Chapter 1: The Great Flood
1. Ephraim Radner, “No Safe Place Except Hope: The Anthropocene Epoch,” Living Church, July 28, 2016, http://livingchurch.org/covenant/2016/07/28/no-safe-place-except-hope-the-anthropocene-epoch/.
2. Michael Lipka, “Millennials Increasingly Are Driving the Growth of ‘Nones,’” Pew Research Center, May 12, 2015, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/05/12/millennials-increasingly-are-driving-growth-of-nones/.
3. Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
4. Christian Smith and Patricia Snell, Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 86.
5. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 3rd ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), 263.
Chapter 2: The Roots of the Crisis
1. Robert Rector, “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,” Heritage Foundation Special Report #117, September 5, 2012. Using U.S. government statistics, the report also says that marriage drops the probability of child poverty by 82 percent, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/marriage-americas-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty).
2. Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), 12.
3. C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 203.
4. David Bentley Hart, The Experience Of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), Kindle ed., 62.
5. Lewis, Discarded Image, 222.
6. Brad S. Gregory, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012), 99.
7. John Adams, Letter to the Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798, U.S. National Archives, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102.
8. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000).
9. Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud, 40th anniversary ed. (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2006), 19.
10. Stephen L. Gardner, “The Eros and Ambitions of Psychological Man,” ibid., 244.
11. Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 14.
12. Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2012), 51.
Chapter 3: A Rule for Living
1. Esther de Waal, Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001), 15.
2. This book uses the Leonard Doyle translation that the Order of St. Benedict uses on its Web site (http://www.osb.org/rb/text/toc.html). The Benedictines adapted it by making every other chapter in the Rule use female pronouns, but this has been changed to the original male pronouns to avoid confusion.
3. Romano Guardini, The End of the Modern World (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1998), 210.
4. Ibid., 202.
5. Zygmunt Bauman, “From Pilgrim to Tourist, or, A Short History of Identity,” in Questions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1996), 24.
6. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian in Community (New York: Harper One, 2009), 8.
7. Léon Bloy, quoted in Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), 39.
Chapter 4: A New Kind of Christian Politics
1. Yuval Levin, The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism (New York: Basic Books, 2016), 178.
2. Patrick J. Deneen, Conserving America?: Essays on Present Discontents (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016), 3.
3. Scott H. Moore, The Limits of Liberal Democracy: Politics and Religion at the End of Modernity (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009), 15.
4. Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless,” trans. Paul Wilson, in The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe, ed. John Keane (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1985).
5. Benda’s concept has an interesting predecessor in the early church. Historian Peter Brown says that the letters of Saint Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (martyred in 258), “show how the Church had begun to function as a fiercely independent body—a veritable ‘city within the city.’” See Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000 (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 62.
6. Václav Benda, “The Meaning, Context and Legacy of the Parallel Polis,” trans. Paul Wilson, in The Long Night of the Watchman: Essays by Václav Benda, 1978–1989, ed. F. Flagg Taylor IV (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2017).
Chapter 5: A Church for All Seasons
1. Robert Louis Wilken, “The Church as Culture,” First Things, April 2004, https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/04/the-church-as-culture.
2. Russell Moore, Onward: Engaging the Culture Without Losing the Gospel (Nashville, TN: B&H Books, 2015), 27.
3. Ralph C. Wood, Contending for the Faith: The Church’s Engagement with Culture (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2003), 2.
4. James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009).
5. Robert Inchausti, Subversive Orthodoxy: Outlaws, Revolutionaries, and Other Christians in Disguise (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005), 143.
6. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 72.
7. Simon Chan, Liturgical Theology: The Church as Worshiping Community (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 159.
8. Ibid., 149.
9. Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon, Resident Aliens (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2014), 78.
10. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays (New York: Pantheon, 1994), 108.
11. Matthew Crawford, The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015), 257.
12. Robert Louis Wilken, “Evangelism in the Early Church: Christian History Interview—Roman Redux,” in Christian History 57 (1998), http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-57/evangelism-in-early-church-christian-history-interview.html.
13. Richard Wurmbrand, In God’s Underground (Bartlesville, OK: Living Sacrifice Book Company, 2004), Kindle ed., loc. 661.
Chapter 6: The Idea of a Christian Village
1. Sociologist Robert Nisbet observed in the work of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, the Protestant theologians Emil Brunner and Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Anglican theologian and priest Vigo Auguste Demant: “‘When the relations between man and God is subjective, interior (as in Luther) or in timeless acts and logic (as in Calvin) man’s utter dependence upon God is not mediated through the concrete facts of historical life,’ writes Canon Demant. And when it is not so mediated, the relation with God becomes tenuous, amorphous, and unsupportable.” Nisbet, The Quest for Community (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2010), 11.
2. Ibid., 223.
3. Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (New York: Free Press, 2009), 165.
4. Ibid., 179–85.
5. Ibid., 189.
Chapter 7: Education as Christian Formation
1. Charles J. Chaput, “Yeshiva Lessons,” First Things, August 2012, https://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/08/yeshiva-lessons.
2. Patrick Deneen, “How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture,” Minding the Campus, February 2, 2016, http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2016/02/how-a-generation-lost-its-common-culture/.
3. Philip Rieff, Fellow Teachers (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), quoted in Jeremy Beer, “Pieties of Silence,” American Conservative, October 23, 2006, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/pieties-of-silence/.
4. National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2015: With Special Feature on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2016), table 51, 194–96; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, MMWR Surveillance Summaries. 65, no. 6 (June 10, 2016), table 69, 119.
5. Judith Rich Harris, The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do (New York: Free Press, 2009), 194.
6. Terence P. Jeffrey, “1,773,000: Homeschooled Children Up 61.8% in 10 Years,” CNSNews.com, May 19, 2015, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/1773000-homeschooled-children-618-10-years.
7. Peter Jesserer Smith, “Keeping the Faith on College Campuses,” National Catholic Register, April 15, 2013, http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/keeping-the-faith-on-college-campuses#ixzz2QjYl1hb9.
Chapter 8: Preparing for Hard Labor
1. William Perkins, “A Treatise on the Vocations,” cited in Patrick J. Deneen, Conserving America? Essays on Present Discontents (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016), 33.
2. Ibid., 34.
3. David Gushee, “On LGBT Equality, Middle Ground Is Disappearing,” Religion News Service, August 22, 2016, http://religionnews.com/2016/08/22/on-lgbt-equality-middle-ground-is-disappearing/.
Chapter 9: Eros and the New Christian Counterculture
1. Wendell Berry, “What Is Sex For?: Interview with Wendell Berry,” Modern Reformation, November–December 2001, 38–41, http://allsaintsaustin.typepad.com/files/what-is-sex-for-1.pdf.
2. Wendell Berry, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays (New York: Pantheon, 1994), 133.
3. Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud, 40th anniversary ed. (Wilmington, DE.: ISI Books, 2006), 12.
4. Sarah Ruden, Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time (New York: Pantheon, 2010).
5. Peter Brown, The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), xlv–xlvi.
6. Christopher C. Roberts, Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage (New York: T&T Clark International, 2007), 213.
7. Heather Mason Keifer, “Gallup Brain: The Birth of In Vitro Fertilization,” Gallup.com, August 5, 2003, http://www.gallup.com/poll/8983/gallup-brain-birth-vitro-fertilization.aspx.
8. Andrew Kopkind, “The Gay Moment,” Nation, May 3, 1993.
9. Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), 588.
10. Jean Twenge, “The Paradox of Millennial Sex: More Casual Hookups, Fewer Partners,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-millennials-sex-attitudes-20150508-story.html.
11. Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est, encyclical letter, December 25, 2005, http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est.html.
12. Ron Belgau, “Spiritual Friendship in 300 Words,” Spirituafriendship.org, August 29, 2012, https://spiritualfriendship.org/2012/08/29/spiritual-friendship-in-300-words/.
13. “Pornography Use Among Self-Identified Christians Largely Mirrors National Average, Survey Finds,” CNSNews.com, August 27, 2015, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/pornography-use-among-self-identified-christians-largely-mirrors-national.
14. Belinda Luscombe, “Porn and the Threat to Virility,” Time, April 11, 2016, quoted in Conor Friedersdorf, “Is Porn Culture to Be Feared?,” Atlantic, April 7, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/porn-culture/477099/.
15. Wendell Berry, Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2001), 55.
Chapter 10: Man and the Machine
1. “Cell Phone Ownership Hits 91 Percent Adults,” Pew Research Center, June 6, 2013, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/06/06/cell-phone-ownership-hits-91-of-adults/.
2. “U.S. Smartphone Use in 2015,” Pew Research Center, April 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/us-smartphone-use-in-2015/.
3. Michael Hanby, “The Truth Shall Set You Free: Liberal Order and the Future of Christian Freedom,” address delivered at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, December 7, 2015, text shared with author by Hanby.
4. Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (New York: Vintage, 1993), 184.
5. “Abortion Viewed in Moral Terms: Fewer See Stem Cell Research and IVF as Moral Issues,” Pew Research Center, August 15, 2013, http://www.pewforum.org/2013/08/15/abortion-viewed-in-moral-terms/.
6. “Industry’s Growth Leads to Leftover Embryos, and Painful Choices,” New York Times, June 17, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/us/embryos-egg-donors-difficult-issues.html.
7. Andrew Hough, “1.7 Million Human Embryos Created for IVF Thrown Away,” Daily Telegraph, December 31, 2013, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9772233/1.7-million-human-embryos-created-for-IVF-thrown-away.html.
8. “Three-quarters Say Longmont Attack Is Murder,” YouGov.com, April 7, 2015, https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/04/07/three-quarters-say-longmont-attack-murder/.
9. Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011), 116.
10. Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (New York: Knopf, 2016), 344. Wu’s mention of how the monastic life focuses one’s attention, in contrast to the scattering forces of life in modernity, is worth a book on its own.
11. Alexander Schmemann, Great Lent: Journey to Pascha (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1974), 11.
12. Nick Bilton, “Parenting in the Age of Online Pornography,” New York Times, January 7, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/08/style/parenting-in-the-age-of-online-porn.html?_r=0.
13. Nick Bilton, “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent,” New York Times, September 10, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html.
14. Andrew Sullivan, “I Used to Be a Human Being,” New York, September 18, 2016, http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.html.