An interview with Rod Dreher In this interview we discuss with Rod Dreher his new book Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents. How are we to navigate the terrain of a constantly shifting culture that is increasingly Post-Christian in it’s outlook. As more and more people look to authorities to find solace, […]
Discipleship
Perceptions of the Kingdom: Spiritual Disciplines
The work of Dallas Willard has been a great source of understanding for me in this. Willard draws from Aristotelian ideas of virtue formation to help us do this. For Aristotle, one of the key means to become a virtuous person is to do the things that virtuous people do. As Christians, if we want to see the world as the Triune God does, then we should try to do the things that Jesus did.
Perceptions of the Kingdom
With Christians, Dallas Willard made the case in multiple places that discipleship is too often treated as an optional good for those who are really committed. The mindset is that actually living out the principles of the Sermon on the Mount are only for those “super-Christians”, clergy, or even no one, showing us how far we are from God.
