The second book also speaks to matters at hand. Watts challenges us to be honest in identifying whom we follow. “Bowing Toward Babylon is not simply another book about civil religion…Watts powerfully argues that Christian nationalism undermines the identity of the church by emphasizing our bonds to other Americans rather than our intimate connections to Christians, of whatever nation, in the one body of Christ.”Īs scripture points out, we cannot serve two masters. The second selection is Care for Creation (a Franciscan spirituality of the earth) by Ilia Delio, O.S.F., Keith Douglass Warner, O.S.F., and Pamela Wood. The first is Bowing Toward Babylon by Craig M. This coming Lent I want to introduce to the Diocese two books that have caused significant reflection.
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