s family, to all the major secular institutions, to the land of one’s birth, all the way to the shared sense of the sacred. This kind of loss of faith — this sense of alienation, or homelessness, born of confrontation with reality’s flaws and disappointments — is, in my view, the great spiritual crisis of our time. —Brink Lindsey
https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-loss-of-faith
As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. —1 Peter 2: 4-5