Tagged: cultural critique

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Review: Awaiting the King

The third entry in Smith’s ‘Cultural Liturgies’ series. It’s sat, unread, on my shelf for many years. Not because I didn’t want to read it. Partly because I knew it would be a very...

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Review: How (Not) to be Secular

There are few books I’ve read more than once. I’ve got more than enough I want to read a first time, I don’t often feel the need to go back to something a second...

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Review: The Ethics of Authenticity

Charles Taylor’s magisterial work, A Secular Age, is something of a generational work that every man and his dog seems to reference. Or, at least, that tells you the kind of books I tend to...

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Review: On the Road with Saint Augustine

I’ve not (yet) read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. But it has persistently haunted me from a distance over the years. I first became introduced to it more than a decade ago, reading Mark Sayer’s...

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Review: Orthodoxy

I have never read G. K. Chesterton. I knew of him, had heard many of his quotes, but never read any of his books. I have to admire someone who begins with: I have...