They mix such topics as poetry, predestination, and plowshares, with highlights of justification, wine, and lovemaking. We aim to sketch a vision of a whole life and a whole culture, and such things are always a broad landscape of hues. The trick is to realize how these various issues intermingle quite smoothly. We see them as a warm harmony of color, and if the reader grasps the same, then we've accomplished one of our hopes. Nothing should hold our attention more.
Nothing is more practical.
Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness. In their place, they unfold the tired, wrinkled banners of a tedious rationalism and socially-just sentimentalism. But the modern void is a vacuum. Yet moderns don't give up the game. Their prophets stand stage-tall, throw out law, yet condemn injustice, trashing simple oaths for new, unridden flesh.