Paul Kingsnorth, an acclaimed English novelist and former environmental activist, passed through atheism, Zen Buddhism and even Wicca before being baptized into the Orthodox Church in 2020. He is emphatic that faith must be about Christ himself, not a weapon in anyone's culture war — a warning he presses on those who would use his story that way.
His essay 'The Cross and the Machine' (First Things, 2021) — in copyright; linked, not reproduced.
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