Loyalty to reality does not feel like certainty. It feels more like humility. It feels like awe, wonder, curiosity, patient attentiveness. It evokes Jesus’ calls to the perpetual rethinking of repentance, to lifelong childlikeness, to the cultivation of the born-again or beginner’s mind. It renders you less a pundit and more a contemplative. And so we must keep our eyes, ears, and hearts open, tending the fire of desire for truth in our innermost being. For without a sincere loyalty to reality (pregnant as it is with unknowable possibilities), we will be lost, Christian or not. With a humble,
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