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I am unfamiliar with the writings of Natasha Crain and those of Russell Moore. Such indications as I glean, save one very correct and clever comment from the Godel / Heisenberg wing of polite society, disincline me to become familiar with those writings. The sense I get is that both are punching down when they punch at each other.

The churches made themselves into fronts for political parties. All denominations did this. Some of the monastic orders have remained faithful to their call. Most have not.

The morphology of The Church — as distinguished from the churches — is now the daily duties of students, parents, retirees, workers, soldiers, householders, teachers, etc. There is no need to go to church and every reason not to. Duty is God. Work is worship. This is the new Christian corporeality. Life is the sacrament. Death is the salvation.

Paul Tillich’s last lecture predicted this ecclesial morphology.  His language is abstruse to modern ears, and comes to what he terms religion of the concrete spirit, but it may be of interest.

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We offer to God so many things, because it gives us pleasure. We offer flowers not because God doesn’t have flowers, but because it makes us happy. The word ‘leaf’ does not refer to tulasi or any other leaf. Our body is the leaf that is offered to God. Because this body is full of three gunas, we consider it a leaf and offer it to God. The word pushpa stands for the flower of the heart. The flowers we talk of in the context of God, do not refer to the earthly flowers which fade away. Similarly, the word ‘fruit’ is the fruit of the mind. It means that we must do our deeds without expecting any reward; and if action is done in that spirit, it becomes a holy sacrifice. Water does not mean that which is drawn from the taps. It refers to the tears of joy that spring from the depths of your heart. You should not offer leaves gathered from trees or flowers from plants in the garden or water drawn from the well or fruit got from somewhere else; but you must offer all these from the tree of your body, which is sacred, to God.