Mankind, especially Americans in the electronic age, have an endless capacity for distraction. Distraction relieves us of the burden of seriousness, self-examination, seeking meaning and from having to think about any one thing for an extended amount of time.

Pleasure is antithetical to boredom; distraction gives us the illusion of not being bored. Distraction keeps us amused as we squander the distinct qualities that make us human.

The vast majority of American evangelical churches have become static institutions that nurture unholiness and sloth among their congregants. They consistently promote immaturity, narcissism and entertainment. But this should be the expected fare coming from leaders that are almost entirely acculturated into a humanistic society. Can a person actually mature in their faith while attending a church that discourages growth?

Wendell Berry

“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”