![]() ![]() And our tithes, more like paying the gas bill than an offering of first fruits. Baptism can become more symbolic than sacramental. ![]() ![]() As we sing our worship songs, we find it easier to focus on our feelings than on the spiritual recipient of our praise. We sometimes struggle to understand how we are to encounter the Holy Spirit in the pages of the Bible. It opens with the line, “I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.” Thus begins an exploration of faith in modern secular culture, in particular, the way our culture radically separates matter and spirit.Ĭhristians can easily adopt this separation when the supernatural is so disconnected from our real experience, that it becomes easily dismissed. John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany is 30 years old this year and it’s time to encourage a new generation of readers, and those who missed it the first time around, to pick up this important novel. It’s one of those books that can’t be read in bed because your unsuccessfully-stifled laughter will make it impossible for your spouse to sleep. ![]()
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