The Only Way is Ordinary

There's no theological "secret" that will fix you. There are only the tiny, unspectacular means of grace.

I’m suspicious that one reason older generations of Christians tended to be skeptical toward ambition—even calling it a sin on occasion—is that they were able to see something more clearly than we moderns can. Life in the 21st century West is by definition fast, mobile, and wandering. If you want to do something else, you can. If you want to be somethin…