On Saturday, my friend Ryan Booth and I were sitting in folding chairs in a high school gym outside of New Orleans, waiting for Justice Antonin Scalia to arrive. I told Ryan how much I was learning for my Benedict Option project from reading the Reformed theologian Hans Boersmaâ??s 2011 book Heavenly Participation, which is about sacramentalism.
Suddenly, a young woman sitting in front of us turned around, apologized for overhearing us, but saying that she couldnâ??t help asking us what we were talking about. She said that her boyfriend, an Evangelical pastor in New Orleans, had studied theology under Boersma at Regent, and was a huge admirer of Benedictine spirituality. She said he even visits the Benedictine abbey of St. Josephâ??s, in Covington.
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