We No Longer Know Where We Live

As our virtual engagement with the wider world has increased, our local connections have diminished. In some ways the internet has become more real than our neighborhoods, and virtual "friendships" have replaced the real thing. This leaves us longing for a sense of place in a rootless world. Why are we so restless?  Because we no longer know where we live.

At the conclusion of John’s talk, co-hosts Center for Public Christianity Executive Director Josh Chatraw and New City Fellows alumnus Micah Vandegrift are joined by Abby Vandegrift, Micah’s wife and a New City Fellows alumnae, to reflect on John’s teaching and discuss how it applies to daily life. So, keep listening!

Additional Resources

From John’s Talks

• A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life by Ephraim Radner
• Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
• Penséesby Blaise Pascal
• Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News by Jeffrey Bilbro
• The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson
• The Power of Place: Choosing Stability in a Rootless Ageby Daniel Grothe
• You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News by Kelly M. Kapic
• You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman Worldby Alan Noble
• Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentmentby Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storeycom

From the Discussion

• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
• Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
• You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K. A. Smith

Websites

https://htcraleigh.org/

https://centerforpublicchristianity.org/