This was my first piece over at Fathom Magazine, and the cover story of the issue. I hope to communicate a love letter to the Southern Baptist Convention even as I left it for Anglicanism. It also provides a few reasons why Anglican drew me in.
Beauty disciplines. In my enlightened upbringing, I came to think that my mind led to the way to truth. As it turns out, beauty does. It’s not until I experienced the beauty of the Anglican tradition that I came to accept it as true. The same thing could be said of Jesus. Plenty of people believe intellectual truths about Jesus—it’s only when he is seen as captivating and beautiful that he means anything.
Read the whole article here.
