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Personalist Manifestos
Secular Mysticisms – A Conversation with Andrew Root Depending on the person using them today, words like ‘secular’ and ‘secularism’ tend to be proclamations of triumph or cries of alarm. But for thinkers like Jacques Ellul and Charles Taylor, more measured and contemplative approaches to whatever secularism is and does are required to get a…
THE GRACE OF DOGS
I’m excited to announce the pending release of my newest book, The Grace of Dogs. My search for the canine soul began the day my eight-year-old son led our family in a moving Christian ritual at the burial service for Kirby, our beloved black lab. In the coming weeks, I found myself wondering: What was…
Fading From the Family Portrait
From Andrew Root in Christianity Today July 2012 Two years ago was the 25th anniversary of one of the most epic movies of all time. Every American not in a coma or an Amish community has seen Steven Spielberg’s Back to the Future, and if they haven’t, they can easily catch it on television, as TBS…
New Time Religion
Cobra Kai & Taylor’s Triangle It’s a karate episode for Christmas!Dr. Andrew Root has been watching Cobra Kai lately and sees a big connection between the evil dojo & Charles Taylor’s triangle of Humanism vs. Neo-Nietzscheanism vs. Transcendance. And, truth be told, this Taylor’s triangle reaches far beyond Netflix 80s revival shows. Join Andy & Derek…
New Creation Conversations
New Creation Conversations Episode 070 – Dr. Andy Root on Charles Taylor, Karl Barth, and the Church’s Crisis of Decline in a Secular Age listen here
Adolescence and the Creation of the Secular Age of Unbelief
Like an erratic rash that seems to clear up to only return, an old debate has resurfaced once again in discussions of Protestant youth ministry. This debate surrounds the very nature of adolescence. What is it? And where did it come from? The tension is between those that assert that adolescence is a social construction…
