“We live in a time of exile. At least those of us do who hold to traditional Christian beliefs. The strident rhetoric of scientism has made belief in the supernatural look ridiculous. The Pill, no-fault divorce and now gay marriage have made traditional sexual ethics look outmoded at best and hateful at worst. The Western public square is no longer a place where Christians feel they belong with any degree of comfort.”
So begins a bracing essay titled “A Church for Exiles” in the August/September 2014 issue of “First Things,” a superb magazine of religion and public affairs (see firstthings.com/article/2014/08/a-church-for-exiles).
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