A Theology of the Ordinary: A Summer Book Club
Most of us have absorbed a quiet heresy: that the spiritual life happens somewhere above ordinary life — in the dramatic calling, the radical commitment, the mountaintop moment. Julie Canlis argues this isn't Christianity. It's Gnosticism with an evangelical accent.
In A Theology of the Ordinary, she builds a Trinitarian case that the Father's "it is very good" still echoes over your commute and your kitchen; that the Son didn't just die for you but inhabited every stage of ordinary human life to redeem it from the inside; and that the Spirit's playground is precisely the mundane.
This summer we're reading it together — because the antidote to a spirituality of constant striving isn't lower expectations. It's a bigger theology.
Over the course of four weeks, we'll meet via Zoom on Thursday evenings for a discussion facilitated by Brian Brown.
Book not included, please provide your own copy for this book club.