I am Eastern Orthodox and would be glad to recommend a church if you DM me (especially if you happen to live in the Southeastern US or the US in general - though if you feel like the walls of wokeness are really closing in I'm guessing you may live in a very blue area).
Thoughts on some of your questions/concerns:
I don't think you have to choose between wokeness and the fear of hellfire. Traditional/high church Christians in this day and age tend to be fairly sophisticated when it comes to hell (you might be more likely to encounter people who have full blown universalist tendencies, though I may be generalizing too much from my own experience). The early church fathers tended to be fairly nuanced on damnation. CS Lewis' The Great Divorce is a good example that is more modern. My point is - I don't think you have to worry too much about someone feeling the need to scare your daughter in some crude way in order to teach her Christian orthodoxy.
What is a genuine religious revival supposed to look like? I think it would look something like the strategy of the early Christians. Scott recently wrote about this, and N.S. Lyons writes about it here (he speaks of conservative strategy in the piece, but in the comment section he confirms that Christianity is a successful example).
(apologies if this is too promotional or inappropriate in some way - this is my first time posting after a year+ of lurking)
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I am Eastern Orthodox and would be glad to recommend a church if you DM me (especially if you happen to live in the Southeastern US or the US in general - though if you feel like the walls of wokeness are really closing in I'm guessing you may live in a very blue area).
Thoughts on some of your questions/concerns:
I don't think you have to choose between wokeness and the fear of hellfire. Traditional/high church Christians in this day and age tend to be fairly sophisticated when it comes to hell (you might be more likely to encounter people who have full blown universalist tendencies, though I may be generalizing too much from my own experience). The early church fathers tended to be fairly nuanced on damnation. CS Lewis' The Great Divorce is a good example that is more modern. My point is - I don't think you have to worry too much about someone feeling the need to scare your daughter in some crude way in order to teach her Christian orthodoxy.
What is a genuine religious revival supposed to look like? I think it would look something like the strategy of the early Christians. Scott recently wrote about this, and N.S. Lyons writes about it here (he speaks of conservative strategy in the piece, but in the comment section he confirms that Christianity is a successful example).
(apologies if this is too promotional or inappropriate in some way - this is my first time posting after a year+ of lurking)
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