Dec
16
Deep Feeling, Remembered
Speaking at the New School, former believers Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood recounted growing up evangelical. Topics included: God, The Word, the Jewish intellectual monopoly, lamentations, and joy.
What remains in the absence of faith is the very question of secular life: how are we to feel deeply without access to the divine in everyday experience, warming our hearts with a love that is not of this world? And how are we to think?
To read the rest of my review, head over to Killing the Buddha.
