In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.
James K. A. SmithWe all - whether naturalists, atheists, Buddhists, or Christians - see the world through the grid of an interpretive framework - and ultimately this interpretive framework is religious in nature, even if not allied with a particular institutional religion.
James K. A. SmithSometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.
James K. A. SmithWhat if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?
James K. A. SmithOur Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.
James K. A. Smith