One of the seductions that bedevils Christian formation is the construction of utopias, ideal places where we can live totally and without inhibition or interference the good and blessed and righteous life. The imagining and then attempted construction of such utopias is an old habit of our kind. Sometimes we attempt it politically in communities, sometimes socially in communes, sometimes religiously in churches. It never comes to anything but grief. Utopia is, literally, “no-place.” But we can live our lives only in actual place, not in an imagined or fantasized or artificially fashioned place.
— Eugene Peterson, Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, p. 73.

After posting that quote, Andy Whitman of Paste Magazine and the All-Music Guide launches into another stirring testimony….

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