Gordon L. Heath
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​My blog posts revolve around my interests and vocation as a historian: the intersection of history and contemporary church life, the intersection of history and contemporary politics, serendipitous discoveries in archives or on research trips, publications and research projects, upcoming conferences, and speaking engagements.

I also blog for two other organizations, the Canadian Baptist Historical Society and the Centre for Post-Christendom Studies.

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Back for a Future: Irish Saints and a Collapsing World

10/30/2022

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For those of us in the West looking at the place of the church in society the words of Galadriel, a royal elf of the woods of Lothlórien in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, ring true. 
 
“The world has changed.
I see it in the water. 
I feel it in the Earth. 
I smell it in the air. 
Much that once was is lost, 
For none now live who remember it.”
 
We know it – those of us who are older see how different things are, yet even the younger ones among us have seen rapid social changes that reflect the tectonic shifts in our culture. We are a post-Christendom culture.
 
It can be discouraging to see such loss, and one can easily be overwhelmed or filled with despair at the task ahead. 
 
So what is a way forward?
 
Here is a sermon I recently delivered at Acadia Divinity College that looks at three Irish monks and what they have to say to us today about carrying out the work of the church in the midst of a collapsing world.  Click Here
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Alan Hayes
11/6/2022 05:31:20 am

What a masterly overview! And I like the five current principles that you draw from the historical material.

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