beagleparisgirl - The Monday Morning Memo

When I walk into a painting, I travel to the year it was painted.
This is Paris, 1961. Her name is Monette Russo.

“‘We now see young evangelicals walking away from evangelicalism not because they do not believe what the church teaches,’ he said, ‘but because they believe that the church itself does not believe what the church teaches.’

The proximate cause of all this disruption is Trump. But that is not the deepest cause. Trump is merely the embodiment of many of the raw wounds that already existed in parts of the white evangelical world: misogyny, racism, racial obliviousness, celebrity worship, resentment and the willingness to sacrifice principle for power.

Finally, Karen Swallow Prior said something that rings in my ears: ‘Modernity has peaked.’ The age of the autonomous individual, the age of the narcissistic self, the age of consumerism and moral drift has left us with bitterness and division, a surging mental health crisis and people just being nasty to one another. Millions are looking for something else, some system of belief that is communal, that gives life transcendent meaning.

Christianity is a potential answer for that search, and therein lies its hope, and the great possibility of renewing its call.”

- David Brooks, The New York Times, Feb 4, 2022

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