The Way of Participation: A Response to Paul Kingsnorth

A fair number of my readers also follow the writings of the English writer Paul Kingsnorth, who writes from time to time (as of course I also do) on the future of industrial society.  Thus it came as no great surprise a little while back when several readers asked me to comment on his recent conversion to Orthodox Christianity and some of the things he’s written since then.  His conversion came as no great surprise either.  What Oswald Spengler calls the Second Religiosity, the flight of the cul...