Cultivating Your Faith vs. Automating or Outsourcing It
The pursuit of maximum productivity and efficiency have so inundated our lives that many of us now routinely look for “life hacks” to shave time from our tasks and routines. While technology has presented us with myriad ways to accomplish repetitive tasks without needing to give them our full attention, there remain some pursuits that we are better served not to consult Siri on or pay someone else to handle for us. This week Fr. Garrett tackles a Gospel story with thorny ethical implications by encouraging you to think through it for yourself and not settle for someone else’s neat and tidy answer to what you should believe. Christian faith is deep and complex and we all need to be in dialogue with others whose mature faith we can learn from. But ultimately we can neither borrow someone else’s faith nor outsource the process of developing it. We must spend the time to cultivate our own.