🎧 Listen to Sarah read this essay ⤵
“The disappointment, brokenness, suffering, and pain that characterize life in this present world is held in dynamic tension with the promise of future glory that is yet to come. In that Advent tension, the church lives its life.”
Fleming Rutledge
Mango Vape
Last week
shared a piece on his Substack, Cracks in Postmodernity, that I cannot stop thinking about. In it, he juxtaposed his own encounters with a decadent, self-absorbed downtown “trad Cath” scene against the eccentric-in-its-own-way but “unironically Christian” Catholic Worker Maryhouse. In the opening paragraphs of his essay he describes his experience attending a social event with the trad Caths, and honestly, I feel like he wrote the first part of this essay for me, so I’ll quote at length here:The most recent [event] was in the dimly lit, vaguely 1920s-core bar of a hotel in Chelsea, with a mix of trap, nudisco, and trance music blasting in the background, and where a glass of wine costs…