Saturday, May 18, 2013
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Thank you for your patience while we collect our thoughts to prepare an essay on this topic. While you wait, here is a sneak preview of some reference material that will be incorporated into the coming essay: Robert Wuthnow, Creative Spirituality: The Way of the Spirit (University of California Press, 2001). [Posted June 2002, ALG] MARS HILL AUDIO has published a report on the growing American interest in spirituality. A short description of "Best-Selling Spirituality: American Cultural Change and the New Shape of Faith" is available here. [Posted October 2003, ALG] | Kenda Creasy Dean, on why churches are to blame for the "moralistic therapeutic Deism" so common among teens (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2010) MHT-105.1.3 Dallas Willard, on why it’s important to recover the conviction that religious beliefs involve real knowledge (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 2009) MHT-100.1.3 Christian Smith, on the aimless cultural world of "emerging adulthood" and on how it makes the idea of objective moral order implausible (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Nov./Dec. 2009) MHT-100.1.2 Eugene Peterson, on how Jesus’ use of ambiguous language encouraged active spiritual engagement (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Jan./Feb. 2009) MHT-95.2.2 Eugene Peterson, on the place of reading in the spiritual lives of Christians (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Mar./Apr. 2008) MHT-90.2.5 Catherine Albanese, on American "metaphysical religion," varieties of gnosticism, and the quest for spiritual energy (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Mar./Apr. 2007) MHT-85.1.2 Catherine Edwards Sanders, on the spiritual hunger behind the rise of modern witchcraft (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 2005) MHT-76.1.2 Eugene Peterson, on the essential relationship between theology and spirituality, and on the narrative life of congregations (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2005) MHT-75.2.2 Christian Smith, on the spiritual lives and theological assumptions of American teenagers (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2005) MHT-75.2.1 James A. Herrick, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on Mormonism, gnosticism, and the significance of Luke Skywalker (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2003) MHT-63.2.4 James A. Herrick, on The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2003) MHT-63.2.1 Lilian Calles Barger, from the bonus track of the CD edition, on why the food court at the megachurch isn't what our neighbors need (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, May/June 2003) MHT-62.2.4 Lilian Calles Barger, on beauty, the body, spirituality, and the "true self" (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, May/June 2003) MHT-62.2.2 Colleen Carroll, on The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2002) MHT-57.2.2 Robert E. Webber, on Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 2000) MHT-45.2.3 Robert Wuthnow, on how spiritual seekers understand their beliefs (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Jan./Feb. 1999) MHT-36.1.4 David Wells, on the contrast between classic and postmodern spirituality (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 1998) MHT-33.2.1 Robert D. Richardson, Jr., on why the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson continues to attract certain religious seekers (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, March/April 1996) MHT-20.1.2 Ken Myers, on our culture's disturbing fascination with death (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, July/Aug. 1994) MHT-10.2.1 |