Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious - Print

Life’s Too Short to Pretend You’re Not Religious: Reframed and Expanded 2nd edition.

David Dark.

Pbk. 226pp.
ISBN 9781506481661.
Broadleaf Books (2022).
[Allow 4 weeks].

We can’t just be done with religion, argues David Dark. The fact of religion is the fact of us. Religion is the witness of everything we’re up to – for better or worse.

David Dark is one of today’s most respected thinkers, public intellectuals, and cultural critics at the intersection of faith and culture. Since its original release, this book has become essential reading for those engaged in the conversation on religion in contemporary American society.

Now, Dark returns to his classic text and offers us a revised, expanded, and reframed edition that reflects a more expansive understanding, employs inclusive language, and tackles the most pressing issues of the day.

“Effectively skewering a central fallacy of the age, David Dark argues that at the deepest level no one is more or less religious than anyone else. With his premise granted, new avenues for ownership, responsibility, and a renewed attentiveness to all we say, do and think arise. This is a call to consciousness and the compassion that accompanies the sacred insight that the whole world is kin and everything belongs.”  Richard Rohr, author of Everything Belongs