We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos. - Skye Jethani

In a commodity culture we have been conditioned to believe nothing carries intrinsic value. Instead, value is found only in a thing's usefulness to us, and tragically this belief has been applied to people as well.

Scripture and tradition tell us that formation into the likeness of Christ, also known as spiritual maturity, is not achieved by always getting what we want.

By yielding its imagination to the forms around it, has the church, like ancient Israel, lost the ability to be an alternative people of God?