Learning the Way: The Way of the (modern) World
In my second year as a student at Regent College I read The Way of the (modern) World: Or, Why it's Tempting to Live as if God Doesn't Exist. I feel fortunate to have not only read this book, but had the opportunity to study with the author. It is an incredibly important book by a deeply wise and intelligent man: Dr. Craig Gay. Not only is this an important book in general, it was also a very important book for me at the time. There were a number of places of intellectual wrestling in my life during this season. I wrestled with my critical feelings towards the many churches that seemed to have given far too much ground up to modernity. I wrestled with what kind of minister, pastor, or teacher I could be in our culture and ways of doing both church and school. I tried to think through the varying philosophical options and through my own tendencies towards both luddite-ism and my equal propensity to get sucked in by new technology and gizmos (to be clear, I tended towards reject