Fleming Rutledge: Advent Begins Where Human Potential Ends
This season invites us to turn our face toward the future of God, not man.
Fleming Rutledge
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Across
the Charles River from the Church of the Advent sits mighty Harvard.
There, the famous psychology professor Steven Pinker thinks the world is
getting better. In a recent interview, he makes the statement that,
thanks to the Enlightenment and especially to science, life on earth is
improving. He acknowledges that human beings “tend to backslide into
irrationality,” but all in all, he thinks the data show that we’re
making headway. Pinker is not ignorant about human evil, ...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Advent Begins Where Human Potential Ends
Fleming Rutledge is an Episcopal priest and a best-selling author. This
piece was adapted from a sermon preached during Advent at the Church of
the Advent in Boston, Massachusetts.
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