Some of us fail to pay attention to the wider culture because we live in a parallel religious universe, having been taught that the outside world is inherently dangerous. (Did you see that film The Village? Probably not.) We only attend Christian concerts, we only read Christian books, and so on. It’s as though Jesus came to earth solely to save us for the sake of an all-consuming hobby. In the rhyme sometimes attributed to nineteenth-century cardinal John Henry Newman, “I sought to hear the voice of God And climbed the topmost steeple, But God declared: Go down again—I dwell among the
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