Enchanted: Reclaiming Sacred Ground in a Disenchanted World
A series on reclaiming sacred ground in a disenchanted world.
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Jul 1, 2025
Enchanted Series Discussion
Brett Tilford
Four deconstructed evangelicals discuss why they stayed in Christianity rather than defaulting to secular worldviews—citing community loneliness, the paradox of Christian faith, and the risk of adopting unexamined consumerism wholesale.
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Jun 24, 2025
Rediscovering The Beautiful
Brett Tilford
Brett argues that beauty—alongside truth and goodness—is foundational to faith and that secular culture's dismissal of beauty has weakened all three transcendentals. He calls artists to create as spiritual acts rooted in God's image-bearing, not market demands, and invites non-artists to cultivate beauty-receptivity as a path back to encounter with God.
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Jun 16, 2025
Seeing Beyond The Secular & Christian Nationalism
Brett Tilford
Christian nationalism draws energy from legitimate concerns about shared moral vision, but historical Christendom proves the marriage of church and state produces marginalization and worse—not salvation. Instead, Christians should serve as prophets, pilgrims, and partners in civic life without seeking power, while maintaining theological clarity that secular individualism cannot sustain.
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Jun 10, 2025
Escaping Isolation, Recovering the Communal
Brett Tilford
Secular individualism erodes social bonds and community—the antidote is sacrificial love and real relationships, starting with showing up for the people who matter to us.
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Jun 3, 2025
Tree Hugging Christians
Brett Tilford
Brett argues that modern Christianity has adopted a deistic view of creation as a machine separate from God, rather than understanding all existence as sacramental—saturated with divine presence. He proposes panentheism (God as the ground of all being) as a framework for treating creation with reverence, and names three implications: ecological care is Christian theology, factory farming degrades what is holy, and recognizing God's presence in all things can restore our sense of connection to the divine.
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May 28, 2025
Re-enchanting Sex
Brett Tilford
Progressive Christians lack a robust sexual ethic beyond critiquing purity culture, leaving them unable to articulate what their faith actually demands of sexuality. Brett argues that reclaiming eros (desire) and agape (sacrificial love) together—not eros alone—offers a Christian vision of sex as spiritual, requiring commitment and mutual self-giving rather than mere consent.
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May 13, 2025
Truth & The Superhuman
Brett Tilford
All truth claims emerge from religious traditions—grand stories about reality's nature, human purpose, and what matters morally. Jesus as "the way and the truth" means alignment with Trinitarian love; atheism, capitalism, Marxism, and nationalism are equally religious in structure, requiring faith in superhuman orders beyond pure reason.
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Apr 29, 2025
Disenchanted: Reclaiming Sacred Ground in a Disenchanted World
Brett Tilford
Brett argues that declining religious engagement reflects a deeper cultural shift toward left-hemisphere dominance—analytical, abstract, mechanistic thinking that has displaced the right hemisphere's holistic, metaphorical, embodied ways of knowing. Worship and church community, he contends, are acts of resistance that re-enchant a disenchanted world and reconnect us to mystery beyond what language or reason alone can capture.