Playing Defense on a Misshaped Field

In my last post, I sketched the outlines of two great turning points in Western history — the Reformation and the Enlightenment — and how they quietly but profoundly reshaped the way faith has been understood ever since. I didn’t wade into the details of either movement; that wasn’t my aim. I was more interested in their long shadows, shadows that still fall across the modern church and, in a very real way, across my own spiritual life. For years I had no idea how much my own assumptions abo...