Introduction My world is disorienting. This is no truth claim, only my experience. Your world is disorienting, no truth claim, mere observation. It has long been so. In our day, multiplied voices, siren songs.
Life is difficult.
Moreover, sometimes, life does not make sense. We feel the lostness, lack of direction. More difficult, even unbelievable, faith disorients at times. When faith seems irreconcilable with the facts, with experience, with reality. It is a curious fact that the church has, by and large, continued to sing songs of orientation in a world increasingly experienced as disoriented and disorienting.