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"But the word busy is the symptom not of commitment but of betrayal. It is not devotion but defection. The adjective busy set as a modifier to pastor should sound in our ears like adulterous to characterize a wife or embezzling to describe a banker. It is an outrageous scandal, a blasphemous affront."

A good start...Smith lays out the problem with a "rationalist" account of human flourishing, and begins to imagine how a "pedagogy of desire" might cultivate more holistic human flourishing. He looks at the challenge of "secular liturgies", and briefly examines how the Christian church & academy might develop more holistic liturgies.