Status Updates From Taking Religion Seriously

"I've lived my life without ever reaching the depths of despair. I'm grateful for my luck. But I have also not felt the God-sized hole in my life that the depths of despair often reveal. This doesn't mean there isn't a hole; just that I've been able to ignore it. And that, I think, explains a lot not only about me but about the unreflective secularism of our age."