{"id":79703,"date":"2019-03-27T17:42:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79703"},"modified":"2019-03-27T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:47:58","slug":"cc-faith-imagination-and-the-glory-of-ordinary-lif-marilynne-robinson-and-rowan-williams-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79703","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Faith, imagination, and the glory of ordinary lif–Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams in conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are there spiritual habits or practices that the church should do a better job of teaching us to live inside of\u2014practices or habits that we have avoided that we would do well to return to?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Williams: <\/strong>It\u2019s rhythm again, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019ve lost the sense of creating rhythm in our daily encounter with God. We think sometimes that real encounter with God has to be exceptional, exciting, different, dramatic, and we don\u2019t think of it as simply turning up\u2014and simply turning up in the sense of opening the Bible, reciting a psalm. Simply turning up in the quiet we give to God. We need formation in those things. We need encouragement to develop those habits, but they\u2019re painfully simple.<\/p>\n

Robinson:<\/strong> I find that a lot of Protestant churches are embarrassed by things that are traditional. There\u2019s a sense that as things become generationally older, they lose relevance. The chaos that has been caused in a lot of churches by this anxiety is pretty well known.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a habit of thinking only cynicism is honest\u2014and this is a terrible blindness.\u201d<\/div>\n

One of the most important things that churches have to tell people is that you\u2019re a part of the stream of humankind\u2014that if you listen carefully, you can hear something that was said 500 years ago that you will feel as true in the marrow of your bones. We don\u2019t have to scrap the brilliant hymns and the brilliant articulations. It\u2019s not only the fact that there\u2019s a great deal of loss entailed in that, but also a kind of misrepresentation of what we are, which is what any of us is, which is a member of a generation that will have a history and pass away and be displaced by other generations of whom all the same things are true.<\/p>\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“A great deal of what people need to do is enjoy themselves. Enjoy being themselves, enjoy finding out what capacities they have, what they love to look at it, what they love to taste.” – Faith, imagination, and the glory of ordinary life https:\/\/t.co\/286vzeBS01<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Lou Huesmann (@LouHuesmann) March 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n