Bratmicae here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

It's said that we live in a secular age.

But what does that mean?

Is it simply that people are less religious or is it something more?

The Gil University philosophy professor Charles Taylor wrote a 900-page poem called A Secular

Age in which he argues that secularity has more to do with a feeling of uncertainty about

truth that pervades our culture, in which all ideas are contested and contestable.

My guest today on the show wrote a reader's guide, Taylor's Epic Work.

His name is James K.A. Smith.

He goes by Jamie.

He's a professor of philosophy at Calvin College and his book is called How Perent This

He's Not To Be Secular.

And today on the show, Jamie and I discuss what it means to live in a secular age, how

we got here and why it creates so much existential anxiety.

Whether you're a believer, agnostic, or atheist, you're going to find some fascinating

insights about today's culture.

Jamie and I also discuss his latest book You Are What You Love, in which he argues that our

lies are filled with liturgies, whether we know it or not, and how not being mindful

of these liturgies can result in living a life you're not wholly satisfied with.

Put on your philosophical and sociological hearthats, we're digging deep into the

mind of human existence in this thought provoking, but accessible episode on secularity and

spirituality.

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